I think the specific problem with the BBC in the uk is that it dsoesn't have a box to tick for english traditional music. Radios Scotland, Wales and Ulster would be expected to cover their particular national traditional / working class cultures (Radio Scotland runs five hours of Scots-based music every Saturday night - country dance, piping and folk) but none of the stations in england have the same obligations. In fact the BBC seem to think that the only requirements in england are to cover the more middle class culture of classical and jazz on Radio 3.