This is an old, old thread going back to 2004.
Is Mike Harding still working for the BBC? His website says "When the BBC decided they no longer wanted the kind of show I did…"
Thanks for alerting me to the fact of Mike's show - met him many years ago on a week when he sang his heart out every night with great generosity and sweetness in a pub in Donegal - not gigs, he was attending a course and after the day's walking and learning and dancing we all retired to the pub.
It's nice to hear that he plays music from the mainland - it's rare to be able to hear music from Romania and France and Germany that often here in Ireland. It's also nice to hear music from our neighbouring island. I'm going to subscribe to his podcast.