RADIO listeners will hear how the Shuttle/Times and News is put together in a week-long series being broadcast on BBC Hereford and Worcester.

From next Monday, and continuing over the following four days, people tuned into the station at around 10.30am, subject to programming considerations, will hear the newspaper's editorial and advertising staff discussing what is going into Wyre Forest's favourite read during a typical week.

Freelance contributor to the radio station, Mike Dickins - himself a reader of the paper as a Kidderminster resident - spent a week recording interviews and meetings for his popular series, A Week in the Life of ...

He tracked production from an initial news meeting on Thursday through to the papers rolling off the presses - right next door to the radio station's Hylton Road base in Worcester - the following Thursday.

Mr Dickins said: "Recording has been my hobby for 25 years.

"In 2003 and again in 2004, I won the documentary class of the International Amateur Recording competition."

During his week with the Shuttle/Times and News he shadowed the editor, reporters, photographers and advertising manager, as well as front office staff in Kidderminster's Blackwell Street.

"For me, it was a memorable snapshot of the town for the week I spent there," he said, "but for the Shuttle/Times and News, it was just another of the snapshots which it has been recording every week since it was founded in 1870 - and will long continue to do so."

Listeners can tune into the radio station on 104.6 or 104 on FM and 738 on medium wave.