Folk music just doesn't cut it with the general public

Plenty of folk music gets played on the local radio in Ireland and Scotland. Most of the English public just don't know what it is. Did you see that comment in the "National Festival" thread from a young member of staff at the Sutton Bonington college who spent all day listening to the sessions and was bowled over by music he'd never heard anything like before.

Mike Harding, by the way, is reputedly fed up with people complaining to him. It isn't his fault - he's just the front man for a show run by Smooth Operations and John Leonard from that company is probably more resposible for dictating the content. But and the directive for just abpout everything in the BBC is that it has to be "celebrity led". Sad, or what?

Anahata
(who listens to Late Junction on Radio 3 for folk music)