Not that I would dare to confuse the white rose with the red (men have been crucified for less), but the Jarman twins Ryan (vocals, guitar) and Gary (bass) and Ross (their drummer and younger sibling) do speak in a camp Sheffield dialect - they use "us" to mean "our" in that typically Yorkshire way: eg "we're gonna record this for uz' next single" - which, combined with Ryan's cap-sleeved, cut-off, bicep-baring shirt, makes me wonder whether the location of the opening night of The Cribs' UK tour is more than merely coincidental. Brighton, of course, is the gay capital of England, our very own San Francisco. It's a beautiful irony of British life that some of the toughest areas of the country have some of the campest accents. Manchester mini-cab drivers, for example, often speak with the affected cadences of a music-hall dame. Producers are still keen to find any footage; contact Arena, BBC, 1 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JA.THE BALLAD OF THE GLIDING SWANTenderly William kissed his wife.Then he opened her head with a butcher's knife.And the swan on the river went gliding by.Lady Margaret's pillow was wet with tears.Nobody's been on it in twenty years.And the swan on the river goes gliding by.The swan on the river goes gliding by.Little Billy Brown will shake with fright.He's got a new daddy and mommy every night.And the swan on the river goes laughing by.The swan on the river goes laughing by."I've got a sad surprise" the doctor said."A twenty-pound baby without any head."The swan on the river went lookin' .... But I still can't believe that somewhere there isn't some footage and I'm still hoping we will find some."John Baldwin, of the Dylan fan organisation Desolation Row, said: "Many of even the most fanatical fans will not have heard these songs, certainly not of the quality we are expecting from the broadcast, and we expect this to be very big."'Arena: No Direction Home' is on BBC2 26 and 27 September; 'Arena: Dylan in the Madhouse' will be shown by BBC4 in late September.

Mr Woodward said: "His brush with the British folk scene had an enormous effect on his songwriting and he went on to write a number of songs shortly afterwards which were clearly influenced by his time in London."Madhouse forms part of a Bob Dylan season on BBC4 to complement BBC2's two-part Arena documentary No Direction Home, directed by Martin Scorsese.Arena's editor, Anthony Wall, said: "To have found these songs is much more than I thought we would ever get when we made our appeal. Another rough tape was made by schoolboy Pete Read, which has also been handed to programme-makers.While in the UK, Dylan visited a number of British folk clubs including the Troubadour in Old Brompton Road. We ended up talking about it at great length, and he said it was a great influence on him."The tape went into a box, where it remained until recently when it was passed on to Dylan chronicler Ian Woodward, who in turn made it available to the BBC. He was standing in the shop and I had a Robert Graves book, The White Goddess, under my arm and he thought this was so interesting.

They feature in an Arena documentary for BBC4, Dylan in the Madhouse, which traces the story of the production. One of the recordings was made by Hans Fried, who used an early Baird reel-to-reel tape recorder to preserve the songs after holding a microphone in front of one of the TV speakers. "The quality was surprisingly good," he said.He had previously struck up a conversation with Dylan after they met in the folk and jazz shop Collets in London's New Oxford Street "I didn't know who he was at the time. The other songs are "The Cuckoo" and "Hang Me Oh Hang Me".Now home recordings of the songs have been handed in after an appeal by the BBC and will be broadcast next month as part of a season of programmes about Dylan.