BBC4 folk - what would YOU do

Subject: RE: BBC4 folk - what would YOU do
From: Alan Day
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 01:38 PM

Nice one Dick
Al

Subject: RE: BBC4 folk - what would YOU do
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 01:47 PM

2 votes for Dick Miles. A man driven cruelly into exile in foreign parts.

Subject: RE: BBC4 folk - what would YOU do
From: Stu
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 01:47 PM

An alternative might be to pester the makers of the best programmes. For example, I'd love to see a version of the transatlantic/highland sessions exploring the common threads running through the music of all the home nations. It could be called:

The Island Sessions

or

The Isles Sessions

or

The Atlantic Sessions

© SFJ. 2010.

Subject: RE: BBC4 folk - what would YOU do
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 01:53 PM

All-union production died the death for ITV in the 80s.

AFAIK it did so for the Beeb too. Unions not allowed to "black" shows thanks to the Tatcher anti-union legislation.

But yes Tom, those are the routes. However given that a fair bit could be archive, talking heads are cheap and a fair dollop of the musicians will be amateurs, I'd have guessed that a 5-way co-production (A US PBS station, maybe NDR from Germany or something Canadian, UK and either NZ or Aus) could get a lot of its budget out of subsidy.