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#1346 Summer Postcards
‘If you take 2 more steps, you’ll find what you’ve been looking for…. A little bit of magic.’ The Wormhole There is a point at North Steyne where the cracks in the rock get bigger and more rugged. This is the point where many head back believing there is nothing more to find. But,…
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#1345 …Vs The Establishment
What would you stand up and fight for? Small Fry ‘ A warm man cannot understand a cold man’. Barrister and Mediator Robin Margo was an activist during apartheid in South Africa. He wanted to change the regime and fight for equality for all South Africans. He campaigned alongside many passionate people. However, it was…
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#1344 XOXO
‘Love’ has been the inspiration of great works since the beginning of time. Join us for stories of Love. XOXO Love Sick They met. They fell in love. As life together grew and time went on Tobhi and Dan began to think about marriage. But the final steps to getting engaged were not quite…
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#1343 At Your Service
Psychopathic bosses, jobs from hell, call centre nightmares… Welcome to ‘At Your Service’. Fred/ Jack For many of us, we think about ways that we could make improvements to our little corner of the world. This is a story about a real council in Sydney, a real swimming pool and one man’s quest to take on…
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# 1342 Spooked?!
‘Beware. Something dark is lurking at the end of this hall….’ A Japanese Ghost Story It was meant to be a relaxing trip to an old Japanese resort, but something happened that changed Meiko for good. Her daughter Satsuki explains why Meiko sleeps with the lights on. Producer: Pip Rasmussen. Music Credits: Ribs by…
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#1341 Slammin’- Pt. 2
A hungry crowd, passionate poets, and a night of lyricism. Welcome to Slammin’ Part 2. The NSW finalists graced the stage at the Wharf Theatre to battle it out for their chance to go on to the National Poetry Slam Final and win prizes and prestige to support their career. Slammin’ Part 2…
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#1340 Slammin’ – Pt.1
Welcome to the NSW Poetry Slam Final! Poets from all over NSW came together to battle it out to make it into the national finals and be crowned champion slam poet of 2013. Luka Lesson MC’d the night and the Wharf Theatre in The Rocks was packed to capacity. The Word Travels Festival and the…
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# 1339 Claiming Body
The female form is a glorious thing. This episode we want to share stories about the female form as art, canvas, biology and sex. Claiming Body Megan Oliver is a tattoo artist at one of the leading tattoo studio’s in the country. She has over 20 years of experience in Australia and overseas.…
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# 1338 Spring Break
Spring Break never looked so good! Tropical paradise, steaming jungles, volcanoes, desire, lust & love. Island Love Can fantasy’s ever live up to reality? Will that dream island holiday produce that dreamy island lover? Giordana Caputo teamed up with Writer Christopher Allery to capture some of the moments they shared on their ‘fantasy…
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# 1337 The Art of Sound
This week we take you into the world of artists who use sound as their medium. Shifting Reality Francisco Lopez is one of the world’s leading Sound Artists. He has been creating art for over 30 years. His background in Biology and Ecology has taken him all over the world for research projects.…
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# 1336 Glory Box
When you hear ‘Glory Box’ what do you think of? Come with us to explore alternatives to the traditional interpretation of ‘Glory Box’. Three Men & Two Boxes Did you think glory boxes had gone out of fashion? Did you think they were a thing of the past? Traditionally glory boxes were used…
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#1335 Mama, Guns & Jungle Fever
Romance, Love, Shot guns, Cigarettes, Nudity, Guns ‘n’Roses…. This episode we encounter stories where romance has taken people off the beaten track and into bizarre situations. We also get into the mind of Miles Merrill, a spoken word poet as he speaks about his experience and his poetry. My Mothers Date Sarah Low had…
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#1334 Natural Composition
Nature has inspired Art since the beginning of time. This episode we bring you stories inspired by nature and inspired for nature in the creation of music and art. From the sensual mating of machines in the wild, to a musician’s love of permaculture, you’ll find an array of tales to provoke your imagination…
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# 1333 Crossing Oceans
This episode we follow the stories of people who have crossed the ocean in search of a new home, a new beginning or adventure. These stories will takes us from Africa to Australia, to Chile and Afghanistan. From Africa, Home Erin Rosenberg moved from South Africa with her family in 2005. In…
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#1332 The Sister & Mum
This episode we meet some extraordinary individuals who have mastered the art of giving. From welcoming children into your family to looking after the vulnerable in society, these individuals have a huge capacity to love. In our first story we meet Lesley Flanders, a foster mum who has welcomed over 40 children into her home…
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#1331 Seeking Asylum
‘Stop the boats’ has become a war-cry. It’s used in political debate, campaigns and the media. And yet, the more we look at ‘Asylum Seekers’ as a political issue, the more we become desensitized to what it actually means for people to be seeking asylum. Beyond the political spin and statistics are real people with…
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Work with us
All The Best’s Melbourne Collective is currently seeking a committed volunteer to oversee the program’s operations with SYN Media in Melbourne. The ATB Story of the Week Executive Producer will work closely with the Melbourne Collective Supervising Producer (SP), the Features Executive Producer (FEP) and the SYN News Executive Producer to feature All The Best…
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#1330 Sex, Drugs & Politics
Women with power, that’s the way we like it! From local government to the world of competitive pole dancing, this episode takes you into the lives of two women and their careers in politics. They work hard and fight hard to get things done. Pole Position Pole dancing champion Zahra Stardust, speaks with Liam…
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#1329 On the Road
Everyone likes adventure and the long roads of Australia, that stretch thousands of kilometres through changing landscapes, can offer the perfect place for adventure and discovery. And whatever the reason you’re on the road; love, adventure, escape, you’re bound to make some pretty amazing discoveries in this big ‘ol country. This episode we hear the…
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#1328 Strangers on the Street
‘A stranger is just someone you haven’t met yet.’ Everyday we pass by people we don’t know. How does our behaviour change when we don’t know someone and we have no personal responsibility for their safety or wellbeing? Pip Rasmussen explores the Bystander Effect and how it plays out with strangers on the street.…
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#1327 Imagination….
“Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.” -Patricia A McKillip- Imagination allows us to feel, see and experience beyond our actual reality. It can be a source of joy and inspiration, terror and anguish and everything in between. What is happening in our brains when we…
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#1326 The Spoken Word
‘Spoken Word’ as a cultural movement grew from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1960’s. It graced Australia’s shores soon after and developed it’s own unique style and voice here. The movement continues to change and develop to this day, as performers, poets, musicians, writers…. experiment with words, sound and expression. In this episode we meet Tug Dumbly,…
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#1325 Nerds & Laughter
This episode All the Best takes you to the Nerd Star Comedy Gala held in Sydney, where comics and academics joined forces in a night of laughter and intellect. Jazz Twemlow reflects on the effects of drinking, time travel and ladies fashion after a big night out in Kings Cross and the ‘Planet Hunter’, astronomer…
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#1324 Tell Me a Story
Tell Me a Story is a live story telling event based in Sydney. We joined Tell Me a Story at their event in June to bring you stories all about ‘Home’. Our storytellers Esther Carroll, Dina Petrakis and Candy Royalle all took to the stage to share what ‘Home’ means to them. Esther Caroll recounts…
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#1323 Mad Science
Giving not Taking With only 5 litres of blood in our body, you’d think it would be in our best interest to keep all of that inside….you’d think. Producer Michael Kermode travels to Woy Woy, just north of Sydney to learn more about a very natural therapy making a comeback. Since it’s days of glory…
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# 1322 The Settlement
Redfern is a diverse inner-city suburb of Sydney, renowned for its strong Aboriginal community. ‘The Block’ has been a hub of political activism with a vibrant community spirit, but in the last decade Redfern has seen huge changes because of it’s proximity to the city centre. Housing prices have sky-rocketed and it seems like every week there is a new trendy…
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#1321 Pot of Gold
What would you do if you won $12,000 on Deal or No Deal? All the Best presents the story of one man who spent his gameshow winnings on the purchase of camels, in order to find a rather metaphysical Pot of Gold: a bit of adventure in his life. Armed with three friends, three camels…
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#1320 Radio with Pictures 3
All the Best presents the last instalment of stories straight from the Sydney Opera House. A Palestinian intellectual and a painter’s love story is interrupted by the politics of Israel and Palestine, and a yet unpublished fantasy story by John Birmingham is brought to life in a very quirky radio play. The Demons of Buttcracke County John…
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#1319 Radio with Pictures 2
All the Best brings you more brilliant stories from Radio with Pictures. Triple J’s Nina Las Vegas unexpectedly finds a cultural connection with Kim Kardashian, Anna Barnes speaks of the experience of losing something that’s been with you your whole life; and Lawrence Leung’s unexpected friendship with a grand old man. The First Thing You…
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#1318 Radio with Pictures 1
All the Best sends this straight from the Sydney Opera House: a sonic adventure from Radio with Pictures. The theme is ‘Filling in the Blanks’, and this episode features a disorienting ride through earthquake-torn Japan; and an excerpt from ‘The Burial’, a haunting novel about one of Australia’s only female bushrangers. The inaugural Radio With…
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The Start of a Long Journey
Listen to Michael Brydon’s piece: Buckley’s Chance at Truth from #1317 Postcards from Reconciliation. By Michael Brydon The story of William Buckley is amazing. But, as with so much of Australian history, only the colonial voice has truly been heard. When a story like Buckley’s defines an entire community, history can become dangerous. The conventional…
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#1317 Postcards from Reconciliation
Just in time for National Reconciliation Week, and in co-production with Redfern Community Centre, All the Best presents Postcards from Reconciliation. A man sends a postcard home about his lover: a proud man of the Bundjalung Nation, a historical postcard raises uncomfortable questions about a famous colonial figure and a Gumbangiir woman’s postcard is a…
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#1316 America (feat. The Lifted Brow)
All the Best ventures beyond our big brown land to the home of the free and the land of the brave. Beneath the joyful strains of the Star-Spangled Banner, the idea of America is pitted against its realities. We’re looking at the United States through a decidedly Aussie lens, and neither Lana Del Rey, nor…
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#1315 Love is a Minefield
All the Best creeps ’round the minefield of that crazy little thing called Love! A student-lecturer relationship ends in a drunken duel; a piano teacher and her teenage protégé move from scales to scandal, and a fan’s stalking on social media becomes really creepy when she decides online interaction just isn’t enough. Episode produced by…
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#1314 These Walls Have Ears: Infamous
All the Best shares stories about the most revered, the most feared and the most famous of characters from Australia’s first penal colony in The Rocks, Sydney. Come inside a real-life windmill constructed in The Rocks Square, and join a packed audience hearing live stories, poems and audio movies about Aboriginal warrior Pemulwuy, bare-knuckle boxer…
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#1313 These Walls Have Ears: My Place
Inspired by the much-loved Australian children’s book My Place, All the Best runs back through the history of one place, The Rocks, Sydney, to the colonial characters that lived on and interacted with the land after British settlement. The country, traditionally cared for the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, underwent a radical transformation in…
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#1312 These Walls Have Ears: The Artists
Australia’s first colonial creatives probably didn’t think of themselves as artists. Mostly, they were just trying to get by. All the Best listened for secret histories from Australia’s first penal colony in The Rocks, Sydney. The result was These Walls Have Ears, a live event and radio project supported by the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority.…
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#1311 Atom Bombs in the Suburbs
It was 1982. HIV/AIDS was creeping into Australia and neither the gay community nor the government knew how to beat it, or even what it was. One man decided to fight against the death toll and the rising hysteria, backed by a motto: ‘Don’t Mourn, Organise’. All the Best shares a sliver of little-known Australian…
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#1310 Just Keep Swimming
24 Hours. 1 pool. 620 bodies. 2485.8kms. Dive in and join All the Best in a marathon against the clock, all to raise money and awareness of Multiple Sclerosis. Over the course of one day, a swimmer tells her story: from life’s darkest moments to a kind of success she’d never even dreamed of. Find…
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#1309 What’s in a Name?
(With apologies to Shakespeare.) All the Best shares two stories about the power of names. A refugee from Afghanistan arrives in Australia and changes his name — twice. And the so-called Political Friendship Group in Canberra, which works towards equality for LGBTI Australians, is the setting for a rare story of bipartisan cooperation in these politically-troubled…
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#1308 Everyone Needs Music II
An Australian is on her way to Mali, in West Africa, for her dream adventure trip: to attend the Festival in the Desert. But the musicians have already fled. Escaping war and violence, the nomadic Tuareg musicians have crossed the border to Burkina Faso. In the desolate refugee camps, despite hunger and homelessness, their music…
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#1307 Everyone Needs Music I (feat. The Lifted Brow)
All the Best presents literary mag The Lifted Brow in musical form: featuring Woody Allen and, of course, his clarinet. And when two stroke victims find their ability to speak severely affected, a speech pathologist with a penchant for singing tries an unorthodox method to help their recovery. BrainWaves Spread around the city of Newcastle, NSW, were a number…
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#1306 Fight Club Vol. 2
All the Best jumps back into the fray — and this time the fight takes place in hearts and minds, in beds and cancer wards. A share house turns into a battleground when an army of bed bugs invades, and two lovers face themselves and each other when multiple sclerosis and cancer enter their lives.…
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#1305 Science Fiction Theatre
All the Best presents science fiction pulp in sound. Extraterrestrial life forms arrive uninvited, space travel gets in the way of an intergalactic romance and a puppy trainer gets more than he bargained for when the dog starts talking back. See Me After Class Take a lonely dog trainer, a puppy school, and the most…
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#1304 Fight Club Vol. 1
All the Best doesn’t go looking for the fight; the fight comes to us. A night on the Gold Coast during Schoolies starts in a Penthouse apartment and ends with violence and jail; and a girl’s whip is transformed from performance object to weapon when domestic violence stares her in the face in Darwin. A Night…
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#1303 Who Da Man?
All the Best brings you stories that turn masculinity on its head. Alpha males are taught a lesson by beta males in the Army Reserves, an aggressive, alcoholic father finds himself on the wrong end of a shotgun, and a man finds out how to monetise his beard on the Internet. Beards, And the Men Who…
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#1302 Beyond the Comfort Zone II
All the Best stays out on a limb, beyond the comfort zone. We go to the middle of Jakarta’s devastating floods, where flood victims give our disaster tourists a taste of their own medicine. And a granddaughter who hasn’t seen her Nan in five years makes an emotional journey to the nursing home where her…
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#1301 Beyond the Comfort Zone I
All the Best returns to your airwaves for 2013 with a series of stories about people confronting out-of-the-ordinary life events. Two All the Best producers turn to fiction to tell personal truths about cancer, family and love. And we welcome back Zahra Stardust, a guest on the show last year, who was supposed to appear…
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Summer Break!
Lovely listeners, we’re on a break over January, but we’ll be back on your airwaves with fresh new stories from February 2nd. If you’re really missing us, you can check out our back catalogue — just click the ‘archive’ tab above. Photo: Beach shoes
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#1235 A Few of Our Favourite Things
All the Best casts its curious eye back on 2012 and shares a few of our favourite stories from the year. A former drug dealer and addict comes back from the brink; a surfer girl dares to be different in the 1970s, and a mother dancing on an old family video forms a lasting memory…
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#1234 The Scallywag and the Saint
Just in time for Christmas, All the Best brings you the story of a very unlikely pair of people— a nun and an ex-criminal— undertaking a very special project for those who face a festival season without love, family or presents. And we find out how the stories of your life could be preserved forever…
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#1233 Power Plays
All the Best takes you to places of power outside the hallowed halls of parliaments— in the most unpredictable of places. A disgruntled solicitor swaps her law books for a pole, emerging as one of Australia’s leading pole dancers and a candidate for parliament to boot; while a woman remembers her teenage crush and the…
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#1232 Hope + Politics
‘Hope’ and ‘Politics’ aren’t two words you often hear spoken together in Australia. But All the Best shares a story about people inside and outside of Canberra who are hopeful— passionately hopeful— that they can make change happen. The Parliamentary Friendship Group Kate Doak is a political junkie, and wasn’t surprised by anything that happened down in Canberra- until finding out…
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#1231 Sixth Sense
All the Best goes on a journey of dreams, spirits and intuition, through stories that can’t be explained away in everyday terms. The lessons of nature are learned the hard way along the Murray River; ancestral spirits guide one woman from her broken childhood to become a leader of Sydney’s Aboriginal community; and one young woman…
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#1230 Doorstop
Doorstop (n): 1. An interview by a journalist in which the interviewee is approached unknowingly at their place of residence or work. 2. An uninvited interview by paparazzi or tabloid reporter (Source: All the Best dictionary). Armed with microphones, our producers chase down their unsuspecting targets to ask them the big questions in life, on…
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All the Best win Voxxie for ‘Best Spoken Word, News & Current Affairs’
We are super pleased to announce that All the Best has just won the Voxxie for ‘Best Spoken Word, News & Current Affairs’ at the Community Broadcasting awards…which means all of our storytellers, producers, sound designers, musicians, writers and extended crew have been recognised for producing the best spoken word program on community radio in Australia.…
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#1229 Don’t Stop Me Now
All the Best brings you stories of people whose flames burn brightly, against the odds. A sonic submerging into the world of a woman who stutters, a 103 year old lady who’d probably put you to shame on the athletics field, and a former self-harmer tells how she lifted herself from the depths of depression.…
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#1228 Great Expectations
The false starts, stumbles and humble beginnings of successful people before they ‘made it’. All the Best tells the early stories of foodies, fashionistas and… Germaine Greer. Long before The Female Eunuch sparked a feminist revolution, Germaine Greer was a frightened schoolgirl, surviving World War 2 in a dysfunctional family. A Hunger to Make It Nahji Chu today calls herself the ‘Queen…
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#1227 Waiting
Good things come to those who wait… good things such as this week’s show! Sit with us and wait. We’ll wait for the tide to come in. For answers. For things to turn around. We’ll wait on highways and open plains, looking to hitch a ride home for Christmas. And, once the waiting is done, we’ll…
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#1226 Haunted
All the Best has stories to make your skin crawl. Haunted house? Tick. Haunted e-mail address? Tick. Haunted dreams? Tick. And the creepiest part of all: Halloween costumes, for pets (where else but America). This week’s show is sure to leave you spooked. My Haunted House When Madeleine Rebbechi moved into her share house in…
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#1225 A New Me
All the Best brings you stories of transformation and revelation, about people who remake and uncover their true selves. A refugee from Afghanistan arrives in Australia and changes his name— twice; the story of a little girl who knew she’d been born in the wrong body; and an All the Best contributor tries to talk about…
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#1224 The Mission
All the Best heads to the Warbuton Ranges in the heart of Western Australia, to hear a little-known part of Aussie history. In 1933, Christian missionaries arrived in the Ngaanyatjarra lands, and made contact with the Yarnangu people, who were nomadic and lived off the land. But unlike darker parts of our history, there was no…
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All the Best nominated for a Voxxie
For the second year in a row All the Best has been nominated for a ‘Voxxie’ as part of the Community Broadcasting of Australia’s national awards. We have been nominated in the category ‘Best Spoken Word, News & Current Affairs’ which is the same category we were highly commended in last year. We are super…
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Calling all writers…
We want to make contact with new and talented writers – we know you’re out there! If you have a short story or essay that you think might work on radio, maybe you should get in touch. It’s a great opportunity to get your work on air and heard on FBi Radio, throughout the Community Radio…
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#1223 The Dark Arts of Storytelling
We hear stories everywhere: in news reports, from our families and friends, even in gossip magazines. Some are true, some are false, some fall in between. All the Best blurs the lines between fact and fiction, featuring two writers talking about the challenge of sticking to either category. And we’ll mix it up with some…
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#1222 Tales from TiNA
Gather ’round for some great yarns. Straight from the creative bustle that is the This is Not Art Festival in Newcastle, All the Best brings you tales from some of Australia’s up-and-coming storytellers. A father’s obsession with snakes goes too far, a migrant kid goes in search of her Spanish heritage and a woman’s desperate pursuit…
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#1221 Coast to Coast
Stories ahoy! All the Best brings you intriguing tales from the high seas. A South American geologist’s rough-and-tumble journey on a raft to Australia leads to a life-changing encounter with Gough Whitlam. And, the real Puberty Blues: a young girl tries to join the blokey surf culture of the 1970s- but an initiation rite in the water…
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Sea Hitchhiker
Crew of La Balsa raft arriving at the Maroochy Shire Council Chambers after a parade through Currie Street, Nambour, 6 November 1970. Courtesy of Heritage Library, Sunshine Coast Council. The story behind the Sea Hitchhiker, featured in #1221 Coast to Coast. By Zacha Rosen Gabriel Salas’ expeditions are a pretty involved subject. Here is some…
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#1220 The Birds and the Bees
We’re sitting you down and telling you about the birds and the bees: and it’s guaranteed to be just as awkward and intriguing as you remember it. From an parent- to-child sex talk that happens 10 years too late, just for your listening pleasure; an escort who falls for his client; and the craze for…
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GRAPHIC 2012: Radio With Pictures
RADIO WITH PICTURES Part radio show, part comic strip, performed live on stage as part of the 2012 Graphic Festival. Sunday 11 November, The Studio, 3.30pm $20 As devout believers in the age-old craft of storytelling, Graphic and FBi Radio are teaming up to bring two champions of a good ol’ tale together in Radio…
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#1219 New Kids on the Block
All the Best presents New Kids on the Block: No, not the 1990s-era boy band. We’re sharing stories about the unexpected fights and friendships that happen when new people come into a neighbourhood. The arrival of a new priest splits a tight parish community in Redfern, and a couple moving to Sydney’s fringes get more than…
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#1218 By the Moon
For everyone who has been on radio hosting a series of Allnighter of Mid Dawns is a rite of passage. This week to begin our show about the moon Georgia and her cousin Harry White reminisce about those nights on the air. Ramadan and the Moon Producers: Nancy Notzon & Katerina Lebedev Sound Design: Andrew McLellan Supervising Producer:…
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#1217 Im Not There
The theme today on All the Best is taken from ‘Im Not There’ a film about Bob Dylan. In the film six actors play six incarnations of Bob Dylan and today we have stories about shifting personalities, missing family and friends who seem real one moment and gone the next. From Jasper who has 1…
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#1216 24 Hour Challenge
This week we set our contributors a challenge. Make a radio story in 24 hours. The day we picked was Sunday August 5. The time to begin midday. Windsurfing under the flightpath Produced by Miles Martingoni For as long as he can remember, Miles’s father has been trying to drag him out onto the water.…
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Gina McKeon wins a Walkley for ATB!
Gina won her Walkley Award for Young Australian Journalist of the Year (Radio) and was Highly Commended, Young Journalist of the Year. Gina was among three finalists shortlisted from over 100 entries and the Walkely Award recognises excellence for her story on “The St Vincent’s Church in Redfern” that was broadcast as part of episode…
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#1215 Dear Diary
Would you ever read someone else’s diary…? The Ultimate Taboo Produced by Georgia Moodie What’s the one thing you are not meant to do to your sister’s diary? Years after breaking the oldest rule about diary privacy Georgia Moodie chats to her sister about an incident from their childhood No One Understands Me: Teen Diary…
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#1214 Guests
Guests – we’ve all been one, we’ve all had one and we’ve all subsequently gathered a few amusing – and often sordid – tales along the way. From the unwelcome, to the unexpected and from the unusual to the down-right crazy, guests can often prove to make life just a little more interesting. This week…
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#1213 A Frightened Country
Where were you when the Cronulla Riots broke out? The answer to this question is something that most Sydneysiders can recall with ease. This week’s episode explores the Cronulla riots and the topic of Nationalism from the perspective of an ‘accidental passerby’ and and ‘accidental local’. Sometimes, things aren’t always as they seem. What does…
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#1212 Town and Country
We go to the city. We go to the country. Stories about leaving the country and returning home. Audio Diaries Produced by Giordana Caputo With contributions from Bronwen Loden and Jordan Bloomer Original sound design and music by Andrew McLennan Albion Park Written and read Annaliese Constable Sound Design: Callum Wheeler Dialogue Edit: Nick Rowan Sound Supervision by…
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#1211 Radio Pro
Today we bring you some stories produced as part of our Radio Pro training project paring up All the Best producers with young people who have never made radio before. We’ve played some stories before on our program 2011 Christmas Special and Reinvention. Tony Hoang Produced by Thuy Nguyen Radio Pro Mentor: Gina McKeon The Lone Trumpeter…
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#1210 The Great Unveiling
Today’s show features two stories about what happens when the only way to talk about something very very private is to put it out in public. Recorded live at our storytelling night at the 2012 Sydney Writers’ Festival. The Pole or the Not Pole Written and read by Anna Barnes Mum’s Habits Written and read by…
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CRN Special 2011 Bests#4
Some highlights from 2011
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#1209 Modern Warefare
This week we’re locked and loaded as we talk Modern Warfare. We head to Japan for the 65th Anniversary of Hiroshima, stop over in Iraq to talk about conflict photography, head behind the Iron Curtain to compete in a swimming race and visit your local gym to enter a real life Fight Club. Hiroshima Written…
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#1208 Reinvention
This week on All the Best it’s all about reinventing the wheel. We bring you stories about reinventing yourself for online dating, we travel to Vanuatu and back and hear a fictional story about dying birds who get turned into… robots! My Mum Dating Produced by Brigitte Dagg The Last Ones Written and read by…
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#1207 The Block (repeat)
On this week’s show we re-played you one of our favourite episodes to date – ‘The Block’. The Block in Redfern has a well-documented history of drugs, violence, and riots. Perhaps you’ve never heard otherwise. Maybe you’ve avoided knowing much about it at all, having never stepped foot on Eveleigh Street and it’s surrounds. On…
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#1206 Paper Radio Presents
On this week’s show we hand over to our biggest radio crushes, Paper Radio. Hear stories from Benjamin Law, Tom Cho and Elizabeth Reale. More from Paper Radio: http://www.paperradio.net/ Me and Run Like A Dream Written by Elizabeth Reale. Voiced by Prudence Smith, Ange Arabatzis, Jo Case, Tamara Zimet. Sound design by Jon Tjhia. Sound Story…
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#1205 A Bedtime Story
Snuggle up to your pillow and settle in to snooze as we read you A Bedtime Story. We bring you stories delivered via intercontinental cassettes, take a magical taxi ride and get a bunch of 11 y.o’s to write us a bedtime story. Doll Hospital Produced by Eliza Sarlos Hairyman Story told by Kerry Toomey…
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#1204 First Impressions
A show in 24 hours? We thought it was impossible. Until this week’s show fell in on itself and we had to make it happen. Hear the results, including – stripping off in P.E. class, and we get our Tarot Cards read in the backseat of a car during a flashflood. Produced by Jesse Cox…
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#1203 Urban Jungle
Welcome to the Urban Jungle. We’ve got stories of getting lost in the labyrinths of Sydneys most infamous buildings, getting bitten by a Scorpion and searching for red ballet shoes in city streets. Shoes on Powerlines Produced by Lucie Bell The Scorpion Produced by Zacha Rosen Robert of Northcott Produced by Jesse Cox with Que…
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#1202 Witness
Websters Ghost Written and read by Mark Sutton Original music and sound design by Andrew Simmons Produced by Jesse Cox All Over A Meat Tray Produced by Liam & Dieter Knierem Cupcakes Written and read by Vanessa Berry Car Crash Performed live at the Paper Mill by Que Presenter: Eliza Sarlos Features Executive Producer: Jesse…
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#1201 Rooms
Rooms, huh? Pretty standard. Or…? Today we look at a couple that make you think outside the four wall and ceiling concept – the cylindrical ones of drain pipes, the purpose built capsules to house one family’s 56 semi trailers of books, and tiny, elevating ones. The Nicholas Building Produced by Mike Kermode & Jesse…
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Christmas Special
This week we make our national debut on the Community Radio Network with All the Best’s Christmas Special. Eliza brought her baby Arthur Plum and partner Alex White to chat about what Christmas traditions they will create for Arthur and whether Santa will exisit. All the Best Contributor Julia Thomas and her brother Andy popped…
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The Twilight Zone
Not Reading Twilight Produced by Zacha Rosen Anahí explains why she never read Twilight, despite her best intentions. When she first tried to read it, she was twelve. She’s sixteen now. It’s probably not going to happen. She’s a young woman of conviction. Insomnia the Cat Produced by Katerina Lebedev Technical Production by Antonia Gauci…
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Sydney Writers Festival Live
For those who missed it earlier in the year, we’re re-playing our first live show, recorded at the Sydney Writers’ Festival. As part of the Sydney Writers’ Festival All the Best produced a live version of its radio show to a packed room at the Festival Club stage, exploring the theme of power in Sydney…
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Lessons
Guest presenter Jesse Cox begins the program talking to his Dad, a school principal about getting kidnapped by his Year 12 students. Elcho Island Produced by Zacha Rosen Have you ever wanted to get out of Sydney? Get out of cities altogether and live — not just holiday — in remote Australia, with a remote…
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Highly Commended at the Voxxies!
We just got news that we were Highly Commended in the 2011 Community Broadcasting Awards in the category ‘Best Spoke Word, News & Current Affairs’. A big congratulations to the whole team. Plus we found out at the same time that we were successful in gaining funding for 2012!
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