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:

• Dorset’s new High Sheriff wants to meet Shaftesbury’s heroes.
• Motcombe treasure trail helps kids understand climate crisis.
• Tip and skip foraging with Compton Abbas upcycling expert Tim Kerridge.
• Tom and Jan Perrett’s weekly walk – a circuit of East Stour.
• Shaftesbury chicken keeper Kate Scott’s birds freed from avian flu lockdown.
• Paul Merefield’s pub quiz
• Shaftesbury area jobs
• Shaftesbury what’s ons
• Shaftesbury book blogger Karen Cole reviews ‘The Hoax’ by Paul Clayton.
• Soundscapes – a white-tailed bumblebee in Hartgrove by Nick Crump.