All The Best

All The Best Supervising Producer Daniel Semo recently came home to Australia from Japan. Finding himself stuck in Hotel Quarantine for two weeks, he decided to make a new audio story every day. 

14 Days by Daniel Semo

This episode features clips from Daniel's first seven days. You can listen to all the stories in full at danielsemo.com/14days

Music and sound design by Daniel Semo

Artwork by Vanessa Norlander

All The Best Credits 

Production Manager: Danni Stewart

Editorial Manager: Mell Chun

Episode Mix and Compile: Danni Stewart

Host: Helenna Barone-Peters

Social Media Producers: Emma Pham

Community and Events Coordinator: Lidiya Josifova

SYN Mentee Producer: Wing Kuang

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Many of us across the country are currently under stay at home orders and only allowed to leave the house for essential reasons. This week, we’re peeping through the window into houses that have now become preschools, schools, universities and workplaces. From the sound of an alarm clock to tossing and turning at 1am. We’re taking you through a day in lockdown. 

This episode was arranged by Danni Stewart and featured recordings from Mike Williams, Emma Pham, Lidiya Josifova, Narnie, Anna Wilson, Luke Stewart and Mell Chun.

If you find yourself struggling in this difficult time, lifeline is a safe space to be heard. Call 13 11 14 or text 0477 13 11 14.

All The Best credits:

Production Manager: Danni Stewart

Editorial Manager: Mell Chun

Episode Mix and Compile: Danni Stewart

Host: Helenna Barone-Peters

Social Media Producer: Emma Pham

Community and Events Coordinator: Lidiya Josifova

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This week, we’re taking you back to Ancient Greece with a story you probably didn’t read about in your school textbook.

The Bacchae by Jake Neville 

You’d think that a story about a sexy, naked, lesbian forest cult and their gender-bending queer leader who destroy the patriarchy by dressing the nation’s head honcho in drag would be a very modern kind of story, right? You’d be wrong. Jake and Liam revisit the bloody story of Dionysus and the Bacchae and discover just how little has changed since 405 BC. 

Find out more about the upcoming short film via instagram – @thebacchaeshortfilm

Producer: Jake Neville
Supervising producer: Evana Ho
Featuring: Liam Fitzgibbon

With special thanks to Ruby Ellam, Brodie Healy and Chelsea Pataki.

Music by Petros Tabouris Ensemble – public domain arrangements
Music by Nik Navy – owned by Jake Neville

All The Best credits:

Production Manager: Danni Stewart

Editorial Manager: Mell Chun

Episode Mix and Compile: Danni Stewart

Host: Helenna Barone-Peters

Social Media Producer: Emma Pham

Community and Events Coordinator: Lidiya Josifova

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This week, for our final instalment of the ‘swarm’ series, we explore the link between jellyfish blooms and climate change, increasing surveillance in our major cities, the world of dating apps and more!

Each of these stories were produced by Melbourne University Audio Journalism students as part of a special collaboration with the Science Gallery.

Content Warning: This episode contains sexually explicit content and mention of sexual harassment. 

Bec Pridham 

Why do bees swarm? Is there any rhythm or rhyme? Bec Pridham chats with local Adelaide beekeepers, unpacking swarming behaviour and how it is changing. 

Sound sourced from BBC Sound Effects. 

Producer: Bec Pridham

Supervising Producer: Louisa Lim

Clancy Balen 

Do you ever get the feeling that you’re being watched? Or followed? Tracked, maybe? Well, these days we are. We all are. Private actors, or local governments, here in Australia someone’s always watching. 

Music: Pat Telfer, The Elevator Bossa Nova by Ben Sounds, Marche funèbre d’une marionette by Charles Gounoud and original composition. 

Producer: Clancy Balen

Supervising Producer: Ollie Krusec

Amalyah Hart 

Jellyfish blooms are a captivating sight, with thousands of the creatures massing together in groups that can be kilometres wide. But these blooms are also linked to pollution and climate change, because jellyfish thrive in the kinds of conditions that can kill most other marine creatures.

Music: Peloton and At the Crown/City Whistle by Merriware (Used with permission). Additional sound sourced from BBC Sound Archive. 

Producer: Amalyah Hart

Supervising Producer: Mell Chun

Josh Nevett 

The popularity of dating apps is soaring, producing stories that are unique to the digital age. Josh Nevett brings us two of those stories, begging the question… should you join the swipers, or is it best to avoid keyboard intimacy like the plague?

Music: ‘Sexy Lounge’. Sourced from Adobe Stock. 

Producer: Josh Nevett

Supervising Producer: Ollie Krusec

Julie Barman 

Have you ever peacefully sat down in public transport, or happily danced to your favourite songs in a nightclub only to feel someone coming too close to you without your permission? Julie Barman talks to young women about their experiences of sexual harassment on a night out. 

Producer: Julie Barman

Supervising Producer: Eugenia Zoubtchenko

All The Best credits:

Production Manager: Danni Stewart

Editorial Manager: Mell Chun

Host: Helenna Barone-Peters

Episode Mix and Compile: Ollie Krusec

Social Media Producer: Emma Pham

Community and Events Coordinator: Lidiya Josifova

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This week is part two of our showcase of work from Melbourne University Audio Journalism students responding to the theme ‘swarm.’ In this episode we explore ‘swarm’ through the context of bats, mice, robots and activism.

Front Yard Fox by Danni Stewart and Helenna Barone-Peters 

An increasing number of foxes have been taking over the streets and shorelines of Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs. Danni and Helenna discuss the council’s failed attempts to get rid of them. 

Music: Clarence Carter – Looking For A Fox 

Die Hu

More and more Grey-headed flying foxes have been coming to Melbourne due to a loss of habitat in New South Wales and Queensland. Die Hu takes us for an evening stroll along the nature trail to the bat colony living in the Yarra Bend Park. 

Producer: Die Hu 

Supervising Producer: Louisa Lim 

Find out more about Micro Bats of Melbourne, Bat Boxes and Fly By Night. 

Maya Pilbrow

A lot of companies in Australia make their money through the production and sales of security and defense technology. In other words, weapons. Maya Pilbrow talks to activists dedicated to exposing the role of Australian-made weapons in human rights abuses in West Papua. 

Producer: Maya Pilbrow 

Supervising Producer: Danni Stewart 

Find out more about Wage Peace and Make West Papua Safe.

Angus Thomson 

Right now, parts of New South Wales are enduring their worst mouse plague in decades. Angus Thomson revisits the horrors of 1984 to find out why these plagues keep happening, and how it all ends.

Producer: Angus Thomson 

Supervising Producer: Mell Chun 

Jiayi Yin

Imagine you’re staying at a hotel and the whole time you’re there you don’t need to interact with another soul. Would you miss talking to the concierge? In China’s hotel industry, robots are increasingly replacing people in customer service roles. Jiayi Yin looks into this rise of robots and asks if they can really replace people. 

Producer: Jiayi Yin

Supervising Producer: Danni Stewart 

Music: The Beauty of Technology by Night Light.

All The Best credits:

Production Manager: Danni Stewart

Editorial Manager: Mell Chun

Host: Helenna Barone-Peters

Episode Mix and Compile: Josh McKay

Social Media Producer: Emma Pham

Community and Events Coordinator: Lidiya Josifova

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