Ah, good choice, farmhouse cider. So much better than the ‘fizzy keg’ version. Thank you Jon for an entertaining and enlightening video. Jack Hargreaves would definitely approve of you participating in, and supporting these local traditions. 👏👏👍😀🍺
Great video. In 1963 my mother drove a laundry van. When school became too boring i would instead accompany her, particularly on the more rural rounds. The laundry boy aged fifteen took me with him when we stopped at a large country house, still serviced by servants and with a sign saying 'Tradesman's entrance which we had to obey. Collecting the soiled laundry from one outbuilding, he introduced me to another which held a 54 gallon wooden hogshead of cider made from their own orchard. We cupped our hands below the wooden tap, and in the few minutes that we had, a good portion of crisp, dry cider was purloined. I remember aged ten, sitting on the internal engine compartment of the Commer van, between the laundry boy and my mother, feeling quite merry as we continued on our round and looking forward to the next visit.
Thanks Ron, very nice to find other people on here who like those things! I was a bit worried this video might lead to an outpouring of negativity about Morris Dancing in the comments but fingers crossed anyone who has that view just did the sensible thing and didn't watch the video in the first place!
Wonderful experience! Find local traditions interesting and important in resisting the pull towards a monoculture. Particularly is fueled by alcohol. Hogmanay in Scotland among my favorites.
Thanks for the nice video. What an excellent tradition and long may it live, I especially liked the young lad getting involved and beating the drum. Well done all of them. 👍
Thanks Ysgolgerlan! Yes I thought it was very sweet of the Morris men to let the boy come and beat a drum for one of the dances, and I felt some sense of kinship with the little guy in the way he just followed his own unique rhythm: he wasn't overly concerned by what anyone else was playing! You can see something similar in my attempts to join in with the dancing later on in the video.
Loved this. I can get emotional at these kind of events too - our connection with these kind of old traditions is so heart-warming and wholesome. The child at around 08:43 was brilliant 😂 a true star in the making! As was your slightly concerned face afterwards, I guess checking your camera was still there/working 🤣 Well done with joining in and producing such a lovely film for us to share in it.
Thanks, and glad you liked it! I had more footage of where I was joining in with the dancing (badly!), and actually several kids at various times came up and stared into the camera as it was stood on its little tripod on the ground. It was charming on the one hand but also made me ever so slightly sad that kids these days are so fixated with screens! I suppose the fact that they were outdoors in the first place and at an event like this is a very good thing though. Practically impossible now to get my daughter (aged 11) out on a walk with me. Such happy memories of the times when she was younger and could still occasionally be persuaded!
@@tweedyoutdoors Yes true re. screens, and getting kids outdoors. My son is 22 now and I can only very occasionally get him out on a walk, if there's a really good pub incentive (fair enough I guess🤔).
@@tweedyoutdoors Never fear. After the teenage year, mine all turned into camping and outdoors nerds. Number 3 recently hiked the Jura trail. All lightweight gear then inserted 2 bottles of whisky in the top of his pack That's ma boy.
No no, the OTHER right! splendid, well done. one of my favourite things: drinking in a pub in the shires, and no one batting an eyelid when a morris side jangles in and sets about dancing for their libations. Hoorah!
Yes I really enjoyed the commentary from the gent with the loudspeaker during the "audience participation" dance. I also liked "your right hand is the one which isn't your left hand" and "in your own time... don't worry about the music". That sort of gentle wit is all part of the charm of Morris dancing for me.
Great to see that you are carrying on the family tradition of Morris Dancing and cider making and long distance walking. Your Dad is rather old and decrepid now and these days can only manage one out of those three ..... cider making.
“Lichen subscribe!” Bravo! I don’t know what to say about the Morris, I’m torn. Great video and I’m amazed you made it watchable with only one hour of daylight left in midwinter.
I think I have probably used that cheap gag in a video before, but I forget now which one it was. I wouldn't want to attempt to manipulate your opinion one way or another - you're far too shrewd to fall for a trick like that! ...but I would say every one of my pretentious London based friends is sneeringly condescending about Morris dancing. If that isn't a reason to like it I don't know what is!
Thanks Seán! Actually the bus never arrived, or according to the tracking information on the bus company's website it somehow skipped my stop altogether. It was a two hour late for the next one so I eventually caved in and called a taxi instead. A shame as other than that I had been so pleased with myself with the transport arrangements considering it's actually slightly in the middle of nowhere!
nothing like a buzzed morris dance-well done! (not that i’d know i’m in california). very cool. used to have a local brewer who did a wassail ale. they’re gone now and still don’t know the significance
I have no family connection to Sussex (although half of my family hail from nearby Hampshire) but I absolutely love this corner of England, and the local people are great at keeping these kind of old traditions alive. I think the Chanctonbury Ring Morris Men said it was something like their 56th year of holding a wassail, and the 21st year at this location.
@@tweedyoutdoors I feel extremely lucky that circumstances of life around where I was born, grew up, educated and pursued various vocational and personal pursuits in adulthood did mean I spent a lot of time ‘being’ and exploring many a wonderful place particularly in Sussex, Kent, Surrey and South London.
Hi, what a great afternoon that was, and very well supported. I had a big grin on my face from start to finish, well done!! That cider looked great as well. Whilst cava is probably well known as drink for a toast my preference is for sparking cider (Edit: I think snakebite used to be called fighting juice so I'll leave it as sparking cider!!). Perhaps the best known brand "el gaitero" has a man playing the bagpipes on it. Cider down here mostly comes from Asturias, where there is a tradition of playing the bagpipes. I wonder if that little boy will find himself on TH-cam at some point in the future!! Great bit of Morris dancing too!!
Thanks David! I was last in Catalonia about 6 or 7 years ago for a friend's birthday. As part of the festivities we went to visit a Cava winery/vineyard and did a tasting but alas I was terribly hungover from the previous evening and couldn't really appreciate it. What a waste! I do think Cava is interesting though - it's made according to the traditional method (unlike, say, Prosecco) and at least some of the time uses Champagne grape varieties (although I think often more local varieties...?). I barely know it as a wine style but remember once - slightly confusingly in Portgual - enjoying a bottle of something from Juvé & Camps. Asturias sounds like a great region too, for all the cideries! I really should get back to Northern Spain again some time soon - perhaps that should be our next family holiday.
I'm no wine expert, the Cava DO entry in Wikipedia has a lot of detail, well worth a read. It seems to confirm what you say. At one time it was termed cava champagne but that it is now outlawed and the flip side now is that the DO means that only specific areas (in Catalonia) can now make and sell using the cava name!! Would definitely recommend the Northern Spanish coast some wonderful coastline and mountains too. Good cheeses as well as the cider!!. Perhaps similar to going to Cornwall in some respects. Ferry links to my old home town, Portsmouth, too. Worth having a look at The Cares Trail or Ruta del Cares. I've never walked it but as far as I know you can get transport up to the village of Cares and it's downhill all the way might be ok family walk 7 miles. At the end of the trail is a funicular railway that takes you up to the village of Bulnes famous for the unusual shaped mountain "el naranjo de Bulnes" which can be seen from there, you can get to both ends by car.
Classic Tweedy Outdoors! And you're really "pushing the envelope" recently: first singing and now Morris dancing! Mrs. WC21 (UK) Productions Ltd has just told me she'll be divorcing me if I even consider becoming a Morris Man. It really stirs up the pagan sentiment watching stuff like this. Looks like you've picked up a potential young recruit to the cause too. Brilliant content!
I rather think Mrs. WC21 (UK) Productions Ltd doth protest too much! I've never really understood why Morris dancing elicits so much negativity! I find it charming, nostalgic and fun - and the vast majority of Morris dancers don't take themselves too seriously, there's often a lovely gentle self deprecating wit that goes along with it. Anyway thank you as ever for your kind words, much appreciated! I do enjoy being able to cover all sorts of eclectic themes like this on this channel under the very loose umbrella of it being "outdoors".
@@tweedyoutdoors I think it may be an ingrained suspicion because we’ve been so indoctrinated with Christianity for centuries. An uncomfortable reminder of our pre-Christian ways, possibly? As an atheist, I find the “old ways” much more appealing!
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd That's an interesting theory! I was actually a part-time member of a morris side as a child (around age 11?), which my Dad was also part of. I was as bad at it then as I still am now (I have no sense of rhythm at all!) but interestingly it was actually organised by the local vicar. I think that's quite a common thing. There's a similar theme of many antiquarians being reverend something-or-other, which I think either you or I may have mentioned in a video at some point. I wonder if there was an element in that of feeling a need to know what they're up against? There's of course a huge gulf between the quaint and rather tenuous pagan roots of morris dancing versus the sort of serious pagans one might meet at a solstice in Avebury. It is rather hard to imagine any of the lovely handkerchief waving old gents I had the pleasure of meeting yesterday having a candlelit shrine in their homes to some ancient deity. I suspect many social historians would say there isn't much continuity between whatever older form morris dancing may have taken and what we see today. I think late Victorian / Edwardian figures like Cecil Sharp are largely credited with the revival, and the usual suspects of modernisation - a shift from a rural to more urban existence, etc - are generally blamed for the prior decline. As an aside Cecil Sharp House - the base for the English Folk Dance and Song Society - is not far from where I live in London.
@@tweedyoutdoors Whatever it looks like it ain't pagan. Morris dancing started as a royal court entertainment in the 15th century - earliest reference from the Burgundian Court in 1426/1427. Earliest reference in England is from 1448. The dance we recognise with the bells and hankies developed over the next 150 years. Earliest reference to stick dancing late 17th century.
Tweedy that was the best vid you have ever done - great to see you getting involved with the MM. Also, im relieved they are not called Morris Persons or some other such nonsense. Looked like a great day out, and its wonderful to see the old traditions alive.
They do actually have a London based morris side come and perform outside once a year. In fact I have a short video of it: th-cam.com/video/j_maA-hNZU8/w-d-xo.html It's fascinating to see a bunch of North Londoners standing round, not really sure quite how to process it.
Thank you Dean! I have very little natural sense of rhythm (the Morris man opposite me when we were clanking sticks was trying as politely as possibly to suggest I at least roughly do so in time with the music!) but yes I can well see me having a go at this more seriously one day. I actually was part of a Morris side for a bit when I was around age 11, with my Dad: there is an old tradition of having an "apprentice" on the side. I don't think I was very good at it then either, but as an art form (if that's not too grandiose a term) Morris dancing is definitely not ballet! I think part of its charm is the way most sides don't take themselves too seriously.
Not much diversity, inclusion and equity in the crowd watching the Morris People dancing. No hope the BBC would ever broadcast it without some diversity tick-boxes filled 😂.
I try not to get political on this channel but I do think you have a point there Kevin. The event was free and absolutely open to everyone - the Chanctonbury Ring Morris Men (and the people who run Wobblegate) are lovely people and I'm sure would have welcomed anyone who was interested with open arms. For example, They made a change to the event a couple of years back to make it more family friendly. It's now earlier in the day and they stopped using the flaming torches they used to because of the potential risk to kids in particular. I know that might put some people's noses out of joint a bit (and to be honest I was initially a bit disappointed myself) but I spoke to them about that issue and they'd obviously thought very carefully about it and weighed the pros and cons. They decided that, on balance, they would rather make the event more appealing to future generations so that they're more likely to take an interest in these traditions and hopefully they're more likely to be preserved. I had been four years ago when it was held later on at night with flaming torches and that was great in a different way but I had a fantastic time this year too, and I personally think they made the right call there. I believe the crowd who showed up simply reflected the local rural population and/or the sort of people who are interested in this kind of tradition. Nobody was excluded. I personally think that's fine and nobody needs to beat themselves up about it. You're right though, the BBC wouldn't cover this. I stopped watching broadcast TV a few years ago now because I just felt nothing was relevant to me any more. TH-cam is not without its own problems but broadly speaking it does help to fill in some of these (huge) gaps left by major broadcasters.
Ah, good choice, farmhouse cider. So much better than the ‘fizzy keg’ version. Thank you Jon for an entertaining and enlightening video. Jack Hargreaves would definitely approve of you participating in, and supporting these local traditions. 👏👏👍😀🍺
Great video. In 1963 my mother drove a laundry van. When school became too boring i would instead accompany her, particularly on the more rural rounds. The laundry boy aged fifteen took me with him when we stopped at a large country house, still serviced by servants and with a sign saying 'Tradesman's entrance which we had to obey. Collecting the soiled laundry from one outbuilding, he introduced me to another which held a 54 gallon wooden hogshead of cider made from their own orchard. We cupped our hands below the wooden tap, and in the few minutes that we had, a good portion of crisp, dry cider was purloined. I remember aged ten, sitting on the internal engine compartment of the Commer van, between the laundry boy and my mother, feeling quite merry as we continued on our round and looking forward to the next visit.
England ! Nowhere better !
Loved this one!
Another class video :)
Love it! Wassail!
Wonderfull stuff.
Your video and Morris Dancing as well as the Cider.
Thanks Ron, very nice to find other people on here who like those things! I was a bit worried this video might lead to an outpouring of negativity about Morris Dancing in the comments but fingers crossed anyone who has that view just did the sensible thing and didn't watch the video in the first place!
Wonderful experience! Find local traditions interesting and important in resisting the pull towards a monoculture. Particularly is fueled by alcohol. Hogmanay in Scotland among my favorites.
I completely agree L&J - we need these local traditions or life will just become boring and pointless!
Thanks for the nice video. What an excellent tradition and long may it live, I especially liked the young lad getting involved and beating the drum. Well done all of them. 👍
Thanks Ysgolgerlan! Yes I thought it was very sweet of the Morris men to let the boy come and beat a drum for one of the dances, and I felt some sense of kinship with the little guy in the way he just followed his own unique rhythm: he wasn't overly concerned by what anyone else was playing! You can see something similar in my attempts to join in with the dancing later on in the video.
Ha ha, that was fun. I am off to a wassail in Somerset at the weekend 💃 and will raise a plastic container of cider in your general direction 🍻 🌳
Loved this. I can get emotional at these kind of events too - our connection with these kind of old traditions is so heart-warming and wholesome. The child at around 08:43 was brilliant 😂 a true star in the making! As was your slightly concerned face afterwards, I guess checking your camera was still there/working 🤣 Well done with joining in and producing such a lovely film for us to share in it.
Thanks, and glad you liked it! I had more footage of where I was joining in with the dancing (badly!), and actually several kids at various times came up and stared into the camera as it was stood on its little tripod on the ground. It was charming on the one hand but also made me ever so slightly sad that kids these days are so fixated with screens! I suppose the fact that they were outdoors in the first place and at an event like this is a very good thing though. Practically impossible now to get my daughter (aged 11) out on a walk with me. Such happy memories of the times when she was younger and could still occasionally be persuaded!
@@tweedyoutdoors Yes true re. screens, and getting kids outdoors. My son is 22 now and I can only very occasionally get him out on a walk, if there's a really good pub incentive (fair enough I guess🤔).
@@tweedyoutdoors Never fear. After the teenage year, mine all turned into camping and outdoors nerds. Number 3 recently hiked the Jura trail. All lightweight gear then inserted 2 bottles of whisky in the top of his pack That's ma boy.
Love it. All the intro screen was missing was a big "WARNING" sign 😂
No no, the OTHER right! splendid, well done. one of my favourite things: drinking in a pub in the shires, and no one batting an eyelid when a morris side jangles in and sets about dancing for their libations. Hoorah!
Yes I really enjoyed the commentary from the gent with the loudspeaker during the "audience participation" dance. I also liked "your right hand is the one which isn't your left hand" and "in your own time... don't worry about the music". That sort of gentle wit is all part of the charm of Morris dancing for me.
Great to see that you are carrying on the family tradition of Morris Dancing and cider making and long distance walking. Your Dad is rather old and decrepid now and these days can only manage one out of those three ..... cider making.
This is another thing on the list I have to thank you for!
“Lichen subscribe!” Bravo! I don’t know what to say about the Morris, I’m torn. Great video and I’m amazed you made it watchable with only one hour of daylight left in midwinter.
I think I have probably used that cheap gag in a video before, but I forget now which one it was.
I wouldn't want to attempt to manipulate your opinion one way or another - you're far too shrewd to fall for a trick like that! ...but I would say every one of my pretentious London based friends is sneeringly condescending about Morris dancing. If that isn't a reason to like it I don't know what is!
Well done for getting involved in this wonderful tradition! Pizza and cider looked great too!! Hope you didn’t have to wait too long for the bus!!
Thanks Seán! Actually the bus never arrived, or according to the tracking information on the bus company's website it somehow skipped my stop altogether. It was a two hour late for the next one so I eventually caved in and called a taxi instead. A shame as other than that I had been so pleased with myself with the transport arrangements considering it's actually slightly in the middle of nowhere!
nothing like a buzzed morris dance-well done! (not that i’d know i’m in california). very cool. used to have a local brewer who did a wassail ale. they’re gone now and still don’t know the significance
Great video.
Never been morris dancing, but often toasted with "Wassail, drink Ale".
Got to keep them evil spirits away from the cider! Lol
Thanks Alan! Yes I quite agree about keeping the evil spirits away from the cider - it's enough of a source of mischief as it is!
Looked like a good time, Wobblegate an excellent name. Hope you made it back to London!
Thanks TKP! Actually the bus I was waiting for never showed up! ...but I caved in eventually and just called a taxi.
Ahh! @@tweedyoutdoors
@@thekentishpilgrim Yes a bit frustrating as the bus was £2 but the taxi was more like £20!
Wow. My brain has exploded from the Sussex nostalgia overload on multiple levels 😮
I have no family connection to Sussex (although half of my family hail from nearby Hampshire) but I absolutely love this corner of England, and the local people are great at keeping these kind of old traditions alive. I think the Chanctonbury Ring Morris Men said it was something like their 56th year of holding a wassail, and the 21st year at this location.
@@tweedyoutdoors I feel extremely lucky that circumstances of life around where I was born, grew up, educated and pursued various vocational and personal pursuits in adulthood did mean I spent a lot of time ‘being’ and exploring many a wonderful place particularly in Sussex, Kent, Surrey and South London.
Hi, what a great afternoon that was, and very well supported. I had a big grin on my face from start to finish, well done!!
That cider looked great as well. Whilst cava is probably well known as drink for a toast my preference is for sparking cider (Edit: I think snakebite used to be called fighting juice so I'll leave it as sparking cider!!). Perhaps the best known brand "el gaitero" has a man playing the bagpipes on it. Cider down here mostly comes from Asturias, where there is a tradition of playing the bagpipes.
I wonder if that little boy will find himself on TH-cam at some point in the future!!
Great bit of Morris dancing too!!
Thanks David! I was last in Catalonia about 6 or 7 years ago for a friend's birthday. As part of the festivities we went to visit a Cava winery/vineyard and did a tasting but alas I was terribly hungover from the previous evening and couldn't really appreciate it. What a waste! I do think Cava is interesting though - it's made according to the traditional method (unlike, say, Prosecco) and at least some of the time uses Champagne grape varieties (although I think often more local varieties...?). I barely know it as a wine style but remember once - slightly confusingly in Portgual - enjoying a bottle of something from Juvé & Camps.
Asturias sounds like a great region too, for all the cideries! I really should get back to Northern Spain again some time soon - perhaps that should be our next family holiday.
I'm no wine expert, the Cava DO entry in Wikipedia has a lot of detail, well worth a read. It seems to confirm what you say.
At one time it was termed cava champagne but that it is now outlawed and the flip side now is that the DO means that only specific areas (in Catalonia) can now make and sell using the cava name!!
Would definitely recommend the Northern Spanish coast some wonderful coastline and mountains too. Good cheeses as well as the cider!!. Perhaps similar to going to Cornwall in some respects. Ferry links to my old home town, Portsmouth, too.
Worth having a look at The Cares Trail or Ruta del Cares. I've never walked it but as far as I know you can get transport up to the village of Cares and it's downhill all the way might be ok family walk 7 miles. At the end of the trail is a funicular railway that takes you up to the village of Bulnes famous for the unusual shaped mountain "el naranjo de Bulnes" which can be seen from there, you can get to both ends by car.
Classic Tweedy Outdoors! And you're really "pushing the envelope" recently: first singing and now Morris dancing!
Mrs. WC21 (UK) Productions Ltd has just told me she'll be divorcing me if I even consider becoming a Morris Man.
It really stirs up the pagan sentiment watching stuff like this. Looks like you've picked up a potential young recruit to the cause too. Brilliant content!
I rather think Mrs. WC21 (UK) Productions Ltd doth protest too much!
I've never really understood why Morris dancing elicits so much negativity! I find it charming, nostalgic and fun - and the vast majority of Morris dancers don't take themselves too seriously, there's often a lovely gentle self deprecating wit that goes along with it.
Anyway thank you as ever for your kind words, much appreciated! I do enjoy being able to cover all sorts of eclectic themes like this on this channel under the very loose umbrella of it being "outdoors".
@@tweedyoutdoors I think it may be an ingrained suspicion because we’ve been so indoctrinated with Christianity for centuries. An uncomfortable reminder of our pre-Christian ways, possibly?
As an atheist, I find the “old ways” much more appealing!
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd That's an interesting theory! I was actually a part-time member of a morris side as a child (around age 11?), which my Dad was also part of. I was as bad at it then as I still am now (I have no sense of rhythm at all!) but interestingly it was actually organised by the local vicar. I think that's quite a common thing. There's a similar theme of many antiquarians being reverend something-or-other, which I think either you or I may have mentioned in a video at some point. I wonder if there was an element in that of feeling a need to know what they're up against?
There's of course a huge gulf between the quaint and rather tenuous pagan roots of morris dancing versus the sort of serious pagans one might meet at a solstice in Avebury. It is rather hard to imagine any of the lovely handkerchief waving old gents I had the pleasure of meeting yesterday having a candlelit shrine in their homes to some ancient deity.
I suspect many social historians would say there isn't much continuity between whatever older form morris dancing may have taken and what we see today. I think late Victorian / Edwardian figures like Cecil Sharp are largely credited with the revival, and the usual suspects of modernisation - a shift from a rural to more urban existence, etc - are generally blamed for the prior decline. As an aside Cecil Sharp House - the base for the English Folk Dance and Song Society - is not far from where I live in London.
@@tweedyoutdoors
Whatever it looks like it ain't pagan.
Morris dancing started as a royal court entertainment in the 15th century - earliest reference from the Burgundian Court in 1426/1427.
Earliest reference in England is from 1448.
The dance we recognise with the bells and hankies developed over the next 150 years.
Earliest reference to stick dancing late 17th century.
Tweedy that was the best vid you have ever done - great to see you getting involved with the MM. Also, im relieved they are not called Morris Persons or some other such nonsense. Looked like a great day out, and its wonderful to see the old traditions alive.
Thanks Rob! I definitely had a very fun time.
Morris Dancing down at the Pineapple ?
They do actually have a London based morris side come and perform outside once a year. In fact I have a short video of it: th-cam.com/video/j_maA-hNZU8/w-d-xo.html
It's fascinating to see a bunch of North Londoners standing round, not really sure quite how to process it.
Damn, well that's shot me down in flames John
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I think you would make a fine morris man tweedy ,as long as you could keep off the scrumpy😅
Thank you Dean! I have very little natural sense of rhythm (the Morris man opposite me when we were clanking sticks was trying as politely as possibly to suggest I at least roughly do so in time with the music!) but yes I can well see me having a go at this more seriously one day.
I actually was part of a Morris side for a bit when I was around age 11, with my Dad: there is an old tradition of having an "apprentice" on the side. I don't think I was very good at it then either, but as an art form (if that's not too grandiose a term) Morris dancing is definitely not ballet! I think part of its charm is the way most sides don't take themselves too seriously.
Not much diversity, inclusion and equity in the crowd watching the Morris People dancing. No hope the BBC would ever broadcast it without some diversity tick-boxes filled 😂.
I try not to get political on this channel but I do think you have a point there Kevin.
The event was free and absolutely open to everyone - the Chanctonbury Ring Morris Men (and the people who run Wobblegate) are lovely people and I'm sure would have welcomed anyone who was interested with open arms.
For example, They made a change to the event a couple of years back to make it more family friendly. It's now earlier in the day and they stopped using the flaming torches they used to because of the potential risk to kids in particular. I know that might put some people's noses out of joint a bit (and to be honest I was initially a bit disappointed myself) but I spoke to them about that issue and they'd obviously thought very carefully about it and weighed the pros and cons. They decided that, on balance, they would rather make the event more appealing to future generations so that they're more likely to take an interest in these traditions and hopefully they're more likely to be preserved. I had been four years ago when it was held later on at night with flaming torches and that was great in a different way but I had a fantastic time this year too, and I personally think they made the right call there.
I believe the crowd who showed up simply reflected the local rural population and/or the sort of people who are interested in this kind of tradition. Nobody was excluded. I personally think that's fine and nobody needs to beat themselves up about it.
You're right though, the BBC wouldn't cover this. I stopped watching broadcast TV a few years ago now because I just felt nothing was relevant to me any more. TH-cam is not without its own problems but broadly speaking it does help to fill in some of these (huge) gaps left by major broadcasters.