A TIME capsule reflecting on life in Devon has been buried in the heart of the county – near the village of Bow.

To mark BBC Radio Devon's 30th birthday, presenter Matt Woodley and the Good Morning Devon breakfast team have been gathering sounds, interviews and recordings from across the county to capture life in Devon.

The capsule was buried in the geographical centre of the county, near Bow. The project aimed to take a snapshot of life in Devon through 24 hours of a typical Devon day. BBC Radio Devon reporters recorded the sounds and talked to the characters who help make the county tick.

Aspects of life included baking bread in Exeter at 1am, gossip at 11am in Bridgerule Post Office, picking up litter in Uffculme at 3pm and setting sail on the 10pm cross channel ferry to Roscoff.

Matt Woodley said: 'I was keen to record those everyday Devon sounds of daily life which we take for granted in our busy lives for people to listen to in 50 years' time.'

Listeners to Good Morning Devon called the programme with suggestions on where the recordings should be buried for future generations. It was thought that the centre of of the county would be the ideal spot to bury the capsule.

'Working that out was tough,' said Matt. 'But again, with help from my listeners, we calculated that Blackpool Cross near Bow, mid Devon, would be the ideal place.'

The 24 recordings were copied onto a digital storage drive and placed inside the capsule. On January 17, Good Morning Devon was broadcast live from the Devon Heritage Centre in Exeter, where a copy of the recordings was presented to Tim Wormleighton, manager of the centre to be kept with the rest of the county's archives.

During the broadcast, Matt Woodley and the archive team looked at archive editions of the Okehampton Times.