I sent a card from the USA today.

I am heartbroken. Folkwaves has become my favorite folk radio show; I have a ritual where I cue the replay up each weekend while I work on several sessions of kitchen chores. It's a big influence on my CD orders from the UK.

I've been listening to the BBC online since 2002 and this year it seems like the BBC world is moving in a bad way. Charlie Gillett died, Verity Sharp departed Late Junction, Archie Fisher was forced into retirement. Now DJ Ritu's world music show in Gillett's timeslot is to be axed along with Folkwaves.