THE LOVELY soaring voice and fiddle of award-winning folk artist Jackie Oates can be enjoyed again in Broadwindsor just before Christmas.

IF YOU THOUGHT the world wide web was a 20th-21st century phenomenon, think again. Better still, come to the Woodmead Hall in Lyme Regis next Thursday, 11 November at 2.30pm, and hear all about the Porthcurno Museum in deepest Cornwall, home of the Victorian Internet. Did you know, for instance, that Porthcurno Valley down near Lands [...]

BASED ON on a recent chance discovery of an 1820’s manuscript book of fiddle tunes from the Blackmore Vale, acclaimed local folk musicians Tim Laycock and Colin Thompson have put together a new musical show and are touring it around the Artsreach circuit. Tim and Colin’s show, Benjamin’s Book, named after the manuscript’s author Benjamin [...]

STORIES and tales from behind the scenes of the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow will be told by one of the programme’s experts Paul Atterbury

WEST Dorset artists and makers are getting together for an Autumn show at Eype Centre for the Arts at the end of October.

Speaker Jack Thomas will tell a vivid tale of Battles, Bloodshed, and Bravery.

MRS GERRISH’S Rear Window looks intriguing. It’s a thriller and a spoof of the famous Hitchcock film Rear Window; it includes true stories of brushes with the law and music from the era of World War II; and it’s touring West Dorset throughout October. The show’s being put on by the Bristol-based Ministry of Entertainment, [...]