After reading the Peggy Seeger statement my opinion is it only serves to reinforce Stuart Lee's comments, even if his recollection of the original story is slightly imperfect. Whilst any tradition needs to keep true to it's source and understand and treasure it's roots, the idea there is only one way to sing a song and play a tune is shite, whether she likes it or not.

If you listened to Radcliffe's weekday shows (these days with Stuart Maconie, who also plays folk music on his Freak Zone on Sundays), you'll know he often plays folk music, and Eliza used to be a regular on the show. As a DJ, he has more depth of knowledge than most and is also pretty catholic in taste and understands the context Eliza's music is seen in by much of the modern folk audience.