In the past there has been a bit of an uproar on the BBC proms bulletin boards complaining about polluting the purity of the classical music with the decidedly inferior folk so-called-music. Or fulminations to that effect. It will be interesting to see what happens this time.

Speaking for myself, as an occasional attendee at the Proms and much more frequent participant in folk events, I'm very much in favour. It is particularly effective when they take something like 'Lovely Joan' and present it in its folk form then show what Vaughan Williams did with it (as they did on a previous occasion). Both 'camps' can learn a lot from that (such as the idea of that sort of camp is pretty silly in the first place.)