Yorkshire Folk Radio
We believe that BBC local radio has a duty of care towards all itslisteners and that by axing Henry Ayrton's Real Music Show and therebyremoving all folk programming from the four BBC Yorkshire andHum... continue reading »
"People listen to folk music. pop is only heard by default"
"This is our heritage. Please help it to live."
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"Increasingly, the BBC is merely paying lip-service to the concept of serving local communities. This 'axing' of excellent locally-based programmes is a betrayal of its ideals and professed intentions."
":D I love Yorkshire! :) Even if you are from the wrong side of the pennines."
"Folk music is very important to us as a nation. It brings us together through past, present and future. We all need to support it."
"public service broadcasting should support folk music"
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"I spent a considerable sum of money on a DAB Digital radio just over a week before this show was withdrawn. I think that "betrayal" is the only approriate adjective for BBC Yorks & Humber's action."
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"It's not much to ask - an hour or so per week of our own culture!"
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"With the resurgence of folk music in he mainstream, surely this has to be a shortsighted action?"
"Amalgamating all the local folk programmes was bad enough, making the diary section difficult and unwieldy, but of course this meant that only one programme need be chopped to get rid of all the folk music on local radio! We know this is not the first tim"
"How dare you remove this programme!!"
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