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• Discover incredible stories about life in Devon during WW1.

  

• AUDIO: How to SAFELY watch the partial solar eclipse.

  Bill gets advice from 麻豆社 Weather presenter Alex Deakin.

  Duration: 0:57

• AUDIO: What it's like to have suicidal thoughts.

  How listening to us talk about suicide helped a listener in Tavistock.

  Duration: 1:00

• AUDIO: Why do we love our dogs so much?

  Linda called to tell Sophie how her dog Shep reacted to the death of her husband.

  Duration: 1:09

• AUDIO: Eating wood ants!

  River Cottage's Steve Lamb tells us about an unusual experience in Scandinavia.

  Duration: 1:02
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• Bill Buckley at Killerton for another glorious Devon walk

• Matt Corner - Foodie Friday

• Exeter University Sculpture Walk

• Coins from years gone by
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• Get in touch

  There are several ways you can take part in Bill's show.

  You can call the show on 0345 301 1034 - Standard geographic charges from landlines and mobiles will apply.

  Text 81333 starting your message with the word DEVON - texts are charged at your operators standard rate.

  Tweet @bbcdevon
  
  or email BB@bbc.co.uk

• Meet Bill

  A long-time cook, Bill has always included food features in his shows, and has branched out into food writing in recent years.

  He is proud to have been elected to The Guild of Food Writers, other members of which include Delia Smith, Rick Stein and Antony Worrall Thompson.

  Bill聽won "Come Dine With Me" on Channel 4 in 2005 and was a judge on three series of ITV1's Britain's Best Dish. He has reviewed over 70 restaurants for the website .听

  Bill聽wrote his first song at the age of eight. His biggest commercial success to date is 'Starting Together', Su Pollard's number two hit single of 1986.

  He has appeared in聽10 pantomimes and once spent Christmas playing the title role in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.

  He often reviews the national newspapers on 麻豆社 News Channel, Sky News and 麻豆社 Radio 5Live.

  Bill's all-time favourite interviews are Ann Widdecombe and Tony Benn ("politicians from opposite ends of the spectrum who share the rare quality of being 100% honest and willing to engage") and his soul diva heroines like Gloria Gaynor, Gwen Dickey of Rose Royce and Sheila Ferguson of The Three Degrees.

• Now and then

  Bill Buckley started as a print journalist, training at the Wolverhampton Express & Star.
  
  "I still use the skills I learnt back then every time I'm on the radio," he said.
  
  At 23, Bill made the leap into broadcasting, presenting That's Life!, 麻豆社1 TV's much-loved consumer affairs show, with Esther Rantzen.
  
  "After three years, I left to travel the world as a reporter on 麻豆社1's Holiday Programme for six years.
  
  "I spent a very happy summer - in the late 80s - presenting Spotlight and the rest of the South West's regional news output, in Breakfast Time (as it was then called) or after the Nine O'Clock News.
  
  "You had to do all the technicals yourself in those days. Opting out of the network involved turning a key like the ignition key in a car.
  
  "And you had to put the pictures up on screen using your foot! Scary but great fun.
  
  "It was lovely because my parents had retired to Bude just across the border in North Cornwall, so I got to live with them for six months and commute.
  
  "They are now both long gone, but I'm so pleased to be back in a part of the world of which I have the happiest memories."
  
  Since 1990, Bill has presented (and often produced) just about every kind of radio show imaginable at 麻豆社 and commercial stations all over the country.
  
  On 麻豆社 Radio Devon's Lunchtime show he聽invites your comments on the important stories of the day; local, national and international and always with one eye on how it effects life in Devon.
  
  Join Bill each weekday from聽1pm - 3pm.