Did't those Open Door programmes get made by the people who took the initiative to lobby the BBC for them? In that case it wasn't a question of being "given the opportunity", it was somebody getting off their bum and doing something instead of sitting around moaning - and still sitting around moaning 30 years later. How come Dick Miles didn't do it? To correct your statement, what a shame somebody like Ewan McColl couldn't be bothered to do it.