Category: Blog
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Start The Riot: Positive Politics in Fashion
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
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Telling stories in Morwell
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…
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To: My Former Internet Self
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…
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Work with us
All The Best’s Melbourne Collective is currently seeking a committed volunteer to oversee the program’s operations with SYN Media in Melbourne. The ATB Story of the Week Executive Producer will work closely with the Melbourne Collective Supervising Producer (SP), the Features Executive Producer (FEP) and the SYN News Executive Producer to feature All The Best…
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The Start of a Long Journey
Listen to Michael Brydon’s piece: Buckley’s Chance at Truth from #1317 Postcards from Reconciliation. By Michael Brydon The story of William Buckley is amazing. But, as with so much of Australian history, only the colonial voice has truly been heard. When a story like Buckley’s defines an entire community, history can become dangerous. The conventional…
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Summer Break!
Lovely listeners, we’re on a break over January, but we’ll be back on your airwaves with fresh new stories from February 2nd. If you’re really missing us, you can check out our back catalogue — just click the ‘archive’ tab above. Photo: Beach shoes
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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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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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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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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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Gina McKeon wins a Walkley for ATB!
Gina won her Walkley Award for Young Australian Journalist of the Year (Radio) and was Highly Commended, Young Journalist of the Year. Gina was among three finalists shortlisted from over 100 entries and the Walkely Award recognises excellence for her story on “The St Vincent’s Church in Redfern” that was broadcast as part of episode…
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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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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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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…