A evry interesting and thought provoking series, with lots of nice nostalgic clips for those of us who were around at the time. I disagreed profoundly with the general theme of the programmes: metropolitan based, treating the music is if it was an example of evolution from primitive to modern sophistication, dwelling excessively on the writers of new material instead of appreciating the folk-process of communal adaptation, etc etc.
   But it was tremedous fun, and annoyingly idiosyncratic, and good TV. Kathryn Tickell and Eliza Carthy talked the most sense for me, emphasising the role of the folk in folk music, obviously not a dubject of huge interest to the people resposible for the programme. As I have said before, it would be nice to see the BBC to give some hours of time to an alternative view: my own view is that folk music is an ever-rolling stream, and absolutely not an asscent from the primordial slime to the stars of the festival circuit. But, having said that, it was altogether thoroughly worth watching, and fair play to them for making it.