There's absolutely *not* "lots" of folk music programming on the BBC. On national radio I can see 2 1 hour slots this week and one next week, out of several hundred hours broadcasting. There are some local radio programmes too.

You might be exaggerating how much there is in your own mind by "listening and listening again". Listening to the same programmes over and over, IMO does not constitute "a lot" of output in my book.

So there are no German songs? As I said above, that puts German folk in line woth the folk music of most other countries in the world...ie, few of them get any airplay!

When was the last time they played any Sami Yoiks, for example, eg:

Mari Boine Persen

Or any Bulgarian folk music:

Bulgarian

So I ask again, why have you got your panties in a wad about a lack of *German* music in particular when in fact we probably hear music on UK radio from fewer than 20 countries out of 195?