Greg, you said, 'That programme was just too too sloppy for words though, a load of ill-thought out attempts to generate controversy and confrontation( though I must admit I was only able to watch the first half).'

I think that you are a little too quick to condemn the programme, particularly as you didn't watch the whole thing. I found it fairly convincing and, by the end, very positive, and I think it has to be accepted that much of the academic rigour that many of us would have wished to see just wasn't possible in such a short programme. And it wasn't made for the Open University for its students or for academics but for Joe Public.

Let's give the programme makers credit for making an interesting programme on musical traditions, even if it didn't go far enough for most of us!

Barbara