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  • Sea hitchhiking in Melbourne

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    In 1970, Gabriel Salas had just finished his university studies in Chile and thought he’d try and hitchhike around South America. But what was meant to be your average graduate road trip turned into an adventure across the sea… Take a listen to ‘Sea Hitchhiker’ recorded live at our Melbourne listening party, Oceans Apart: This version…

  • Wait a minute, Mr. Postman

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    At our Melbourne listening party a couple of weeks ago, we handed out these postcards. We asked you to write something to send across distance; we wanted to hear what you’d say to someone you haven’t seen in a while, or maybe even the person next to you… Here are a couple we found at…

  • Thank you, Melbourne!

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    A big thank you to everyone who listened in at Oceans Apart last week! We’ll post more photos and audio from the Melbourne Collective’s listening party very soon, so stay tuned on our Facebook page or subscribe to us on iTunes.

  • What does distance sound like?

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  • Volunteer Positions: Community Coordinator + SYN Production Manager

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    We’ve got a couple of vacancies for excellent radio heads, one in Sydney and one in Melbourne. Any questions, do get in touch. Community Coordinator: Sydney All the Best is recruiting a volunteer Community Coordinator, based at FBi in Sydney. Pip Rasmussen has been doing fantastic job the past two years, but she’s focusing on…

  • JOB: All the Best State Coordinator, Melbourne

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    We’re looking for a new State Coordinator to be based at 3RRR in Melbourne. This person will be responsible for maintaining a community of All the Best contributors at 3RRR and coordinating Melbourne-based content with the national All the Best team and the SYN Coordinator. They should be passionate about radio documentaries and audio storytelling, and obsessive about podcasting.…

  • Older women and street harassment

    Older women and street harassment

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    The artwork accompanying our latest episode #1515 A Walk in the Park, is by Melbourne feminist artist Stephanie Freda Leigh.  It’s a text-based projection, near her home in Melbourne’s suburbs. Apart from being heart-in-throat effective to look at, the artwork also brought another aspect of street harassment to our attention. Here’s Stephanie talking about the first…

  • A Way With Words

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    In this week’s episode we hear stories about the ways that activists and marginalised people are using a new artform with an ancient history to get their voices across. We met poets who run workshops in jails and schools, a young woman writing and fighting for her community in Arnhem Land, and some social housing…

  • A Cheesey Date

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    When Bambi Smyth, author of ‘Men on the Menu’, found herself on a first date with Christian in Frankfurt, Germany, the local delicacy ‘Handkäse’ threatened to spoil her decorum. Bambi spoke to producer Bec Fary for All the Best’s ‘Food and Memory’ episode. Music credits: ‘Funeral March For a Marionette’ by Ergo Phizmiz, from the…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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  

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…