Folk Music Programmes
on North West Radio

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday |Thursday | Friday | Saturday | On the Web

More and more of these shows are being added to BBC Radio's 'Listen Again' facility

Sunday

BBC Radio 3 FM 90 -93
Sky Digital Channel 853
 Andy Kershaw
10:15pm – 12:00am
Listen Online		 BBC Radio Merseyside FM 95.8 MW 1485
Folkscene with Stan Ambrose & Geoff Speed
7:00 – 8:00pm
 Email radio.merseyside@bbc.co.uk
Listen Online
BBC Radio Cumbria FM 95.6
Northern Folk with Alistair Anderson
8:00 – 10:00pm
 Email radio.cumbria@bbc.co.uk
Listen Online		 BBC Radio Scotland FM 92.4-94.7 MW 810
Sky Digital Channel 866
 Celtic Connections with Mary Ann Kennedy
6:00 – 8:00pm
Listen Online
BBC Radio Shropshire FM 96.0 MW 1584
Genevieve Tudor’s Folk Show
8:00 – 10:00pm
 Email genevieve.tudor@bbc.co.uk
Listen Online
** Also available on BBC Radio Stoke FM 94.6/104.1 MW 1503
 & BBC Hereford & Worcester FM 94.7 / 104 / 106  MW 738

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Monday

BBC GMR FM 95.1
Country Music with David Spencer
9:00 – 10:00pm
 Email david.spencer@bbc.co.uk
Listen Online 		Radio Derby FM 95.3 / 104.5 MW 1116
Folkwaves with Mick Peat & Lester Simpson
7:00 – 9:00pm
 Email radio.derby@bbc.co.uk

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Tuesday

Manx Radio FM 89 / 97.2 / 103.7 MW 1368 Manx Folk with John Kaneen
9:00 – 10:00pm
 Email johnkaneen@manxradio.com
Listen Online		 BBC Radio Scotland FM 92.4-94.7 MW 810
Sky Digital Channel 866
 Celtic Connections with Mary Ann Kennedy
8:00 – 10:00pm
Listen Online

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Wednesday

BBC Radio 2 FM 88 – 90.2
Sky Digital Channel 852
 Country Music with Nick Barrowclough
7:00 – 8:00pm
Listen Online
 BBC Radio 2 FM 88 – 90.2
Sky Digital Channel 852
 Folk, Roots & Acoustic Music with Mike Harding
8:00 – 9:00pm
 Email mike.harding@bbc.co.uk
Listen Online

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Thursday

BBC Radio 2 FM 88 – 90.2
Sky Digital Channel 852
 Bob Harris Country Show
7:00 – 8:00pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/bobharriscountry/
Listen Online
BBC Radio Scotland FM 92.4-94.7 MW 810
Sky Digital Channel 866
 Travelling Folk with Archie Fisher
8:00 – 10:00pm 
Listen Online
BBC Radio Lancashire FM 95.5 /103.9 / 104.5
The Drift with Phil Brown
8:00 – 9:00pm
 Email thedrift@bbc.co.uk
Listen Online		 BBC Radio Shropshire FM 96.0 MW 1584
Fretwork with Nonny James
7:00 – 8:00pm
 Also available on BBC Radio Stoke FM 94.6/104.1 MW 1503
 & BBC Hereford & Worcester FM 94.7 / 104 / 106  MW 738
 Email nonnyjames@bbc.co.uk
Listen Online

For my Brighton visitors:

Simple Folk is on a Brighton based community radio station called Radio Reverb. It's aired every Thursday night at Nine O'clock on 97.2FM (only received by people in the area) and also on radioreverb.com.

For information see: http://www.myspace.com/simplefolk

 

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Saturday

BBC Radio Wales FM 94.8 (N.Wales coast)  95.4 (Wrexham) MW 882  657 (Clwyd)
Sky Digital Channel 867
 Celtic Heartbeat with Frank Hennesy
10:00pm – 12:00am
 Email frank.hennesy@bbc.co.uk
Listen Online		 BBC Radio Scotland FM 92.4-94.7 MW 810
Sky Digital Channel 866
 Travelling Folk with Archie Fisher (Repeat of Thursday)
10:00 – 12:00am 
Listen Online
Radio Ulster FM 92.4 – 95.4 MW 873 / 1341
Sky Digital Channel 868
 Folk Club with Colum Sands
10:00 – 12:00am
 Email colum.sands@bbc.co.uk
Listen Online

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