"a large audience for Folk Music" ??? I really don't believe that Folk
is anything but a minority interest in England. But what is wrong with that? It is difficult to retain integrity once the Capitalists see a commodity they can market. They generally try to reduce any style of music to anodyne pap to increase their market. Remember "Day Trip To Bangor"? What would Dick Gaughan say! I always thought Country Meets Folk a truly dreadful programme. Hardings is a vast improvement. Also when Jim Lloyd was hosting the folky progs you could pick up the Radio Times and see The Yetties were on every bloody week in their own programme, and, in my opinion, if there was any band guaranteeed to turn off a general audience from Folk it was them. Ghastly.