"even if you loathe the folk music he chooses" That is not to say the reviewer loathes folk music, just the stuff that is played on Radio Two. I have a certain sympathy with this sentiment in as much as many of the people I enjoy listening to, rarely if ever, get air time on Mike Harding's programme.
When was the last time you heard Duncan McFarelane, Anthony John Clarke, Harvey Andrews or Eric Bogle. I do not tune in very often now so things may have changed, but from the little I do hear I think not.