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This time on Alfred, the podcast for Shaftesbury, The Vale and Chase areas of North Dorset and West Wiltshire: The first speakers are announced for Shaftesbury’s new literary festival. Alfred chats with Chair Rosie King and committee member Sue Clifford about this exciting event, ‘Reading the Land’ which will feature the best nature writers in Britain today. (00:27) We hear how a Shaftesbury invention turned a professional singer into an eco-entrepreneur following the financial crisis. Alfred hears how local man James Towner-Coston’s Unidome structure has impressed some of Britain’s most prestigious companies. (06:17) Shaftesbury’s Hospital League of Friends turn to creative crowdsourcing. They need to raise cash for their new electric vehicles, and they are doing it component by component. Matron Helen Dawes and League fundraiser Justine Elmendorff explain why the vehicles are needed to help the hospital’s efficiency and improve patient lives. (15:50) New Shaftesbury acoustic nights are launched to encourage