well as I've pointed out the programmes do exist but on dvd that you have to pay for.
the bbc is in a better position to pay for them than me - but if I want to see a decent folk programme that's what I have to do. that is in fact what I do.

the difference is that guys like Trevor Dann (biographer of Nick Drake) actually know something about folk music.

Isn't this really what this debate is about. The nation showing some respect for an art form. bugger the photo opportunities for the goodies and has 1970's dj's, and retired comedians. the flotsam and jetsam of the media. this serious stuff - wiz jones has played for nearly sixty years, blues that blind boy fuller only played for about five or six years |(BBF was dead before he was thirty). Wizz is damn good.

this isn't strictly dancing on ice. bugger the celebrities. lets put a proper focus on the artform and yes - you're right Silas (if you let the pigs decide it, they will put you in the sty, as the ISB said) let the current gang of twats decide it and you will have a series devoted to the shite with major recoding contracts - money will change hands. as Lloyd webber said, I know them so well.