I listen to LJ too (and Womans Hour on R4 - I kid you not!) for a lot more traditional music than you are likely to get on R2. Both are available on the web with 'Listen Again'.

Radio 2 has this thing about 'conning' people into carrying on listening from one show to another when they'll hear music they thought they didn't like. It's known as 'follow through'.   What it makes me think is Mike Barraclough must still be on when in fact the misnamed 'Folk on 2' (or whatever it's actually called now) has in fact started.

The BBC have a 'Folk & Acoustic' site which (other than the message board) I rarely look at because it's so irritating. Today I did and was amazed to hear about hitherto unknown performers 'Woodie Guthrie' and 'Davey Graham', that all traditional music was in 'simple square rhythm' and 'simple harmony' and that Aretha Franklin had a big hit with 'First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' shortly after Peggy Seeger had sung it on US television after getting it over the phone from Ewan. That would be 1957, *long* before Roberta Flack did it on the soundtrack of 'Play Misty For me' in 1971, would it? I'm only surprised it didn't mention that Celine Dion does it too...

I'm relieved to report that the videolink to MH himself telling you which albums you 'must have' in your collection was down when I tried it. He's been very sniffy publicly for years at people who keep 'telling him how to do his job'.   But if he doesn't go along with BBC and Smooth Ops 'remits', why does he keep on doing it?