You feeble souls who chickened out half way through haven't heard anything like the worst of it, the final track was in a class of its own.

Crowhugger, you have touched on another aspect that was irritating me, although I hadn't been able to put my finger on it: there is a mismatch between the knowing scholarliness of the presenters and the way they considered and presented the music. It was, as you say, as if in some cases they wanted to present the singers/musicians as drunk, or rough and untutored, but the only way they could get this across was to sing badly (especially in that psalm)or play the fiddle a little out of tune. And there were the somewhat surprised observations about how someone whose roots were in folk music could also appreciate Wagner, and was musically very literate.

I've only listened to one other of the "iPod" series, which was "Queen Victoria's iPod". I don't recall any such problems in that programe- they just played the sort of music she's known to have liked, approximately as she'd have heard it. Just why traditional music is so problematic for them I have no idea.

Marje