Like it or not, there is a historical element to folk music and it is usually ignored. IMHO it could be used to base a strand working the repeated elements week by week - shanties (one week only please! - not that I dislike them but they get more airing than most folk) - broken tokens - the cruel par -i -ents - off to war - incest - oppression by the church - oppression by the rich(including landowners) - the occult - harridans (sometimes outwitting the devil, sometimes outwitting men) - the seasons of the year - the itinerant seducer - nonsense songs (the Cutty Wren and Nottamun town spring to mind) - imbibition! - the grand tragedies - transporation - songs of rebellion and religious bigotry - "industrial folk" - and so on.

A limited number of the usual suspects each week, some of the arrivistes, some trawled from the here and now - and some recordings of the late greats.

Maybe even a bit of talking headitus from some people who have some idea of folk music in its historical context, preferably with no horses.