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DORSET
George’s fast, furious and full-on Paralympic dream
Curious corners of Poole
Ale and Hearty – Hattie Brown’s Brewery
Flock together – a Dorset sheep dynasty
A St Aldhelm’s Head mystery
Piecing it together
Doctor with a difference – DocBike
Fifty not out!
Countryside Mobility – Access to the open country
Radio Free Purbeck – and not a pirate in sight!
DeLorean – all new electric time machine
Frank Roberts – still doing it his way
Bournemouth’s historic flight path
orbet seems to be the hardest word
All you never knew you wanted to know about Dorset
Dorset’s stick man – Brian Waters
Captain Grumpy & the Happy Hooker
Simon Grant-Jones – Forged in Dorset
Conquer loneliness to fight scams
Will Bond – Purbeck is quite enough
Clare Barnett – raising saddles
Friendly Society that reached around the world
Craftsman Terry’s wheels of feel
Shell Bay Cafe – perfect for tea and sea
Wimborne Minster pipes up
Picture perfect – Weymouth’s camera man
Tyneham after 75 years of the Army
Tony Hancock, the Lad and Dorset
Blandford Forum, fire town
Barrington – back from the brink
Whatever Happened to Tucktonia?
Toll family – powerboat princes
Barrington – back from the brink
Dorset Rape Crisis – Helping a crisis out of a drama
Wild about Bourton
Finding the ace of spades in Upton
Charlie Turnbull – Shaftesbury’s Big Cheese
Upton House – ‘secret’ no more
Warmwell Stables: ‘You know where you are with a horse’
Boost for cancer care in Dorset
Gillingham Walking Festival – These routes are made for walking
Roger Street, Dandy Charger
Walking football – not just for kicks
Something’s brewing… in Wimborne
Carriage Driving – Together like Love and Marriage
Hooke Park – Dorset’s university of wood
Tales of Flitterwick Harbour
Dorset’s oldest choir boy
Born in a barn – Swanage Museum
Dorset Community Foundation
Spetisbury Station Project
Wareham Rex
Thomas Hardy Conference
Richard Knott & his steam dreams
Gig racing in Lyme Regis
Thomas Hardy and the goldfinch
Weymouth Pavilion
White Helmets Motorcycle Display Team
A Tale of Two Cinemas
Tyneham’s one-woman workforce
Dorset and Waterloo
Black Cow vodka
Shelley Theatre reborn
RNLI HQ
Bridport Hat Festival
Remembering Neal Butterworth
Record Store Day 2013
Remembering Kevin Nash
Royal Wessex Yeomanry
Bournemouth’s radical Russians
Bridport’s art heart
CCTV in Bournemouth
Remembering Hobo the Clown
Opera House, Boscombe
Back to Tyneham
Modrapheniacs & a man called Yob
ARTS
Drawing on history
Snap! Iconic moments
The fine art of the modern polymath
Lucy’s ‘voice’ is heard at long last
Twins’ flights of fancy thrill thousands – The Twins FX
Feat of Clay – 15 Days In Clay
The sound of the sunny south – Da Biz
‘Each sculpture should be an event’ – Sculpture by the Lakes
Life beneath the ocean wave – Maria Munn’s underwater photography
Zoot Alors! Zoot Money at 80
‘It has to be about the work’ – artist, Sarah Hough
Recognising boundaries – Parish boundary markers
Jim Etherington – ‘Money or fame were never in my thinking’
BSO Resound – ‘It’s the music, mate’
Martin Brown – drawing inspiration
Shapely bottoms and well-made bows
Bournemouth’s Bowl of music magic
If wood could talk…
Ra Zamora Q&A – Dorset Moon
Purbeck Workshop – where creativity counters cancer
Fred Karno, man of Poole
The rocky horologist’s show
What if The Beatles had never met?
Arts for all our sakes: Dorset’s Arts Societies
Happy memories of arts centre 40 years on
Kinetics – a moving story
Lesley Slight – everywhere and nowhere
Gobbledegook Theatre
Moviola and the village hall screen scene
Ian Hargreaves: Dorset in the right light
In praise of Poole artists
Faking it: Nina Camplin’s trompe l’oeil
Rudolf Schwarz – from Belsen to Bournemouth
Parnham House, much more than furniture
Swanage Folk Festival 2017
The Ninebarrow Boys
On tour: One for the road
The Cream of the pop crop
Animals magic and the hit that Arny ‘made’
Shelleyan Orphan – box set go
The Bure Club – All a bit of a Bure…
Theatre of Marine Dreams
Richard Watkin – The art of nostalgia
Graham Stansfield – From Coronation to Consort
Ian Dicks – The pluck of the draw
Sam Cowell – Music Hall’s first star
Ruth Dresman, glass artist
Emerald Ant: Arts for all
Studland Art Industries
John Batchelor, illustrator
Mary Spencer Watson & Dunshay Manor
Thomas Hardy’s ‘Facts’
Katharine Church
Windrose Rural Media Trust
Larmer Tree Festival
Jabberwocky Studio, Puddletown
Remembering Anwar Brett
John Lennon & Sandbanks
b-side festival
Joe Colloqhoun, comic strip artist
Dorset Buttons
Cumberland Clark
Purbeck Film Festival
Bournemouth in the Stones Age
Remembering Nick Buckle
Remembering Sheila Casey
Remembering Curtis Mayfield
Dorset’s cinematic history
Remembering Jackie Leven
Graham Dee, music man
The Beatles in Bournemouth
The Giles Brothers, Robert Fripp and all that
Tony Crawley – The Times of his life in Bournemouth
Remembering Malcolm McLaren
Keith Moon in Dorset
Stuart Semple 2008
HISTORY
The long Shadow of The Longest Day
Bournemouth Town Hall – a century of civic pride
A monumental task in Swanage
Honour bound? Michael Lees, the hero of South Lytchett Manor
Whatever happened to the teenage dream?
Mudeford Club at 90
Sir Walter Raleigh in Dorset
Hospital of St Cross – Britain’s oldest charity
Conserving the past for the future
Renovating Corfe Castle – what might have been
The Swanage handaxe
The Invasion of Poole
John Rede: Poole governor, English radical
Christchurch and the Bailey Bridge
Keeper of the castle exposed: The truth about Brave Dame Mary
Gerald Gardner: The Wicca Man
Harold Stevens: From the bench to the streets
Louis Strange: ‘Bravest man in the world’
Askers Roadhouse
Neville Heath, murderer
Capability Brown at Milton Abbey
Tilly Whim Inn
The Shell House, Southbourne
The first Sir Winston Churchill
Studland’s Battle of Britain secret
Bournemouth’s bloodiest air raid
Nesta of the Forest
Sandbanks: What the milkman saw
Tyneham: A long look back and forwards
Clarks desert boot
NATURE
Photography is saving my life
The woodland heart of Hardy country
After the fire – Ferndown & Parley Commons
Beasts of Burden – Heavy Horses in Dorset
South Dorset Ridgeway – Mystical landscape
Fossils fuel the future at The Etches Collection
Steve Etches – Discovering the Land That Time Forgot
Steve Feltham, Nessie Hunter
Purbeck’s champion trees
Cattle grazing copse and meadow
Tyneham: The village stood still
Liverpool: Mersey paradise
SCIENCE
Apprentices are Superior in every respect
Peter Noble MBE, pixel pioneer
Sir Simon Campbell, accidental chemist
Bournemouth’s poison professor is on the right side of the law
Rotary Technology Tournament
Kingston Lacy & the Philae Lander
All that (Goldie) Glitters – Aids, vitamins and all that jazz
INTERVIEWS
Simon Beaufoy – The Full Monty writer reveals all!
Michelle Collins – From pop singer to Cindy to panto super villain
John Newcombe – Britain’s oldest working projectionist?
Philip Proctor, Architect – building for tomorrow
Nick Stevenson – HM tinsmith
Geoff Baker: Give my regards to Broad Street
Gordon Haskell: The return of the native? 2017
Brian McIntyre – A life being lived for kicks
Maureen Rose – Dressmaker to HM The Queen
Jill Nice – A life with jam on it
David and Natasha Solomons
Alastair Simpson: Hurdy-gurdy man
Laurence Bolwell
Bonny Sartin
Cathy Tyson
Elvis McGonagall
Ray Dorset, Mungo Jerry
Ben Waters
Chris Chibnall
Kirill Karabits
Daniel Bye
Nick Churchill
Jim Cregan
Pablo Cook 2010
Gordon Haskell 19:09:2010
Gordon Haskell 02:01:2008
Carleen Anderson
John Lydon
Joanne Moore
Jason Donovan
Alexei Sayle
Debbie Harry
Lee Mack
Johnny Marr
Tony Benn
Hugh Masekela
Paul Stacey
Darren Anderton
Barry Howard
REVIEWS
James Taylor Quartet 15:02:2019
Beck + Sparks + Shame 28:05:2018
Paul Weller 18:02:2018
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra 15:11:2017
The Unthanks – Diversions 4: The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake
Garland Jeffreys 31:03:2017
The Cactus Blossoms 2017
Arboreal (Little Toller)
Flit 2016
Oasis: Be Here Now
Slim Chance 2016
Larmer Tree Festival 2016, 2015
Ronnie Mayor: Love, Life & the Urban Myth
The Last Shadow Puppets 2016
Terry Reid 2016
Blair Dunlop 2016
Blair Dunlop: Gilded
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra 2015
Dr John Cooper Clarke 2015
Sam Lee & Friends 2015
Jimmy Webb 2015
Garland Jeffreys 2015
Animals & Friends feat. Steve Cropper
Oasis: What’s the Story (Morning Glory)
Purbeck Folk Festival 2014
Camp Bestival 2014, 2012, 2011
John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band 2014
We Will Be Free
Oasis: Definitely Maybe
Memory Point(s) 2013
Leonard Cohen 2013
Paul Weller 2013, 2008
Billy Bragg: Tooth & Nail
Plan B 2013
Buzzcocks reissues
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
Public Image Ltd 2012
Sean Hughes; Life Becomes Noises
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds reissues 2012, 2011
The Beach Boys: The Smile Sessions
Dusty Springfield: Goin’ Back The Definitive Collection
The Three Apostles
Roger McGuinn 2011
Bob Dylan 2011
Beady Eye 2011
Roger Daltrey 2011
Billy Bragg 12:12;2010
Oasis 2008
Sly & the Family Stone 2007
Hope Springs
THE GRANVILLE CHAMBERS: Remixes and Q&As
Billy Bragg 2013, 2010
Tim Burgess
Gavin Carr
Lloyd Cole
Steve Cropper
Roger Daltrey
Paul Davies
Johnny Depp
Bruce Foxton
Ricky Gervais
Gordon Haskell 23:10:2013
Alex James
David James
Gilson Lavis
Stewart Lee
Al Pacino
Eddi Reader
Smokey Robinson
Henry Rollins
Kate Rusby
Martin Simpson
Frank Turner
Paul Weller
Roddy Woomble