Tag: Antonia Gauci
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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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# 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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#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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#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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#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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#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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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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Life Aquatic
Introduction Soundscape produced by Rosi Tuck I Love the Ocean Produced by Zacha Rosen Underwater explorer, Jacques Cousteau sailed around the world in his boat, ‘Calypso’ pionereering the art of Scuba diving in the forties and became a documentary film maker in the fifties. Wes Anderson became influenced by his works and based his film,…