Category: Dorset Island Discs

The Dorset Island Disc features – of course it’s a famous radio segment which we totally nabbed, but we moved it to Dorset. We’ll admit we can’t promise our castaways palm trees and endless sunshine, and Dorset doesn’t have many islands so you will just have to close your eyes and imagine that Brownsea had a baby sister when none of us were looking.

In this popular monthly column we invite well-known Dorset community figures to take part in the classic conundrum. Each guest must choose just eight of their most meaningful songs or pieces of music to be ‘cast away’ with, plus just one book and one luxury item.

It’s a very personal section, and loads of fun, as well as a brilliant way of getting to know the person behind some of Dorset’s familiar names – or meeting new ones.

What would be your choices?

Dorset Charity

Turning ‘no-one likes olives’ into a business supplying Fortnum & Mason (via Take That)

Giles Henschel, the award-winning ‘oliveer’, who came to his national artisan brand by way of school expulsion, the Army, being deported from Libya with...

7 April 2022

Dorset Island Discs

Dorset Island Disc’s with Abbey 104’s Taff Martin

“I’ve been lucky. I don’t need any credit, I just like to help where I can” Taff Martin is a surprisingly bashful Welshman; a Falklands...

11 March 2022

Dorset Charity

Nocturin ‘Noc’ Lacey-Clarke Conservative councillor in Blandford | Dorset Island Discs

“I grew up in poverty and was bullied at school” Nocturin ‘Noc’ Lacey-Clarke, 35, is a Conservative councillor in Blandford. He is not your average...

5 February 2022

Dorset Island Discs

Dr Dominic Luckett, head teacher of Sherborne school | Dorset Island Discs

(Warning) Don’t listen while driving! A piece of music, scientifically established as the most relaxing ever written, reducing heart-rate, and inducing sleep to the extent...

18 January 2022

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Dorset’s master of strings

13 January 20250

Dorset luthier Jeremy Walsh on listening to the wood, a double bass jigsaw, holding a $15m Stradivarius and Friday night rave music In his self-built...

Dorset Farming

Is it the year of the egg? |Farm Tales

16 January 20250

Pessimism, promises and poultry: Andrew Livingston asks if 2025’s lofty food and farming goals may already be slipping through our fingers When you return to...