Jack makes a valid point about the mono cultural nature of the artists featured but I think that, given the short time allocated to each programme, it would be impossible to cover a wider cultural scene - and I say that who spends a lot of time listening to music from cultures across the world, some of which is created in the UK. Perhaps the time spent on the connections to Dylan could have been better spent exploring multi cultural music in the UK though it could then be regarded as tokenism. Music Planet on Radio 3 - albeit much shorter than it used to be - provides good coverage of multi cultural music

I enjoyed the England programme more than the Scotland one - though I could have done without Fishermen's Friends. I think generally they had a good spread of music reasonably representative of the more popular end of the folk scene today but I was surprised John Tams, one of the greatest writers and songs in the English folk idiom, wasn't featured and I could think of more interesting singer songwriters than Frank Turner - though it was interesting to hear him as I had not come across him before.

I think we need to remember that this programme is going to be heard by a wider audience than us died in the wool folkies and, given that remit, I didn't think it was a bad attempt. Certainly far from the 'crap' suggested by an earlier correspondent.