Tag: Kate Montague
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500 Retrospective: That Girl
500 Retrospective: ‘That Girl’ an episode from 2014 that had women speaking on their experiences with abortion.
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#1604 Doggie
Sometimes a radio show just needs to bask in the glory of dogs. Because dogs are great. Open your ears to stories of the unbreakable bond humans have with their four-legged pals, and the lengths some people will go to for an animal they love. Music: ‘808 and Moog Out’ by Podington Bear, ‘Dogs…
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#1443 Christmas Again
Back in 2011 ghost of All The Best past Eliza Sarlos and her partner hashed out what Christmas would look like for their brand new family, right here on the show. We decided to check back in – when does the tree go up? What goes on it? Importantly, does their little boy leave a…
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#1416 That Girl
“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…
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#1414 A Fear Of…
All the Best asks you to reveal your fears – the more irrational the better. Some of them are born out of lessons learnt and childhood disasters, and others come seemingly out of nowhere. You guys fear a lot of stuff. Blind dates, small holes, eggs, mannequins, speeding fines, frogs, neck-touching, technical difficulties, the Mad…
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#1410 Are You Family
This week, we bring you two very different stories about family. Kate Montague speaks to the memory man, who gave up life in the corporate world to collect elderly people’s stories as a keepsake for their families. Zoe Ferguson speaks to older people in the LGBTI community, about their identity as they get older and the…
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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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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…