Category: Shows
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#1330 Sex, Drugs & Politics
Women with power, that’s the way we like it! From local government to the world of competitive pole dancing, this episode takes you into the lives of two women and their careers in politics. They work hard and fight hard to get things done. Pole Position Pole dancing champion Zahra Stardust, speaks with Liam…
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#1329 On the Road
Everyone likes adventure and the long roads of Australia, that stretch thousands of kilometres through changing landscapes, can offer the perfect place for adventure and discovery. And whatever the reason you’re on the road; love, adventure, escape, you’re bound to make some pretty amazing discoveries in this big ‘ol country. This episode we hear the…
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#1328 Strangers on the Street
‘A stranger is just someone you haven’t met yet.’ Everyday we pass by people we don’t know. How does our behaviour change when we don’t know someone and we have no personal responsibility for their safety or wellbeing? Pip Rasmussen explores the Bystander Effect and how it plays out with strangers on the street.…
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#1327 Imagination….
“Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.” -Patricia A McKillip- Imagination allows us to feel, see and experience beyond our actual reality. It can be a source of joy and inspiration, terror and anguish and everything in between. What is happening in our brains when we…
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#1326 The Spoken Word
‘Spoken Word’ as a cultural movement grew from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1960’s. It graced Australia’s shores soon after and developed it’s own unique style and voice here. The movement continues to change and develop to this day, as performers, poets, musicians, writers…. experiment with words, sound and expression. In this episode we meet Tug Dumbly,…
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#1325 Nerds & Laughter
This episode All the Best takes you to the Nerd Star Comedy Gala held in Sydney, where comics and academics joined forces in a night of laughter and intellect. Jazz Twemlow reflects on the effects of drinking, time travel and ladies fashion after a big night out in Kings Cross and the ‘Planet Hunter’, astronomer…
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#1324 Tell Me a Story
Tell Me a Story is a live story telling event based in Sydney. We joined Tell Me a Story at their event in June to bring you stories all about ‘Home’. Our storytellers Esther Carroll, Dina Petrakis and Candy Royalle all took to the stage to share what ‘Home’ means to them. Esther Caroll recounts…
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#1323 Mad Science
Giving not Taking With only 5 litres of blood in our body, you’d think it would be in our best interest to keep all of that inside….you’d think. Producer Michael Kermode travels to Woy Woy, just north of Sydney to learn more about a very natural therapy making a comeback. Since it’s days of glory…
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# 1322 The Settlement
Redfern is a diverse inner-city suburb of Sydney, renowned for its strong Aboriginal community. ‘The Block’ has been a hub of political activism with a vibrant community spirit, but in the last decade Redfern has seen huge changes because of it’s proximity to the city centre. Housing prices have sky-rocketed and it seems like every week there is a new trendy…
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#1321 Pot of Gold
What would you do if you won $12,000 on Deal or No Deal? All the Best presents the story of one man who spent his gameshow winnings on the purchase of camels, in order to find a rather metaphysical Pot of Gold: a bit of adventure in his life. Armed with three friends, three camels…
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#1320 Radio with Pictures 3
All the Best presents the last instalment of stories straight from the Sydney Opera House. A Palestinian intellectual and a painter’s love story is interrupted by the politics of Israel and Palestine, and a yet unpublished fantasy story by John Birmingham is brought to life in a very quirky radio play. The Demons of Buttcracke County John…
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#1319 Radio with Pictures 2
All the Best brings you more brilliant stories from Radio with Pictures. Triple J’s Nina Las Vegas unexpectedly finds a cultural connection with Kim Kardashian, Anna Barnes speaks of the experience of losing something that’s been with you your whole life; and Lawrence Leung’s unexpected friendship with a grand old man. The First Thing You…
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#1318 Radio with Pictures 1
All the Best sends this straight from the Sydney Opera House: a sonic adventure from Radio with Pictures. The theme is ‘Filling in the Blanks’, and this episode features a disorienting ride through earthquake-torn Japan; and an excerpt from ‘The Burial’, a haunting novel about one of Australia’s only female bushrangers. The inaugural Radio With…
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#1317 Postcards from Reconciliation
Just in time for National Reconciliation Week, and in co-production with Redfern Community Centre, All the Best presents Postcards from Reconciliation. A man sends a postcard home about his lover: a proud man of the Bundjalung Nation, a historical postcard raises uncomfortable questions about a famous colonial figure and a Gumbangiir woman’s postcard is a…
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#1316 America (feat. The Lifted Brow)
All the Best ventures beyond our big brown land to the home of the free and the land of the brave. Beneath the joyful strains of the Star-Spangled Banner, the idea of America is pitted against its realities. We’re looking at the United States through a decidedly Aussie lens, and neither Lana Del Rey, nor…
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#1315 Love is a Minefield
All the Best creeps ’round the minefield of that crazy little thing called Love! A student-lecturer relationship ends in a drunken duel; a piano teacher and her teenage protégé move from scales to scandal, and a fan’s stalking on social media becomes really creepy when she decides online interaction just isn’t enough. Episode produced by…
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#1314 These Walls Have Ears: Infamous
All the Best shares stories about the most revered, the most feared and the most famous of characters from Australia’s first penal colony in The Rocks, Sydney. Come inside a real-life windmill constructed in The Rocks Square, and join a packed audience hearing live stories, poems and audio movies about Aboriginal warrior Pemulwuy, bare-knuckle boxer…
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#1313 These Walls Have Ears: My Place
Inspired by the much-loved Australian children’s book My Place, All the Best runs back through the history of one place, The Rocks, Sydney, to the colonial characters that lived on and interacted with the land after British settlement. The country, traditionally cared for the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, underwent a radical transformation in…
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#1312 These Walls Have Ears: The Artists
Australia’s first colonial creatives probably didn’t think of themselves as artists. Mostly, they were just trying to get by. All the Best listened for secret histories from Australia’s first penal colony in The Rocks, Sydney. The result was These Walls Have Ears, a live event and radio project supported by the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority.…
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#1311 Atom Bombs in the Suburbs
It was 1982. HIV/AIDS was creeping into Australia and neither the gay community nor the government knew how to beat it, or even what it was. One man decided to fight against the death toll and the rising hysteria, backed by a motto: ‘Don’t Mourn, Organise’. All the Best shares a sliver of little-known Australian…
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#1310 Just Keep Swimming
24 Hours. 1 pool. 620 bodies. 2485.8kms. Dive in and join All the Best in a marathon against the clock, all to raise money and awareness of Multiple Sclerosis. Over the course of one day, a swimmer tells her story: from life’s darkest moments to a kind of success she’d never even dreamed of. Find…