Smooth Operations who are the prodution Co. keep telling us that the mandate from the BBC is to include EVERYTHING, if so ? why does no other programme have such a wide remit ?
I believe Smooth Operations are the ones to blame, when the BBC itself produced this programme under the title Folk On 2 [ it is now called the Mike Harding Show ] presented by Jim Lloyd it was a lot closer to what we think it ought to be now.
Nick Barraclough has just won an award for presenting his C/W show, if Smooth Ops can do it with country I'm bloody sure they could do it with folk, why doesn't Nick's show have as wide a remit as Mike's ? I think Mike and john Leonard are doing just what they want to do regardless of real folk music listeners.
Get rid of Smooth Operations, who are they anyway ?
eric