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Have you ever been lying in bed and a song comes on about the time right at that moment? Maybe M. Ward’s ‘4 Hours in Washington’? “It’s one in the morning and I can’t sleep…” or as you glance at the giant clock on the train platform you remember Tom Waits, “My baby’s leaving town…

If you are still in bed, stay there! This morning on All the Best we read you a bedtime story. Reach for the hot chocolate, pull up the covers and enjoy ATB’s spin on some old classics and new tales…

This week we took a listen to some of our favourite stories from the past couple of months – enjoy!

Have you ever thought you sucked at picking up women? Have you ever been in love, only to have your love not returned? On All the Best this week we explore the many facets of unrequited love. We take advice from a dating coach, listen to now-well-known writer’s angsty teen diary readings, explore the ups…

This week on ALL THE BEST, we talk about all those things you’re not supposed to do… Like eat each other. Some taboos are more obvious than others, but as we’ll hear when explored they are sometimes not all that bad. We’ll talk to a sex worker who caters to the disabled community, have a…

Where do you live…? Does your neighbour drop weird letters to you late on a Saturday night? Could you write a book about living with your family? Have you ever lived not knowing where you’ll sleep each night? Or have you ever had to move somewhere against your will, even if your loved ones thought…

On All the Best this week, we looked at value- the value of the life of an old racing greyhound called Sparky, the value of 5000 comic books to one guy, the value of someone’s lifelong possessions after their death, and a life lived trying to escape the value of consumer goods.

We bring you a show with stories all about Libraries, from our live event at the Surry Hills Library on 5 May 2011

This week All The Best took a look at Change. We looked at individual change: one persons total shift in the way they view themselves as a result of a serious accident. We looked at generational change: the vast differences in life experiences between three women in one family. We looked at change through the…

The Block in Redfern: filled with stories of family and passing travelers, of death, loss of faith and redemption – All The Best take you to one of Australia’s most talked about addresses.

Recorded live on the 19th of May at the Club Stage, Sydney Writers Festival. Music from Sydney’s Fergus Brown.

This week is FBi’s All You Can Eat supporter drive – to mark it we’re looking back on a handful of our favourite stories and chatting to their producers.

In 2011 it’s hard to imagine a Sydney without FBi, and thankfully we don’t have to, but in its 8 year gestation from 1995 to it’s launch date of August 29, 2003, the story of FBi is a tale of tumultuous and triumphant times. Join us to hear how FBi came to be.

This week we’re all about Exhibitionists. As we discover, there’s much more to exhibitionism than just showing off. We speak to someone who uses their skin as a canvas and another who made money from having artist’s paint their naked image. Speaking of nudity… we also take you to an underground sexuality festival and we…

This week on All The Best we talk about dropping out… of society, institutional service, inanimate objects, and even consciousness. We speak to a man who chose to become homeless and another whose epilepsy means he routinely has moments his brain can’t remember. We also get the rare chance to talk to somebody about leaving…

Coming up this week on All the Best an eerie feeling will creep over us as we explore Death. we converse with a medium, we’ll explore the daily life of a taxidermist, we find out about the ways in which different cultures and religions deal with death and dying and we might just ghostbust a…

Numbers somehow contribute to almost every aspect of our life. One of the first things we do is learn how to count and from this point on it’s all about bus numbers, phone numbers and money. Next week on All the Best we take a trip to the Bingo Club, look at the massive amount…

We’re taking you behind closed doors. You’ll get an insider’s perspective on our of our country’s most heavily protected and controversial facilities: a detention centre. We’ll also be hearing from a long-term sufferer of agoraphobia who is literally petrified to leave her own house. It’s not all seriousness, however… you’ll get to take a female-only…

Today on All The Best, we’re big, we’re bright and some of us happen to be colour blind! We also chat to someone who discovers their true ‘colours’ and another person who uses coloured clothing to express themselves.

Today All The Best went searching for green energy, funny dates, new records, and just one dollar.