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#491 Love and Injustice
Love can be a powerful force, a call to action that unifies us and empowers us in the most difficult of circumstances.
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#490 Psychonautics
This week on All The Best, we’re exploring the inner workings of the human mind.
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#489 Off Track
This week we have stories about trains and the very different places they hold in our imaginations.
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#488 Healing Touch
This week on All The Best we’re exploring why we crave touch from each other and how that connection can be like a kind of therapy.
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#487 Set The Table
This week, we’re cooking up a feast. Homemade noodles, thick and stretchy, boiled in lamb broth. Fresh egg tarts with warm, silky smooth custard, all washed down with a good glass of wine.
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What Does Queer Liberation Look Like?
Mardi Gras Season is upon us so this week on All The Best we’re asking the question, ‘what does queer liberation look like?’
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#485 Helenna’s Mix
This week we sadly bid farewell to our wonderful host Helenna. To round off her time at All The Best, Helenna has chosen three of her favourite stories.
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#484 Ghost Town
This week we’re going on a road trip, sharing stories of spooky places around the country.
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#483 A Long Way From Home
Last week marked the start of the Lunar New Year. It’s the year of the tiger, a symbol of bravery and strength, something it feels like we all need right now to face an uncertain world. Due to easing restrictions in Australia, many were able to celebrate the Spring Festival with family again, but with…
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#482 Chinatown
Australia has two of the oldest Chinatowns in the world. Due to COVID-19, the once busy streets have now become quiet, awaiting their revival. This week we have two stories about the past and present of Chinatowns in Sydney and Melbourne.
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#481 Boundless
This week, we’re excited to be bringing you a collection of stories, poems and songs performed live at Boundless Festival of Indigenous and Culturally Diverse writers.
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#480 Flowering Giants
This week, we have a story about the passion of people who are dedicated to saving some tall and beautiful trees.
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#479 Light At The End of The Tunnel
This week’s stories are about finding meaning in darkness and seeking joy in things around us.
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#478 Animal Sounds
This week we hear stories about animal sounds and interactions with nature, for better or worse!
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#477 Spooky
Plastic tombstones, spooky skeletons and jack-o’-lanterns are popping up in front yards, the closer we tick towards October 31st. Halloween is soon approaching and this week on All The Best, we’re celebrating the coming of the Spooky Season.
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#476 Behind The Curtain
We’re going behind the curtain and hearing the story of a juggler and a balloon performer.
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#475 Childhood Memories
We’re getting nostalgic this week and revisiting memories from childhood.
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#474 The Journey to Freedom
This week, we’re sharing two stories about injustice, persistence and freedom.
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#473 At The Tip Of My Tongue
Have you ever tried writing a bio with one sentence? Sometimes it can be tricky to find the right word to describe yourself. This week, we’re sharing two stories about languages, identity and home.
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#472 Home To Heal
With each sunrise comes light breaking through the darkness. This week’s stories are about destruction, devastation and darkness but also the healing that comes after.
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#471 Fourteen Days
Coming home to Australia from Japan on one of the few international flights that wasn’t cancelled, Daniel Semo decided to make an audio story for every day of his hotel quarantine.
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#470 A Fluorescent Feeling
Over Three million Australians live with chronic pain. Being in pain can be lonely, boring, scary and frustrating. But what if it could also be beautiful, colourful and textual? What if we could share it with others?
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#469 Pride Prejudice and Pink Bans
Our episode this week is dedicated to exploring how trade unions have been a powerful advocate for LGBTQ+ rights in Australia.
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#468 Don’t Forget
This week’s stories are all about trying to hack your brain.
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#467 Stay At Home Sounds
We’re taking you through a day in lockdown in houses that have now become preschools, schools, universities and workplaces.
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#466 Rebel Gods
This week we’re taking you back to Ancient Greece with a story you probably didn’t read about in your school textbook.
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#465 Swarm Part Three
for our final instalment of the ‘swarm’ series, we explore the link between jellyfish blooms and climate change, increasing surveillance in our major cities, the world of dating apps and more!
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#464 Swarm Part Two
In this episode we explore the theme ‘swarm’ through the context of bats, mice, robots and activism.
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#463 Swarm Part One
We explore swarms of creepy crawlies, rural-urban migration, multinational fast-fashion corporations, kangaroos and a cult.
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#462 Whodunnit
Two amateur detectives take a mystery into their own hands.
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#461 The Quest For Knowledge
We look at learning as a way to up-skill, to earn more, to improve ourselves. This week’s stories are a rejection of those notions, about the joys of learning for learning’s sake.
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#460 Fresh Start
These stories are about taking chances, and how going out on a limb can lead to a surprising, if unexpected pay-off.
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#459 Lost Connections
A yearning for reconnection and resolution drives this week’s two stories.
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#458 Sweet Nostalgia
Based on memories pushed through a romantic lens, nostalgia is a feeling that is comfortable to sit in, yet often factually incorrect.
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#457 Are You Listening?
We can never really understand how somebody wishes to be seen and understood in the world unless we listen.
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#456 Embrace The Darkness
In this week’s stories, we’re diving headfirst into the darkness and discovering that sometimes through the darkness we find a sense of freedom.
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#455 Stars And Surprises
Stories of two hobbies that, if not extreme in nature, are being pushed to extreme lengths by passionate individuals.
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#454 Goodbye/Hello
The week, we’re brining you stories about endings and new beginnings as we say goodbye to longtime host Maddy and hello to our new host Helenna.
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#453 Greatest Hits
This week, outgoing host Maddy shares some of their favourite All The Best stories.
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#452 Home is Where The Heart Is
Stories about what makes a home more than just a physical space.
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#451 Horror Of The Everyday
The real and impending everyday horrors that leave us tense with anxiety, chills down our spine and emotionally exhausted.
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#450 Against All Odds
The fight to make wrestling more inclusive and a football fan who knows a thing or two about losing.
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#449 Animal Attachment
Warm & cuddly or slippery & slimy we rely on our cute animal friends to bring us comfort and companionship.
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#448 Playing With Your Food
Hannah dreams of the perfect Women’s Weekly Birthday Cake and Ange’s attempt to make a stir fry goes doesn’t go to plan.
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#447 Lexicon
Stories about the important link between language and culture.
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#446 Age Of Activism
Grandparents Rae and John are fighting for climate action. Since their retirement, they’ve ditched the caravan for the picket line and have participated in more non-violent direct actions than they can count.
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#445 Limbo
As state borders open up and restrictions ease, we hear stories of people who are left in limbo—refugees and asylum seekers held in indefinite detention, and Australian citizens unable to return home.
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#444 You Get Me
Stories of sharing support and solidarity with people who understand you.
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#443 Guidance
Stories to guide you through: troubled waters, flooded plains, and a malfunctioning waterslide.
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#442 Substitutions
It’s a fact of life that you can’t always get what you want. But you can always try for the next best thing.
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Podcast Bootcamp
All The Best’s Podcast Bootcamp is going 100% online for 2020! Which means you can take part from anywhere in the world. There will be three events as part of the Podcast Bootcamp designed to give you loads of audio skills and inspiration to make your own story with us over the festive season. We’re…
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#441 Back To The Shore
Gus Fitzgerald, a surfer and swimmer and commercial diver, describes a life of lessons learnt from the man who taught him to swim. And Timmy Burarrwanga tells the history of pre-colonial contact between Makassarese of Indonesia and the Yolngu people of Arnhem land — a history rooted in sea cucumber.
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#440 Vanishing Voices
Stories about how language is passed between generations, and people working to keep languages alive.
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#439 On Repeat
Recurring nightmares, hold music, the ticking of the clock – stories about the repetitive and unsettling experiences of our everyday lives.
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#438 Calm Inside The Storm
Stories about finding pockets of calm in the chaos.
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#437 Why Black Lives Matter Resonates With Black People All Over The World
For Claudia, the discourse surrounding the murder of George Floyd was hard to stomach. The responses of white Australian media pundits were nauseating, and the social media takes from well-meaning acquaintances left her feeling all the more alienated. In this extended episode of All The Best she explores global Black Solidarity and compares ongoing Bla(c)k…
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#436 All In Your Head
Ever wished you could climb inside someone else’s head? To understand them better? Or to escape?
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#435 Digital Worlds
People respond to our pandemic-imposed retreat online by designing and curating their own digital dwellings.
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#434 (> ^_^ )>
We could all use a hug right about now.
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#433 Trust
Dave finds himself with no choice but to trust a group of strangers to keep him alive. Esther tries to buy a dog online, and it all goes wrong.
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#432 Close To Home
A former nurse, who witnessed discrimination against HIV patients, contracts the disease and begins experiencing discrimination herself. And a science journalist becomes the subject of her own bushfire reporting.
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#431 Origin Story
Stories of uncovering ancestry.
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#430 Long Distance
Stories about connecting with friends and family from a distance — by sharing music, memories and ramen.
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Spring Pitches
All The Best is here for emerging audio makers to pitch, produce and learn. We’re currently taking pitches for our spring content round!
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#429 Inside Out
Stories of people reaching in, to find the right words, and reaching out, to start a difficult conversation.
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#428 Essential Services
Far from being “all in this together,” we’ve seen the pandemic highlight social inequality in our communities.
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#427 Time Machine
True stories about travelling through time.
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#426 Mental: Part II
The second part in a collection of mental stories.
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We’re hiring!
We’re looking for an audio storytelling whiz to become our new Victorian State Coordinator.
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#425 Mental: Part I
Part one in a collection of stories on the theme “mental”.
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#408 Our House Is On Fire
Meet the messengers of the climate emergency.
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#414 Up In The Air
Things are not okay. Everything seems up in the air.
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#404 Filling In The Blanks
True stories rarely end with everything tied up in a neat little package. These are stories of people trying to fix their own personal plot holes.
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#411 Discomfort Zone
Travelling to India alone and getting naked in front of (platonic) friends: these are the ways people overcame the things holding them back, and found the freedom that comes from that.
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#424 I Am Preethi
Karishma shares the intergenerational story of the women in her family.
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Winter Pitches
We’re currently taking pitches for our winter content round!
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#423 Rebellion
There are two kinds of rebels: those with a cause and those without one.
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#422 Hope You’re Not Squeamish
Gruesome tales of blood, death and lost appendages.
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#421 Can’t Pay My Rent
In this episode, we have stories of people taking action to support their communities through the pandemic.
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#420 Planning For A Pandemic
What do you do about the big jewish wedding you had planned? How do you prepare for the worst?
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#419 Unintended Consequences
People act with the best of intentions, and face the unforeseen consequences.
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#418 Isolation 2 – We Are Constructing The Giant Lasagne
Adjusting to isolation has been difficult. We’re all dealing with it in different ways. In this episode, we share some of ours, and you share some of yours.
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#417 Isolation 1 – Home Roller Disco
Professional Zoom meetings in a ten-year-old’s bedroom, bouldering on the side of the house, and recreating a roller disco in the hallway – these are some of the things we’ve been up to in self-isolation.
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#416 Snap Judgement
Stories of people being judged and dismissed based on the superficial impressions of others. Hear them out.
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Update
Our Autumn pitch workshop is cancelled, but the show must go on!
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#414 Up In The Air
Things are not okay. Everything seems up in the air.
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#413 Join The Club
Having an obscure passion can make you feel like a bit of an outsider. Until you find a tribe of people who love the thing you’re into, just as much as you do.
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#412 Corpse Meditation
Our host and executive producer share an app that has been reminding them of their own mortality. Then, two stories about contempating death and grief. It’s dark, but it might be good for you.
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#411 Discomfort Zone
Travelling to India alone and getting naked in front of (platonic) friends: these are the ways people overcame the things holding them back, and found the freedom that comes from that.
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#410 Seeking Refuge
Stories of escaping the chaos. Fleeing from a war zone. Going on a meditation retreat, and looking for ways to retreat from the retreat.
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Autumn pitches
All The Best is here for emerging audio makers to pitch, produce and learn. We’re currently taking pitches for our Autumn content round! If you need a little inspo we’re on the lookout for stories on the following themes…
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#409 Swallowed Up
There’s bad luck, then there’s bad judgement. This week, stories of people receiving ample warning that something isn’t right, and ignoring it at their peril.
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#1411 Morwell
Back in February 2014, a coal mine in Morwell caught fire. The entire town was covered in ash. The health impacts to residents were significant. And they’re being compared to the impacts of the current bushfire crisis.
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Summer Series #08
This is the last part in our summer series, we hope you’ve enjoyed the trip down memory lane. We’re back with new episodes in two weeks.
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Summer Series #07
We’ve been taking a break from making new episodes over summer, so we’re rebroadcasting some of our favourite All The Best stories. We’ll be back in two weeks.
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Summer Series #06
We’ll be back with brand new episodes in February. While you wait, here’s some of our favourites from the All The Best archive.
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Summer Series #05
We’ll be back with new episodes in a few weeks. Until then, here are some stories that we really like. Hope you like them too.
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Summer Series #04
All The Best is taking some time off to rest and recuperate, and to produce new stories for 2020. While we’re away, we’re replaying some of our favourite stories. See you in a few weeks.
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Summer Series #03
We’re busy working on new episodes for 2020 and working on our suntans. Please enjoy these fine selections from the All The Best archive.
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Summer Series #02
We’re taking a few weeks off while we get ready for new episodes in 2020. So we’ve picked some of our favourite stories to play over the summer.
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