Listen To Alfred

This time on Alfred, the podcast for Shaftesbury, The Vale and Chase areas of North Dorset and West Wiltshire: A sneak preview of the new Shaftesbury High Street deli. Alfred hears why its owner wanted to open the business. (00:27) Sad news. A body is discovered on a Shaftesbury bank premises. (08:55) Shaftesbury Football Club will become a classroom when an academy takes its first full-time students. Alfred heard that a football course could lead to a long career for local kids. (09:53) The new Gillingham and Shaftesbury Show boss shares his future plans. There are cut-price early bird tickets and prepare for performing pigs! (19:46) We chat with Sophy Roberts, the travel writer talking in Shaftesbury’s Grosvenor Arms Hotel about her fascination with the silent, empty expanses of Siberia. (26:19)