Leaving aside all the discussion about who is or isn't capable of delivering a decent folk music program, here's my wee view from not very far north. BBC Radio Scotland seem to serve us quite well IMHO - there are few programs that include folk music, and a few specifically for folk music. I mean folk music in a very broad sense - a lot of it isn't to my tastes. (example - Take The Floor has been running for centuries on Saturday nights, and it's live music every single week. It's Scottish Country Dancing so I can't stand it - but my Dad loves it. )
I think, though, that there's a need for more National Folk music broadcasting and radio 3 would seem to be the natural place. Late Junction and Andy Kershaw do their bit, but anything that isn't classical gets shoved to later (and recently, even later) time slots.
I know a lot of you will think it's an old complaint, but there really is a heavy southern bias on the BBC. This was especially true at the Folk Awards. We had a far too short discussion about this on another forum Folk Awards Discussion ..maybe some people here would like to contribute?
I pay a lot more attention to English folk music now than I did a year or two ago - that's since I started using the BBC's Listen Again service to listen to regional shows. If there were national shows that were able to broaden horizons nationaly I think fans, artists and the folk music community as a whole would all benefit

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