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Love local radio? This is your chance to listen again to some golden moments, nuggets of noise - our best bits. Informative, irreverent, serious - but always entertaining.

We'll bring you some of the very best bits of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Leicester. This is radio to rave about...

Wednesday 18 March- Ethical Fashion

Ethical fashion - how important is it to wear ethically produced/sourced clothes? Do you care where your clothes are made and from?

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Leicester's Rupal Rajani spoke to Vanita Sareen about just that...

Sunday 08 March - Zimbabwe

There's been more shocking news from Zimbabwe with the death of the wife of Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.

Susan Tsvangirai was killed in a car crash in which he was also slightly hurt.

They were travelling near Harare when their vehicle was in collision with a lorry.

Mr Tsvangirai, the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change party, formed a unity government with President Robert Mugabe last month.

Morgan Tsvangirai flew to neighbouring Botswana for medical tests after the accident.

His MDC party said it will carry out its own inquiry into the cause of the crash.

But officials have said nothing to suggest they suspect foul play.

Tawanda Machakayire from the Movement for Democratic Change party in Leicestershire and Pastor Pardon Tapfumaneyi who's from originally
Zimbabwe and lives in Leicester joined ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Leicester's Pinash Dankwah on Into Africa...

Thursday 05 March - Growing Old Disgracefully

In her new book, About Time, writer and broadcaster Irma Kurtz takes a funny and insightful look at a subject that may be engrossing us all before long: growing old.

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Leicester's Rupal Rajani was joined by Irma Kurtz on the Lunch time show and she started by asking Irma, how do you grow old disgracefully?

Wednesday 04 March - Angry Women

Too many lists, too many chores, too much responsibility...

Is the pressure of modern life becoming too much for women, that they are showing their emotions through ANGER?Ìý

This is the question ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Leicester's Rupal Rajani asked Sharon Christie an anger management counsellor, Kirsten Mc Claymont who works for the probation service and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Leicester's very own Kay Wright…

Tuesday 03 March - Shopaholics

When was the last time you went shopping? How much did you buy and how often do you do it? Do you shop for necessity or just because it's something that cheers you up?

Would you class yourself as a shopaholic? It's often known as compulsive buying disorder,

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Leicester Rupal Rajani spoke to Gill Sampson a psychotherapist from London and started by asking her, how would you define a shopaholic?

Sunday 01 March - Amazing Grace

Ruth James from Market Bosworth runs a charity from here in Leicestershire calledÌý "Aim for Change"Ìý for people in Uganda.

Aim for Change first started by providing cows for Kokoa, a small village in Uganda.

Its work has spread to sustainable livestock projects in many villages in the country.

They support orphanages in Kampala and a house for street children in Mbarara, in the South West and help with education for refugee children near Lira, in the North of Uganda, an area .

Ruth James who started the charity joined Pinash Dankwah on Sunday's Into Africa and spoke about her new project called Amazing Grace...

Wednesday 25 February - After Anorexia

New research has revealed that the number of girls under 16 admitted to hospital for the eating disorder anorexia has nearly doubled in the past decade.

So why has this happened? And what is it that triggers this disorder in girls so young?

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Leicester's Tony Wadsworth spoke to 18 year-old recovering anorexic Rachel Smith, who was first diagnosed with anorexia at the age of 15. He was also joined by Consultant Child Psychiatrist, Dr. Catherine Coffey.

Tuesday 24 February - Forgive and forget?

Imagine for a moment being diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening illness. How on earth would you cope?

The most natural thing in the world of course would be to turn to your nearest and dearest for support and encouragement.

However, it wasn't quite like that for the guest who spoke to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Leicester's Tony Wadsworth.

Shortly before being diagnosed with Hodgkins disease, Carole Bird's husband told her he'd fallen in love with another woman. What followed became the material for a book penned by Carole's friend Marianne Hancock. Listen to her interview.