This will be a disaster if it happens. Folkwaves is, without doubt, the best folk programme on BBC radio, both on the national and local programmes (followed by Genevieve Tudor and Johnny Coppin and then by nobody else at all). Radio Wales still has Frank Henessy and Ulster/Scotland have Colum Sands and Barbara Dickson and sometimes Julie Fowlis but once again traditional music in England is being sold out by our own national broadcasters.   I thought the BBC's remit was to educate as well as entertain (covered in more detail in the comment above). I can understand that not everyone is entertained by folk music (after all I'm not in the least bit entertained by Radio1's music) but programmes like this should be retained for their significance if not their mass entertainment value.

It was this same BBC logic that caused Jim Causley to leave Radio Devon's Devon Folk. He was told that he needed to play less traditional (and local) music and play more "easy listening". Now we have ex-game show host Richard Digance presenting a programme. I complained to the BBC at the time but, naturally, without effect (story of my life) and I fear complaints to Radio Derby may be similarly ignored.

Still I'll send my comments to Mr Cornes.