As an 'Englander' i can appreciate what it's like to have a media that starves us of one of our treditinal arts i.e. our traditinoal musical heritage apart from a few isolated (local radio) slots, the odd special on beeb 4 or Mike Harding's programme. It's got a little better over the years but it's sad when poeple i work with have never heard of Martin Carthy & family or Fairport or Bert Jansch or Copper/McPeake families or Vin Garbutt or Nic Jones or Tom Paxton (it's true) &c, &c.

So i've signed the petition with the attached statement...

Music and art belongs to the people of all nations. Music and art is the greatest 'bringer together' of people of all natiions and cultures within a nation. Monies raised by governments comes from the people and therefor those people should not be denied the necessary funding required from 'their' funds in the treasury to sustain and maximise the growth and spreading of their art and music