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#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…
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#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.…
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#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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#1531 Pilgrimage
Is there a place you’ve always wanted to go? Something that would be more than a holiday – a journey that you didn’t take to relax, but really to learn something from the way your feet hit the ground, to feel some sort of change at the end? Modern life is full of weird, secular…
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#1530 Old Pictures
Family albums, photos pressed between the pages of a second-hand book, a photo on a postcard, a greying, dog eared picture on Tumblr. Old pictures are full of stories. They’re a window into another world, expressions frozen on faces, clothes just as they were. What can they show us? And what are they hiding? …
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#1529 It All Ends In Death
So it’s all kind of cool when they give you an iPad in a museum and you think “Oh, I didn’t have to download something and maybe I could walk home with this except I think probably not”. Except, that for two of our producers, Lynda and Zacha, this iPad got handed over at the Museum…
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#1528 Naked
Avert your eyes. This week on all the best we’re tackling one of the biggest remaining taboos – getting naked. Because as liberated as you may feel, as comfortable in your own skin, when it comes down to it you pulled a shirt on over your head before trotting off to work today. You probably…
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#1527 30 Under 30
How do the way cities are painted in films affect our relationship with them? How many jokes about labia have you seen in a stand-up show? The Melbourne Writers Festival is turning 30, and to celebrate they’ve highlighted 30 writers under the age of 30 who are doing amazing things. We showcase some of them in…
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#1526 Be Strong and Have Courage
“I remember in year 7 especially feeling really different from everyone, classic, and I remember feeling like there was a space where I was more myself than I could be at school.” That place is Hashomer Hatzair, or ‘Hashy,’ a Jewish Socialist Zionist youth movement where producer Hannah Reich spent 10 years as a student…
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Volunteer Positions: Community Coordinator + SYN Production Manager
We’ve got a couple of vacancies for excellent radio heads, one in Sydney and one in Melbourne. Any questions, do get in touch. Community Coordinator: Sydney All the Best is recruiting a volunteer Community Coordinator, based at FBi in Sydney. Pip Rasmussen has been doing fantastic job the past two years, but she’s focusing on…
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#1525 Past in the Present
It’s easy to think of time as a continuum – what is done is done, what is past is past, the future holds only new stories and possibilities. The problem with that is, it ignores all the detritus the past speckles through the present. What do sea shanties, a cassette player and a broken heart have in…
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#1524 Same Love
Last week the US Supreme Court overturned a whole bunch of state bans on gay marriage and ruled that same sex couples have a constitutional right to get married. It’s a big step forward for the US and marks a change in momentum for the LGBTIQA community worldwide. So today on All The Best, we’re…
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#1523 ‘Limits’ – EWF Special
What happens when you send seven writers and seven producers to Docklands and force them to make a radio for a whole day? Well, it’s interesting. All the Best teamed up with the Emerging Writers Festival to develop new stories on the theme ‘limits’ and this is what they created. We were at the city…
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#1522 Permanence
Permanence is often something sought after rather than a reality. Humans crave permanence – a steady income, a permanent home, a permanent companion. We ink permanence onto our skin, carve our lovers names into padlocks, throw away keys and make vows using words like forever. But very few realities can meet our expectations of permanence.…
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#1521 Listener to Participant
This week on All the Best, we present stories from the PBS Collaborative Radio Project. These pieces come from new radio makers from emerging, refugee or asylum seeker communities, who teamed up with radio mentors to make original stories. The stories featured are some of those produced through the project, which is the result…
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#1520 Go Play Outside
Do you remember climbing a tree as a kid? Running through the bush in the dark, feeling leaves and twigs crunch beneath your feet, your torch out of battery? Did you leap up to grab at the monkey bars even though your arms were too short to make it? It seems that in a few…
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#1519 War Stories
When we sent troops to fight in World War I the federated Australia was 13 years old. We thought we were invincible and we had something to prove, like most 13 year olds do. At the end of World War II we still didn’t know who we were. We clung to the idyllic myth of…
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JOB: All the Best State Coordinator, Melbourne
We’re looking for a new State Coordinator to be based at 3RRR in Melbourne. This person will be responsible for maintaining a community of All the Best contributors at 3RRR and coordinating Melbourne-based content with the national All the Best team and the SYN Coordinator. They should be passionate about radio documentaries and audio storytelling, and obsessive about podcasting.…
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#1518 Ayahuasca
Ayahuasca is a hallucinogenic brew historically and traditionally used by shamans in the Amazon basin to gain access to the spirit world. In the past decade more and more tourists are travelling to Peru to drink ayahuasca in hopes of having an enlightening experience. But what does it mean when a cultural practice is commodified…
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#1517 The Sea Told Slant
“While I was listening for what wasn’t being said about the boats that weren’t being talked about, I also begun to pay attention to those that were. Boats that went down in Uganda, Bangladesh, South Korea, in lakes, oceans and rivers. Cruises, tankers, yachts and ferries.” For centuries, the sea has inspired stories. Songs,…
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#1516 Only A Whale (repeat)
“These are animals that are even larger than some of the dinosaurs we’re so excited about. and they’re travelling through water they’re going up and down they’re jumping they’re splashing about.. And it’s all these things that change the ocean.” The start of May means the start of whale watching season. Look out off the…
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Older women and street harassment
The artwork accompanying our latest episode #1515 A Walk in the Park, is by Melbourne feminist artist Stephanie Freda Leigh. It’s a text-based projection, near her home in Melbourne’s suburbs. Apart from being heart-in-throat effective to look at, the artwork also brought another aspect of street harassment to our attention. Here’s Stephanie talking about the first…
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#1515 A Walk In The Park
When 17-year-old Masa Vukotic was murdered in the Melbourne suburb of Doncaster while out for a walk in a park near her house, the Victorian Homicide Squad Chief responded to the tragedy by suggesting this: “…people, particularly females, they shouldn’t be alone in parks…I’m sorry to say that is the case.” And it hit…
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#1514 Grapes of Ridicule
What are you looking for when you buy a bottle of wine? If you’re alone do you reach for the cleanskin? If you’re sharing it with friends maybe you want something a bit more fancy, a wine to show off, mark you as someone who knows their shit. If you’re taking it to your parents…
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#1513 Things and Stuff
Do you have too much stuff? Clutter, collections, clothes, books, toys, old stuff, new stuff? This week on All the Best we look at the complicated relationship humans have with the things they own. We meet a woman who left behind all her things and life in the city to live in the New South…
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#1512 Quiet Please
Do you still use a library? Last time you went to the library did you actually borrow a book? These days, libraries hum with computers, and provide meeting spaces and work stations. They’re full of magazines, DVDs, graphic novels, activities. It’s kinda hard to put your finger on what a modern library even is now.…
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#1511 That Girl (repeat)
“I didn’t want to be That Girl Who Had An Abortion, because I’m not… When you look at the statistics, there are many of those girls.” We have so many conversations about abortion, but most of the time they’re abstract and political, they’re not about the lived experiences and choices of women who’ve terminated a pregnancy. A…
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#1510 In A Day
A lot can happen in one day. Everything can change, or nothing can. Some days are special and some days are so completely ordinary that we can tell them apart from the others. On one day this month, 24 hours at the beginning of March, we sent All the Best producers out in search of…
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#1509 Where Are The Women?
“I cannot believe you’ve put a woman on the radio like this. You know that women get their periods and then don’t make as much sense as men. You’ve made a massive mistake.” Why aren’t there more women on the radio? It’s a debate that’s been raging for as long as radio has existed. Is…
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A Way With Words
In this week’s episode we hear stories about the ways that activists and marginalised people are using a new artform with an ancient history to get their voices across. We met poets who run workshops in jails and schools, a young woman writing and fighting for her community in Arnhem Land, and some social housing…
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#1508 A Way With Words
Some things are harder to say than others. The most important things to say, messages you really want to get across, can be boring and complicated. Or you might not feel comfortable saying them at all. There are people all over Australia learning to express themselves using poetry -and not the kind you learned in…
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#1507 Legal Walls
Access to the law is something it’s easy to take for granted – if there’s an injustice, if you are wronged, we’re taught to believe that the law has the ability to make that wrong right again. In 1977, the lack of affordable legal service options for disadvantaged and marginalised people led to the opening…
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#1506 Best Practice
A lot of us trust our doctors to make us healthy, or at least to cure our illnesses. But can they make us happy? According to the 2007 National Survey of Mental Health, one in two Australians will experience a mental health disorder at some point in their lives. Research organisations and support networks like…
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#1505 Baby Teeth
It’s wobbling, and you can’t help but push at it with your tongue, making it bend gum-ward so the gnarled roots scratch at the inside of your mouth. It’ll be out soon, and you’ll put it next to your pillow and wake up the next morning to find a single gold coin in it’s place.…
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#1504 Portrait of a Policy
Caitlin Doyle-Markwick meets 3 men who are living on some of the 29, 564 bridging visas issued since 2011, when the then Labor government announced that asylum seekers would increasingly be placed in the community while their claims were processed. Initially welcomed by refugee supporters because of the harmful psychological effects of long-term detention, Caitlin discovers…
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#1503 Turn Your Back
Murrumu Last year, All the Best contributor Selena Shannon sat down with a man who formally renounced his Australian citizenship. Under the UN’s convention against statelessness, governments cannot allow this to happen, and so a desire to cancel your only citizenship is not legal or recognised in Australia. But Murrumu may just have found…
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#1502 No Pets Allowed
This week on All the Best – people who own pets in circumstances you might not expect. Man’s Best Friend More families is Australia have a dog than any other pet. Step outside and you’ll probably hear one, if not from your backyard then from someone else’s. But what happens if there’s a religious law on…
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#1501 Islands
The weather is warm, the sky is blue, and you have to go back to work. Look, we agree, it sucks. This week we’ll try and drag the holiday out a bit longer, and take you on an island holiday. Three, in fact. We’ll take you south to South-Western Victoria, to a tall, flat island…
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#1444 What Is Cool?
What defines “cool”? Is pop music cool? Or vintage vinyl? Is wearing grandma’s doily as a reworked cardigan cool? Or is that daggy? What makes something cool, and who decides when its time is over? When you were little, the answers to these questions were easy. Obvious, even. You knew with so much certainty that…
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#1443 Christmas Again
Back in 2011 ghost of All The Best past Eliza Sarlos and her partner hashed out what Christmas would look like for their brand new family, right here on the show. We decided to check back in – when does the tree go up? What goes on it? Importantly, does their little boy leave a…
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#1442 In The Air
You walk down the aisle, trying not to whack anyone in the head with your carry on, dodging elbows hoisting things into the overhead locker, receiving passive aggressive glares when you pause to check your seat number. You take your seat, mad that you got the window because you won’t be able to get out…
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#1441 The Best Spag Bol
The last mandarin you peeled in the high school library. Sticky date pudding in the oven when you come home after a long time away. Hot fish and chips on a cold blustery day. Bacon sticky with maple syrup on your birthday. The tastes and smells of food are so entwined with our memories. You…
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#1440 The Future is Now
All the Best producer Joel Carnegie got strapped into a bionic ear, which, to be honest, we thought was still part of the future instead of part of the present. That got us thinking – what else seems to be firmly in the future, with flying cars and space highways? What stuff exists that makes…
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#1439 West Writers Group
West Writers Group is a collective of writers from diverse backgrounds who currently live, work or have other established links to Melbourne’s West. It is a collective that will amplify the stories and voices of Melbourne’s West. For the past few months All the Best producers have teamed up with some of the West Writers…
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#1438 Grief Part 2
Most of us will grieve for someone or something at some point in our lives, but it’s strange and hard to talk about. Feelings of grief are hard to think about, let alone say out loud. This week on All the Best, you’ll be hearing part two of our exploration of Grief. We’re hitting the…
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#1437 Grief Part 1
Most of us will grieve for someone or something at some point in our lives, but it’s strange and hard to talk about. Feelings of grief are hard to think about, let alone say out loud. This week on All the Best, you’ll be hearing part one of our exploration of grief. We’ll be treading…
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#1436 Blowing the Whistle
This week we work our way through the government’s changes to national security legislation, and zero in on one change that passed earlier this month – Section 35P of the ASIO Act. The change makes it illegal to disclose information about something called a ‘Special Intelligence Operation’ by ASIO. The problem for journalists is, these operations are…
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#1435 In the End
Frank Herbert was an American Science Fiction writer who died in 1986 and he famously said ‘There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.’ But that place can be frustrating. You know that feeling of finishing a really good story? You’ve been living in this other world for so…
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#1434 Up With The Birds
This is what we want you to do. We want you to google ‘Bird jizz’. Make sure you include the word ‘bird’. Turns out bird watchers, twitchers, breeders, and birders can be in such a separate world to the rest of us that they use the word jizz to describe ‘the overall impression of a…
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#1433 I’ve Seen You Around
The guy on the corner wearing a pirate hat. The man who says everything twice. The small, tanned smiling man who walks everywhere. The dancing man. The woman with long grey hair who plays piano. The eleven year old who busks as a statue. The shoe shiner. The barber who sings. Every town and city…
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#1432 Borrowing Sugar
There’s a lot of mythology around neighbours. A good neighbour can turn into a very convenient friend, one who lends you a cup of sugar when you run out mid-bake, or who’ll water your plants when you’re out of town. Then there are the neighbours who are a pair of eyes over a back fence,…
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Fiction: Cities you’ll never see on screen
Molten Melbourne by Yuki Iwama It is an ugly sneer in the cracked earth, the black water from the Yarra River streaming in through the jagged teeth. The city used to be in constant motion before the great earthquake, an oiled dance of machines and limbs; but now it writhes at the bottom of the…
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#1431 Cities You’ll Never See On Screen
“If we are going to create a better future for ourselves the people who are going to show us how to do it are those people who are working in the crazy spaces.” New York, LA, Tokyo. We see cities destroyed all the time in film, TV and in books. But how often does the…
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The Apocalypse at Home – A Reading List
Mentioned in the episode: States of Fantasy – Jacqueline Rose A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists – Jane Rawson War of the Worlds – HG Wells Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 1984 – George Orwell The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood Tomorrow Series – John Marsden Shades of Grey – Jasper Fforde Sleep Dealer (film) Reign…
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#1430 Everyday
There are some things we do day after day after day. This episode of All the Best is all about those things. We have stories about waking up, going to work, singing quietly on the commute. Stories about the every day things that can make someone happy – and how they change over time. And…
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#1429 Underground
In this episode, we’re going underground, with secrets, subcultures and subversive publishing. We meet River, one of the elusive Shoplifters of Tumblr, and hear stories of Oz Magazine from Jim Anderson. The Shoplifters of Tumblr The internet has meant that even the most underground of movements, most clandestine of activities, are now made to be…
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How the Redfern All Blacks Got Their Name (It’s Not What You Think)
Sol Bellear is a long time Redfern All Blacks player. He started with the team in 1967 and put on an All Blacks jersey for the first 20 years of the NSW Aboriginal Knock Out that began in 1971. There aren’t many titles that Sol hasn’t held in his history with the Redfern All Blacks.…
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The Hardest Thing You’ll Do Today
This week’s episode, The Hardest Thing You’ll Do Today, is a story of strength, discipline, self determination and football. Produced by Emma Lancaster, additional interviews and these photographs from last year’s knockout by Pauline Muyl. Redfern is home to the oldest indigenous sports club in Australia. The Redfern All Blacks have been kicking around…
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#1428 The Hardest Thing
“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 do today, well, you’re going to have a good day.” Redfern is home to the oldest indigenous sports club in Australia. The Redfern All…
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From NYC to OHM: Joy Villalino at Open House Melbourne
This week on All the Best we’re doing some exploring, heading into some of the unseen and forgotten parts of Melbourne with Open House. For one day a year, people are invited to become tourists in their own city, hearing the stories hidden in every building. For episode #1427, we visit Melbourne’s historical tramways,…
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#1427 Open House
This week on All the Best we’re getting involved and doing some exploring, heading into some of the unseen and forgotten parts of Melbourne with Open House. For one day a year, people are invited to become tourists in their own city and buildings that are usually just part of the landscape, something you pass…
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#1426 How Are You Still Alive?
Today we’re asking: How Are You Still Alive? You’ll hear stories of near misses, close shaves and fortunate lives. People who were unlucky, and then lucky. People who throw themselves from high places, and kids who get lost in the wilderness. People who risked their lives just by being born. If it wasn’t wild, I…
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#1425 Mixed Tape Memoirs Live at EWF
This episode is about that song. You know the one. You hear it, and no matter where you are, or who you’re with, you’re transported to a time when you were so in love that you seemed drunk. The song you know that still makes you feel like a lovesick teenager every time you hear it.…
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The Secret I Wish I’d Told…
We’re looking for stories about secrets, and because secrets are hard to find we’re turning to you, listeners/the internet. An upcoming episode of All the Best will be based around secrets that should have been told. Have you ever stayed quiet and regretted it? Is there a secret that bugs you late at night…
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#1424 Outing Disability
“I actually got sick about six weeks after we got together, that became quite difficult…” “…But I think we’ve run the gambit through just about everything. The positives that come out of that is that we have an incredibly strong relationship and an incredibly good relationship as separate to the MS.” The photography exhibition ‘Outing Disability’ was…
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#1423 Fire
Is there anything better than huddling around a fire in winter? Holding the palms of your hands just far enough away from a flickering flame that it doesn’t ignite? Fires have comforted, protected, scared and destroyed for thousands of years. We suspect they’ve inspired stories for just as long, including the tales we’re telling on…
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#1422 By Train
Find your seat, settle in, and listen to the creak of those sleeper beams, the rattling of carriages. This week, we’re taking a train ride, on tracks that crisscross the globe. We go on an adventure along the Trans Siberian railway, chat to passengers as they stare out the window at the Nullarbor, and wait…
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In Search of White Whales
Or any whales, really. For our Only A Whale episode, Sydney host Michaela Morgan, Features EP Heidi Pett and ATB producer Laura Brierley Newton headed to the cliffs at Kurnell, apps in hand, to go whale watching. Photos by Laura Brierley Newton
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#1921 Only a Whale
Look out off the east coast at the moment and you’ll likely see them – whales. Come whale watching with us, on the edge of cliffs in Sydney, in 1850s Byron Bay, from the decks of the First Fleet and in a Melbourne theatre. But remember, all you’re looking at is big, sea dwelling mammals…
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#1420 Independence
We don’t get given our independence one day, with a haircut or along with the lease of our first rental house. It happens over time, and we fall in and out of it in complicated ways. That’s what this episode of All the Best is about. The fine line between independence and dependence. Between knowing…
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Love and OCD
The piece came about as I was thinking of ideas for my first radio documentary. I wanted to find a good personal story and early on I began to think about how mental illness can affect people in relationships. I was especially keen to explore how it can impact the other partner in the relationship,…
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#1419 Love + [Complication]
Love stories are hard to avoid – they’re woven through pop songs, the plots of films and every TV show. Often they’re presented as complicated, but how often do we stop and think about the complications in each other’s love stories? Today we bring you two. They’re familiar in their cups or tea and their…
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#1418 Amazing Babes – Live at EWF
Inspired by Eliza Sarlos’s picture book Amazing Babes, the Emerging Writers’ Festival invited an incredible line up of writers to tell stories about the women who have inspired them, in their writing and their lives. It was a night to be inspired and celebrate the women who made us who we are. Here, we share some…
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#1417 Human
This week, All the Best is telling stories about what it means to be human. Humans being excellent or awful to other humans, realising someone is only human, or that someone we idolise is human after all. Humans making mistakes and making things better. We also hear two stories more told at our Sydney Writers’…
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That Girl: Marisa
As part of episode #1416 of All The Best we’ve been sharing women’s stories of abortion. This is Marisa’s. artwork by Leah Goren I had my abortion later in life, and I have many regrets around it, but no regrets at all about terminating my pregnancy. My partner and I made a decision very…
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That Girl: stories in full from Jane, Kerz, Dawn, Heidi and Gen
This week on All The Best we wanted to create a space for women to talk about abortion without shame, judgement, guilt or politics, and were particularly inspired by this beautiful feature in New York Magazine, published last year. You can stream or download the full episode here. We hoped we could start conversations and reduce some of…
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All The Best in Brisbane
We’re looking for a new State Coordinator to be based at 4ZZZ in Brisbane. James had a baby and has wisely decided to concentrate on looking after his kid, so we’re after a switched on, organised lady or gent who’s deeply into storytelling radio to look after our Brisbane Collective. It’s a volunteer gig…
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#1416 That Girl
“I didn’t want to be That Girl Who Had An Abortion, because I’m not… When you look at the statistics, there are many of those girls” We have so many conversations about abortion, but most of the time they’re abstract and political, they’re not about the lived experiences and choices of women who’ve terminated…
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#1415 Human – Live from the Sydney Writers’ Festival
You know, and we know, that the best stories are about people. On May 22 we invited five of our favourite people to tell us a story at the Sydney Writers’ Festival Club. Realising somebody is human after all, or that they’re only human. Humans being awful to each other, or excellent to each other. Cats acting…
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All The Best Live at Sydney Writers Festival
Yep! We’re putting on a live storytelling event for the Festival Club on Thursday May 22 at 7.30pm. You know, and we know, that the best stories are about people. So we’ve asked five of our favourite people to come and tell you human stories on stage. Realising somebody is human after all, or that…
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#1414 A Fear Of…
All the Best asks you to reveal your fears – the more irrational the better. Some of them are born out of lessons learnt and childhood disasters, and others come seemingly out of nowhere. You guys fear a lot of stuff. Blind dates, small holes, eggs, mannequins, speeding fines, frogs, neck-touching, technical difficulties, the Mad…
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#1413 Harvest Festival
Nestled in between the houses, roads and busy day to day life of inner suburban Melbourne is a little slice of nature and simple living. This week, All the Best gets up at the crack of dawn when the roosters are crowing and spends the day at CERES Harvest Festival, in Melbourne’s East Brunswick. Seita…
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Start The Riot: Positive Politics in Fashion
To complement our Rana Plaza anniversary episode, Squeezing The System, Ollie Henderson tells the story of the catcall that sparked her to begin her very own fashion revolution. Produced by Avani Dias
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#1412 Squeezing the System
Ever think about where your $10 t-shirt came from? On the anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, All The Best brings you stories from the supply chain. Sumi Abedin is twenty years old. She was a garment worker at the Tazreen Fashions factory, and jumped from the building the day it…
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Telling stories in Morwell
By Sally Whyte This is the view of the Hazelwood mine and power station from the side of the Princes Freeway. The closest houses are less than ten metres behind where I was when I took this photo. Most people in the city don’t really consider where electricity comes from – we flick a switch…
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#1411 Morwell
Back in February one of the coal mines in Morwell caught fire. The entire town was covered in ash. Residents were told to evacuate, the council was giving out masks while the rest of the state worried that they would lose power. Now, the fires are under control but its left the local community in…
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#1410 Are You Family
This week, we bring you two very different stories about family. Kate Montague speaks to the memory man, who gave up life in the corporate world to collect elderly people’s stories as a keepsake for their families. Zoe Ferguson speaks to older people in the LGBTI community, about their identity as they get older and the…
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#1409 Faith
You know the old rule – it’s impolite to talk about politics or religion. This week on All the Best, we break it, bringing you stories of faith. We ask people brazenly about their beliefs and take a look at a church without a religion. Michael was joined in the studio by Elizabeth Redman, and…
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#1408 Did I Ever Tell You?
All grandparents have stories they tell over and over again. The time your mum was late to school. The time your uncle got his toe broken in a sliding door. The time you were really scared of an emu. But what about the stories they don’t tell us? The lifetime of stories they think we…
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To: My Former Internet Self
We asked some excellent, honest writers to pen letters to their former internet selves. Imagine if one of these had landed in your Hotmail account. A.H.Cayley To my Former Internet Self, Stop correcting people’s grammar. You may think it makes you seem educated and refined but it doesn’t, it just makes you look like a…
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#1406 These Women
Everyone can tell the story of an awesome woman. A mother, grandma, sister, friend, or teacher. This year International Women’s Day is celebrating women who inspire change, and today All the Best tells the stories of awesome women doing this in all sorts of ways. From a celebrant to a beekeeper, a journalist to young…
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#1405 Endangered Jobs
Technology is taking all the jobs. It’s hard to avoid articles and opinions about the end of video stores, of newspapers, of the humble bookshop. This week, we went looking for a few of those endangered jobs – a man giving a heartfelt eulogy for his bookstore, and a mother suddenly made redundant. We hear…
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#1404 Bravery
There are many different ways to be brave. In fiction, stories of bravery are told as grand gestures and epic battles – these three stories are about real, everyday bravery, the kind we find in our friends and family. A text message from a friend, a soldier standing by his daughter, and a band who…
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#1403 The Most Important Thing
Schools are made for learning, and everyone can name a few things they learnt in school. This episode is about the opposite. We asked a bunch of people “What’s the most important thing school never taught you?” The stories we heard in response feature a whole range of answers including taxes, testicles, failure, continents, conviction,…
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#1402 Adaptation
Fires, floods, melting ice and strange weather patterns. The effects of climate change can already be seen in a lot of ways, from the way someone farms, to the way a house is built, to the place someone parks their car to drink a coffee and look out over the ocean. In this episode, we…
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#1401 Prime (feat. Voiceworks)
All the Best’s Melbourne Collective teams up with literary magazine Voiceworks to bring you stories from their latest, ‘Prime’. A man spends his days feeding his favourite tiny shark, Hashbrown, and never asking why. A scientist insists on a future where old age is eradicated. One poet wonders who is haunting his house and another…
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#1348 Old & New
We are ending the year celebrating the people we love. From lovers to grandparents we hope you enjoy these stories. Love Songs We all know the deep, maddening love of the silver screen too well. Those characters that laugh, cry, sing, dance and can’t live without their lovers! But if you’re madly in…
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