The Jeremy Vine phone in was well balanced if you see it as a do we want or not type debate. Unfortunately, he found a rent a mouth journalist to put the motion that Morris has had it's day and should be discouraged etc. (Where do they get these people from?)

Lots os references to young people enjoying the sport / pastime / tradition and a 10 year old girl on the line saying she goes to practice nights at Cecil Sharpe House with her dad.

Me? Never have been "into" morris. A quick strip the widow at a ceilidh is enough for me. I was in a band for a few years and we rocked up morris tunes, mainly because our melodeon player was a morris musician.

All the same, even though I am take it or leave it, I find it beyond belief that the BBC managed to find somebody to speak in favour of killing it off!

(I was once in trouble on stage at a festival for saying it is ok between consenting adults in private. I was gagging for a pint afterwards but the bar was the usual haunt of the morris men and their big sticks...