As part of my occasional series on My Local London, I describe a visit to Beddington Park to look for the Lost Village of Beddington - in the otherwise unremarkable Greater London commuter town of Hackbridge

I share the views from the cliff tops of Dorset's Jurassic Coast on my summer holiday.

Most major exhibitions offer visitors an audio- or multimedia- guide that can enhance your experience of their artworks or artefacts. As you take the tour of the gallery or exhibition, audioguide in hand, it's like having your own private expert alongside who can point out the fascinating details of the exhibits.//

Who are the creative artists behind these audio experiences? In this episode, I hope to find out as I talk to Steve Slack, the writer behind the audioguide for the Italian Renaissance Drawings exhibition, now on at the British Musuem (until 25 July 2010).Steve also shares tips on the business of being a freelance writer & the emerging field of multimedia writing.

In September 1987, a group of four of us cycled the pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela. We were four girls who didn't know much about bicycles or even how to change a flat tyre and who didn't really think of ourselves as endurance athletes. But we cycled over 500 miles in about 10 days across rugged wilderness and over the Galician mountain ranges to win - what? A certificate in Latin forgiving us of all our sins and a sense of personal satisfaction.//

In this episode of my mobile podcast, while laid out on the sofa with a bad cold, I look back at this personal journey and a moment of transition in my life.//

Photo: thanks to placid casual on flickr.com (CCL)

Twitter proved invaluable for my cousin who has been caught up in the volcano ash air traffic chaos while on holiday in Malaysia - in this podcast, I share her story and ask: How do you use Twitter to keep in touch, especially in a crisis?//

Also, I use www.Rebtel.com for cheap international calls on my mobile phone so I thought I'd give you a handy tip about this service. I don't get a commission from them but I just want to tell you about this useful service because I like it.//

There is a new Postbag section with readers' comments and feedback.//

And I've set up some voicemail lines with a US/ North America as well as a UK telephone line AND a Skype line for you to leave your voicemail to be included in future podcast episodes://

# Skype: fusionview
[free via Skype]

# UK tel: 0844-504-6977
[5p a min from a BT landline; other networks may vary]

# USA & Canada tel: 206-337-8492
[Seattle area code]

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// Photo: thanks to Danny Choo from flickr.com (CCL)