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Date: 27 December 2012 16:13:31
Folk music is one of those things like Marmite, you're either into it or you're not. It's also a bit of a bit sub-cultural and so when the BBC announced Mike Harding was leaving Radio Two and Twitter/Facebook revealed that it was Harding being pushed out rather than really choosing to go there was a sense of both loss and anger. The key issue to many within the folk community was the fact Mike Harding is one of them and his show is excellent because he isn't just a presenter he is part of the sub-culture.
So pleased then that we live within the digital age and that when the mainstream broadcaster decided to cast him aside he has come up with a solution. The Mike Harding Folk Show is going to be a weekly podcast starting December 30th at 5pm.
Christmas was good, quite quiet but lovely. Gift wise from my dad I got the Greenbelt 12 Talks CD which I was expecting and a Bellowhead CD, Matachin, which I wasn't. Both are going to be great to listen to, although the former is going to be a dip in affair; it contains all 128 talks from this years festival.