The Alfred Daily is a 30-minute radio programme for Shaftesbury and the surrounding area, being broadcast 7 days-a-week. On The Alfred Daily today:

• Shaftesbury’s Abbey Primary School unveils their new peace garden.
• Why a Shaftesbury shopkeeper has hired a window artist.
• Shaftesbury what’s ons.
• Friends Kate and Karren chat about damp dogs and escaped animals.
• A chilling Sunday short story from Hartgrove writer Barkley Johnson.
• Nick Crump tests composer Karen Wimhurst’s improvisation again.
• The sounds of Shaftesbury’s Saturday buskers playing blues and folk.
• Soundscapes – birds shelter from the rain in the Pine Walk woodland.