• #321 Healing

    #321 Healing

    It’s 2018 and we’re back baby! To kick things off, we’re talking Healing. We rely on doctors and specialists to help us heal, but when they don’t have the answers the journey takes a different turn. — ‘Light at the end of the tunnel’ by Karishma Tanvi For years now, Karishma has known something wasn’t right……

  • #320 The Bubble

    #320 The Bubble

    We’re told we all live in our own bubbles, reinforced by our friends, our beliefs, our Facebook news feeds, and that very few of us can break free. This week, stories of people who popped their bubbles. — ‘Raised by Atheists’ by Nina Enever Before Nina started primary school, she didn’t realise her new school…

  • #319 Mum’s the word

    #319 Mum’s the word

    The mental load, the unpaid labour, the unconditional love – not to mention pushing us out. Our mums deserve a lot more credit than they get. So this week we’re peeling back the curtain on this whole motherhood thing and taking a moment to acknowledge them properly. — ‘Flashforward’ by Martyn Reyes Two years ago,…

  • #318 Loyalty

    #318 Loyalty

    This week, stories about what it means to be loyal – to your job, to a partner or to yourself. ‘A chat with a garbo’ by Bridget Harilaou Ian Hankinson has been committed to his job for the last 28 years. It’s a job people aren’t exactly queuing up to do, and yet our society often…

  • #317 Faith in love

    #317 Faith in love

    Religious communities and Queer communities have historically had a difficult relationship. Many of us treat this dichotomy as having no clear path to mutual understanding and celebration. But this week we bring you stories of the grey area between the black and white, and the people trying to evolve their religious institutions. Rev. Keith Mascord made headlines in 2016 when…

  • #316 Four Generations of Black Storytellers

    #316 Four Generations of Black Storytellers

    This week, four generations of activists, poets, storytellers, actors, humanitarians and educators. We share the untold story of one family who helped create Radio Redfern, The Black Theatre, the first black newspaper in Australia, the Brisbane Indigenous Media Association, and the Murri School, an Independent Aboriginal and Islander Community School. ‘Four Generations of Black Storytellers’ was brought…

  • #315 Analogue

    #315 Analogue

    This week, we’re talking about old and new media. Past and present family traditions. Digital and analogue technology. So which way was better? – ‘Imperfect tools’ by Daniel Semo Music, podcasts, radio shows… almost everything we listen to these days is created, edited and shared digitally. Yet some artists, engineers, and technicians still choose to…

  • #314 The Chase

    #314 The Chase

    Horse racing, serial dating and following your dreams. This week we’re all about the CHASE! ‘For the love of horses’ by Elina Godwin A day in the life of a track rider, behind the glitz and glam of race day. Tessa is both a Clerk Of The Course on race days and a morning track-rider at…

  • #313 Word Travels Fast

    #313 Word Travels Fast

    A new series from All The Best and Word Travels, premiered right here. Tegan Nicholls in on a quest across NSW, meeting young slam poets at the crossroads of race, access and recognition. From small country towns to beachside writer’s festivals, Tegan road trips across the state recording stories, rehearsals and conversations all leading up to…

  • #312 Assumptions

    #312 Assumptions

    A first impression can kill a job interview, delight a first date or… let’s face it, be the product of racism. This week, stories of assumptions that range from an awkward misunderstanding, to a world in the violent throws of political division. ‘I’m Sorry’ by Joseph Aklilu Whether this story feels alien, or painfully familiar, will say…

  • #311 Eviction

    #311 Eviction

    Anna has lived in her tower apartment for 45 years. In fact, she was the fifth person to move in when the building was completed in the 70’s. It wasn’t long after the Queen herself cut the ribbon, officially opening the two Waterloo Towers. Now, Anna is facing eviction, along with thousands of other residents. But…

  • #310 Hindsight

    #310 Hindsight

    Meet kids and teenagers who have grown up, and can now see the world through their parents’ eyes. In two stories, we look back on important choices from childhood, and ask if the lens of adulthood always make things clearer. — ‘Blueprint’ by Rachel Mcfadden Lying awake in bed at night, Rachel’s mind wanders back to…

  • #309 Door knocking

    #309 Door knocking

    Time to go off road. Jump the fence. Peak into some houses slated for demolition, or explore a well-known old building that’s home to the little-known story of an unsolved crime. This week we’re knocking on the doors of homes, buildings and stories that might not be around forever. ‘Suburban Decay’ by Britta Jorgensen More than…

  • #308 Garry’s Dream

    #308 Garry’s Dream

    ‘Garry’s Dream’ by Kayleen Bell This week, we’re devoting a full episode to one love story. A young love story. But even though our protagonists are young, they are facing something normally reserved for people in their 80’s. Kayleen Bell first visited Mandy and Garry in 2014, now she finally gets to share their story. September is…

  • #307 The Powder Room

    #307 The Powder Room

    Come join us in a private space we’ve filled with mysticism, discretion, and secrecy. The Powder Room. ~~~ ‘Menstruation: Then and now’ by Nina Enever Stock up the chocolate, boil the kettle, and put on your trackies – you’re about to have your very first period. Except it’s the 1940’s, there are no disposable tampons, and…

  • #306 Trouble on the inside

    #306 Trouble on the inside

    Things can look pretty peachy when you’re on the outside looking in. But this week, we’re bringing you stories of trouble on the inside. Whether that’s in your average 7/11, or in gender specific clubs on Facebook. ~~~ ‘Not so sweet’ by Emma Nobel Emma Nobel used to associate convenience stores with one thing: Slurpees. But…

  • #305 ATB Presents ‘The King’ by The Headstone Series

    #305 ATB Presents ‘The King’ by The Headstone Series

    “And I asked her, would you know which Hearse had Elvis in the back? She said “no”, so I touched all of them”. In the Melbourne General Cemetery is a memorial for a man buried far away, at Graceland, in Memphis Tennessee. This is a memorial for Elvis Presley, and our feature episode this week meets the…

  • #304 First cup of the day

    #304 First cup of the day

    We’re pretty proud of our coffee culture in Australia. The taste, the quality, the ritual of making it in the morning, the chemistry between caffeine and our brains. For a lot of us coffee is the perfect way to start the day – maybe even the only way to start the day. So this week…

  • #303 Beneath The Surface

    #303 Beneath The Surface

    A group of change-makers open up about a tragedy in their community, sharing how they stay afloat when darkness bubbles beneath the surface. A woman encounters a stranger, struggling to swim offshore. The experience connects her to a man on the other side of the world. ~~~ ‘Dear Von’ By Sasha Abram Looking at the brave faces of our most…

  • #302 The Story of Us

    #302 The Story of Us

    In movies, books, and art, the greatest love stories are often romances. Their infinity is celebrated, aspired to, and put on a pedestal. The idea of BFFs, on the other hand, is somewhat trivialised by society. How could besties be a heart-stopping love story? But for quite a few people, the focus on traditional love stories overshadows their real…

  • #301 Feeling Small

    #301 Feeling Small

    A few years ago Moi escaped his home in Iran by boat, but when he arrived in Australia he decided to rewrite his relationship with the ocean. This week we’ve got stories about facing unknown environments that might – at first – make us feel a little small. Mountains, oceans, and big cities. ~~~ ‘Compression’ by Made…

  • #300 Breath and Bone

    #300 Breath and Bone

    This week, we’re devoting the whole show to one story about the year one woman hit rock bottom, then pulled herself back up again. Just a heads up that this story deals with loss and can be hard to listen to in parts, but it’s a beautiful, intimate, story about healing, and we can promise it has…

  • #299 First Love

    #299 First Love

    This week we’re looking at first love. ~~~ Baby’s First Love Our awareness of love and relationships starts to take shape at an early age, before we . So we asked people to send us some recordings of themselves, recounting their earliest memories of when they first became aware of, or exposed, to the social constructs…

  • #298 The Desert

    #298 The Desert

    On the highway down to Alice Springs there are very few places to stop and refuel. A couple of small towns, a few roadhouses. But then you have Wycliffe Well. This week All The Best is disappearing into the desert and bringing back stories from campfires, state borders and Alien themed roadhouses. ~~~ ‘Red Sand Country’…

  • #297 Picking up the pieces

    #297 Picking up the pieces

    Stephen hasn’t seen his high school girlfriend in nearly 30 years. Things didn’t end so well when they were teenagers, but suddenly he has the opportunity to reconnect with her. The only thing is something has changed in Stephen, something very big, and he’s not sure if his high school sweetheart is ready to find…

  • #296 ATB features: SPUN

    #296 ATB features: SPUN

    This week, we’re featuring SPUN! A fresh live storytelling podcast straight out of the Northern Territory. ~~~ “A full belly or smelly pits?” by Clare Callaghan There are times in life when small, seemingly insignificant decisions impact you in unimaginable ways. Clare Callaghan is a remote area nurse in an indigenous community and one day…

  • #295 Take me as I am

    #295 Take me as I am

    Most of our life, we’re bending to the expectations of others. How we look, how we behave, where we work, the life choices we make. It’s like all these little decisions were made without us and we’re expected follow the choreography, hope we don’t screw it up and stack it. But wouldn’t it be liberating,…

  • #294 In on it

    #294 In on it

    In-jokes, classroom cliques and family secrets. It sucks to feel like you’re on the outside. This week we’ve got stories about being in on it, because either you are or you aren’t. Usually. But under stranger circumstances, you might find yourself in on something you didn’t even know you were a part of. ‘Rainbow Mining’…

  • #293 Paws and Reflect

    #293 Paws and Reflect

    The President of the Holy Cow Club was fond of her pet calf Belinda. She would read Belinda picture books and penned the club’s official anthem in her honour. She was also eight years old. Claudia’s short lived relationship with Belinda lead to a life long obsession with cows, but she’s not the only person…

  • #292 Sleeping with a mosquito

    #292 Sleeping with a mosquito

    James Brechney chalks rainbows for equality. It started as a bit of a joke, but the sentiment spread and, before he knew it, chalk rainbows were popping up all over the world and Facebook was flying him to America. Quickly, the rainbow chalkings became a recurring symbol in the queer community, a peaceful message of solidarity. But is…

  • #291 Together, Alone

    #291 Together, Alone

    Inga identifies as Solo Poly, which kinda sounds like an oxymoron: someone who leads a life of polyamory, but one that is distinctly… solo. It’s the kind of thing she finds herself explaining over and over again to people outside of the poly community. How can you be alone and together at the same time? This…

  • #290 Going Offline

    #290 Going Offline

    A few years ago, Patrick from New Zealand discovered an unknown American band online and decided to connect with the members via Twitter. As the friendship progressed, the band got bigger and a tri-continental twitter bond was born. What happens when internet relationships, communities or online versions of ourselves log off and start to interact with the real…

  • #289 So you think I’m sick?

    #289 So you think I’m sick?

    #1712 So you think I’m sick? This week: stories of sickness and health, and how to convince the rest of the world you’re one not the other. ~ ‘Presence of mind’ by Darius Sawyer “To be defined as less human than a robot was really jarring, I’d taken an assumption of my humanity for granted.” What…

  • #288 Remotely Intimate

    #288 Remotely Intimate

    #1711 Remotely Intimate: By Thanh Hằng Phạm. What do you think of when you think of home? Is it where you are now or where you grew up? Is it a place you long for, somewhere in your family’s history, far from the roads and towns you move through today? And what do you think of……

  • #287 Life After

    #287 Life After

    #1710 Life After What does life feel like in the wake of death? How do we cope, who do we turn to, and what can we do to make it better when we’re left behind? This week we’re looking at life after loss. ~ ‘Where the sky meets the sea’ by Bethany Atkinson-Quinton When you stare at…

  • #286 A Night Away

    #286 A Night Away

    A lost sex toy, the persistence of nightingales, and the choices about life and love we make after the sun goes down. This week is our second instalment of stories from our listening party in Sydney, where we invited an audience to spend a night with All The Best. In this episode we’ll be taking you…

  • #285 What keeps me up at night

    #285 What keeps me up at night

    Stories straight from our Audiocraft listening party! If you missed the midnight garden gathering, here is the first instalment of nocturnal tales we made for our Sydney relaunch event “Spend a night with All The Best”. Four pieces from contributors who just can’t sleep, all for different reasons, and want you to lie awake with them. This…

  • #284 Art as therapy

    #284 Art as therapy

    “He said to me once, ‘just as I’m getting good they’re going to kill me’.” How do art teachers adapt to working in prisons? Can standing in a room full of artists, completely naked, change how you see your own body? These are the questions we tackle this week, as we explore the true powers of art…

  • #283 Black Sheep

    #283 Black Sheep

    Kevin draws huge crowds to his cafe in Alexandria, Sydney. He’s usually asleep, flopped on the ground like a bloated hairy beanbag in his pen. But it doesn’t take much to be a celebrity pig in Sydney, and so even when dozing he’s working his public profile. Kevin goes for daily walks around the neighbourhood, has a…

  • #282 Repeated Collision

    #282 Repeated Collision

    _ We’re dipping into our archives this week to bring you two stories of forces coming together, like a hard wooden cricket bat and a mouth full of baby teeth, or our first story, which takes place on the frontline of a battle between two passionate groups in duck hunting season. ‘Duck Season’ by Leona…

  • #281 Breasted Experience by Private Parts

    #281 Breasted Experience by Private Parts

    _ Breasted Experience by Beth Gibson “I want you to imagine that one day you get a blank email with an MP3 file with your name on it. You have no idea what’s in the file. You put on your headphones, lie down and press play.” Breasts. They’re pretty hard to miss. But our genuine,…

  • #280 Family Fingerprints

    #280 Family Fingerprints

    _ “Two hip replacements and a stuffed knee didn’t quite allow him to make it out of the boat. So he was swept out to the open ocean…” Nobody likes thinking about losing their parents or grandparents (including us). So to avoid dwelling on the grief too much, this week we bring you stories about lessons…

  • #279 If I make it till Monday

    #279 If I make it till Monday

    – “If he went to a home he would have lasted a week. That would have been it, because he wouldn’t have his painting, his music, none of those things.” ‘If I make it till Monday’ by Sally Zwartz For many of us, the idea of turning 100 is a far off, unimaginable and abstract…

  • #278 Over the neighbour’s fence

    #278 Over the neighbour’s fence

    _ “I’m expecting to join just a handful of other people for the class, but I arrive to find a huge queue, leading up to a hardwood fairy lit space. Turns out this is a serious community. Mostly white, and almost all middle aged and older.” Do you ever pause and fantasise about your neighbours’ lives?…

  • #1640 I thought this was what you wanted?

    #1640 I thought this was what you wanted?

    _ Does Christmas content in December disturb or excite you? The All The Best team is divided on the issue. Some love riding the Christmas wave all the way to December 25th, others wish they could mute every overbearing TV ad, silly season radio segment, or cheesy holiday movie. In this week’s episode we decided to…

  • #1639 ATB presents: Contact Mic

    #1639 ATB presents: Contact Mic

    _ This week we’ve got something a little different on the show. At All The Best we love celebrating and showcasing great Australian audio, so we’re handing over the show to our friends at Contact Mic. It’s a monthly podcast made in Melbourne about the things that make us human – like moments of change,…

  • #1638 Goodbye Comfort Zone

    #1638 Goodbye Comfort Zone

    “I said I’d pass. I’m not going to lie, I’m a little scared of the dark… But they insisted I did. They said it was tradition.” This week we’re talking about leaving your comfort zone behind and embarking on something new. Facing your fears, rising to the occasion, and then discovering something amazing on the…

  • #1637 On the other side of the glass

    #1637 On the other side of the glass

    A controversial series of photographs by artist Arne Svenson has been the subject of much discussion lately. In it, Svenson exhibits photos of his neighbours, images he captured without their consent through the windows of their New York apartments. This is more than ethically ambiguous, it’s pretty straight up wrong. But it doesn’t discount our secret…

  • #1636 Like Oil and Water

    #1636 Like Oil and Water

    Some things mix like oil and water, forever a slippery co-existence stuck in separation. Like an oil spill in the ocean, this mostly ends in disaster and heartbreak, but occasionally – against all odds – two opposites just click. This week we bring you both kinds: stories of operas in bathrooms, unlikely friendships, and love + heartbreak. ‘Chamber Pot…

  • #1635 Keepsakes Part 2/2

    #1635 Keepsakes Part 2/2

    Last week we heard stories from the keepsake makers, the archivists and the preservers of history, recorded live at our Melbourne listening party, Keepsakes. This week, we’ll hear from the second half of that event. In this episode we’re looking at the magic in nostalgia and reflection when we look back at the things we’ve…

  • #1634 Keepsakes Part 1/2

    #1634 Keepsakes Part 1/2

    Last month, the Melbourne collective of All The Best held their second ever listening party at the Good Room in Brunswick East. The night was called ‘Keepsakes’ and over the next two weeks we’ll bring you a selection of stories from the event. We’re diving into memories and the objects that remind us of who we…

  • #1633: Unknown Pleasures

    #1633: Unknown Pleasures

    By this stage of our lives we’ve formed pretty solid ideas of how the world should be, we think we know what we like and what we don’t like. We’re familiar with the streets in our towns and we know the kind of films we like. But for the people in our stories this week,…

  • #1632: Small Towns of Australia

    #1632: Small Towns of Australia

    This week All The Best is putting small towns on the map as we play tourist around Australia. We visit a tiny sheep farming town where a single classroom hosts Kindy to Year 6, with only 11 students all up. Then we jump on the Trans Australian Rail, stopping off in Cook, South Australia. Not as much…

  • #1631 LIVE! From the National Young Writers Festival

    #1631 LIVE! From the National Young Writers Festival

    Earlier this month All The Best teamed up with the National Young Writers Festival in Newcastle to host a night of Poetry and Music at Vinyl Cafe. We brought musicians and poets together to perform under the theme ‘The Body as a Map’, and the result was a beautiful and spontaneous evening of stories. A…

  • #1630 It’s a Man Eat Man World

    #1630 It’s a Man Eat Man World

    It’s unpleasant to think that we live in a man eat man world, a society where our actions force us to eat or be eaten. But this week on All The Best, we are taking this expression to the extreme with two slightly unusual stories. ‘Zedtown Dead South’ by Tegan Nicholls Zedtown started out on a…

  • #1629 Taking Refuge in Recipes

    #1629 Taking Refuge in Recipes

    It’s been said before, but food is full of meaning. It can transcend borders, cultures, language and class. This week on All The Best, we bring you two stories of how peace and refuge were found through the ritual of cooking and eating. ‘A Recipe for Refuge’ by Carly-Anne Kenneally Does the smell of a certain…

  • #1628 Getting Yours

    #1628 Getting Yours

    “I never did it to you, I knew the pay-back would have been so much worse.” From sibling revenge in the bathroom to parkour street crews in Western Sydney, this week we’re talking about Getting Yours. But that expression can go both ways, sometimes you get what you’ve earned, and sometimes you just get what you deserve. ‘The Last…

  • #1627 In The Red

    #1627 In The Red

    “When my partner Jason arrived in Australia from the US, I assumed he had a bit of debt. But we never really talked about it. I assumed he was handling it… I was naive.” Debt. It’s not polite conversation, but we’re getting better at talking about it. So this week we decided to bring you stories…

  • #1626 Back In The Driver’s Seat

    #1626 Back In The Driver’s Seat

    “My neck cracked, and he kept watching me gasp for breath… his head just tilted to the side with a curious look on his face.” This week we’re talking about power and control. In particular, stories of how people who need it most are taking it back. We’re also super excited to introduce you to our new…

  • #1625 What The Audience Doesn’t See

    #1625 What The Audience Doesn’t See

    Sitting in the darkness of a cinema or the silence of a theatre, audiences are happy to suspend disbelief and be captivated by a performance. And if a show is good enough, rarely do we pause to wonder what might be going on inside the performers’ heads. What’s taking place that we might not be able to see, even from…

  • #1624 Take the Leap

    #1624 Take the Leap

    “If a group of strangers in the street asked you to jump on a mysterious box, would you take the leap?” This week we meet three people who took a leap into the unknown, not sure where they would land. Griffin Blumer confronts a suspicious cardboard box in the small, spooky town of Tumut. Bethany Atkinson-Quinton brings…

  • #1623 The Chimeras of Regional Victoria

    #1623 The Chimeras of Regional Victoria

      This week All The Best goes bush, on the hunt for ghosts, dinosaurs and Big Cats. We’re chasing down the chimeras of regional Victoria in two beautiful stories that drive us out of the city and into the shadowy mysteries of the state. ‘Bright Eyes in the Otways’ by Emma Nobel Ever seen a Big Cat…

  • #1622 What Brought You Here

    #1622 What Brought You Here

    When you cross a passerby on the street, it’s impossible to know their history from one glance. This is especially true in a country as multicultural as Australia, where we often forget the people around us have lived through diverse and interesting lives before getting to this country. This week, we’re asking the question ‘what brought you…

  • #1621 Eating Elephants

    #1621 Eating Elephants

    Eating an elephant is a mammoth task, so how do you tackle it? Do you eat it bite by bite? Where do you start? When faced with a problem that feels insurmountable, some people are drawn to odd strategies. So this week we’re playing two stories of strange solutions to strange problems. ‘Breaking point’ by Beth Gibson…

  • #1620 The Hardest Thing (repeat)

    #1620 The Hardest Thing (repeat)

      This week we’re revisiting an old favourite from 2014, a feature documentary we still love about strength, discipline, self determination and football. Produced by Emma Lancaster “The hard work we do here replicates the discipline and the routine we carry out throughout the day, the weeks, the months, and years. If this is the hardest thing you…

  • #1619 Stuck in limbo

    #1619 Stuck in limbo

    This week on All The Best we’re dealing with the feeling of being stuck in limbo, including the story of a man whose mother’s future is suddenly suspended in uncertainty, forcing him to confront how he views his family. Plus, a look at that confusing, shifting grey space between art and porn, and a sound piece about…

  • #1618 Standing up, saying something

    #1618 Standing up, saying something

    By Tegan Nicholls Standing up and saying something isn’t easy, and often the things that are the hardest to say are the ones that matter the most. But it’s those who have spoken up in the face of injustice throughout history that we have remembered and celebrated. This week’s episode is a feature length story about…

  • #1617 Online Identities

    #1617 Online Identities

    It’s 2016, so it’s more than likely you have an online identity. In fact, you may struggle to remember a world without the internet, without a way for your followers to echo your political views, to see what you had for lunch, and to keep up to date on how #blessed you are. But what’s behind the…

  • #1616 Our Strange Beliefs

    #1616 Our Strange Beliefs

      Alternative opinions can make or break friendships. The big religious or political ones can be as divisive as your favourite song, or your feelings towards Jar Jar Binks. The pressure to explore, explain and justify our beliefs can make it easy to feel defined by the views we hold, especially if they deviate from the status…

  • #1615 Call centres and glimpses of tragedy

    #1615 Call centres and glimpses of tragedy

      Do you dread the thought of calling your internet service provider? Are you triggered by the butchered sound of Mozart’s Divertimento playing for hours on end as you wait for Centrelink to pick-up? Does an automated options menu repeating monotone instructions test your patience like nothing else? Then you probably know the feeling of a…

  • #1614 Sydney Unlocked

    #1614 Sydney Unlocked

      The Opera House is easily one of Sydney’s greatest cultural icons, but its beginnings were fraught with political drama and artistic contention. Today, the white sails have become such a recognisable emblem of Sydney that those troubles seem all but forgotten. But to many it feels like the wider Sydney art scene is still…

  • #1613 Who would have thought?

    #1613 Who would have thought?

      This week, we’re telling stories of fear and trauma, but not the kind you would expect. Two tales about surprising connections that will make you think huh… who would have thought? ‘Holes’ by Beth Gibson Picture lots of little holes. A handful of straws from above. Honeycomb. Petrified wood. Crumpets. Does the thought bother you? If you find the image…

  • #1612 My name, my identity

    #1612 My name, my identity

      Some people think about it often, while others can forget it’s even there, either way your name is something that ends up defining you – whether you want it to or not. This week, tales of identity from three people with a unique story behind their name. Story from the Never Never River by…

  • #1611 Her Game

    #1611 Her Game

    By Bethany Atkinson-Quinton This week All The Best devotes a full episode to a podcast series that was released last year, now in full documentary form. Bethany Atkinson-Quinton lives in an AFL state. Like everyone else in Melbourne, she knows the sport is part of Victoria’s identity. Some might even say Australia’s national identity. Yet…

  • #1610 Your One Beauty

    #1610 Your One Beauty

    By Hannah Reich In a special full-length documentary, producer Hannah Reich explores hair and loss. She meets four women who reveal their intimate relationship with hair, before and after it’s gone. Image: Fiona, provided by Author Supervising producer: Selena Shannon Sound design support from Ariel Gross and Calum Wakeling Music: ‘I want to’ by Best…

  • #1609 Not Quite Mirror Image

    #1609 Not Quite Mirror Image

      All The Best is brought to you with thanks to Squarespace. Do you ever think about how other people perceive you? How they interpret what you’re putting out into the world? Do you ever think about how different that interpretation might be from your own self perception? In this episode we meet three people, each…

  • #1608 Journey Through The Past

    #1608 Journey Through The Past

      All The Best is brought to you with thanks to Squarespace. Time to take a journey through the past. In both of these beautiful stories from Melbourne we meet two women, each reflecting on a connection to their old lives and exploring relationships lost. Little Girl Lost by Made Stuchbery Have you ever returned to…

  • #1607 The Forgotten Wars

    #1607 The Forgotten Wars

      All The Best is brought to you with thanks to Squarespace. Two weeks ago the Daily Telegraph printed a front cover with the confusing headline ‘White Washed’. It alleged that UNSW students were told to refer to Australia as having been ‘invaded’, as opposed to the more palatable ‘settled’. The Daily Telegraph claimed that UNSW…

  • #1606 Lead Affected

    #1606 Lead Affected

      “I felt betrayed, because I loved Broken Hill and I loved my house and I loved the town, and I loved the streets and I loved everything about it. And to think that my lovely town was poisoning my beautiful baby was heartbreaking.”  Broken Hill sits on the world’s largest known deposit of silver,…

  • #1605 Temporary Communities

    #1605 Temporary Communities

      This episode was brought to you with thanks to Squarespace Visit a collection of temporary communities in this week’s episode of All The Best. Her Game Producer Bethany Atkinson-Quinton dives into the world of women’s AFL in her new audio series Her Game. The series unpacks how some people experience their gender in the traditionally hyper-masculine world of Australian Rules Football.…

  • #1604 Doggie

    #1604 Doggie

      Sometimes a radio show just needs to bask in the glory of dogs. Because dogs are great. Open your ears to stories of the unbreakable bond humans have with their four-legged pals, and the lengths some people will go to for an animal they love. Music: ‘808 and Moog Out’ by Podington Bear, ‘Dogs…

  • #1603 Ew, Gross

    #1603 Ew, Gross

    Whether it’s spiders, smelly feet, or maybe even Donald Trump that sets you off, we all know the feeling. Your stomach is churning, your heart is racing, your face is all screwed up and you just want to go: eeearrrghhhhhhh!!!! Get your vomit bucket ready, because today on All the Best, we’re going feral.  Producer…

  • #1602 Back From The Brink

    #1602 Back From The Brink

      A man jumps out of a plane. His parachute fails to open. The emergency parachute gets tangled in the ropes of the first. The man plummets to the ground. Emerging research suggests that those who’ve had a near death experience are more compassionate, less materialistic and less afraid of their own mortality. Join us…

  • #1601 It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time

    #1601 It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time

    An episode full of stories that, told at the pub, would trail off with “well, it seemed like a good idea at the time”. Like investing a significant chunk of your nation’s dwindling cash reserves in a musical re-imagining the life of Leonardo Da Vinci, in which Mona Lisa is the love interest who Leo knocks up.…

  • #1543 One House At A Time

    #1543 One House At A Time

    Today on All the Best, we’re knocking on doors and peering over fences. We chatted to our neighbours to find out who’s having the shortest showers? Who’s switched to solar power? Climate change is often talked about in very big terms. Our planet is at risk, and we need to take huge steps to improve…

  • #1542 Nothing’s Easy

    #1542 Nothing’s Easy

    Why do you go to the gym? To work out? Because you bought a membership six months ago and it was so expensive you’re kind of guilted into it? Do you catch up with friends? Get a kick out of the endorphins? Or maybe it’s keeping you alive. Maybe it’s one of the main reasons…

  • #1541 Wish You Were Here

    #1541 Wish You Were Here

    Earlier this month, our Melbourne Collective hosted a listening party with stories and sounds about distance. Last week on the show, we picked up signals from faraway. Today, in Part 2, we’re finding out what happens to the people who stay home. How do you communicate across distance? Can you bridge the gap? Compromise Michael…

  • Sea hitchhiking in Melbourne

    In 1970, Gabriel Salas had just finished his university studies in Chile and thought he’d try and hitchhike around South America. But what was meant to be your average graduate road trip turned into an adventure across the sea… Take a listen to ‘Sea Hitchhiker’ recorded live at our Melbourne listening party, Oceans Apart: This version…

  • #1540 Oceans Apart

    #1540 Oceans Apart

    What does distance sound like? Today on All the Best, we’re crossing borders. We’re traversing long distances. We’re picking up signals from faraway. Earlier this month, our Melbourne Collective hosted a listening party with stories and sounds about distance. On the show today, we’re hearing three stories from the night. Ernesto Juan Castellanos An excerpt…

  • Wait a minute, Mr. Postman

    At our Melbourne listening party a couple of weeks ago, we handed out these postcards. We asked you to write something to send across distance; we wanted to hear what you’d say to someone you haven’t seen in a while, or maybe even the person next to you… Here are a couple we found at…

  • Thank you, Melbourne!

    A big thank you to everyone who listened in at Oceans Apart last week! We’ll post more photos and audio from the Melbourne Collective’s listening party very soon, so stay tuned on our Facebook page or subscribe to us on iTunes.

  • #1539 Intervention

    #1539 Intervention

    Stories about the knife edge, the moment when you watch something unfold and decide whether or not to intervene. Like Sand A story from Melbourne, about a moment on a metropolitan train. A heads up that this story contains a description of domestic violence, so if that’s triggering for you, you can call 1800 RESPECT…

  • #1538 Taking The Law Into Your Own Hands

    #1538 Taking The Law Into Your Own Hands

    Duck Season On the opening weekend of the duck hunting season two groups of people converge on a lake in rural Victoria. Each believes in their cause so passionately that they wake up at 4 in the morning to wade into icy water and stand there for hours. Half of them shoot the native wildlife,…

  • #1537 What Might Have Been

    #1537 What Might Have Been

      You see a familiar face on the street. It’s someone you knew a long time ago. You couldn’t place a name, but you remember being very fond of them. You near each other, your eyes meet, you’re about to pass, you open your mouth, and in a second they are gone, moving onwards in…

  • #1536 In Your Dreams (SleepTalker collab)

    #1536 In Your Dreams (SleepTalker collab)

      We’re hitting snooze, closing our eyes, and drifting back to sleep with Bec Fary. She’s the host and producer of SleepTalker, the podcast about sleep, dreams, nightmares and what happens in your head after dark. In this special collaboration with All The Best, Bec follows three dreamers into the night to find out how…

  • #1535 The Fitting Room

    #1535 The Fitting Room

    “You get every kind of story from every kind of woman.  Maybe it’s just taking the bra off, all the secrets come out.” We get a little bit intimate and talk intimate apparel. Bras to be exact. It’s about more than making your boobs look great, for so many women it’s wrapped up in our…

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  • #1534 Without Words

    #1534 Without Words

    Listen closely because this week on All The Best we’re weaving our way in and out of the spaces between words and examining the meaning that’s hidden in silence. Think about how much we say without our words. What if you didn’t have words to communicate? What if we just choose not to speak? How would…

  • #1533 Does That Ever Work For You

    #1533 Does That Ever Work For You

    People who knock on your door asking you to change your religion, or to believe in the impending apocalypse. Infomercials. Pick up lines. Detox diets, click bait and pop up ads. There are things that people try again and again that you think would never work but they must sometimes, or surely people wouldn’t bother.…

  • #1532 Then It Was Us – Syrian Refugees in Amman

    #1532 Then It Was Us – Syrian Refugees in Amman

      I have a big mission coming in two days and they want to go to Za’atari and I said “If you want to go to Za’atari I will take you to the Dead Sea, and I will take a photo of you at the Dead Sea, because you are coming for tourism. Everybody that…

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