Tag: Gina McKeon
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500 Retrospective: The Block Part Two
In celebration of All The Best reaching 500 episodes, we’re looking back into the archives and replaying episodes that, while recorded in years past, remain relevant today.
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500 Retrospective: The Block Part One
In celebration of All The Best reaching 500 episodes, we’re looking back into the archives and replaying episodes that, while recorded in years past, remain relevant today.
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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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#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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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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#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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#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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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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Futurescapes
What will I be when I grow up? Produced by Simon Anicich Meet Chris, Stu and Gus – what did they want to be when they grew up? Simon Anicich meet with these three chaps to find out if their childhood dreams were realised. How I Got To Sydney Produced by Nick Hose Nick Hose…