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 mayor on lockdown, markets and the traffic-free High Street.
• Motcombe volunteers will make sure no villagers feel alone.
• New Year hopes from Mary Myers’ Wardour smallholding.
• How the Industrial Revolution ruined Shaftesbury’s economy.
• Shaftesbury lockdown business changes.
• David Kerswell’s North Dorset farming – Shaftesbury rainfall pattern changes.
• Soundscapes – a north wind blows through Breach Lane birch trees.