The contempt by BBC officials for people who dare to listen to local radio programmes from outside the area is ... well ... contemptuous...

Remember my earlier posting?:
"I notice, incidentally, that some months ago, you could click on local and regional radio from the main BBC home page, and then click Radio Derby. Now, when you try and access local radio from the homepage, they just ask for your postcode/town so that they can connect you with your local radio station. Well, I don't want the local radio station, I want Radio Derby. Have the BBC website people not heard of t'internet? or the iPlayer?"

It therefore seems to be a deliberate act of policy to direct internet listeners to their local station.

I think the various BBC officials miss the point about the idea of Folkwaves being "local". Yes, it's content should, and does, appeal to the local audiences seved by radio Derby and the other stations that broadcast it (gig guides, local artists, national artists appearing locally, etc), but I believe that listeners in Canada or Newcastle or Qatar appreciate that it has a local flavour - not from THEIR local area, but from A local area - rather than some sort of bland mid-Atlantic X Factor slush....

Derek