In this special edition Andy Worth introduces a selection of items from previous editions of Local World produced and presented by Jenny Devitt, featuring:

• The Great Dorset Beach Clean
• Wildlife filmmaker Colin Stafford-Johnson
• David Stocks on Beatrix Potter
• The New Hardy Players and Davina Symes
• The Bridport Hat Festival

Local World – Fridays at 6pm

In this week’s programme the diverse topics are litter, water meadows, Schubert and the First World War. Presented by Jenny Devitt.

Featured this week:

• A beautiful book – Lost Words
• Cerne Valley Cider
• Wine with a celebrated wine guru, author and French chateau owner
• Eastbury Hotel Sherborne’s Executive Chef

In this week’s programme Jenny talks to

• retired vet and author Malcolm Welshman who has tails from a cruise liner
• two organisers of an event in Sherborne Library on 25th April which looks at the music and dances of Shakespeare’s time, with examples played on the accordion
• the organiser of the Cerne Giant Festival and visits the first event of the festival – the making of the Beltane Brew!

Local World is broadcast on Fridays at 6pm

In this edition – pour yourself a gin, go to the opera, keep fit with a spot of exercise and fly to the Moon!

The theme of this edition is – The Land

• Restoring life to the soil and variety to the land in an exciting project
• Gardening science and sense from a veteran of the ‘art’
• News of the forthcoming Cerne Giant Festival
• Sherborne Wineshop Vineyards have launched their own brand of gin…all the ingredients require the land!

The topics in the show this week are dogs, wildlife gardening and racing across America. Click the play button for more….

Local World is broadcast on Fridays at 6pm

• With ever increasing concerns over plastic waste, much coming from packaging, Jenny talks to the editor of Packaging News
• We meet a very young, talented and award-winning pianist – just 7 years old!
• Becky Varndell from Artsreach highlights the remaining events before their April break
• The Great British Spring Clean – Keep Britain Tidy’s chief executive explains more

Featured in this week’s programme:

• The head gardener at Forde Abbey
• John Baker from Sherborne Abbey Music Festival
• Nigel Short, musical director of award winning choir Tenebrae who will be performing at the festival
• Lauren Hillier, winner of the vocal section in the Yeovil heat of the Rotary Club’s national young musician competition

For more information see the Sherborne Festival website and the Tenebrae choir website

Music, fashion, cataracts and John Peel’s Shed are the subjects of this week’s show. Listen in for more details….