Nation Radio Dorset

Nation Radio Dorset is the Dorset edition of Nation Radio's southern service. The broadcaster offers it alongside Hampshire and Sussex choices, with the same programmes across all three and localised advertising and branding. Dorset's connection is therefore a regional identity within a shared station, rather than a promise that every show originates in a separate county studio.

Steve Power and Selina Ross open the weekday programme at breakfast. Mark Collins follows with The Golden Hour before his longer daytime show, giving an identifiable music feature a place in the morning schedule. Tony Shepherd takes the afternoon slot, Andy Jackson follows at drive time and Stuart McGinley appears in the evening. Late-night hours include David Francis.

The southern programme's weekend selection has a different rhythm. Saturday includes Mark Collins, Tony Shepherd and Steve Power, with So... Let's Talk About Music presented by Dr Fox. Neil Greenslade's House Party provides an extended evening show. Familiar music remains the common thread, while those named programmes separate the station from Nation's channels devoted to individual decades or genres.

Nation Radio South's broadcast area includes Bournemouth and the wider south coast, with digital coverage also extending through South Hampshire and Salisbury. The Dorset selection sits within that southern footprint. The station combines this regional presence with a shared presenter team and a general hits format, so listeners hear the wider southern programme with Dorset branding rather than a completely different music service.