Irish music is well served by Irish radio.
Scottish music is well served by BBC Radio Scotland and local stations
English music - er... wot's that?

For every new BBC local radio folk programme that starts up, another closes down (and there aren't many of those)

Late Junction on Radio 3 is my best bet, both for hearing trad British music and interesting other stuff. I listen to R3's classical output a lot too, and there's that a lot more folky stuff creeping in there. A few months ago a CD review of a recording of Delius' "Brigg Fair" started with Grainger's wax cylinder recording of Joseph Taylor singing the song!

But we could do with more, and surely Radio 2 with its bigger and less specialist audience could afford to take a few more risks. What have they to lose?

Anahata