Smooth Dorset Radio

Smooth Dorset carries the Smooth familiar-song format for a Dorset audience. Its music combines established pop voices, melodic ballads and more rhythmic favourites, with a relaxed approach to presentation and named shows guiding different parts of the day.

The broadcaster's public file groups Dorset and Hampshire in the information service, with local reporting alongside UK and world stories, sport, weather and entertainment. This places the Dorset edition within a wider South Coast setting while the music programmes are shared across Smooth. Carly Simon is among the artists shown in its published song information, illustrating the repertoire's melodic pop character. The regional news remit and the broader musical selection thus describe different sides of the station rather than competing definitions of its audience.

Dorset's edition carries the shared Smooth Breakfast programme with Jenni Falconer, followed by Kate Garraway's music-led morning show. Paul Phear and Angie Greaves present the afternoon sequence. The county's regional news context sits around those network programmes, so the local service and the shared entertainment have separate roles within the same station.

The Smooth Sanctuary gives Darren Parks a quieter selection in the weekday evening, and Martin Collins continues with The Smooth Late Show. Weekend voices include Eamonn Kelly, Tina Hobley and Myleene Klass, with Margherita Taylor in the Sunday schedule. The repertoire stays rooted in familiar melodic songs while these named programmes provide changes of pace and presentation, rather than turning the station into a continuously unpresented music channel.