Sooooo ...  the best way to think of this episode is a bit like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.  

But instead of there being a bereaved scientist obsessed with resurrection, we have a monster of a story stuck together from different audio body parts made by audio makers from all over the world.  

Our Programming and Community Coordinator Catarina Fraga Matos breaks down the way the audio corpse works: 

 Here's how the audio corpse works. Storytellers received a prompt to create a short audio story up to three minutes long. But here's the catch. The prompt they receive, it's only the last 10 seconds of the story that came before. So they take that tiny fragment and use it as an inspiration for an entirely new piece that has to be made in 48 hours, and that continues the story in some way.

Special shout-out to M.Cristina Marras for kicking off this idea for All The Best and to our amazing All The Best Intern Nili Javid for stitching all the audio corpses together.  

Head

Produced by M.  Cristina Marras 

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Neck 

Monster by Felicity Weaver, Oliver Seymour and Carrie Zhang 

Production and sound design by: Felicity Weaver and Oliver Seymour

Written and narrated by: Carrie Zhang 

Music/SFX: Pixabay; Pixabay; Pixabay; Pixabay 

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Chest

Produced by Silvi Van Wall 

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Arms 

Produced by Craig Garrett 

Music/SFX: Freesound Community; Epidemic Sound (ES); Pixabay (Universfield; Soul Serenity Sounds; Dragon-Studio; PWLPL); Library of Congress (USA); BBC Sound Archives (via the BBC Sounds and BBC Rewind platforms).

All other SFX found and/or recorded and produced by Craig Garrett.

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Hands

The Birds by Alice Garner 

Producer: Alice Garner

Cellist: Alice Garner

Voice Actors: David Bowers, Alice Garner 

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Torso

“Stop, Think, What's That Sound?” by Lindsey Vassallo, Imogen Brosnan, Dina Dewnarain, Liliana Occhiuto

Produced by: Lindsey Vassallo; Imogen Brosnan; Dina Dewnarain; Liliana Occhiuto

Sound Design by: Lindsey Vassallo; Liliana Occhiuto 

Voice Actors: Lindsey Vassallo (Commissioner); Imogen Brosnan (Agent 945); Dina Dewnarain (French woman); Simba Nguyen (Train Conductor); Henry Ung (Entrance Guard)

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Legs

Produced by Jay Gasser 

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Feet

Produced by Hethre Contant

All the Best Credits 

Host: Gabriella Accaria

Executive Producer: Melanie Bakewell

Programming & Community Coordinator: Catarina Fraga Matos 

Production Manager: Kwame Slusher

All The Best Intern: Nili Javid 

Theme Music composed by Shining Bird

And a special shout-out to all our volunteers!