I wrote to David Jackson, Head of Music BBC Wales, the week preceding the first airing of Folk Britannia asking for a statement for our magazine about the Welsh content of the series. The reply from a press assistant is in the thread about FB. I posted the letter on the Thursday and by Monday morning a Radio Wales journo was on the phone to do a studio interview with me for Tuesday a.m.'s programme. So I knew then that there wouldn't be anything Welsh in FB ... hence making the title misleading.

Anyhow, the journo was quizzing me about why I thought there was this sudden upsurge in interest in folk music. I said the interest was always there; the Media just did it's best to ignore it, et al.

David Jackson is also "responsible for co-ordinating the commissioning of music television programmes emanating from the nations and regions and all music programmes for BBC FOUR" according to the Beeb website so perhaps letters directed at him would also be useful.

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