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...

A tour of children’s laughter

A tour of children’s laughter

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What makes children laugh on the Carlton Housing Estate?
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A tour of old neighbours

A tour of old neighbours

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Before Joyce’s home is redeveloped, she visits old neighbours to let them know she’s moving.
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A dog’s tour of Carlton and beyond

A dog’s tour of Carlton and beyond

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Where does Ella the dog like to walk, run and swim when she leaves her home at Carlton Flats?
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A tour of the Elgin Square walkups

A tour of the Elgin Square walkups

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Why are they called the walkups? Where is the grassy knoll? What happens when a resident catches a non-resident using the carpark?
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A tour of Preston Market before it gets developed

A tour of Preston Market before it gets developed

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For people who like to know their shopkeepers.
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