Tag: Jordan Fennell

  • #534 Staff Picks: Melbourne Uni Stories

    #534 Staff Picks: Melbourne Uni Stories

    For the past seven years, All the Best has collaborated with the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Advancing Journalism and the Science Gallery to mentor students in my Audio Journalism class and to provide audio editorial training. These produced narrative podcasts that have been used in the Science Gallery’s shows and broadcast on All the…

  • #505 Not Trash

    #505 Not Trash

    From dissent to disrespect, this week, we bring you stories that explore the diverse consequences of food waste.

  • #493 The Long Weekend (Repeat)

    #493 The Long Weekend (Repeat)

    This week we’re joining in a birthday celebration, Easter egg hunts, a belated Lunar New Year dinner and creative backseat antics on family road trips.

  • #427 Time Machine

    #427 Time Machine

    True stories about travelling through time.

  • #426 Mental: Part II

    #426 Mental: Part II

    The second part in a collection of mental stories.

  • #425 Mental: Part I

    #425 Mental: Part I

    Part one in a collection of stories on the theme “mental”.

  • #418 Isolation 2 – We Are Constructing The Giant Lasagne

    #418 Isolation 2 – We Are Constructing The Giant Lasagne

    Adjusting to isolation has been difficult. We’re all dealing with it in different ways. In this episode, we share some of ours, and you share some of yours.

  • #414 Up In The Air

    #414 Up In The Air

    Things are not okay. Everything seems up in the air.

  • Summer Series #08

    Summer Series #08

    This is the last part in our summer series, we hope you’ve enjoyed the trip down memory lane. We’re back with new episodes in two weeks.

  • Summer Series #04

    Summer Series #04

    All The Best is taking some time off to rest and recuperate, and to produce new stories for 2020. While we’re away, we’re replaying some of our favourite stories. See you in a few weeks.

  • Summer Series #03

    Summer Series #03

    We’re busy working on new episodes for 2020 and working on our suntans. Please enjoy these fine selections from the All The Best archive.

  • Summer Series #01

    Summer Series #01

    We’re going on break for a few weeks. So here are some of favourite stories from the All The Best archives.

  • #405 Pleasure And Pain

    #405 Pleasure And Pain

    One person’s idea of a good time is another person’s idea of torture. Some enjoy waiting in line at the airport, some like to be covered from head to toe in clothes pegs by a woman in a g-string and corset. Whatever floats your boat, right?

  • #403 We Need To Talk

    #403 We Need To Talk

    There’s an elephant in the room. It’s lonely and terrified of the knowledge that one day it will die. Let’s talk about it.

  • #402 Sea Change

    #402 Sea Change

    For many of us, travelling is the way we unhook ourselves from our routine, when we feel like we need a break, or a fresh perspective. Usually, it’s just for a few weeks. This week we have two stories of people leaving their old life behind for good. One of them by choice, the other…

  • #398 Runs in the Family

    #398 Runs in the Family

    It’s often not until we look back as adults that we recognise the passions we’ve inherited from our parents. This week, Gina traces her lifelong love of cars back to the father she lost as a child, and Renee tries her best to nurture the creativity in her own children.

  • #393 Disorganised Crime

    #393 Disorganised Crime

    An innocent mistake can often snowball into a total disaster. For the people in these stories, that snowball rolls them straight into the world of organised crime.

  • #386 Let The Games Begin

    #386 Let The Games Begin

    Team sport, tetris, jousting and online browsing. This week, we explore the world of games – come play with us!

  • #337 On My Own

    #337 On My Own

    We’re flying solo. A poet goes on a solitary road trip through the American southwest and a self-confessed extrovert takes on the challenge of being by himself. — Only Child by Tom Joyner Only children can have the reputation of being selfish, entitled and bratty – like Little Emperors. Tom Joyner gives us his take on that…

  • #330 The Long Weekend

    #330 The Long Weekend

    What does Australia do over a four day weekend? We’ll be sharing in a birthday celebration, Easter egg hunts, a belated Lunar New Year dinner and creative backseat antics on family road trips. — ‘Are we there yet?’ by Jordan Fennell We discover how Jordan and her family make it through a six-hour road trip. —…

  • #327 Self-Preservation

    #327 Self-Preservation

    As our world changes, our idea of self preservation has to change with it. We’ve got stories of different ways we try to keep existing. — ‘Hello whoever you are’ by Shelby Traynor In 1995, Greg Wilkinson wrote a letter to the future and buried it in a wall. At the time of writing, Paul…