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#1201 Rooms
Rooms, huh? Pretty standard. Or…? Today we look at a couple that make you think outside the four wall and ceiling concept – the cylindrical ones of drain pipes, the purpose built capsules to house one family’s 56 semi trailers of books, and tiny, elevating ones. The Nicholas Building Produced by Mike Kermode & Jesse…
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Christmas Special
This week we make our national debut on the Community Radio Network with All the Best’s Christmas Special. Eliza brought her baby Arthur Plum and partner Alex White to chat about what Christmas traditions they will create for Arthur and whether Santa will exisit. All the Best Contributor Julia Thomas and her brother Andy popped…
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The Twilight Zone
Not Reading Twilight Produced by Zacha Rosen Anahí explains why she never read Twilight, despite her best intentions. When she first tried to read it, she was twelve. She’s sixteen now. It’s probably not going to happen. She’s a young woman of conviction. Insomnia the Cat Produced by Katerina Lebedev Technical Production by Antonia Gauci…
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Sydney Writers Festival Live
For those who missed it earlier in the year, we’re re-playing our first live show, recorded at the Sydney Writers’ Festival. As part of the Sydney Writers’ Festival All the Best produced a live version of its radio show to a packed room at the Festival Club stage, exploring the theme of power in Sydney…
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Lessons
Guest presenter Jesse Cox begins the program talking to his Dad, a school principal about getting kidnapped by his Year 12 students. Elcho Island Produced by Zacha Rosen Have you ever wanted to get out of Sydney? Get out of cities altogether and live — not just holiday — in remote Australia, with a remote…
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Highly Commended at the Voxxies!
We just got news that we were Highly Commended in the 2011 Community Broadcasting Awards in the category ‘Best Spoke Word, News & Current Affairs’. A big congratulations to the whole team. Plus we found out at the same time that we were successful in gaining funding for 2012!
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Storytelling Recorded Live
A collection of stories taken from live events recorded for All the Best. 1. Sarah Rodigari is an artist who has exhibited in Australia and Internationally. Recently she decided to hitch hike from Melbourne to Sydney and this story comes from towards the end of the trip when she had an interaction with a stranger…
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Letters
Dear ATB Listener, How are you?! We’re pretty good. Saturdays are always hectic. As we type this letter, we have just aired this week’s show on FBi Radio. We started off by hearing from a sweet CWA lady – Kathleen T. Gable – whom Mel Braun homaged for her letter writing during WW2. It was…
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Life Aquatic
Introduction Soundscape produced by Rosi Tuck I Love the Ocean Produced by Zacha Rosen Underwater explorer, Jacques Cousteau sailed around the world in his boat, ‘Calypso’ pionereering the art of Scuba diving in the forties and became a documentary film maker in the fifties. Wes Anderson became influenced by his works and based his film,…
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In the Dark: The Last Stand
For the month of October we are in residence at The Papermill Gallery developing a new piece for In the Dark. We thought we would take the idea of a radio feature but then present it like an old fashioned radio play. We invited radio producers, writers, performers, musicians and a foley artist to collaborate. Monocle UK…
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Futurescapes
What will I be when I grow up? Produced by Simon Anicich Meet Chris, Stu and Gus – what did they want to be when they grew up? Simon Anicich meet with these three chaps to find out if their childhood dreams were realised. How I Got To Sydney Produced by Nick Hose Nick Hose…
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Promises
Kid’s Promises Produced by Zacha Rosen Promise to Past Produced by Alex Kennett In this story we hear from Kat. Kat’s story is one of war and exodus of leaving her family and her culture to resettle in Australia. These experiences have led Kat to make some firm and unusual promises to her family, her…
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Heroes and Villians
Scott Mcleod Produced by Nancy Notzon A few months ago at the Graphic festival, we met Scott McLeod. Scott has been in the comic book industry for over 25 years now, and in that time has written and drawn his own comic book series, written for the Superman series and also published a number of…
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ATB on Radio National’s The Night Air
Features EP Jesse Cox talks with Brent Clough about All the Best and plays some stories from the recent episode A Bedtime Story. The Night Air team respond to the bubbling flux of Now with a live mix of conversation, comment, found sound and music. This evening producer Jesse Cox from Sydney’s FBi Radio talks…
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Remember Me
This morning on All The Best we helped those listening with fuzzy Saturday morning memories remember the art of, well, remembering.
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Aliases
Have you ever lived another life? Do you pretend to be someone you’re not? On All the Best this week we meet some who are loud and proud about their other identities and some who would rather it be kept a secret.
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Power of a Song
This week we took a look at songs – how they’re written, how they’re used, and what they mean to you!
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Travelers
It was an adventure or three on All the Best today, where our theme was Travelers. We found ourselves ourselves bare arsed and mangled after being run over a tank in Kabul, discovered out what it was like to grow up as a child of a diplomat- or “diplobrat” in 5, 6 or even 10…
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Secret Recipe
This week we talked about secret recipes – those hidden little secrets some people indulge in, whether they be for food, success, or maybe even a really good personal vice. We also had the smell of something special wafting through the studio as this week’s presenter, Jesse Cox, was cooked up surprise dish.
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Outsiders
This week we head out of our comfort zone and leave all we know behind: we’re left stranded in a foreign country, taken underground to Sydney’s old rave scene, walk inside the walls of the Christmas Island detention centre, and we hear about a preacher who walks into the local bar and orders nothing but…
