Talk:Folkwaves

This article required citation. I am not sure how to do this but here is a copy of an article from the Derby Evening Telegraph 18.12.2010

Protest is planned as BBC confirms it will axe four shows from Radio Derby

Folkwaves, hosted by Lester Simpson, left, and Mick Peat, is being axed from Radio Derby after the BBC carried out a review of its evening radio shows in the East Midlands. Three other music programmes, Country, Celtic Fringe and Jazz, are also being taken off the air. By caroline jones FOUR programmes broadcast on Radio Derby – including Folkwaves – are to be axed during changes to its evening line-up, the BBC has confirmed. The Derby Telegraph previously reported that the BBC was reviewing its evening radio shows in the East Midlands and planned to broadcast a new early-evening programme. At the same time, hundreds of people had joined a group on social networking website Facebook in a bid to save Folkwaves – a folk music programme broadcast on Monday nights. But a spokesman for the BBC has now confirmed the programme, presented by musicians Mick Peat and Lester Simpson, is among those due to be scrapped. He said: "Folkwaves is the only programme made at BBC Radio Derby that is going. "Country, Celtic Fringe and Jazz, made elsewhere in the East Midlands but broadcast on BBC Radio Derby, are also going." Folkwaves, a two-hour programme, can also be heard on BBC radio stations in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. It is thought the programme has been running for at least 25 years and the last show is due to be broadcast on Monday, December 27. More than 1,000 people have joined a Facebook group opposed to the axing of Folkwaves. They want people to gather outside Radio Derby at 7pm on Monday to protest. Phil Carter, 52, of Doncaster, who set up the group, said the loss of the show would not only affect people in Derby but also across the country and worldwide. He said he felt axing the programme was not in keeping with the BBC Local Radio Service Licence policy. Mr Carter said: "It's the duty of local radio stations to nurture UK talent and both Mick Peat and Lester Simpson have always been supportive of the folk genre. "It's not just regionally that this will be felt. "People from all across the UK and the world rely on it as a taste of home and it just goes to show it is not only serving the locality. "We just want to show the BBC and the presenters that we really appreciate what they do." Country is presented by Mick Smith, who joined BBC Radio Nottingham in the 1980s. Celtic Fringe, with Staffordshire-based present-ers James and Tina McKeefry, is created in Leicestershire and Jazz is presented by Chris Moore.

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