Hmmm, first off, I haven't seen it. Can't find it on the iPlayer yet and I'm not rushing to find it. Of course it wasn't a programme for "f*lkies" (yeuk) however you define that species. It was conceived "Xmas entertainment for the masses" with all the dumbing down that entails. But if it prompts one or two Joe Publics to investigate further what some of these artists really can do, good.

You only have to look at the expression on Pete Flood's face during the trail on Breakfast yesterday morning to get some idea of how cringingly embarrassing it was for serious musicians to be exposed to such unbriefed and pseudo-ho-ho interviewing. Had a sousaphone player from a brass band or symphony orchestra been on the couch, would they have been subjected to such ridicule? I don't think so.

However, television production of trad music doesn't have to be like that, even in England. Transmissions from St Luke's prove that it is not so.