Sooooo … the best way to think of this episode is a bit like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
But instead of there being a bereaved scientist obsessed with resurrection, we have a monster of a story stuck together from different audio body parts made by audio makers from all over the world.
Our Programming and Community Coordinator Catarina Fraga Matos breaks down the way the audio corpse works:
Here’s how the audio corpse works. Storytellers received a prompt to create a short audio story up to three minutes long. But here’s the catch. The prompt they receive, it’s only the last 10 seconds of the story that came before. So they take that tiny fragment and use it as an inspiration for an entirely new piece that has to be made in 48 hours, and that continues the story in some way.
Special shout-out to M.Cristina Marras for kicking off this idea for All The Best and to our amazing All The Best Intern Nili Javid for stitching all the audio corpses together.
Head
Produced by M. Cristina Marras
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Neck
Monster by Felicity Weaver, Oliver Seymour and Carrie Zhang
Production and sound design by: Felicity Weaver and Oliver Seymour
Written and narrated by: Carrie Zhang
Music/SFX: Pixabay; Pixabay; Pixabay; Pixabay
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Chest
Produced by Silvi Van Wall
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Arms
Produced by Craig Garrett
Music/SFX: Freesound Community; Epidemic Sound (ES); Pixabay (Universfield; Soul Serenity Sounds; Dragon-Studio; PWLPL); Library of Congress (USA); BBC Sound Archives (via the BBC Sounds and BBC Rewind platforms).
All other SFX found and/or recorded and produced by Craig Garrett.
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Hands
The Birds by Alice Garner
Producer: Alice Garner
Cellist: Alice Garner
Voice Actors: David Bowers, Alice Garner
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Torso
“Stop, Think, What’s That Sound?” by Lindsey Vassallo, Imogen Brosnan, Dina Dewnarain, Liliana Occhiuto
Produced by: Lindsey Vassallo; Imogen Brosnan; Dina Dewnarain; Liliana Occhiuto
Sound Design by: Lindsey Vassallo; Liliana Occhiuto
Voice Actors: Lindsey Vassallo (Commissioner); Imogen Brosnan (Agent 945); Dina Dewnarain (French woman); Simba Nguyen (Train Conductor); Henry Ung (Entrance Guard)
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Legs
Produced by Jay Gasser
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Feet
Produced by Hethre Contant
All the Best Credits
Host: Gabriella Accaria
Executive Producer: Melanie Bakewell
Programming & Community Coordinator: Catarina Fraga Matos
Production Manager: Kwame Slusher
All The Best Intern: Nili Javid
Theme Music composed by Shining Bird
And a special shout-out to all our volunteers!