Does New Zealand have limited access to the internet? Seems to me there are folk stations and podcasts galore - you just have to search a bit.

Mike Harding's weekly podcast has listeners down under, he claims. In the US there are streaming folky stations, often with four-letter names, such as WKSU. Some guy called Max has a blues show, or did. Search for 'npr radio; or 'icecast streams'.

Can you get the BBC's iPlayer radio programmes? I'm not sure if they're UK only, now. There are half-a-dozen local ones like Folkscene on Merseyside and Genevieve Tudor on Shropshire.