To Pseudonymous
I was not intending to disagree with you at all. The problem was that I cut too much of Steve's quotation. I was merely agreeing with the part where he wrote:-
" I thought the orchestral bits were the best part and I'm a died-in-the-wool folkie of some 50-odd years."

To Jim Bainbridge
I think that you know what really inspires me in this music - we have talked about it often enough since the 1960s. I think the difference is that I am prepared to at least have a listen to the wider interpretation though I don't like a lot, probably most, of it and there was much I didn't like in the Folk Prom - which I didn't expect to enjoy much anyway.
In your condemnation of the BBC, you really need to exclude BBC Alba which we are able to get with our new set. There are frequent and excellent programmes on traditional song and music on that channel.
Yours wi' Edinburgh, Musselburgh, Aberdeen haddies....
Vic