I have to admit to enjoying the programmes much more the second time around.
Perhaps, because I have overcome the indignation I felt at the glaring ommissions when I first saw the programmes.

This time I am enjoying the performers and their performances ... I'm certainly enjoying the nostalgia,(I went to my first folk club 40 years ago), and still experience that sense of belonging.
This is my music .... it gladdens my heart.

Some bits I like more than others, some performers I like more than others, but folk music is in my soul and I have to admire people like Martin Carthy for their dedication to the genre.

I have to disagree with Dicks comments above... I suspect that had folk been purely about song, it would have been dead and buried a long time ago.