Melbourne: The sounds of the city

The Documentary Podcast

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Peter's latest spot of tourism takes him to Melbourne. As a huge sports fan, he is used to listening on his crackly radio to cricket commentaries. So he heads to the Melbourne cricket ground, as a first stop. In the spirit of the Ashes, he went with David, another blind cricket nut and a native of the city. His next stop is Melbourne’s version of the golden mile, where Peter indulged another obsession - funfairs. But the real joy of Melbourne is the outdoors, and the delight of wandering around with a microphone chatting to people.

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0:00.0	One of the things I always like to do when I come to a new city is take my little trusty old-fashioned
0:05.5	radio with me and find out what the city is saying.
0:10.1	So here we go.
0:10.8	The social or economic sectors pay a lagers directly to the present because
0:15.6	the owner on the outside who still led the way to the 600 now.
0:18.6	That's more like it.
0:20.6	We've obviously come straight into the middle of a horse race which is certainly one of Melbourne's great interests.
0:26.4	It's where the Melbourne Cup takes place.
0:29.4	See what else is going on. I'm going on.
0:33.0	I think what I know about I'm going to be.
0:40.0	I think what I know about Melbourne is that it's obsessed with sport and so am I so I intend to get a bit of flavor of that
0:47.3	I'm a big cricket fan but it's a little bit cold for the cricket season maybe. I know that it loves its food and increasingly
0:57.0	there are a whole range of restaurants here and a lot of people just come here for the
1:00.9	food so I should be sampling that as well. This is
1:04.8	clearly a very outdoor city. It's an interesting climate, it's a cliche but
1:11.2	four seasons in one day I've only been here 24 hours and I've already experienced that and also of course on the good days. It's a place for the beach. So I'll be taking that in as well.
1:27.8	Do you need a card to get on the track?
1:29.6	Yeah, yeah.
1:30.7	And where'd you get those from?
1:33.0	They don't have machines by the stops or anything.
1:38.0	No, no.
1:39.0	But maybe as from the tram-der-I there, maybe they have them also in the trams.
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