Category: Featured

  • #587 This Is Your Life

    #587 This Is Your Life

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    If you had to tell the story of your life, what moments would you share?  This week we hear from people who have lived well and have the yarns to prove it. Silence of the Irish In our first story, Grace brings to light a deeply held secret of her Irish Catholic grandparents. Produced by…

  • #586 Wild Swimming

    #586 Wild Swimming

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    This week, tales of open water swimming – from the beauty of plunging into parkland ponds to the freedom of venturing into wild waves. Wild Swimming In our first story, Corey needs a swim, and finds themselves wading through British cultural norms to find one.  This story was written, recited and produced by Corey Green.…

  • #585 In This Version of Home

    #585 In This Version of Home

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    This week we feature two Australian-Turkish writers, who ruminate on the topic of belonging, home and immigration. In their distinctive creative ways, Ela Pinar and Eda Gunaydin unpack the confusion of feeling homesick for a land that was never truly ‘home’ to begin with.  1.10 – In This Version of Home First, Ela tells the…

  • #583 Heartbreak Chronicles

    #583 Heartbreak Chronicles

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    Do you remember your first heartbreak? This week, three storytellers take us through their break up journeys and the sometimes strange and unexpected ways we move on.  Traffic Our first story explores the way that memories of a relationship can replay in your mind, over and over, on loop. Traffic was produced and performed by…

  • #582 What I Know About Love

    #582 What I Know About Love

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    This week our storytellers compare their youthful expectations of life and love, to their less naive realities.  Rom Coms Ruined My Life In our first story, Danni revisits the movies they loved as a teenager, and finds they don’t quite hold up to modern day scrutiny. Produced by Danni Stewart. Byron Bay, A Time and…

  • #581 Here Kitty Kitty Kitty

    #581 Here Kitty Kitty Kitty

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    This week, stories about the bewitching power of cats, from spiritual companions to catalysts of chaos! Running After Lulu In our first story, Mike answers a call to adventure, or rather, makes one himself.  Produced by Mike Williams. This story was originally commissioned by transom.org. For more stories by Mike visit mikewilliams.com.au. Meow To Be…

  • #580 Read To Me: The Speed of Life

    #580 Read To Me: The Speed of Life

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    This week we’re bringing you stories from a gathering of comics and cartoonists, known as Read to Me.  Millennial Falcon – Evie Hilliar First up we hear from Read To Me co-producer Evie Hilliar about what makes Read To Me so special, before reading her tale Millennial Falcon. You can watch an animation with Evie’s…

  • #579 In The Studio: William Yang & Olana Janfa

    #579 In The Studio: William Yang & Olana Janfa

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    This week we’re taking you into the artists’ studio, sharing the stories of artists that weren’t always celebrated by traditional Australian art institutions…until recently. By venturing into the studio, we discover personal stories and the way these artist’s encourage us to interrogate our ways of thinking and spark new self-awareness or insight. William Yang First…

  • #578 The CWA and the F Word

    #578 The CWA and the F Word

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    This week we’re bringing you a feature length piece about the Country Women’s Association and the F Word…that’s right, Feminism! The CWA is at the heart of rural traditional values, so when a young, urban feminist comes knocking on their door, will there be a place for her in the organisation? Find out as Alice Ansara gives…

  • #577 The Sound of Silence

    #577 The Sound of Silence

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    This week we explore … silence…through a feature length experimental audio piece. Audio Club If you haven’t already seen our socials, All The Best has started an audio club. Each month we’re sharing a new prompt and this time it’s the ‘sound of silence’. First up we hear an Audio Club story from Ramon Briant…

  • #576 Sydney Poetry Slam Spotlight

    #576 Sydney Poetry Slam Spotlight

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    This week we’re taking you back to a special event that took place in October 2023 – the Sydney Poetry Slam Championships. A content warning, the stories include references to struggling with mental health, self harm and suicidal ideation.  These poems are written and performed by: Sarah Lock, Anastasia, Andrew Cox, Sabine, Danielle, E3, Maddy…

  • #574 Grandmotherland

    #574 Grandmotherland

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    This week, we’re bringing you a piece that explores Chilean diasporic constellations between grandmother, mother and grandchild.  ‘Grandmotherland’ follows Jasmine’s journey to her grandmother’s homeland and her exploration of ‘diasporic dysphoria’ or an indefinable sense of dislocation from cultural heritage. Grandmotherland ‘Grandmotherland’ is an exploration into music and it’s influence on memory and cultural belonging.…

  • #573 Koshari & Empanadas

    #573 Koshari & Empanadas

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    This week we’re bringing you stories about food, cooking and the richness it brings to our lives.  Food warms bellies, embodies memories and generates some pretty great stories! Discovering Koshari First up, Shivika Gupta, our resident food expert here at FBi Radio, tells us about one of her all-time favourite culinary delights – Koshari.  You…

  • #572 A Mother’s Love

    #572 A Mother’s Love

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    A Mother’s Love This week we’re bringing you some yarns from SPUN stories, an event held in the northern territory in front of a live audience. These stories are all about mothers. First, Eileen, a Rembarrnga Ngalakan woman from Central Arnhem Land, shares her experience of being stolen from her mother as a child of the…

  • #571 Hope Loss Resilience – ‘Fire’

    #571 Hope Loss Resilience – ‘Fire’

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    There’s no one universal story of COVID times. As much as it was a global pandemic, it was also a local story. For the town of Bega, the impacts of Covid on a local scale were intertwined with the devastation of bushfires. This story comes from an episode of ‘Hope Loss Resilience’ a podcast series…

  • #570 Guess Hoo

    #570 Guess Hoo

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    This week, connecting to the natural world through birds. This episode explores ideas of how we can be more mindful of our surroundings, that there is beauty in the Natural world everywhere you look. It also encourages us to take action in protecting the landscapes we love in order for the natural world to thrive.…

  • #569 Amongst the Sheep

    #569 Amongst the Sheep

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    This week we’re playing two more stories from the Black Snapper International Audio Competition.  First up, a college email catastrophe… The Bello Tolls for Thee On 9th October 2014, students at University College, London, received an email from their provost via the all-students list.  It consisted of a single word: “bello!”. Soon students discovered that…

  • #568 Safe House – Queerstories Special

    #568 Safe House – Queerstories Special

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    This week we’re bringing you two stories from our regular partner Queerstories. Safe House by Patrick Abboud First up after a wild night of partying among fellow closeted friends, Patrick nearly loses the safe haven he has carefully created.  A warning that this story includes some swearing. Slut by Steven Oliver A heads up that…

  • #567 New Years Whispers

    #567 New Years Whispers

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    On December 14th, All the Best set up an audio storytelling installation at the Powerhouse Museum’s after-hours event ‘Powerhouse Late’.  We invited attendees to take the mic and share the things they’ll never forget from 2023, and their hopes and aspirations for 2024. First up, Nat shares how a medical diagnosis that left them feeling…

  • #566 Platform: Story Factory

    #566 Platform: Story Factory

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    Story Factory is a not-for-profit creative writing center that engages hundreds of young people in under-resourced communities across Sydney and NSW every year.  They are a champion for young writers and as a program that values emerging audio creators, we are so excited about this partnership!  In this episode, you’ll hear an eclectic mix of…

  • #565 Ali from Lebanon

    #565 Ali from Lebanon

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    This week we’re bringing you another feature from our partnership with the podcast ‘177 Nations of Tasmania’ by Mark Thomson. This week’s story belongs to Ali from Lebanon. Ali spent his childhood in Beirut, a city that was once a pearl of the SWANA region torn apart by violence. However, it wasn’t the war but…