I got the new Radio Times home last night and went through the radio pages, as is my wont. Next Wednesday (7 July, Radio 2 8.00) Mike Harding's guest is Billy Connolly, and a RT reviewer named Jane Anderson wrote "His stories make him unmissable ... even if you loathe the folk music he chooses" (my italics). "Loathe"? I can accept that a lot of people find Connolly entertaining without liking folk, but why this gratuitious and gross insult? A lot of people don't like classical music, or jazz, or easy listening, or any other kind you can think of; but no-one would expect to read in a well-resepcted national magazine like RT the sugestion that it's considered normal for many people to loathe any style of music -- especially one that is so widely supported in all its many different forms.

Write them a stroppy letter, or send them a stroppy email, like I did (radio.times@bbc.co.uk) It's not as if the BBC do much for folk anyway, is it?

Steve