Tag: Jess O’Callaghan

  • 500 Retrospective: That Girl

    500 Retrospective: That Girl

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    500 Retrospective: ‘That Girl’ an episode from 2014 that had women speaking on their experiences with abortion.

  • #500th Episode Special

    #500th Episode Special

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    We’re celebrating a pretty huge milestone, our 500th episode! 

  • #1513 Things and Stuff

    #1513 Things and Stuff

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    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…

  • #1444 What Is Cool?

    #1444 What Is Cool?

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    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…

  • #1435 In the End

    #1435 In the End

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    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…

  • #1430 Everyday

    #1430 Everyday

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    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…

  • #1426 How Are You Still Alive?

    #1426 How Are You Still Alive?

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    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…

  • #1423 Fire

    #1423 Fire

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    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…

  • #1416 That Girl

    #1416 That Girl

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      “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…

  • #1406 These Women

    #1406 These Women

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    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…

  • #1404 Bravery

    #1404 Bravery

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    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…

  • #1403 The Most Important Thing

    #1403 The Most Important Thing

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    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,…

  • #1402 Adaptation

    #1402 Adaptation

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    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…

  • #1401 Prime (feat. Voiceworks)

    #1401 Prime (feat. Voiceworks)

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    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…

  • #1316 America (feat. The Lifted Brow)

    #1316 America (feat. The Lifted Brow)

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    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…

  • #1216 24 Hour Challenge

    #1216 24 Hour Challenge

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    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.…