On this week's podcast: The future vision for Shaftesbury’s Sunday market. / Meet the craftsman creating handcrafted leather bags named after Shaftesbury area villages. / Walkers keep joining Shaftesbury’s fastest growing community group. / We’ll find out why clipboard-bearing volunteers are questioning visitors. / A Shaftesbury artist can’t always get a full night’s sleep. We meet Karren Burkett as she opens her Shaftesbury Arts Centre Gallery exhibition, soon after the well-attended Town Hall Ar

On this week's podcast: We go ‘speed dating’ in Shaftesbury with the North Dorset Business Group. / A TV archaeologist shares his theory on where Shaftesbury’s original abbey lies. / Another pop up shop for the High Street. How the Chamber of Commerce is tackling empty shops / Shirley Allum previews her charity fashion show. / We look ahead to a talk on yew tree myths and legends. / A Shaftesbury student treks to Everest base camp for charity. / We debunk an urban myth about a king who died in Shaftes

On this week's podcast: We meet the couple behind a Semley business with a bright future. Sylvie create stunning wooden veneer lightshades. / Shopkeepers and shoppers can win money to spend in Shaftesbury in a carnival-themed shop window contest. / Shaftesbury Arts Centre is hosting an art auction. / A Motcombe photographer’s picture is commended in a national competition. / The creative workshops designed to improve wellbeing and reduce stress. / Bavaria comes to Barton Hill for 2 nights of Oktoberfest.

On this week's podcast: A designer whose work is used by a Channel 4 interiors show opens a Shaftesbury shop. We meet two 19-year old artists operating a pop-up shop in the High Street. Two North Dorset artists announce plans to promote Shaftesbury as an arts enclave with monthly arts fairs. Gold Hill Museum introduces a cute new attraction for younger kids. Why the Council has offered £500 cash to boost a Macmillan Cancer coffee morning. A 9-year old Semley schoolgirl sorts out a Shaftesbury litter spot.

On this week's podcast:

Alfred attends the Gillingham and Shaftesbury show. The Donheads’ award-winning cider maker. Where to stargaze around Shaftesbury. A local family who helped found a global drug giant and transformed US architecture. Shaftesbury will be featured in a popular walking festival. Enmore Green’s forgotten brickmaking industry. An ‘exquisite’ classical guitar concert at the Arts Centre. The man who missed out on the lead role in the '73 Gold Hill Hovis ad.

On this week's podcast:

- We meet Shaftesbury’s fire crew. July was their busiest month for call outs.

- A chat with Rosie Leah, the Motcombe author publishing medieval murder mysteries.

- We’re down on the community farm with Shaftesbury Homegrown’s volunteers. How can you buy their high quality produce?

- Roy Mitchell, the new Civic Society Chairman outlines his goals. He wants to fill the former Budgens supermarket.

- Shaftesbury In Bloom takes Alfred on a tour of the town’s flower filled s

On this week's podcast:

- A much-loved cheesemonger is coming back to town.

- How Covent Garden opera has boosted Motcombe Hall’s finances.

- There’s free yoga in Shaftesbury throughout August. The organiser guarantees you’ll feel better.

- New causes will get cash from Shaftesbury Carnival.

- Shaftesbury’s oldest known artefact, found on Castle Hill, could be 500 million years older than we thought.

- What next for the Melbury Abbas campaign to stop lorries blocking the narrow village road?

On this week's podcast:

- Teenagers create a sensory garden on the Eastern Development

- A change to the former Turnbull’s Deli interior

- A Shaftesbury gran delivers her ninth grandchild during a thunderstorm!

- A special delivery makes the hospital’s NHS 70th birthday party even better

- A town tour where it's all about Thomas Hardy instead of Gold Hill

- An East Stour herbal medicine expert on the special power of local plants

- Inheriting vintage tractors has changed a North Dorset family’

News, events and conversation from Shaftesbury, North Dorset and The Cranborne Chase.

In this episode:

- Keri Jone's discovers how Shaftesbury Chamber Of Commerce is celebrating the town's independent traders and how our street signs are getting a spring clean.

- Gold Hill Museum is looking to recruit a new Chairman and Keri discovers Shaftesbury's oldest feature - and it's living!

- There's also a report on the public meeting, held to discuss the sale of the Cattle Market site.

News, events and conversation from Shaftesbury, North Dorset and The Cranborne Chase. In this episode, Keri Jones walks along the newly reopened White Hart link between Motcombe and Shaftesbury and meets Town Clerk Claire Commons to hear about a Shaftesbury Council success story.

Keri also meets the Witcombe family, who are opening a new carpet store in Shaftesbury, hears about the town's famous social reformer, John Rutter, and discovers how Gold Hill is getting a spring clean.