Great singer,/ guitarist. When he sings he tells stories and he moves the words, tune and guitar in a flexible way to make the most of the stories. I really enjoy him but it wouldn't matter if I didn't.

I thought he had a good go at explaining how traditional songs and their singers reflected how the rural working class had been dispossessed of land during the enclosures. He also made a good argument for how they lost pretty well everything else withe changes in farming that came around the time of the Industrial revolution.

It's not often that someone as good at singing traditional songs gets on Midweek and talk intelligently about history, music, traditional songs and what current songwriters are doing in that context. If it wasn't perfect should we be surprised? Libby Purvis sounded like somebody making up questions about something of which she knew little, again should we be surprised? It was difficult to spot the questions from the general rambling she did about all sorts of things.

As for the Ark of the Covenant, Prof. Thingy seemed to believe that the box, said Ark, that contained Moses' tablets of stone had been used as an explosive in battle and had ended up in Zimbabwe inspite of the fact that the artefact he had traced could only be dated to around the 13C! Is this why the origins of Morris are so had too pin down?