Did I mishear or did the Folk-hating Beeb's 'Mr Folk Music' (Billy Bragg) suggest that Dick Gaughan is from Sunderland? Well, I suppose it is "ap Norf, where they're all poh-litty-kul, innit?"
Apart from a few stand-out performances, I thought that this was a rather muddled and dull, dull, dull concert - chuck in everything that you can think of which might be vaguely poh-litty-kul and keep your fingers crossed that it might work - it didn't.

"I was a miner between the wars ..." No you weren't, Mr Bragg - sod off!!!