Ring, ring: London statues want to talk to you

Calling all London tourists: Peter Pan, Sherlock Holmes and Queen Victoria want to have a word with you.

A new interactive arts project is giving a voice to dozens of statues of historical and fictional characters in London, allowing them to tell their stories and entertain curious visitors and weary commuters as they pass by.

"Every city everywhere has statues that go ignored," Colette Hiller, creative director of arts producers Sing London, said Tuesday at the project's launch. "So we thought about how we could work with the writers, the actors, the comedians from that city to bring them to life."