Showbiz, Sexy Spectacles and Sideshows

Price: $0.00

Location: Melbourne
City: Melbourne
Country: Australia
File Type: MP3
Language: English
Time Length: 51:22
Class: Walking
Date Created: 7/18/2007
File Size: 23.40 MB
Tracks: 1
Attachments: pdf maps
Description: 774 ABC Melbourne invites you to put on your walking shoes, turn on your MP3 player and discover Melbourne's secrets with the ABC Melbourne Podtours: Eat, Drink Melbourne, Death, Dirt & Disease and Showbiz, Sexy Spectacles and Sideshows. Whether you are a visitor to the city or a born and bred local, you'll be surprised at the stories you'll uncover in Melbourne's hidden lanes and historical buildings. Join Derek Guille, Jon Faine and Red Symons as they guide you through the sights, sounds and smells of Melbourne town with the free audio tours that you can download to your MP3 player. The tours are a co-production with the University of Melbourne's Cultural Heritage Unit. Presented by Red Symons and Myf Warhurst from triple j. From a death-defying dip in the Yarra to the decadent brothels of the late 1800s, Red Symons takes you on a tour of some of the strangest spectacles and sauciest celebrity stories that Melbourne has seen on the Showbiz, Sexy Spectacles & Sideshows podtour of the city. Highlights Include: * Houdini's dive into the Yarra chained and padlocked * Where Kung Fu master Jackie Chan threw a bad guy through a shop window * The lanes that served for purgatory for Nicholas Cage in Ghost Rider * The 1920s race to build the first and most exotic picture palace Route: From Federation Square take a short stroll across to the Arts Centre before paying a visit to the Regent Theatre, up Exhibition Street to the 'Little Lon' red-light district and on to the reputedly haunted Princess Theatre.