• Tory leadership hopefuls Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss visited Dorset - Fanny Charles attended both meetings, and listened to what each of the candidates had to say on pertinent rural issues such as farming and housing
• Our Random 19 guest is Dorset-born restaurateur and chef Mark Hix - he had fame, acclaim and six restaurants – until 2020 happened. Mark retreated to his house in Dorset ‘to survive lockdown and tend to the garden’. His random questions reveal a love of a bargain, an obsessive tidier - and an abiding love of fishing
• Our castaway is Laura Beddow – a Dorset councillor, a parrot rescuer, and dreams of an itinerant life playing her viola around a campfire with a cider in her hand
•We discover the bravest village in England's 100 year old sports festival
• With a West Dorset leaning this month, the hike is a stunner around Halstock and Corscombe and Local History look at the legend of st Juthware.
