Aha - yes I guess Toni Arthur was more dulcet than Tony Capstick!!!

I think that the programmes were highly edited in content, certainly that happened in NZ with the London Folk Song Cellar recordings. The NZBC cut the recordings according to the length of time available for transmission. This wasn't funny when we'd waited up until 2.00 am for the LFSC programme to air on the NZBC National Programme on a working week (for me teaching kids) only to find it was cut to 30 mins &/or they'd repeated the previous week's programme.

At that time (mid-1970s) quite a few NZ folkies would wait up to record the programmes onto reel-2-reel tapes. It is these that we are now gradually digitising.

Also at that time it was illegal to import a reel-2-reel tape recorder with a sound amplifier built-in. I had to import a plain deck and use a radio re-jigged to play the sound. But such was the dearth of Brit. folk (or any folk for that matter) on the radio that all of this was worth the effort (and tiredness!!).

I digress. Actually I got the Folkweave disc of the Chieftains (at Golders Green Hippodrome) & Vin Garbutt. This is good 'cos I can send it to Michael Tubridy (ex-flautist of the group) - whom I know from when we were filming traditional step dancing in Ireland.

As for a copy of the disc you won that would be very welcome indeed - please. But make sure you use good equipment, the BBC discs can have some very hi-fi surface noise!! And the more you play it the less valuable it will become.

I can certainly do you a copy of the disc I won.

I'm not sure who got the June Tabor disc - but we have that recorded off-air anyway - by a guy in Abu Dabai!! It has yet to be uploaded to the web.

Apparently there were 7 discs on offer though!!!

Your links to the Folkweave uploads on MediaFire are interesting. I wonder where they came from - as if I didn't know!! I hear that there are loads more to be done. Keep linked. BTW make sure that the linking actually makes copies - 'cos if the source files get deleted those accessible by the link you gave might also disappear.   

One thing that does need doing is for the running order of artists and music/songs to be listed for each Folkweave uploaded there.

And what we REALY need is access to the master tapes. Is anyone out there in Manchester-land who would like to PM me and see if he/she can get in touch with the 'banjo player' guy who rescued them from a skip? I don't really want to name the guy in public. But he has digitised them. I think the master tapes should go to the British Library Sound Archives, whatever happens to his digital copies.