No one ever tells you what's on television these days, most of it being rubbish, so it was with delight and frustration that I caught the second half of a BBC4 programme called Transatlantic Sessions.
The finest musicians from the Celtic traditionon played with their counterparts from Nashville. Paul Brady remembered Louisiana, Karen Matheson astonished with some Gaelic mouth music and American star Joan Osborne made her UK television debut in a series of memorable performances.
Some people have called for the abolition of BBC4 as a thinlipped way of shaving a pound off the licence fee. Programmes like this one make it worth every penny.
You can watch the progamme again - for a few days only - on the new BBC iPlayer.
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