Come on Auntie, play fair! It's not as if we're asking for so very much. If there were as much English traditional music played on our national radio as there is Scottish traditional music played on Radio Scotland, I think most of us would be satisfied.

But we shouldn't blame Mike Harding, or Smooth Operations, for the deficiency. They work to a brief given them by the BBC's management, who in turn take advice from audience researchers about what "the public" likes to hear on radio. Within those rather narrow limits, I think Mike H does a pretty decent job. It's not his fault that there aren't other programme carrying more of the rather different stuff some of us would like to hear

The predominant flavour of MH's hour is CCSS (stands for "Celtic, Country, and Singer-Songwriter" – pronounced "Kickass") because the researchers tell the executives that's what the majority of the public think "folk music" is. Nevertheless, he still manages to squeeze a fair bit of Anglicana into most of his shows. (Full marks to him and his team for getting the Bob Copper tribute together in time for this week's programme.)

Wassail!