Our magazine programme from the North of the county presented by Jenny Devitt features;

• Steven Moss, President of Somerset Wildlife Trust, talks about his recently published book on the Wren
• News of a musical competition from Brian Murray of Yeovil Rotary
• Amanda Phillips from Leweston Prep School tells us about an award which the school has recently won
• Local war photo journalist Lalage Snow talks about her new book on war gardens
• Tim Laycock tells us about a very special performance by the New Hardy Players in Dorchester’s Shire Hall (note: this performance has now taken place) and other performances before Christmas

This week:

• Malcolm Welshman talks about his latest book ‘An Armful Of Animals’. Also see/hear this edition of Ridgeway Magazine
• For the 9th year Castle Gardens, the Sherborne branch of the Gardens Group who support this programme, has received the top award for best Christmas display. One of the judges tells us what impressed her
• Jenny talks to Norwich Puppet Theatre who performed at Cerne Abbas recently
• A new plastic-free waste-reducing shop has just opened in Shaftesbury. Jenny talks to its enterprising owner
• Composer, lyricist, pianist and singer Ty Jeffries talks about two pre-Christmas shows by Miss Hope Springs

This week Jenny features:

• Hark Hark, a Winter’s Light by the Narthen Quartet
• 18 years of the audio version of Dorset County Council’s newspaper Your Dorset
• A stage production by Townsend Theatre Productions of a 1914 novel
• Dog traffic controls on Dorset Wildlife Trust’s Lorton Meadows reserve

In this edition:

• Rob Mott talks to Anna Bright from Dorchester’s Shire Hall Museum about their recent success in the Dorset Tourism Awards
• Jenny talks to a numismatist, that’s a coin specialist to you and me, and finds that money might make the world go round but not all money is round
• Nick Hewer, host of TV’s Countdown and former member of the Apprentice team, talks about his auto-biography
• Christmas starts here! as Jenny visits the programme’s sponsors, the Gardens Group, and is shown around their award-winning Christmas display by director Louise Burks

This week Jenny’s guests are:

• Actor, dancer, choreographer and director Shane Shambhu who gave his one-man-show at Charmouth Primary School on 15th Novenber.
• a lively band called The Budapest Cafe Orchestra which has nothing to do with Hungary!
• local writer Alistair Swinnerton who talks about writing scripts for animation.
• Sarah Pascoe from Save Our Shores, Bournemouth, who talks about the objections to exploratory drilling for oil in Poole Bay.

Local World is broadcast Friday at 6pm.

In this edition Jenny features some items commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Armistice

Regular presenter Jenny Devitt is away this week so Andy Worth takes the hot seat and looks back at many of Jenny’s reports during this year so far….

Jenny Devitt introduces

• Ken Green meets Strictly’s Natalie Cole
• Martin Hughes-Games, natural history programme producer and presenter best known for Springwatch, etc
• Mike Burke from the Gardens Group has some medicinal old wives tales
• Sherborne Chamber Choir will be giving a special concert to commemorate 100 years since the end of WW1. We have a preview.

Jenny Devitt’s guests this week are wildlife cameraman Colin Stafford-Johnson; author Clare Mulley who talks about two fearless female test pilots in Hitler’s Nazi Germany; part 2 of the interview with ex-Home Secretary Alan Johnson.

This week Jenny’s guests are all appearing at the Sherborne Literary Festival. They are:

Documentary film maker Kevin John Davis talking about ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’, film critic Mark Kermode and ex-Labour MP Alan Johnson who both have new books out.