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:

• Countryfile to feature folk duo’s North Dorset tree planting.
• Funding challenge for Motcombe to Gillingham cycleway.
• Dorset doctor launches campaign to cut motorcycle collisions.
• Bees and butterflies on the Cranborne Chase AONB’s chalk downlands with ranger Mike Fussell.
• A Wiltshire walk – Tom and Jan Perrett visit Berwick St John
• Kate Scott’s chicken keeping diary.
• Shaftesbury book blogger Karen Cole reviews ‘Last Seen’ by Joy Kluver.
• Soundscapes – a blackbird on Breach Lane.