Thanks to Abby Sale and others for kind comments.
Much of the credit for the radio show should have gone to the BBC Radio
Scotland features person who suggested / recorded / edited/ scripted /
produced the show - three cheers for Caroline Barbour.

Mind you, I had first to track informants down. 
Through newspaper and radio stories I found over 20 people who took part in
J R  Ritchie's film The Singing Street, but only one of the singers he
recorded - Peggy MacGillivray. I also got through Ritchie's niece a
photocopy of his notebook listing all the singers on the film.
Jack Mearns of Aberdeen I found through Ian Russell of the Elphinstone
Institute. He in turn tracked down all his pals of 50 years ago.
South Uist was the hardest, and most surprising. I had thought the visit of
a Texan to a small school in the Outer Hebrides would have been a major
memory, but found no-one who remembered him coming or recording. Annie who
we interviewed was great on the school life of the time, and would have
been there that day. She said to me that he would have been just one more
among many visitors brought to the school by Calum and Sorley Maclean.

As regards Lomax as a collector, Hamish Henderson wrote about their trips -
Lomax recorded a lot of singing from Hamish as well as being 'guided' by
him. Ewan MacColl in his autobiography, and Joan Littlewood in hers, both
write about Lomax turning up and seeking to record Ewan. MacColl,
Littlewood, MacGillivray and Mearns all talk about him playing guitar and
singing - to pass the time while Theatre Workshop were dismantling scenery
/ because he was requested to / in order to set an atmosphere for the
recording. Maybe he did not do that in South Uist, and hence is not
recalled?

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