Folk For All - a description
"Folk For All" is a programme of folk music on Chichester Hospital Radio (CHR) in Chichester, Sussex, England, GB. CHR is a registered charity (no. 292599), based in St. Richard's Hospital, Chichester, part of the Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. CHR is even available outside the hospital campus, via the website's "Listen Live" page. The "Folk For All" programme was started in May 2003 and is a weekly 1-hour-long programme presented by Ken Hobbs. Ken has been with CHR on-and-off since 1974 and is a past comittee member and treasurer. "Folk For All" aims to present all kinds of folk music suitable for the patients to listen to, who might not be 'folkies' (at least at the start - we can hope for converts!). This inevitably excludes some of the darker or more graphic traditional songs, and the more "characterful", unaccompanied traditional singers, (worthy as they might be), won't get as much of a ...