Category: Shows

  • #521 177 Nations of Tasmania: Palestine

    #521 177 Nations of Tasmania: Palestine

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     Adel : Born in Baghdad, spirit in Palestine, living in Tasmania This week we’re bringing you another story from the podcast ‘177 Nations of Tasmania’. 177 Nations is the creation of Mark Thomson, who started the project during Covid-19 lockdown in 2020 after reading the Australian Census and discovering that there are 177 different…

  • #520 A Postcard From Greece

    #520 A Postcard From Greece

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    Good morning, Καλημέρα, Good night, Καληνυχτα Mel and Tiarne – two friends who booked parallel trips to Greece – one month apart. This week we’re bringing you the voice notes that Mel and Tiarne sent to each other, documenting their trips to Greece in September and October of 2022. Join us for an intimate portrayal…

  • #519 Audio Postcards

    #519 Audio Postcards

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    Welcome to 2023! We hope your summer has consisted of moments of joy and rest. This week we’re bringing you some of these moments, which were generously shared with us during the summer holidays. We start the episode with All The Best host Danni Stewart taking us to the rainforest. The Konditorei / Walnut Torte …

  • #518 Curate Poetry Feature

    #518 Curate Poetry Feature

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    All The Best are collaborating with Curate Poetry, a brand new poetry and spoken word recurring event based in Naarm. Curate||Poetry is where word art meets visual art: an inaugural showcase of Australia’s best poets performing their curated back catalogue. Poets are invited to write signature pieces that respond to a current exhibition with the…

  • #517 Seen and Unseen

    #517 Seen and Unseen

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    International Day of People with Disability was on the 3rd of December, so this week we wanted to bring stories centred around experiences of people with disability. People’s lack of knowledge about disability and society’s overall lack of accessibility are both elements that contribute to this experience, something we should be aware of when supporting…

  • #516 Memories

    #516 Memories

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    The way our minds generate and hold memories is a complex thing. They’re fickle. Multiple people can witness an event and remember it in completely different ways, with some of these people forgetting it entirely. This week we bring stories that delve into the concept of memory, and how they can be distorted both accidentally…

  • #515 Tying the Knot

    #515 Tying the Knot

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    Recently, the 2022 World Cup has brought attention to the persecution of the LGBTQIA+ community in Qatar. As players around the world call for the decriminalisation of queer relationships, we’re taking a moment to remember how important it is to be able to love regardless of gender and sex. We hear the stories of beautiful…

  • #514 Home

    #514 Home

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    Home is more than just the house we live in. This week on All The Best, what home means for different people. 

  • #513 Online Identities (Repeat)

    #513 Online Identities (Repeat)

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    With Elon Musk taking on the mantle of Twitter CEO, there has been a renewal in conversations about the future of social media and the uses of platforms like Twitter. As a result, we wanted to take the time to bring back this exploration of online identity.

  • #512 177 Nations of Tasmania

    #512 177 Nations of Tasmania

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    Melika shares the story of her and her husband’s decision to emigrate to Australia and the different ways she has fallen in love with Tasmania.

  • #511 Critical Disdain

    #511 Critical Disdain

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    This week we’re bringing you stories from Critical Disdain. They’re a newsletter that describes themselves as ‘A weekly newsletter of new work from nobodies’.

  • 500 Retrospective: Age of Activism

    500 Retrospective: Age of Activism

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    This week we’re bringing back an episode that aired in 2021, ‘Age of Activism’. Coal mining is still a much-discussed topic around the country, with flooding and other natural disasters showcasing a need for climate action.

  • #510 The Bold Source

    #510 The Bold Source

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    This week we’re sharing stories from a collaboration with The Bold Source, a magazine led, curated and designed by creative young people in the city of Brimbank.

  • 500 Retrospective: Work In Progress

    500 Retrospective: Work In Progress

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    This week, for the Labour Day Public Holiday, two stories characterising the worker experience.

  • 500 Retrospective: Coast to Coast

    500 Retrospective: Coast to Coast

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    For many people, the ocean rouses a sense of excitement and adventure, a chance to do something that hasn’t been done.

  • #509 Animal Rescue

    #509 Animal Rescue

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    The workings of the animal kingdom are foreign to many of us. This week we bring you stories that delve deep into the hidden world of cats and later in the episode, the hidden world of bees. 

  • #508 Dolphins, Vultures and Eagles

    #508 Dolphins, Vultures and Eagles

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    This week, in a world of true stories that sometimes feel surreal, we’re bringing you some surrealist sci-fi audio fiction.

  • 500 Retrospective: Vanishing Voices

    500 Retrospective: Vanishing Voices

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    Stories about how language is passed between generations, and people working to keep languages alive.

  • #507 Border Farce

    #507 Border Farce

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    This week, an exploration on coping with and processing trauma through the creation of art.

  • 500 Retrospective: Life After

    500 Retrospective: Life After

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    This week we’re bringing you ‘Life After’, an episode that first aired in 2017. From a global pandemic to natural disasters, grief and loss have followed us all in the last few years, and now is a perfect time to reflect on these, often ignored, feelings.

  • #506 Getting Out Of The City

    #506 Getting Out Of The City

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    This week, stories about people leaving the city to find something beautiful in the country.