All four Witches of Elswick did Woman's Hour not very long ago without instruments because, being an acapella band, it's what they do. And there have been other women performers (with and without instruments), such as Athena Andreadis who did play keyboards on one song and Karine Polwart who brought only her melodeon player as accompanist. Usually Jenni Murray does a good job of interviewing these musicians who seem to be featured every few weeks but did slip up rather in her background research this morning. Still, 'tis a jolly good thing that they do get featured on R4 as part of normal life (whatever that is) and not confined to the sole so-called 'specialist' programme on R2.