Eye Lander: you're dead right it's a matter of personal taste, and we arae all entitled to our own. But I think you are trying to imply that "therefore it's not worth discussing". Well, in this case it certainly is. What we have had in the last segment of this thread is a cross-section of folkies(selected not by musical preference, but by access to an obscure TV channel): and that to me makes it not a bad cross-section, and not likely to be wildly biassed in any particular musical direction.
And the near unanimous reaction to the programme is that (a) it had plenty of good musicians in it but(b) it was not a fitting flagship programme to round off the BBC's unprecedented decision to organise a whole series round Britfolk. Sure, these are personal opinions. But it is the collective feeling of the people with most reason to love the music and support it. So how come the programmers are so woefully out of touch with the fans? That is the question being discussed hear: we are not just saying "do you prefer Marmite to Bovril, or carthy to Rusby?" or whatever,