Hi! This website is a set of audio tours of local places and things in Melbourne, Australia.


Tour guides are let loose to choose both the topic and audience of their tour.

Most tours are of places in that have special meaning for their tour guides. Places people go to find quiet, places that inspire daydreaming, places where they do their grocery shopping. And some tours take us onto more abstract terrain – tours of attitudes, of fictional characters from another era, of laughter.

About half of the tours cater for a specific or niche audience on a hunch that we’re not all the same: you will find a tour for people with anxiety, a tour for people who want to see live local music and a tour for people scared to go north of Bell Street.

There is one thing that all the tours have in common - people telling stories. Have a listen...

Tour of a women’s 8-ball pool comp

Tour of a women’s 8-ball pool comp

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“It’s a sport where you can drink, smoke, gamble… and you don’t get into strife!” A tour of a women’s 8-ball pool competition that’s been running for 25 years in Melbourne.

Tour of a rollerderby player

Tour of a rollerderby player

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Splatterpuss, captain of Victorian rollerderby team Dolls-Au-Go-Go, gives a tour of life as a rollerderby player on the morning of the 2010 Victorian Roller Derby League Grand Final.
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A tour of radical craft

A tour of radical craft

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Casey Jenkins takes us on a tour of women in Melbourne’s inner northern suburbs engaging in public displays of effect through radical craft and other feminine pursuits.
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A tour of rage by Yana Alana

A tour of rage by Yana Alana

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What makes cabaret diva and performance poet Yana Alana’s blood boil?
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A musician’s life

A musician’s life

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The musical inspirations and exasperations of Irine Vela’s (The HaBiBis) formative years.
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