Month: March 2014
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#1409 Faith
You know the old rule – it’s impolite to talk about politics or religion. This week on All the Best, we break it, bringing you stories of faith. We ask people brazenly about their beliefs and take a look at a church without a religion. Michael was joined in the studio by Elizabeth Redman, and…
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#1408 Did I Ever Tell You?
All grandparents have stories they tell over and over again. The time your mum was late to school. The time your uncle got his toe broken in a sliding door. The time you were really scared of an emu. But what about the stories they don’t tell us? The lifetime of stories they think we…
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To: My Former Internet Self
We asked some excellent, honest writers to pen letters to their former internet selves. Imagine if one of these had landed in your Hotmail account. A.H.Cayley To my Former Internet Self, Stop correcting people’s grammar. You may think it makes you seem educated and refined but it doesn’t, it just makes you look like a…
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#1406 These Women
Everyone can tell the story of an awesome woman. A mother, grandma, sister, friend, or teacher. This year International Women’s Day is celebrating women who inspire change, and today All the Best tells the stories of awesome women doing this in all sorts of ways. From a celebrant to a beekeeper, a journalist to young…
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#1405 Endangered Jobs
Technology is taking all the jobs. It’s hard to avoid articles and opinions about the end of video stores, of newspapers, of the humble bookshop. This week, we went looking for a few of those endangered jobs – a man giving a heartfelt eulogy for his bookstore, and a mother suddenly made redundant. We hear…