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  • Fiction: Cities you’ll never see on screen

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    Molten Melbourne by Yuki Iwama It is an ugly sneer in the cracked earth, the black water from the Yarra River streaming in through the jagged teeth. The city used to be in constant motion before the great earthquake, an oiled dance of machines and limbs; but now it writhes at the bottom of the…

  • #1431 Cities You’ll Never See On Screen

    #1431 Cities You’ll Never See On Screen

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    “If we are going to create  a better future for ourselves the people who are going to show us how to do it are those people who are working in the crazy spaces.” New York, LA, Tokyo. We see cities destroyed all the time in film, TV and in books. But how often does the…

  • The Apocalypse at Home – A Reading List

    The Apocalypse at Home – A Reading List

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    Mentioned in the episode: States of Fantasy – Jacqueline Rose A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists – Jane Rawson War of the Worlds – HG Wells Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 1984 – George Orwell The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood Tomorrow Series – John Marsden Shades of Grey – Jasper Fforde Sleep Dealer (film) Reign…

  • #1430 Everyday

    #1430 Everyday

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    There are some things we do day after day after day. This episode of All the Best is all about those things. We have stories about waking up, going to work, singing quietly on the commute. Stories about the every day things that can make someone happy – and how they change over time. And…

  • #1429 Underground

    #1429 Underground

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    In this episode, we’re going underground, with secrets, subcultures and subversive publishing. We meet River, one of the elusive Shoplifters of Tumblr, and hear stories of Oz Magazine from Jim Anderson. The Shoplifters of Tumblr The internet has meant that even the most underground of movements, most clandestine of activities, are now made to be…

  • How the Redfern All Blacks Got Their Name (It’s Not What You Think)

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    Sol Bellear is a long time Redfern All Blacks player. He started with the team in 1967 and put on an All Blacks jersey for the first 20 years of the NSW Aboriginal Knock Out that began in 1971. There aren’t many titles that Sol hasn’t held in his history with the Redfern All Blacks.…

  • The Hardest Thing You’ll Do Today

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    This week’s episode, The Hardest Thing You’ll Do Today, is a story of strength, discipline, self determination and football. Produced by Emma Lancaster, additional interviews and these photographs from last year’s knockout by Pauline Muyl.    Redfern is home to the oldest indigenous sports club in Australia. The Redfern All Blacks have been kicking around…

  • #1428 The Hardest Thing

    #1428 The Hardest Thing

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    “The hard work we do here replicates the discipline and the routine we carry out throughout the day the weeks the months and years. If this is the hardest thing you do today, well, you’re going to have a good day.” Redfern is home to the oldest indigenous sports club in Australia. The Redfern All…

  • From NYC to OHM: Joy Villalino at Open House Melbourne

    From NYC to OHM: Joy Villalino at Open House Melbourne

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      This week on All the Best we’re doing some exploring, heading into some of the unseen and forgotten parts of Melbourne with Open House. For one day a year, people are invited to become tourists in their own city, hearing the stories hidden in every building. For episode #1427, we visit Melbourne’s historical tramways,…

  • #1427 Open House

    #1427 Open House

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    This week on All the Best we’re getting involved and doing some exploring, heading into some of the unseen and forgotten parts of Melbourne with Open House. For one day a year, people are invited to become tourists in their own city and buildings that are usually just part of the landscape, something you pass…

  • #1426 How Are You Still Alive?

    #1426 How Are You Still Alive?

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    Today we’re asking: How Are You Still Alive? You’ll hear stories of near misses, close shaves and fortunate lives. People who were unlucky, and then lucky. People who throw themselves from high places, and kids who get lost in the wilderness. People who risked their lives just by being born. If it wasn’t wild, I…

  • #1425 Mixed Tape Memoirs Live at EWF

    #1425 Mixed Tape Memoirs Live at EWF

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    This episode is about that song.  You know the one. You hear it, and no matter where you are, or who you’re with, you’re transported to a time when you were so in love that you seemed drunk. The song you know that still makes you feel like a lovesick teenager every time you hear it.…

  • The Secret I Wish I’d Told…

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      We’re looking for stories about secrets, and because secrets are hard to find we’re turning to you, listeners/the internet. An upcoming episode of All the Best will be based around secrets that should have been told. Have you ever stayed quiet and regretted it? Is there a secret that bugs you late at night…

  • #1424 Outing Disability

    #1424 Outing Disability

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    “I actually got sick about six weeks after we got together, that became quite difficult…” “…But I think we’ve run the gambit through just about everything. The positives that come out of that is that we have an incredibly strong relationship and an incredibly good relationship as separate to the MS.” The photography exhibition ‘Outing Disability’ was…

  • #1423 Fire

    #1423 Fire

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    Is there anything better than huddling around a fire in winter? Holding the palms of your hands just far enough away from a flickering flame that it doesn’t ignite? Fires have comforted, protected, scared and destroyed for thousands of years.  We suspect they’ve inspired stories for just as long, including the tales we’re telling on…

  • #1422 By Train

    #1422 By Train

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    Find your seat, settle in, and listen to the creak of those sleeper beams, the rattling of carriages. This week, we’re taking a train ride, on tracks that crisscross the globe. We go on an adventure along the  Trans Siberian railway, chat to passengers as they stare out the window at the Nullarbor, and wait…

  • In Search of White Whales

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    Or any whales, really. For our Only A Whale episode, Sydney host Michaela Morgan, Features EP Heidi Pett and ATB producer Laura Brierley Newton headed to the cliffs at Kurnell, apps in hand, to go whale watching. Photos by Laura Brierley Newton  

  • #1921 Only a Whale

    #1921 Only a Whale

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    Look out off the east coast at the moment and you’ll likely see them – whales. Come whale watching with us, on the edge of cliffs in Sydney, in 1850s Byron Bay, from the decks of the First Fleet and in a Melbourne theatre. But remember, all you’re looking at is big, sea dwelling mammals…

  • #1420 Independence

    #1420 Independence

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    We don’t get given our independence one day, with a haircut or along with the lease of our first rental house. It happens over time, and we fall in and out of it in complicated ways. That’s what this episode of All the Best is about. The fine line between independence and dependence. Between knowing…

  • Love and OCD

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    The piece came about as I was thinking of ideas for my first radio documentary. I wanted to find a good personal story and early on I began to think about how mental illness can affect people in relationships. I was especially keen to explore how it can impact the other partner in the relationship,…