Who is Malone? He seemed very uninformed and naive. I was surprised to hear THAT verse from "Johnny come down to Hilo" though - even in bowdlerised form.

Surely the programme also erred in treating shanty as a UK form, and it failed to note the distinction between a shanty and a forebitter, and repeatedly misused the expression "folksinger" when it should have said "folksong singer".

But glad it was done. Nice to see some of the faces with whom one has damaged ones voice late at night in various festival bars...