Shambles I stumbled across folk music via the Andy Kershaw show on BBC Radio 1, a show which has been axed recently. If I had not heard the music for free on the radio I would never have realised that I really like some folk music. This radio show seems to have been axed due to a perceived lack of interest in the wide range of music aired on it. A wide mix of blues, country, dub, world music (folk) were on offer but the station controller decided that young people (that the station is meant to be for) have a narrow band of musical interest and would not like a varied diet
The BBC gets its funding from the licence fee paying public, many people with a diverse range of musical tastes, and is then spending that money promoting (playing) only certain kinds of music particularly during 'daytime'

I just think traditional music could be encouraged in the way amateur sport and the arts are funded giving it the same legitimacy
Ranting overload...shutting down.