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#292 Sleeping with a mosquito
James Brechney chalks rainbows for equality. It started as a bit of a joke, but the sentiment spread and, before he knew it, chalk rainbows were popping up all over the world and Facebook was flying him to America. Quickly, the rainbow chalkings became a recurring symbol in the queer community, a peaceful message of solidarity. But is…
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#291 Together, Alone
Inga identifies as Solo Poly, which kinda sounds like an oxymoron: someone who leads a life of polyamory, but one that is distinctly… solo. It’s the kind of thing she finds herself explaining over and over again to people outside of the poly community. How can you be alone and together at the same time? This…
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#290 Going Offline
A few years ago, Patrick from New Zealand discovered an unknown American band online and decided to connect with the members via Twitter. As the friendship progressed, the band got bigger and a tri-continental twitter bond was born. What happens when internet relationships, communities or online versions of ourselves log off and start to interact with the real…
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#289 So you think I’m sick?
#1712 So you think I’m sick? This week: stories of sickness and health, and how to convince the rest of the world you’re one not the other. ~ ‘Presence of mind’ by Darius Sawyer “To be defined as less human than a robot was really jarring, I’d taken an assumption of my humanity for granted.” What…
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#288 Remotely Intimate
#1711 Remotely Intimate: By Thanh Hằng Phạm. What do you think of when you think of home? Is it where you are now or where you grew up? Is it a place you long for, somewhere in your family’s history, far from the roads and towns you move through today? And what do you think of……
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#287 Life After
#1710 Life After What does life feel like in the wake of death? How do we cope, who do we turn to, and what can we do to make it better when we’re left behind? This week we’re looking at life after loss. ~ ‘Where the sky meets the sea’ by Bethany Atkinson-Quinton When you stare at…
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#286 A Night Away
A lost sex toy, the persistence of nightingales, and the choices about life and love we make after the sun goes down. This week is our second instalment of stories from our listening party in Sydney, where we invited an audience to spend a night with All The Best. In this episode we’ll be taking you…
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#285 What keeps me up at night
Stories straight from our Audiocraft listening party! If you missed the midnight garden gathering, here is the first instalment of nocturnal tales we made for our Sydney relaunch event “Spend a night with All The Best”. Four pieces from contributors who just can’t sleep, all for different reasons, and want you to lie awake with them. This…
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#284 Art as therapy
“He said to me once, ‘just as I’m getting good they’re going to kill me’.” How do art teachers adapt to working in prisons? Can standing in a room full of artists, completely naked, change how you see your own body? These are the questions we tackle this week, as we explore the true powers of art…
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#283 Black Sheep
Kevin draws huge crowds to his cafe in Alexandria, Sydney. He’s usually asleep, flopped on the ground like a bloated hairy beanbag in his pen. But it doesn’t take much to be a celebrity pig in Sydney, and so even when dozing he’s working his public profile. Kevin goes for daily walks around the neighbourhood, has a…
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#282 Repeated Collision
_ We’re dipping into our archives this week to bring you two stories of forces coming together, like a hard wooden cricket bat and a mouth full of baby teeth, or our first story, which takes place on the frontline of a battle between two passionate groups in duck hunting season. ‘Duck Season’ by Leona…
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#281 Breasted Experience by Private Parts
_ Breasted Experience by Beth Gibson “I want you to imagine that one day you get a blank email with an MP3 file with your name on it. You have no idea what’s in the file. You put on your headphones, lie down and press play.” Breasts. They’re pretty hard to miss. But our genuine,…
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#280 Family Fingerprints
_ “Two hip replacements and a stuffed knee didn’t quite allow him to make it out of the boat. So he was swept out to the open ocean…” Nobody likes thinking about losing their parents or grandparents (including us). So to avoid dwelling on the grief too much, this week we bring you stories about lessons…
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#279 If I make it till Monday
– “If he went to a home he would have lasted a week. That would have been it, because he wouldn’t have his painting, his music, none of those things.” ‘If I make it till Monday’ by Sally Zwartz For many of us, the idea of turning 100 is a far off, unimaginable and abstract…
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#278 Over the neighbour’s fence
_ “I’m expecting to join just a handful of other people for the class, but I arrive to find a huge queue, leading up to a hardwood fairy lit space. Turns out this is a serious community. Mostly white, and almost all middle aged and older.” Do you ever pause and fantasise about your neighbours’ lives?…
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#1640 I thought this was what you wanted?
_ Does Christmas content in December disturb or excite you? The All The Best team is divided on the issue. Some love riding the Christmas wave all the way to December 25th, others wish they could mute every overbearing TV ad, silly season radio segment, or cheesy holiday movie. In this week’s episode we decided to…
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#1639 ATB presents: Contact Mic
_ This week we’ve got something a little different on the show. At All The Best we love celebrating and showcasing great Australian audio, so we’re handing over the show to our friends at Contact Mic. It’s a monthly podcast made in Melbourne about the things that make us human – like moments of change,…
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#1638 Goodbye Comfort Zone
“I said I’d pass. I’m not going to lie, I’m a little scared of the dark… But they insisted I did. They said it was tradition.” This week we’re talking about leaving your comfort zone behind and embarking on something new. Facing your fears, rising to the occasion, and then discovering something amazing on the…
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#1637 On the other side of the glass
A controversial series of photographs by artist Arne Svenson has been the subject of much discussion lately. In it, Svenson exhibits photos of his neighbours, images he captured without their consent through the windows of their New York apartments. This is more than ethically ambiguous, it’s pretty straight up wrong. But it doesn’t discount our secret…
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#1636 Like Oil and Water
Some things mix like oil and water, forever a slippery co-existence stuck in separation. Like an oil spill in the ocean, this mostly ends in disaster and heartbreak, but occasionally – against all odds – two opposites just click. This week we bring you both kinds: stories of operas in bathrooms, unlikely friendships, and love + heartbreak. ‘Chamber Pot…
