From The Guardian

Barrie Gavin - Prolific director whose TV films on music and the arts constitute an astonishing record of British cultural history over more than six decades

"Folk music was an abiding passion. Gavin made some of his greatest films with the folklorist AL Lloyd, on the music of eastern Europe; on the different traditions of the British Isles including the songs and religious music of the Outer Hebrides; and the folk singers and performers of North America including “Doc” Watson, whose work Gavin especially loved. Typically, he turned his affection for Lloyd into a touching film-portrait, Bert (1985)."