Terrible about Shula isn't it?
Uncle Tom? gawd it was going down the tubes when Walter Gabriel died and as for Nelson ..... well
never watch it myself, personally
though I have supped in the Bull in Inkberrow.

Folk tunes & performers? Isn't that Pete Shuttler of the Yetties playing the accordian on the Sunday omnibus intro?
I happen to know that Eddie Grundy (well the actor in real life) lives in Upton upon severn and has been known to play in a folk band because the owner of the music shop there (www.uptonmusic.com) plays in several bands sometimes with same actor, allegedly