All The Best

Every LGBTQIA+ individual knows the profound value of finding and spending time with the people that make us feel safe and seen. 

This week special host and All the Best Trainee Madhuraa Prakash takes us into the realm of World Pride 2023, sharing stories about the value of community. 

Drag Kings

First up, Madhuraa takes us to Mardi Gras Fair Day to showcase the Drag King community and challenge some assumptions along the way.

To find out more about the Drag Kings featured in this story, check out their instagrams - and support your local Kings!

@k.ngwoody

@lawofaus

@freddie_merkin

This story was produced by Madhuraa Prakash.

Danny's Story

Later in the show, we revist Danny's Story. A tale from the archives about finding your people and why it’s so important for those of marginalised gender identities. 

Produced by Duncan Stephen with sound design by Persephone Waxman.

All The Best credits:

Production Manager: Phoebe Adler-Ryan

Editorial Manager: Mell Chun

Episode Mix and Compile: Phoebe Adler-Ryan

Host: Madhuraa Prakash

Social Media Producer: Timothy Nguyen

Music: Set Mo - I Belong Here feat. Woodes

Image: Freddie Merkin

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This week, FBi Presenter Deb is bringing us to one of their poetry nights.

She’s recently started a poetry collective that meets once a fortnight. It’s a small and intimate space and in this episode Deb and her friends have brought their poetry into the studio to share with us.

You’ll hear from Tyler, Max, Deb and Ana as they share their poems, a bit about each their very different connection to the medium - and the group creating a poem together live!

This story was produced by Phoebe Adler-Ryan with sound design by Mell Chun.

Music: Ok Morning by Surdsie: https://soundcloud.com/surdsie/ok-morning 

My Head Is Full Of Sadness by Latex Pets: https://latexpets.bandcamp.com/track/my-head-is-full-of-sadness

All The Best credits:

Production Manager: Phoebe Adler-Ryan

Editorial Manager: Mell Chun

Episode Mix and Compile: Phoebe Adler-Ryan

Host: Danni Stewart

Social Media Producer: Timothy Nguyen

Trainee: Madhuraa Prakash

Image credit: Nicolas Messifet

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World Pride celebrations are going to be happening all around Sydney from 18th February to 5th March. In honour of this, All The Best is going to be sharing a couple of episodes that are focused on themes that are of significance to the LGBTQIA+ community.

This week, since it's also Valentine's Day, we're sharing stories of queer love. A love that often looks different to the cis-heteronormative version that we see reflected in mainstream media.

Lil + Lore

In our first story, we hear a real life love story that sounds as if it came out of a queer romance novel.

Produced by: Mell Chun

To Build A Home

In this story, Nevo shares a love story which reflects a queer experience that is common, but not often spoken about.

Narrated by: Nevo Zisin

This story was originally shared as part of Queerstories, a national LGBTQI+ storytelling project curated by Maeve Marsden. 

All The Best credits:

Production Manager: Phoebe Adler-Ryan

Editorial Manager: Mell Chun

Episode Mix and Compile: Phoebe Adler-Ryan

Host: Danni Stewart

Social Media Producer: Timothy Nguyen

Trainee: Madhuraa Prakash

Image credit: 24 Carrot Productions

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Adel : Born in Baghdad, spirit in Palestine, living in Tasmania

This week we’re bringing you another story from the podcast ‘177 Nations of Tasmania’. 177 Nations is the creation of Mark Thomson, who started the project during Covid-19 lockdown in 2020 after reading the Australian Census and discovering that there are 177 different nationalities represented in Tasmania.

This story features Adel, son of an Iraqi mother and a Palestinian father. Hear Adel speak of the lasting legacy of colonisation on Palestinian land and his journey first from Iraq to Tasmania and then to visit his father's village in Palestine.

Produced by Mark Thomson .

Listen to more of 177 Nations of Tasmania here. 

All The Best credits:

Production Manager: Phoebe Adler-Ryan

Editorial Manager: Mell Chun

Episode Mix and Compile: Phoebe Adler-Ryan

Host: Danni Stewart

Social Media Producer: Timothy Nguyen

Trainee: Madhuraa Prakash

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Good morning, Καλημέρα, Good night, Καληνυχτα

Mel and Tiarne - two friends who booked parallel trips to Greece - one month apart.

This week we're bringing you the voice notes that Mel and Tiarne sent to each other, documenting their trips to Greece in September and October of 2022.

Join us for an intimate portrayal of travelling in this time, to this place.

Produced by: Mel Bakewell and Tiarne Cook

This story was originally broadcast on Background Sound - an audio storytelling program from Radio Adelaide, 101.5fm.

All The Best credits:

Production Manager: Phoebe Adler-Ryan

Editorial Manager: Mell Chun

Episode Mix and Compile: Phoebe Adler-Ryan

Host: Danni Stewart

Community and Events Coordinator: Lidiya Josifova

Social Media Producer: Timothy Nguyen

Trainee: Madhuraa Prakash

Image credit: Pixabay: fietzfotos

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Welcome to 2023! We hope your summer has consisted of moments of joy and rest. This week we're bringing you some stories that were generously shared with us during the summer holidays.

We start the episode with All The Best host Danni Stewart taking us to the rainforest.

The Konditorei

In our first story Phoebe visits her grandmother to learn about the stories and the cakes from her great-grandmother's kitchen.

Producer: Phoebe Adler-Ryan

Nudist Holiday Park 

Next, Mell and her partner spend their summer revealing the true nature of an unconventional holiday spot.

Producer: Mell Chun

Listener Postcards

Finally we close the show with audio postcards from a couple of our listeners.

We start with Evrim, taking us to the streets of Turkey.

Then, Caroline shares a part of Inn Echo's set at the Woodford Folk Festival.

All The Best credits:

Production Manager: Phoebe Adler-Ryan

Editorial Manager: Mell Chun

Episode Mix and Compile: Phoebe Adler-Ryan

Host: Danni Stewart

Community and Events Coordinator: Lidiya Josifova

Social Media Producer: Timothy Nguyen

Trainee: Madhuraa Prakash

Image credit: Ylanite Koppens

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This week we’re sharing a collection of poetry from Curate, a new spoken word event combining poetry with visual art. 

Later in the show we’ll hear some readings, but first All The Best Editorial Manager Mell had a chat with Curate organisers Matcho Cassidy and Tim Loveday about the project. 

You will hear readings from Matcho Cassidy, Tim Loveday, Josh Cake, Hasib Hourani, Ren Alessandra and Eloise Grills.

You can find out more about Curate Poetry on Facebook and Instagram as well as grab tickets for their upcoming Naarm show on eventbrite. 

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Last Saturday marked International Day of People with Disability and in this episode we’re sharing stories that challenge perceptions of what disability looks like. As well as recognising the grinding reality of being disabled in an inaccessible society. A reality that is often not acknowledged and poorly understood. 

First up, All The Best production manager Phoebe speaks to her friend Sam Brewer about his experience working as an actor with impaired vision and the complexity of the seen/unseen disability binary.

Then, Jess Layven explores what it means to live with chronic pain. 

All The Best Credits

Host: Danni Stewart

Editorial Manager: Mell Chun

Production Manager, Episode Mix & Compile: Phoebe Adler-Ryan

Social Media Producer: Timothy Nguyen

Community and Events Coordinator: Lidiya Josifova

Trainee: Madhuraa Prakash

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This week we’re bringing you stories of distorted memories, both accidental and intentional. 

Phenomenon

Amy explores how false memories can occur on a mass scale.

Written by: Amy Wright

Supervising Producer: Roger Dawkins

Beneath the Mask

Ruth investigates a family story, and discovers a reality totally different to what she first thought.

Produced by: Ruth Melville

Supervising Producer: Daniel Semo

All The Best Credits

Host: Danni Stewart

Editorial Manager: Mell Chun

Production Manager, Episode Mix & Compile: Phoebe Adler-Ryan

Social Media Producer: Timothy Nguyen

Community and Events Coordinator: Lidiya Josifova

Trainee: Madhuraa Prakash

Music: Agatha Chang by Eels

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Recently, the 2022 World Cup has brought attention to the persecution of the LGBTQIA+ community in Qatar. 

As players around the world call for the decriminalisation of queer relationships, we’re taking a moment to remember how important it is to be able to love regardless of gender and sex. 

We hear the stories of beautiful queer weddings that have taken place since marriage equality was legalised in Australia, five years ago.

Our first story is by Salvin Kumar and was originally read this story at Queer Stories. A national LGBTQI+ storytelling project curated by Maeve Marsden. 

Queer stories isn’t just an event it’s also a podcast and book. You can find out more at: https://maevemarsden.com/queerstories/ 

Our second story was produced by Hank Paul and is an excerpt from their new podcast, First Look. 

You can listen to the whole series at firstlookpodcast.com

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