This week we return to the theme surveillance.  Looking beyond what it feels like to be watched but, also what it like to do the watching.  

 

Behind Me by Xuanmeng Cai

Xuanmeng explores the theme of hyper-vigilance. examining why women feel unsafe on their way home after dark, how the body responds to possible danger, and why this fear has become such a familiar part of everyday life.

Producer: Xuanmeng Cai 

Supervising Producer: Persephone Waxman 

Featuring: Vivian Chen; William Hua; Jordan Liu

Music/SFX: BBC Sound Effects; Blue Dot Sessions 

 

Watching From Far Away by Xinnang Wang

Xinnang examines that murky area or parental surveillance. She speaks to speaks to Xiaoqi Chen, a master’s student at the University of Melbourne, about family expectations, silence, independence, and how “watching” slowly changed from one-sided into mutual care.

Producer: Xinnang Wang

Supervising Producer: Thomas Phillips 

Featuring: Xiaoqi Chen

Music/ SFX:  Cobwebbed from Purple Planet; A Greater Love from Purple Planet

 

Uber by Ruonan Yang

Have you ever thought of what it might be like to be an Uber driver?  Through personal experience and a conversation with fellow rider Shirley Wang, Ruonan reveals how surveillance shapes life in the gig economy.

Producer: Ruonan Yang 
Featuring: Shirley Wang

 

Mt Rothwell  by Alexandra Nevill 

Alexandra Nevill investigates how one sanctuary is doing things differently. Using surveillance as a tool to restore biodiversity, and deal with disruptors.

Producer: Alexandra Nevill 
Featuring: Sheryl Nettleton, Field Officer at Mount Rothwell Safe Haven; Matthew Singleton, COO of Odonata

 

The stories in today’s episode were produced as part of a collaboration between the University of Melbourne, The Centre for Advancing Journalism, and All The Best. You can tune in to more stories like these on the Centre for Advancing Journalism’s podcast The Yarn. 

 

All the Best Credits 

Host: Gabriella Accaria

Executive Producer: Melanie Bakewell

Programming & Community Coordinator: Catarina Fraga Matos 

Production Manager: Kwame Slusher

Digital Trainee: Imogen Brosnan 

Theme Music composed by Shining Bird

Episode Title: Izzy Boustead

And a special shout-out to all our volunteers!

This week we return to the theme <a href="https://allthebestradio.com/featured/703-watching/">surveillance</a>.&nbsp; Looking beyond what it feels like to be watched but, also what it like to do the watching.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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Behind Me by Xuanmeng Cai
Xuanmeng explores the theme of hyper-vigilance. examining&nbsp;why women feel unsafe on their way home after dark, how the body responds to possible danger, and why this fear has become such a familiar part of everyday life.
Producer: Xuanmeng Cai&nbsp;
Supervising Producer: Persephone Waxman&nbsp;
Featuring: Vivian Chen; William Hua; Jordan Liu
Music/SFX: BBC Sound Effects; Blue Dot Sessions&nbsp;
&nbsp;
Watching From Far Away by Xinnang Wang
Xinnang examines that murky area or parental surveillance. She speaks to speaks to Xiaoqi Chen, a master&rsquo;s student at the University of Melbourne, about family expectations, silence, independence, and how &ldquo;watching&rdquo; slowly changed from one-sided into mutual care.
Producer: Xinnang Wang
Supervising Producer: Thomas Phillips&nbsp;
Featuring: Xiaoqi Chen
Music/ SFX:&nbsp; Cobwebbed from Purple Planet; A Greater Love from Purple Planet
&nbsp;
Uber by Ruonan Yang
Have you ever thought of what it might be like to be an Uber driver?&nbsp; Through personal experience and a conversation with fellow rider Shirley Wang, Ruonan reveals how surveillance shapes life in the gig economy.
Producer: Ruonan Yang Featuring: Shirley Wang
&nbsp;
Mt Rothwell&nbsp; by Alexandra Nevill&nbsp;
Alexandra Nevill investigates how one sanctuary is doing things differently. Using surveillance as a tool to restore biodiversity, and deal with disruptors.
Producer: Alexandra Nevill Featuring: Sheryl Nettleton, Field Officer at Mount Rothwell Safe Haven; Matthew Singleton, COO of Odonata
&nbsp;
The stories in today&rsquo;s episode were produced as part of a collaboration between the University of Melbourne, The Centre for Advancing Journalism, and All The Best. You can tune in to more stories like these on the Centre for Advancing Journalism&rsquo;s podcast&nbsp;<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-yarn/id1599191342">The Yarn</a>.&nbsp;
&nbsp;
All the Best Credits&nbsp;
Host: Gabriella Accaria
Executive Producer: Melanie Bakewell
Programming &amp; Community Coordinator: Catarina Fraga Matos&nbsp;
Production Manager: Kwame Slusher
Digital Trainee: Imogen Brosnan&nbsp;
Theme Music composed by Shining Bird
Episode Title: Izzy Boustead
And a special shout-out to all our volunteers!

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.