This week, stories about the burden of expectations and the triumph of defying them.

The Burden of Low Expectations

In our first story, Esther navigates different cultural expectations of disability when she migrates to Australia via Uganda and Sudan.

Content Warning: A note that this story contains examples of discriminatory attitudes towards disability.

This story was made by Carey Scheer for the Purple Orange Podcast. Purple Orange is a South Australian organisation that aims to create a fair world for people with disability. Find out more by visiting their website.



Fashion Liberation

In our second story, Zeb moves back to their home state of Tasmania, and wants to find the right clothes. 

Content Warning: Please listen with care as this story contains references gender based violence.

Produced by Sarah Mashman, with contributions from Lea Redfern.

This is an extended version of a story originally produced for the KCRW 24 Hour Radio Race.  



All The Best Credits

Executive Producer: Phoebe Adler-Ryan

Editorial Producer: Melanie Bakewell

Host: Madhuraa Prakash

Mixed by Emma Higgins

This week, stories about the burden of expectations and the triumph of defying them.
The Burden of Low Expectations
In our first story, Esther navigates different cultural expectations of disability when she migrates to Australia via Uganda and Sudan.
Content Warning: A note that this story contains examples of discriminatory attitudes towards disability.
This story was made by Carey Scheer for the Purple Orange Podcast. Purple Orange is a South Australian organisation that aims to create a fair world for people with disability. Find out more by visiting their <a href="https://purpleorange.org.au/stories/purple-orange-podcast-series">website</a>.
 
Fashion Liberation
In our second story, Zeb moves back to their home state of Tasmania, and wants to find the right clothes. 
Content Warning: Please listen with care as this story contains references gender based violence.
Produced by Sarah Mashman, with contributions from Lea Redfern.
This is an extended version of a story originally produced for the KCRW 24 Hour Radio Race.  
 
All The Best Credits
Executive Producer: Phoebe Adler-Ryan
Editorial Producer: Melanie Bakewell
Host: Madhuraa Prakash
Mixed by Emma Higgins

All The Best is for new Australian storytelling. Hear from a Melbourne-based cannibal, how the Australian Wallabies used theatre workshops to improve their game, anxiety attacks in a Tantric sex class, and what the shopping centre Santa Claus is really thinking, all on All The Best. 


We're a weekly radio show and podcast produced at FBi Radio in Sydney in association with SYN and Triple R in Melbourne, and broadcast nationally via the Community Radio Network. We’ve been telling stories in a variety of forms since 2011, picking a theme each week and using short form documentary, personal narrative, interviews, and spoken word to bring you the best from across Australia.

All The Best is for new Australian storytelling. Hear from a Melbourne-based cannibal, how the Australian Wallabies used theatre workshops to improve their game, anxiety attacks in a Tantric sex class, and what the shopping centre Santa Claus is really thinking, all on All The Best. 
 
We're a weekly radio show and podcast produced at FBi Radio in Sydney in association with SYN and Triple R in Melbourne, and broadcast nationally via the Community Radio Network. We’ve been telling stories in a variety of forms since 2011, picking a theme each week and using short form documentary, personal narrative, interviews, and spoken word to bring you the best from across Australia.

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Great Expectations

This week we're bringing you the second half of All The Best's collaboration with Outloud Arts, working with young people in Bankstown to make an audio walking tour about the places that matter to them. 

For those who aren’t familiar with Sydney, Bankstown is a suburb located in the South-West Sydney region. Due to the multicultural immigrant demographic and the presence of housing commission properties, certain people characterise the area as being rough, dangerous and downtrodden.  

But if you live in Bankstown you know that the suburb can’t be reduced to narrow stereotypes. Through these stories, the young people of Bankstown invite you to discover their home in their own words.  

You'll hear stories from Jack Miller, Areebah Armani, Maithly Dhawan, Amy Wong (aka Tofu Pants) and Danielle Lam. 

The participants were mentored by director-dramaturg Finn Ó Branagáin and local author Kavita Bedford. The audio stories were recorded by Phoebe Adler-Ryan and Ramon Briant. Editing and sound design by Thomas Phillips. With support from Outloud Arts Creative Producer Nicole Issa. 

Go to www.outloud.org.au and find the ‘Stories from Here’ page to finish the audio walking tour. You’ll find the full set of stories and a digital walking tour map. 

All The Best Credits

Executive Producer: Phoebe Adler-Ryan

Editorial Producer: Melanie Bakewell

Host: Madhuraa Prakash

Mixed by Emma Higgins

This week we're bringing you the second half of All The Best's collaboration with Outloud Arts, working with young people in Bankstown to make an audio walking tour about the places that matter to them. 
For those who aren’t familiar with Sydney, Bankstown is a suburb located in the South-West Sydney region. Due to the multicultural immigrant demographic and the presence of housing commission properties, certain people characterise the area as being rough, dangerous and downtrodden.   But if you live in Bankstown you know that the suburb can’t be reduced to narrow stereotypes. Through these stories, the young people of Bankstown invite you to discover their home in their own words.  
You'll hear stories from Jack Miller, Areebah Armani, Maithly Dhawan, Amy Wong (aka Tofu Pants) and Danielle Lam. 
The participants were mentored by director-dramaturg Finn Ó Branagáin and local author Kavita Bedford. The audio stories were recorded by Phoebe Adler-Ryan and Ramon Briant. Editing and sound design by Thomas Phillips. With support from Outloud Arts Creative Producer Nicole Issa. 
Go to <a href="https://outloud.org.au/projects/stories-from-here-an-audio-tour-of-bankstown/">www.outloud.org.au </a>and find the ‘Stories from Here’ page to finish the audio walking tour. You’ll find the full set of stories and a digital walking tour map. 
All The Best Credits
Executive Producer: Phoebe Adler-Ryan
Editorial Producer: Melanie Bakewell
Host: Madhuraa Prakash
Mixed by Emma Higgins

Bankstown: Stories of Sanctuary

This week, we’re bringing you more bird stories.

i love birds

First up, Matt Cooper explores his neighbourhood’s relationship to birds and learns a thing or two.

Produced by Matt Cooper, with special thanks to Lea Redfern. 

Mothercluckers

Then, Dione Green investigates the politics of free range chickens. 

This story was produced as part of the 2020 National Features and Documentary Series, with support from the Community Media Training Organisation and the CBAA. The supervising producer was Hamish Sewell. 

All The Best Credits

Executive Producer: Phoebe Adler-Ryan

Editorial Producer: Melanie Bakewell

Host: Madhuraa Prakash

Mixed by Emma Higgins

This week, we’re bringing you more bird stories.
i love birds
First up, Matt Cooper explores his neighbourhood’s relationship to birds and learns a thing or two.
Produced by Matt Cooper, with special thanks to Lea Redfern. 
Mothercluckers
Then, Dione Green investigates the politics of free range chickens. 
This story was produced as part of the 2020 National Features and Documentary Series, with support from the Community Media Training Organisation and the CBAA. The supervising producer was Hamish Sewell. 
All The Best Credits
Executive Producer: Phoebe Adler-Ryan
Editorial Producer: Melanie Bakewell
Host: Madhuraa Prakash
Mixed by Emma Higgins

Pigeons and Poultry

The traditional owners of this land, Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people, have a connection to and understanding of country that is thousands of years old.

Right now we’re living in a time of climate change and natural disasters, of warmer winters and colder summers and it often feels like our understanding of mother nature and her seasons falls short. 

And so, it makes sense to turn to insights from First Nations people whose knowledge of the country is deep and all-encompassing. 

In fact, it's essential to listen to First Nations understandings of the land if we want to learn how to live in harmony with country, rather than fight against it. 

Today we’re lucky enough to bring you some of this knowledge.

The Six Seasons

First up, a conversation with Elder Aunty Munya Andrews accompanied by soundscapes, detailing the cyclical patterns of weather, plants and animals from a First Nations perspective.

Produced by Ramon Briant, with Aunty Munya, an Elder from the Kimberley region of Western Australia and author of the new book, Ask Auntie: Seasons - An Introduction to First Nations Seasons. 

Find out more about Aunty Munya's work at Evolve Communities website. And find Ramon's work at @therealram0n on instagram or at his website.

The supervising producer was Phoebe Adler-Ryan. 

Noongar Climate Memory

In our next story, we hear about First Nations memory of the last ice age through conversation with Dr Cass Lynch. 

Produced by Danni Stewart.

This story was adapted from an interview Danni originally recorded for Scitech’s Elements podcast.

All The Best Credits

Executive Producer: Phoebe Adler-Ryan

Editorial Producer: Melanie Bakewell

Host: Madhuraa Prakash

Mixed by Emma Higgins

Image Credit: Charmaine Ledden Lewis

The traditional owners of this land, Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people, have a connection to and understanding of country that is thousands of years old.
Right now we’re living in a time of climate change and natural disasters, of warmer winters and colder summers and it often feels like our understanding of mother nature and her seasons falls short. 
And so, it makes sense to turn to insights from First Nations people whose knowledge of the country is deep and all-encompassing. 
In fact, it's essential to listen to First Nations understandings of the land if we want to learn how to live in harmony with country, rather than fight against it. 
Today we’re lucky enough to bring you some of this knowledge.
The Six Seasons
First up, a conversation with Elder Aunty Munya Andrews accompanied by soundscapes, detailing the cyclical patterns of weather, plants and animals from a First Nations perspective.
Produced by Ramon Briant, with Aunty Munya, an Elder from the Kimberley region of Western Australia and author of the new book, Ask Auntie: Seasons - An Introduction to First Nations Seasons. 
Find out more about Aunty Munya's work at <a href="https://www.evolves.com.au/aunty-munya-andrews/">Evolve Communities website</a>. And find Ramon's work at @therealram0n on instagram or at <a href="https://ramonbriant.wixsite.com/ramonbriantmusic">his website.</a>
The supervising producer was Phoebe Adler-Ryan. 
Noongar Climate Memory
In our next story, we hear about First Nations memory of the last ice age through conversation with Dr Cass Lynch. 
Produced by Danni Stewart.
This story was adapted from an interview Danni originally recorded for Scitech’s Elements podcast.
All The Best Credits
Executive Producer: Phoebe Adler-Ryan
Editorial Producer: Melanie Bakewell
Host: Madhuraa Prakash
Mixed by Emma Higgins
Image Credit: Charmaine Ledden Lewis

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