Given that the BBC is culturally left-of-centre, and has been for at least 20 years, you'd think it would mesh quite nicely with the left-of-centre folk scene these days. Most folk clubs and many a folk recording are full of people romantically singing about long lost leftie causes. Perhaps this is unattractive - irrelevant? - even to those who are of a similar political persuasion. It certainly has little appeal to me.