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  • #1419 Love + [Complication]

    #1419 Love + [Complication]

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    Love stories are hard to avoid – they’re woven through pop songs, the plots of films and every TV show. Often they’re presented as complicated, but how often do we stop and think about the complications in each other’s love stories? Today we bring you two. They’re familiar in their cups or tea and their…

  • #1418 Amazing Babes – Live at EWF

    #1418 Amazing Babes – Live at EWF

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    Inspired by Eliza Sarlos’s picture book Amazing Babes, the Emerging Writers’ Festival invited an incredible line up of writers to tell stories about the women who have inspired them, in their writing and their lives. It was a night to be inspired and celebrate the women who made us who we are. Here, we share some…

  • #1417 Human

    #1417 Human

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    This week, All the Best is telling stories about what it means to be human. Humans being excellent or awful to other humans, realising someone is only human, or that someone we idolise is human after all. Humans making mistakes and making things better. We also hear two stories more told at our Sydney Writers’…

  • That Girl: Marisa

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    As part of episode #1416 of All The Best we’ve been sharing women’s stories of abortion. This is Marisa’s.  artwork by Leah Goren   I had my abortion later in life, and I have many regrets around it, but no regrets at all about terminating my pregnancy. My partner and I made a decision very…

  • That Girl: stories in full from Jane, Kerz, Dawn, Heidi and Gen

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    This week on All The Best we wanted to create a space for women to talk about abortion without shame, judgement, guilt or politics, and were particularly inspired by this beautiful feature in New York Magazine, published last year. You can stream or download the full episode here. We hoped we could start conversations and reduce some of…

  • All The Best in Brisbane

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      We’re looking for a new State Coordinator to be based at 4ZZZ in Brisbane. James had a baby and has wisely decided to concentrate on looking after his kid, so we’re after a switched on, organised lady or gent who’s deeply into storytelling radio to look after our Brisbane Collective. It’s a volunteer gig…

  • #1416 That Girl

    #1416 That Girl

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      “I didn’t want to be That Girl Who Had An Abortion, because I’m not… When you look at the statistics, there are many of those girls” We have so many conversations about abortion, but most of the time they’re abstract and political, they’re not about the lived experiences and choices of women who’ve terminated…

  • #1415 Human – Live from the Sydney Writers’ Festival

    #1415 Human – Live from the Sydney Writers’ Festival

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    You know, and we know, that the best stories are about people. On May 22 we invited five of our favourite people to tell us a story at the Sydney Writers’ Festival Club. Realising somebody is human after all, or that they’re only human. Humans being awful to each other, or excellent to each other. Cats acting…

  • All The Best Live at Sydney Writers Festival

    All The Best Live at Sydney Writers Festival

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    Yep! We’re putting on a live storytelling event for the Festival Club on Thursday May 22 at 7.30pm. You know, and we know, that the best stories are about people. So we’ve asked five of our favourite people to come and tell you human stories on stage. Realising somebody is human after all, or that…

  • #1414 A Fear Of…

    #1414 A Fear Of…

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    All the Best asks you to reveal your fears – the more irrational the better. Some of them are born out of lessons learnt and childhood disasters, and others come seemingly out of nowhere. You guys fear a lot of stuff. Blind dates, small holes, eggs, mannequins, speeding fines, frogs, neck-touching, technical difficulties, the Mad…

  • #1413 Harvest Festival

    #1413 Harvest Festival

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    Nestled in between the houses, roads and busy day to day life of inner suburban Melbourne is a little slice of nature and simple living. This week, All the Best gets up at the crack of dawn when the roosters are crowing and spends the day at CERES Harvest Festival, in Melbourne’s East Brunswick. Seita…

  • Start The Riot: Positive Politics in Fashion

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    To complement our Rana Plaza anniversary episode, Squeezing The System, Ollie Henderson tells the story of the catcall that sparked her to begin her very own fashion revolution. Produced by Avani Dias

  • #1412 Squeezing the System

    #1412 Squeezing the System

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      Ever think about where your $10 t-shirt came from? On the anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, All The Best brings you stories from the supply chain. Sumi Abedin is twenty years old. She was a garment worker at the Tazreen Fashions factory, and jumped from the building the day it…

  • Telling stories in Morwell

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    By Sally Whyte This is the view of the Hazelwood mine and power station from the side of the Princes Freeway. The closest houses are less than ten metres behind where I was when I took this photo. Most people in the city don’t really consider where electricity comes from – we flick a switch…

  • #1411 Morwell

    #1411 Morwell

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    Back in February one of the coal mines in Morwell caught fire. The entire town was covered in ash. Residents were told to evacuate, the council was giving out masks while the rest of the state worried that they would lose power. Now, the fires are under control but its left the local community in…

  • #1410 Are You Family

    #1410 Are You Family

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    This week, we bring you two very different stories about family. Kate Montague speaks to the memory man, who gave up life in the corporate world to collect elderly people’s stories as a keepsake for their families. Zoe Ferguson speaks to older people in the LGBTI community, about their identity as they get older and the…

  • #1409 Faith

    #1409 Faith

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    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…

  • #1408 Did I Ever Tell You?

    #1408 Did I Ever Tell You?

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    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…

  • To: My Former Internet Self

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    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…

  • #1406 These Women

    #1406 These Women

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    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…