Also, I would like to know when, exactly, did Billy Bragg get 'elected' as a folk singer and why does he now appear to be the official media spokesman for British Folk?

That's a good question.

But the main thing that I got out of this programme - of people talking about music - was the music did it far better on it own. TV can just show the bloody music being performed and seems a complete waste of the medium to give yet more time for people that are paid to write about it - often those who have their own magazines to write it it in.

And come to think of it - when the music is talking about folk - is probably the best definition of what folk music is.