Calibre Audio is based in the Aylesbury area, but has supported people throughout the country since 1974. Calibre Audio provides audiobooks to people who may otherwise be unable to access books and cannot easily-read print. For its 50th anniversary the charity is working with a number of high profile authors including the former Suede bassist Mat Osman, who like his brother, Richard, has turned to novel writing in later life.
Advertisement Advertisement Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Bucks Herald, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. British historian and author, Roger Moorhouse, bestselling novelist, Lisa Jewell , award-winning Young Adult author, Jenny Ireland, Filipino journalist and author, Candy Gourlay, and Mortal Engines author Philip Reeve, are also participating in the 2024 project. Called, Calibre Conversations, the not-for-profit organisation is hosting an online book festival featuring acclaimed author interviews and panel discussions that will be posted on the charity’s website here .
Mat’s interview was the first one to go live on the Calibre Audio website, he discussed his feature The Ghost Theatre, a wild and hallucinatory reimagining of Elizabethan London. Members of the writing group The Magazine Girls will be sharing their experiences working for popular outlets from the 1960s to the 1980s including Rave, Mirabelle, Valentine, Loving, Petticoat, and 19. Famous names The Magazine Girls interviewed included David.
