A local lifestyle magazine is launching a new podcast with the aim of ‘bringing the community together.’

Oswestry Life Magazine, published by DTS Media, is launching the Oswestry Life Podcast promising to “shine a spotlight on our local community and celebrate the stories that matter most” to listeners.

Content will be compiled from interviews with members of the public and two of team members plan to be “out and about” across the Shropshire town this Saturday, collecting people’s stories.

The magazine has partnered with local marketing experts Martin & Jones Marketing and podcasting specialist Charlotte Foster to launch the new initiative.

Pictured L-R: David Lee-Birch (Co-MD Oswestry Life), Ruth Martin (Director at Martin & Jones Marketing), Charlotte Foster (Charlotte Foster Podcasts).

Said Charlotte: “Podcasts have the power to really bring local communities together. Gone are the days when you would bump into a neighbour at the corner shop and update each other on family happenings. Podcasts can help us to connect again.”

David Lee-Birch,  joint managing director of Oswestry Life, said, “When we’re putting the magazine together, we’re always inundated with amazing stories from people in town and the surrounding areas. We get to hear them all, but there often isn’t space to include them.”

“This is where the idea of the podcast came from – we want to share these uplifting and moving stories with everyone.”

Joint MD Tracy Leonard added.”We are so excited with this expansion which will complement our monthly Oswestry Life magazine and add to our media portfolio, which includes the quarterly It’s Beautiful Magazine, Shropshire’s only magazine dedicated exclusively to women and the annual Guide to Local Connections Oswestry.”