It looks like the BBC cuts will affect the regional programming which means bad news for Genevieve Tudor's Sunday Folk on BBC Radio Shropshire (and the other stations that take it) and any other local folk music programmes such as BBC Radio Merseyside's long running Folkscene with Geoff Speed and Stan Ambrose and also The Drift on BBC Radio Lancashire with Phil Brown (I use those examples as they are my regional stations but I'm sure there are other folk programmes in other parts of the country that will be affected.)

The proposal by the 'Delivering Quality First' group is that regional programmes after 7-00pm will be merged into one national programme. This of course sounds the death knell of all the local shows - not just folk.

We've been here before with BBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Derby as individual stations have made changes to their schedules and dropped shows but this looks like the thin end of the wedge for the demise of "local" radio altogether.

More information about the proposed cuts at the BBC HERE

The DQF part of the BBC site is HERE

The mailing address is:
Delivering Quality First
BBC Trust
180 Great Portland Street
London W1W 5QZ
and the phone number for enquiries 0800 068 0116