Today’s journey is a new fiction work by Vidya Rajan, Route 11: The Historical Simulation Museum Park Experience. The optimum place to listen to it is on the route 11 tram, starting around stop D17, Collins Landing, & ending around stop 7, 101 Collins Street, but it can be listened to on any tram at any time.

It’s the year 2300 and you’re participating in a museum simulation audio tour. Listen as the guide teaches you about 'life in the past' and you glimpse at what’s to come. Playfully surreal with grounded references to inequity, the ride is a moving, hilarious offer to connect our present to the future.

Credits

Written by Vidya Rajan
Commissioned by David Ryding
Edited by Elizabeth Flux
Recorded at the State Library of Victoria
Produced by Beth Atkinson-Quinton
With music by Steve Hearne

Tramlines is a podcast created by Broadwave in partnership with the Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Office.

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