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The BV: from the heart of Dorset — 99 episodes
Toads, tractors, Britain's Got Talent ... and totally Dorset
From fire engine funding battles to a fierce defence of rural England
Dorset developers and the hanged family forger
Dorset's secret soldiers and George Hosford on the failing TB system
The fire sale, the forgotten vale and the power of thank you
George Hosford’s had enough – and so has the Grumbler
Dorset’s hidden poverty, real power, and a cadet you won't forget
A Saxon Dig, and inside Dorset's Plan
Imported dogs, rural pressure and Minette Batters' roadmap for farming
The trout is local, the help is real
A stray cat called Bentley and the ladies who saved Shakespeare
An Angry Pom-Pom, Building with Straw, Budgeting with Scissors
Turning 100, farming fury and a fond farewell
Eggs, Anger and Artisan Chocolate
Have a coffee, find a friend
25 Years, 3,000 Missions: The Dorset Air Ambulance
A very boring BV podcast (that isn’t)
Beavers, Floods and Poo – February’s BV Podcast
Who is Edward Morello, West Dorset's first LibDem MP
47 Healthy Cows Slaughtered - James Cossins' TB heartbreak
Potholes, Para Jiu Jitsu, and Dorset’s Innovative Workspaces
Dorset food fights, housing plans and Christmas trees
Spotting scams and Buffy the Dorset nursing legend | BV Podcast
The Tenant Farmer's Take: Like it or lump it
From local agri-legend Matthew Holland to baby-saving Dr. Michael Fernando | BV Podcast
Dorset Voices, Big Issues: Housing, Farming, and Hidden Science
Sails to charcuterie, via dancing mice and asian hornets
Charles Church's 19 questions, and Dorset Council on its 'Nature Emergency'
Farming frustration, Sturminster Cheese Fest, Riversmeet and a refugee family’s journey
Alpacas to Action Horses ... and advocating for children
From Attenborough to Affordable Housing
Sneaky crab spiders and the case of the rubble fly-tipping that wasn't
From Seals to Skies, via some cheese: Dorset Stories
William Fox-Pitt, and the real insider's guide to Dorset open air theatre
Wakely Cox on lonely farming & The Squat Thrusters of Sherborne | BV Podcast
Seb the 13 year old pig breeder and Jess on balancing books and bridles
The beautiful bookshop and the RotaKids
A dog kills a lamb – should the farmer display it to walkers?
Endurance, Triumph, and Taste: to Africa with Parkinson's, Dorset girls dominating the boxing ring, and the fine food that's not posh
Beyond fetch; Lucy Nolan's training dog owners to give them a job
Sam Peters on rugby's dangerous evolution and Rob Nolan's stellar photography
Letters, cold swims and Polecats
Claire Allen’s Epic Walk and Robert Cowley - the Cambridge graduate plumber
Letters, and the case for (and against) Bonham Forest
Pepper, panto and pursuing human quarry
Gwyneth Wentink’s Dorset Island Discs, and Jane Adams talks lichen
The drive to a cashless society, Cllr Flower’s story, and the birth of a market
Chris Loder, Sarah Dyke and Karen’s Kimchi.
The farmer, the brewer and the coffin maker walk into a bar ...
Putting on a LitFest and travelling 11,000 miles from Blandford... to Bridport
Weed whacking and the death of dairy farms.
Letters, Roger G and Dorset Island Discs with Helen Ottaway
A stoat is stoatally different, a farming crossroads and the tale of Gold Hill
Letters, kites and monsters in the pits.
Jane Goodall’s Random 19, package holiday complaints and a guided tour of Duropolis
On a free-spirited artist, marine pollution and politics
Reader’s letters, Polluted waters and Holtby & Co
A seaside bus route, worried farmers and good snacking
Rescuing 40,000 animals, TV’s Salvage Hunter in Sherborne, and a lack of listening in the food industry
Antiques Road Trip in Sherborne, Robert Boyle and all the letters
Jane Adams on the dawn chorus and Shaftesbury Indie market’s Jules Bradburn
Tivoli Theatre’s Charlie North-Lewis selects his Dorset Island Discs
Small shop, big heart – plus all the letters
In conversation with Natalie Wheen
Lady Carnarvon and Dorset’s poisoned birds of prey
Letters, pigs and the effect of the oil spill
West End star Joanna Woodward and the reality of farming in 2023
Local legends you probably don’t know, affordable housing, and the bee-fly
A rare horse logger, and Lizzo to Quo via Busted with Bonnie
The BV talks to Tim Laycock and gets the inside track on the Council Tax levy
The legless marshal and complaints about farmers
The BV talks to broadcast legend Henry Blofeld
EXCLUSIVE interview with Rupert Hardy and the most haunted house in England. Probably.
Letters and houses and the state of our world
The coffin in the crypt, a walk in the woods and some Dorset Yuzucello
EXCLUSIVE interview with Mike Burks, Alice Plunkett on roast dinners and octogenarian craftsmen...
A muddle of eggs, racing, letters and beer.
Hares, hedgerows and down on Hosford’s farm
Reader’s Letters, plus The Repair Shop’s Sonnaz and John the Fish
The Pocket Rocket, Hen homing, and Somerset’s silicon valley of cheese
The Blandford Bastards, a peek in The Gugg and night walking
A thatcher, a cheesemonger and the Green Man
The GP’s call systems, good turkeys and Edward Hoare in the Random 19.
Lost grasslands, the waste of wool - and letters to the editor
A lost NHS, the murdering rector and new insight into Robert Baden-Powell
Boris’s Levelling up for Dorset, Minette Walters and the Dorset Flower Famer
First beaver kits born in Dorset for 400 years, Dorset summer foraging and the Winterborne Kingston dig
A parrot rescuer, London expats running a thriving Dorset store and an award-winning sausage business
Women fighting, and chef Mark Hix and his Poundland habit
Connemaras, Dorset chanterelles, and our ‘ugly, slug-loving splodges’
The Random 19, Dorset Island Discs and a sozzled servant
More Roman Mosaics, holidaying on a Dorset Housing Estate and it’s early rise in the Bread Shed
Hares, Racket Papers, Hayfever and good book choices!
1984 the greatest year? Looking for strawberries and honey and the adorable speckled bush-cricket
Walks and card games in Durweston, supercars, and Tom Robinson 72 and still rocking!
Dealing with Beetles, green credentials, wild salad, antibiotics and the ArchBishop of Canturbury!
From Civil war in Dorset to the Napoleonic war, tits on a tightrope and Honeysuckle romps home
Storm clouds in the pantry, the iron man of Stur and remembering Philip
Dorset to Newfoundland Swanskin mittens, the award winning oliveer and oh so many foals