I do remember, many years ago, seeing one of those early Sunday morning BBC2 programmes aimed, if I recall, at the Pakistani community in the UK. The programme showed a dance troop of 8 dancers (I think, it was at least 30 years ago now). They danced various figures but kept returning to one in particular. It took a little while but I suddenly realised why it seemed familiar - it was the chorus from the Cotswold dance, Young Collins.

Around the same time I read the suggestion that the Celtic communities had originally come from Asia Minor, spreading by sea across the Med, up round the Iberian peninsula and up the west coast of France, England, Ireland and Scotland.

It struck me at the time that the similarity of the dance could be evidence of that cultural dispersal many centuries ago.

It also occurred to me that the dance could easily have been observed by British squaddies etc out in India during the early days of the British Raj. Squaddies in particular would have been shipped home after a tour of duty and could easily have brought the `moves' home with them.

It even occurred to me that the Pakistani dancers may have even learned it from watching English squaddies dancing Morris back in the 19th century.