Pretty good once we got through the Shane barrier.

It was rather a maoist concept of folk music, with the picture of necessary change. It rather neglected the constant thread that keeps bringing the experiments back to the core. Perhaps we need a similar programme covering the same ground with the theme of consistency? Well, we'd enjoy it, anyway. I felt somehow the stress on the same faces in 1960 as in 1990 rather missed the point that many had gone and others had passed through and more had come - those who were fresh in 1960 were now the establishment. A natural progress of life not a stasis.

I couldn't help laughing at Jim Moray's naive attitude. They hadn't liked his piece so they were absolutely horrid..... what a wimp. Yet this was so reminiscent of the 1960s attitudes to Dylan or Al Stewart or later (ok, got to admit it) the Pogues. But the music goes on. It absorbs and widens, perhaps, but stays true to itself at the core. Which is its strength, I firmly believe, and although firmly hidden at times it was there in these programmes.

Ahhh....what a nice moral to end on. More or less what Eliza said anyway.