Who Wrote the First Folk Song BBC The Li

Subject: RE: Who Wrote the First Folk Song BBC The Li
From: StephenH
Date: 03 Apr 17 - 03:42 PM

Thanks - don't know how I missed that!

Subject: RE: Who Wrote the First Folk Song BBC The Li
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Apr 17 - 01:22 PM

See the previous thread on the programme.

Subject: Who Wrote the First Folk Song BBC The Li
From: StephenH
Date: 03 Apr 17 - 01:11 PM

THe BBC's "The Listening Service" has this as a topic for an episode.
Guests are Fay Hield and Steve Roud.
As the presenter intimates at the beginning, a 30 min program isn't really a lot of time to muse on this question, and at the end says: "Who wrote the first folk song? It just doesn't matter, what matters is what you do with it."
So here's the link for anyone interested, I thought it enjoyable for what it was.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08kyb3t