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Jennifer Tracey | 16:43 UK time, Friday, 13 June 2008

What if you could make your way around a city without a map? And have a local take you round instead, telling you funny stories and letting you know about a good pub round the corner.

The , starting 20 June, is inviting you to explore the city listening to podwalks, or guided audio tours you download online.

They've been produced by artist . She's created simliar podwalks for other UK towns and cities including Liverpool, Newcastle and Stratford.

Here she describes the Southwark podwalks - it starts with an extract by the guide and local resident, Jack Thurston...

But this isn't a new idea...way back, in a pre-podcast age...artist and musician found a way to transmit the memories of residents living in Leyton, east London, to wandering visitors.

His project, , preserves the memories of the community who lived there before the was built.

You collect a set of headphones from the local library and go in search of the radio transmitters along the route...

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