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Dorset Island Discs!

Simon Hoare MP selects hisDorset Island Discs

Sandwiches and Statesmanship: the North Dorset MP’s path from shy child to a voice for pragmatism and local community, via his favourite music ‘I was...

“James Herriott has a lot to answer for” – Dorset Island Discs

David Sidwick is about to celebrate his first anniverary as Dorset’s Police Crime Commissioner. He shares his top eight music choices with us. David Sidwick...

‘Just go away’ – Giles Simpson is the G&S Dorset Island Discs castaway

Farmer, agronomist, chairman of the Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show, and fan of Magnums, Giles Simpson shares the soundtrack of his life with Laura Hitchcock Giles...

Sonnaz Nooranvary, The Repair Shop’s expert upholsterer, takes on the Random 19

Sonnaz Nooranvary is a British-Iranian upholsterer who lives near Wimborne, best known as the resident upholstery expert on BBC One’s The Repair Shop. At the...

Dorset Food & Drink

I think a homemade jam makes any cake or scone taste incredible – I will often go that extra mile when...

Fanny Charles talks to James and Lucy Smart, who are celebrating ten years of running one of this country’s finest charcuterie...

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Dorset Wildlife

Brilliant bryophytes

Steve Masters, Dorset Wildlife Trust’s ecologist, shines a light on the often-forgotten miniature realm of the important bryophyte Have you ever perched on an old...

Baby Barn Owl’s

Local wildlife photographer Ian Nelson sent this wonderful set of barn owl images to us, despite knowing they couldn’t be entered into the reader’s...

Microplastics on Dorset’s beaches

There has been a change in the rubbish on...

Connecting with the wild

Autumn is the time to delay your daily walk...

Hinton St Mary : Then and Now

Step back in time with our ‘Then and Now’ feature, where vintage postcards from the Barry Cuff Collection meet modern-day reality. Explore the past...

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