I don't buy your arguments smallpiper. First, I don't think you can readily prove to the BBC that there is an English folk music audience "ripe for opening up". Second, I deplore the argument that English folk music is more deserving than other communities' folk music because it is "indigenous". There is already enough ghettoization of folk and traditional music by the "world" music afficionados on the BBC. White English men being given "world" music programs, playing cds by the Sidi Sufis of Gujarat, isn't exactly opening up the BBC to minority representation.