Why not listen to the show - before you pass judgement on it?

Actually don't bother there will be no-one you have heard of.

In the past two weeks:

Brian Peters, Watersons, Maggie Boyle, Pogues, Kerfuffle, Hekety, Crucible, Glorystrokes, Guichen Quartette, Les Barker, Anahata and Mary Humphries, Last Night's Fun, Capercaillie, Bellowhead, Sam Larner, Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, Craobh Rua, Lal Waterson, Simon Mayor, Jim Causley, Swan and Dyer, Steeleye Span, Nic Jones, Devil's Interval, Waterson:Carthy, Sharon Shannon, Flook, Martyn-Wyndham Read, Duncan Mc Farlane Band, Blowzabella, Wyke and Driscoll, Fraser Sisters, Robin Garside, Fraser Sisters and excerpts from the original Radio Ballads. This week so far it looks like: The Outside Track,Bella Hardy, Dave Swarbrick,Craig Morgan Robson, Breabach, Lisa Knapp, Askew Sisters, Young Coppers, Wrigley Sisters, Billy Pigg, and Brass Monkey.

I'm waiting to play Demon Barbers, Malinky, Kitching and Bartley, John McCusker, Alistair Russell and I shall be doing a feature on the Sheffield Carols including the Glenrock Carol Singers from Pennsylvania. Then there's Kathryn Tickell, Eric Bogle, Carolyn Robson, Kimber's Men, Notts Alliance, Voice Squad, Barry Dransfield, Skyhook, Salsa Celtica, Will Noble, Stocai, Chris Wood - an eleven minute track there, Shepheard, Spiers and Watson, Moving Hearts, Louis Killen, Planxty, Christy Moore, Blue Murder, Doonan's, Vin Garbutt, Whaley and Fletcher, John Conolly Ray Fisher, Tom McConville, John Cocking and so on. Then there are the tradition bearers, Phil Tanner, Frank Hinchcliffe, Fred Jordan, Walter Pardon and new bands like the Shee.

In fact as you say - just like the Mike Harding Show.

Of course if you believe that the clubs are the place where real folk music takes place then you won't want people listening on the radio will you?

Keep digging.