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Who is your favourite UK artist? As the commercial radio sector asks the nation to name their favourite UK artist of all time, Music Week has polled programmers from across the industry to find out their favourites. Read their responses over the next few pages.(Radio special)

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Phil Angell group programme director, UKRD Group My favourite UK artist is Pink Floyd. Call me old, call me bitter, call me grumpy, but Floyd outlast, outplay, and outshine even today's brightest stars.

Andy Ashton programme director, Xfm Network It has to be Nick Drake--an incredibly overlooked talent and one shrouded in mystic and conspiracy and ultimately tragedy, as surely all great artists should be. Nick Drake was the quintessential eccentric English performer, precociously talented yet fundamentally flawed. His music was as unassuming as it was powerful the proof of the latter being the fact that his appeal has lasted so long off the back of a catalogue ...

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