Not being a BBC listener (except for occasional news programmes or the wonderful old comedies heard on our ABC) all I can add to the discussion is a comment relayed by a travelling friend. He passed it on to Roy Bailey when he was here last year - some rather classical presenter complained that Roy was too good a singer to be wasting his time singing folk music.

Aren't we lucky he sings our kind of music, I would have never have heard him if he was singing in opera houses & on concert platforms.

By-the-by, we have the same problem here. Our ABC has several programs that include current folk, and they also record concerts at some festivals, but its only a little bit. Commercial stations which play nostalgia will include some of the US commercial folk hits of the 60's & 70', but nothing of today's music.

Sandra