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#1231 Sixth Sense
All the Best goes on a journey of dreams, spirits and intuition, through stories that can’t be explained away in everyday terms. The lessons of nature are learned the hard way along the Murray River; ancestral spirits guide one woman from her broken childhood to become a leader of Sydney’s Aboriginal community; and one young woman…
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#1230 Doorstop
Doorstop (n): 1. An interview by a journalist in which the interviewee is approached unknowingly at their place of residence or work. 2. An uninvited interview by paparazzi or tabloid reporter (Source: All the Best dictionary). Armed with microphones, our producers chase down their unsuspecting targets to ask them the big questions in life, on…
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All the Best win Voxxie for ‘Best Spoken Word, News & Current Affairs’
We are super pleased to announce that All the Best has just won the Voxxie for ‘Best Spoken Word, News & Current Affairs’ at the Community Broadcasting awards…which means all of our storytellers, producers, sound designers, musicians, writers and extended crew have been recognised for producing the best spoken word program on community radio in Australia.…
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#1229 Don’t Stop Me Now
All the Best brings you stories of people whose flames burn brightly, against the odds. A sonic submerging into the world of a woman who stutters, a 103 year old lady who’d probably put you to shame on the athletics field, and a former self-harmer tells how she lifted herself from the depths of depression.…
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#1228 Great Expectations
The false starts, stumbles and humble beginnings of successful people before they ‘made it’. All the Best tells the early stories of foodies, fashionistas and… Germaine Greer. Long before The Female Eunuch sparked a feminist revolution, Germaine Greer was a frightened schoolgirl, surviving World War 2 in a dysfunctional family. A Hunger to Make It Nahji Chu today calls herself the ‘Queen…
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#1227 Waiting
Good things come to those who wait… good things such as this week’s show! Sit with us and wait. We’ll wait for the tide to come in. For answers. For things to turn around. We’ll wait on highways and open plains, looking to hitch a ride home for Christmas. And, once the waiting is done, we’ll…
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#1226 Haunted
All the Best has stories to make your skin crawl. Haunted house? Tick. Haunted e-mail address? Tick. Haunted dreams? Tick. And the creepiest part of all: Halloween costumes, for pets (where else but America). This week’s show is sure to leave you spooked. My Haunted House When Madeleine Rebbechi moved into her share house in…
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#1225 A New Me
All the Best brings you stories of transformation and revelation, about people who remake and uncover their true selves. A refugee from Afghanistan arrives in Australia and changes his name— twice; the story of a little girl who knew she’d been born in the wrong body; and an All the Best contributor tries to talk about…
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#1224 The Mission
All the Best heads to the Warbuton Ranges in the heart of Western Australia, to hear a little-known part of Aussie history. In 1933, Christian missionaries arrived in the Ngaanyatjarra lands, and made contact with the Yarnangu people, who were nomadic and lived off the land. But unlike darker parts of our history, there was no…
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All the Best nominated for a Voxxie
For the second year in a row All the Best has been nominated for a ‘Voxxie’ as part of the Community Broadcasting of Australia’s national awards. We have been nominated in the category ‘Best Spoken Word, News & Current Affairs’ which is the same category we were highly commended in last year. We are super…
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Calling all writers…
We want to make contact with new and talented writers – we know you’re out there! If you have a short story or essay that you think might work on radio, maybe you should get in touch. It’s a great opportunity to get your work on air and heard on FBi Radio, throughout the Community Radio…
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#1223 The Dark Arts of Storytelling
We hear stories everywhere: in news reports, from our families and friends, even in gossip magazines. Some are true, some are false, some fall in between. All the Best blurs the lines between fact and fiction, featuring two writers talking about the challenge of sticking to either category. And we’ll mix it up with some…
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#1222 Tales from TiNA
Gather ’round for some great yarns. Straight from the creative bustle that is the This is Not Art Festival in Newcastle, All the Best brings you tales from some of Australia’s up-and-coming storytellers. A father’s obsession with snakes goes too far, a migrant kid goes in search of her Spanish heritage and a woman’s desperate pursuit…
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#1221 Coast to Coast
Stories ahoy! All the Best brings you intriguing tales from the high seas. A South American geologist’s rough-and-tumble journey on a raft to Australia leads to a life-changing encounter with Gough Whitlam. And, the real Puberty Blues: a young girl tries to join the blokey surf culture of the 1970s- but an initiation rite in the water…
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Sea Hitchhiker
Crew of La Balsa raft arriving at the Maroochy Shire Council Chambers after a parade through Currie Street, Nambour, 6 November 1970. Courtesy of Heritage Library, Sunshine Coast Council. The story behind the Sea Hitchhiker, featured in #1221 Coast to Coast. By Zacha Rosen Gabriel Salas’ expeditions are a pretty involved subject. Here is some…
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#1220 The Birds and the Bees
We’re sitting you down and telling you about the birds and the bees: and it’s guaranteed to be just as awkward and intriguing as you remember it. From an parent- to-child sex talk that happens 10 years too late, just for your listening pleasure; an escort who falls for his client; and the craze for…
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GRAPHIC 2012: Radio With Pictures
RADIO WITH PICTURES Part radio show, part comic strip, performed live on stage as part of the 2012 Graphic Festival. Sunday 11 November, The Studio, 3.30pm $20 As devout believers in the age-old craft of storytelling, Graphic and FBi Radio are teaming up to bring two champions of a good ol’ tale together in Radio…
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#1219 New Kids on the Block
All the Best presents New Kids on the Block: No, not the 1990s-era boy band. We’re sharing stories about the unexpected fights and friendships that happen when new people come into a neighbourhood. The arrival of a new priest splits a tight parish community in Redfern, and a couple moving to Sydney’s fringes get more than…
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#1218 By the Moon
For everyone who has been on radio hosting a series of Allnighter of Mid Dawns is a rite of passage. This week to begin our show about the moon Georgia and her cousin Harry White reminisce about those nights on the air. Ramadan and the Moon Producers: Nancy Notzon & Katerina Lebedev Sound Design: Andrew McLellan Supervising Producer:…
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#1217 Im Not There
The theme today on All the Best is taken from ‘Im Not There’ a film about Bob Dylan. In the film six actors play six incarnations of Bob Dylan and today we have stories about shifting personalities, missing family and friends who seem real one moment and gone the next. From Jasper who has 1…
