"What is missing in buckets full in his presentation style is knowledge."

Oh yawn. Here we go. So you know the length of Martin Carthy's tallywhacker and his favourite brand of plectrum - so what? If you were such a great broadcaster then why aren't you presenting the show and blinding us with your superior knowledge? Radcliffe is a musician and plays the music (which is worth more than knowing any amount of trivia), he understands the music and doesn't need to know which hand Shirley Collins wipes her arse with to get over the spirit and joy of the music.


"It might be OK for late night slots to keep down royalty figures . . ."

Ignorant tripe. Radders co-hosts a show with Stuart Maconie every afternoon on 6 music, and bloody good it is too (as is the radio station as a whole). You mean little comment is born of simply not knowing and spouting off anyway. Now you know.

As for his delivery style, it's subjective. I like it as he's a true enthusiast who loves the traditional music of these islands in it's myriad incarnations. I for one am pleased we don't have some folk club wonk displaying their encyclopaedic knowledge and boring us shitless for an hour to impress their folk elite friends. How dull would that be? Some people don't seem to want to enjoy the music for what it is; their loss (not that I'm disparaging knowledge of the subject at all and I enjoy the detail myself, but don't force your brilliance on other people; that's boorish at best, disrespectful at worst).

Looking forward to the next show.