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Today’s journey is a new fiction work by Shivaun Plozza: The Giants of Albion, read by Sarah Vincent. The optimum place to listen to it is on the route 19 tram, but it can be listened to on any tram at any time.

Two sisters are side by side on the street. They wear school uniforms, pale blue check and royal blue blazer. One has a ribbon in her hair; she fidgets, looks at her older sister, then down at scuffed shoes. Both girls should be in school, behind the concrete wall they lean against. Instead, they are side by side at the tram stop, waiting.

Credits

Written by Shivaun Plozza
Read by Sarah Vincent
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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