There was clearly an agenda here but I think we can forgive the programme that. A partial history is better than no history but it would be good have the whole story one day.

Northern clog dancers certainly turned up in all corners of the world.

Did anyone see the Craig Revel Horwood episode of "Who Do You Think You Are?" where he discovered that one of his ancestors was a champion clog dancer who had emigrated to Australia from Ashton under Lyne? If I remember correctly, he took out an advertisement in an Australian newspaper challenging all-comers to a dance off.

Harry