Sadly, another fine world/folk/roots music radio show hits the dust.
This from Mark Ringwood

Please excuse this general e-mail but following the axe-ing of my weekly radio show 'Roots Around the World' I've been genuinely touched by the number of people who have bothered to register a genuine disquiet about the situation - and rightly point out that if a regional radio station just consists of a computerised playlist and networked shows (did you know that Spirit FM generates less than 50% of it's weekly output from Chichester and all of the music is from a centralised computer in High Wycombe ?) then how is new music going to have a voice outside of the national stations ?

Anyway the point of this e-mail is to say that if you feel like registering an objection to the sanitisation of proper music, and the chopping of my show - which went from one hour a month to 3 hours every week in the space of 6 years, and did a lot to highlight the live music scene in West Sussex, as well as my quirky taste in music - then this is the person to e-mail. I doubt it will change things but the satisfaction of her realising that people really care about what they listen to will at least register, I hope !

sally.austin@spiritfm.net

Meanwhile I'm exploring other avenues to broadcast on, and if all comes to nought then the possibility of pod-casting through our www.rootsaroundtheworld.info website will remain an option.