All The Best

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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.

  1. 4d ago

    scaredy cat

    Do you like scary stories? This week we go trick-or-treating! Though, to be honest, it's probably more trick than treat.    Permission To Call by Lindsey Vassallo  Lindsey shares an eerie story about a phone call. Performed by Lindsey Vassallo Sound design by Catarina Fraga Matos  Music from Nicked by Blue Dot Sessions    The Urn by Jay Gasser Sometimes not knowing what is under the surface is a good thing.  If there were an urn buried in your backyard, would you know about it? Produced by Jay Gasser Features: Natalie Ngo   Sleep Paralysis/Duppy by Kwame Slusher  Sometimes the line between dreaming and the real world is hard to discern.  Sometimes an experience can feel so real that it probably doesn't matter.   Produced by Kwame Slusher  Music from Arizona Moon by Blue Dot Sessions   An Un-haunted Story by Nili Javid  Sometimes, no matter how much you want it to happen, that other-worldly experience just never happens for you.   Performed by Nili Javid  Sound design by Kwame Slusher  Music from Curious Kepler & Delgadezo by Blue Dot Sessions  Special thanks to Melanie Bakewell and Catarina Fraga Matos for support on this story.   Pssst...there is still time to register for the Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship 2027   All the Best Credits  Host: Gabriella Accaria Executive Producer: Melanie Bakewell Programming & Community Coordinator: Catarina Fraga Matos  Production Manager: Kwame Slusher Theme Music composed by Shining Bird And a special shout-out to all our volunteers!   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    scaredy cat

  2. Oct 20

    A Litany of Heavenly Bodies

    "...as an act of justice doing and expressing how much I care for them, and I guess also the sacredness of all life in witnessing and experiencing multiple genocides and affrontations of, like, what's happening on these lands I think navigating grief as an act of love maybe gave me a sense of autonomy and being able to move through with a, with a bit more grace and not letting it subsume me all of the time." -  Shareeka Helaluddin    This week we are showcasing our final story from the Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship (JCAF).   In this special episode, we observe grief and the cultural nuances around the way we observe the passing of a loved one. We also have an extra-special interview before the story with Shareeka and a surprise guest! We also have an extra-special interview before the story with Shareeka and a surprise guest! (Extra special thanks to Dhaksh Raj Sooriya for coming into the studio.)😎 Content warning: This story covers themes of grief, genocide, colonial erasure, alongside life transitions and loss.   A Litany of Heavenly Bodies by Shareeka Helaluddin  How do we feed our hungry ghosts, of futures forgotten and unlived?  A sonic archive of mourning and reprieve assembled from field recordings, intimate conversations, voice notes, grief songs and multilingual fragments. This work asks what it means to make grief an act of justice - to consider whose lives are grievable, whose deaths are remembered, and what happens when communities reclaim or reinvent the rituals that have been displaced by colonial violence and isolation.   CREDITS  This story was produced, sound designed and composed by Shareeka Helaluddin and the  Supervising Producer and JCAF Mentor: Farz Edraki  This story features the voices of Nawa Sybico; Dhaksh Raj Sooriya; Rajani Helaluddin Artwork by Kata szász-komlós  Special thanks also to Darren Lesaguis and Priya Panchalingam.   JCAF Credits Our gratitude and thanks to the friends and family of Jesse Cox, and to everyone who made JCAF 2026 possible. JCAF 2026 Fellows: Ramon Briant, Shareeka Helaluddin, Tessa Campisi and Anna Outridge JCAF 2026 Mentors: Ian Walker, Farz Edraki, Liz Keen and Jon Tjhia Workshop Facilitators: Janak Rogers, Belinda Lopez, Jon Tjhia, Camilla Hannan, Sophie Townsend, Mell Chun, Wing Kuang. Special thanks to our executive producer Mel Bakewell! Psst ... if you have an impactful story to tell, apply now to our Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship!   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!   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    A Litany of Heavenly Bodies

  3. Oct 13

    Notes To My Sister

    There is this Tolstoy quote from Anna Karenina, "All Happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."  I've always struggled with this binary. This idea of happiness or unhappiness as somehow being fixed states. No nuance.  I think real families, ones outside Russian fiction, exist on a more complex spectrum.     Notes To A Sister by Anna Outridge  Sisters Anna and Jordyn are house-sitting for their parents for two weeks. This is the longest time they’ve spent together in ten years. As they inhabit the rooms once occupied by younger versions of themselves, they reflect on the memories they shared in this home, the things that brought them together, and the things that tried to pull them apart. Producer: Anna Outridge  Co-producer: Jordyn Moore  Mentor and Supervising Producer: Jon Tjhia  Original score and composition: Kenneth King @kenny_king_music This story was made possible by the Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship.  Special thanks to Daniel Nasrealla for the final mix.     JCAF Credits Our gratitude and thanks to the friends and family of Jesse Cox, and to everyone who made JCAF 2026 possible. JCAF 2026 Fellows: Ramon Briant, Shareeka Helaluddin, Tessa Campisi and Anna Outridge JCAF 2026 Mentors: Ian Walker, Farz Edraki, Liz Keen and Jon Tjhia Workshop Facilitators: Janak Rogers, Belinda Lopez, Jon Tjhia, Camilla Hannan, Sophie Townsend, Mell Chun, Wing Kuang. JCAF Program Facilitator: Mel Bakewell   Psst ... if you have an impactful story to tell, apply now to our Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship!   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!   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    Notes To My Sister

  4. Oct 6

    View From A Mountain in Motion

    This week's Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship takes us outside.  There is some change we can’t do anything about, some change that we can, and some change that feels so big that for some it's hard to see where they fit within it.    I think the story is about how different kinds of people interpret and integrate their experience of change in a landscape that they love and know well. And I think that landscapes are more than just physical places. I think they exist in the collective imaginary made up of all the different stories and memories that many, many people hold of a place. -  Tessa Campisi View From A Mountain in Motion by Tessa Campisi  Perched on the edge of the Victorian Alps, up a long, winding road, lies an old, granite plateau which these days is known as Mt Buffalo. Beyond its physical geography, Mt Buffalo lies someplace out there in the collective imaginary, held together by a patchwork of memory and story. But things are changing in the Alps, and what was once known edges towards the unfamiliar. If we  look out across the arc of time, from the deep past through the present, and nudge our gaze towards the future – what do we see? And where do we see ourselves.     CREDITS  Producer: Tessa Campisi  Mentor and Supervising Producer: Liz Keen  Featuring: Jacqui Durrant; Anna Langford; Keith Brettargh; John Dalbosco; Anthony Romano Music by Blue Dot Sessions  Archival Audio: “A Kiss by Lake Catani” by Johnny Wade and His Hawaiians (1939); “Alpine Playground” (1963), Australian Tourism Development Commission. Archival audio from the ACMI Collection, Australian Centre for the Moving Image.    This story was produced with the support of the Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship. –  JCAF Credits Our gratitude and thanks to the friends and family of Jesse Cox, and to everyone who made JCAF 2026 possible. JCAF 2026 Fellows: Ramon Briant, Shareeka Helaluddin, Tessa Campisi and Anna Outridge JCAF 2026 Mentors: Ian Walker, Farz Edraki, Liz Keen and Jon Tjhia Workshop Facilitators: Janak Rogers, Belinda Lopez, Jon Tjhia, Camilla Hannan, Sophie Townsend, Mell Chun, Wing Kuang. JCAF Program Facilitator: Mel Bakewell   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! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    View From A Mountain in Motion

  5. Sep 29

    After the Storm

    This week we are featuring our first story from our Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship 2026!  More than 15 Years ago, Jesse Cox co-developed an incredible audio narrative program on fbi.radio called All The Best.   JCAF is an audio mentorship program, pretty one-of-a-kind, championing the kind of work and spirit our show's co-founder upheld and honouring his legacy.   After the Storm, Episode 1 - Arrivals by Ramon Briant  Ramon brings us a Black Mirror-esque vision of Sydney.   In 2075, a jaded ex-revolutionary is called back to Australia to complete his mission, but must avoid detection and navigate the world he left behind to be reunited with the ones he loves. After The Storm is an original audio fiction written and produced by Ramon Briant. The mentor and supervising producer was Ian Walker.  Starring:  Indiana Kwong as Alex, Tabitha Lafernis as the Robots Voice and Ad woman, Vinay Seethamraju as the customs officer, Catarina Fraga Matos as the news reader, Aileen Hyuyn as Sonia and Ramon Briant as Forest.  This episode was produced with the support of All The Best and The Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship.    Shout-outs! Thank you to the friends and family of Jesse Cox, and to everyone who made JCAF 2026 possible.  Our  JCAF 2026 Fellows were Ramon Briant, Shareeka Helaluddin, Tessa Campisi and Anna Outridge The JCAF Mentors were Ian Walker, Farz Edraki, Liz Keen and Jon Tjhia The Workshop facilitators were Janak Rogers, Belinda Lopez, Jon Tjhia, Camilla Hannaan, Sophie Townsend, Mell Chun and Wing Kuang.  And the Program facilitator was our executive producer, Mel Bakewell.   Pssst! Applications for the Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship 2027 are open. Just head over to the All The Best Radio website. Keep an ear out for the announcement of JCAF listening party to hear excerpts from the JCAF 2026 participants.     Join ATB! If you are looking to jump-start your radio career, applications for a Digital Trainee to go between All The Best at fbi.radio and The Wire at 2SER are open.   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! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    After the Storm

  6. Sep 22

    audio corpse

    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  –  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  – Chest Produced by Silvi Van Wall  – 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. –  Hands The Birds by Alice Garner  Producer: Alice Garner Cellist: Alice Garner Voice Actors: David Bowers, Alice Garner  – 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) – Legs Produced by Jay Gasser  – 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! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    audio corpse

  7. Sep 15

    Otherworlds

    Speculative fiction is all about reimagining the world.  Taking something ordinary, turning it upside down, and asking, 'What if?'   Pigeon Empathy by Alby Bennett So, quick question ... How do you feel about pigeons?  Pigeons - basic, don’t you think? Scuttling about, cooing vacantly. But in this here audio fiction, they have a secret life. Producer Alby says: “Prepare to emerge from Pigeon Empathy with a new perspective on not only pigeons, but reality itself.”  Producer: Alby Bennett Tutor / Supervising Producer: Danni Stewart Voicework: Benji Mckay Music: Blue Dot Sessions (Corner Store; Highway 104; Lakkalia; No Two Ways) SFX: Beating wings.wav by juskiddink; BIRDSong_Park.Pigeons.Cooing.Flapping wings.Human voices.Traffic 3_EM.wav by newlocknew.; Creepy static fade out into a low hiss from microphone by PantherK.; Domestic Dove Coo by haulaway.; Static Burst 2 by SilverIllusionist   iPad by Joyce de Badts Have you ever had someone you care about no longer be a part of your life and you wonder what they are up to?  Producer: Joyce de Badts  Voicework: Helena De Groot Supervising Producer: M. Cristina Marras     The Looking Glass by Keyari Page This last story comes from our second annual 24-hour radio race. The premise is that a number of audio producers gather at fbi.radio or online and are given a theme.   They spend a little time brainstorming… and then they have  24 hours to have a story finished and submitted.  The theme for this race was Mirrored.  In this audio science-fiction story, Keyari Page explores the idea of someone facing their own reflection.    Extras  You can check out  our Mirrored episode here And here are more  stories from our 24 Radio Race on our Substack   And if you really love audio challenges we are having a listening party for our recent audiocorpse.    And ... pssst ...  if you'd like you'd like to work with the All the Best team and The Wire we are hiring a new Digital Trainee!   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!     See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    Otherworlds

  8. Sep 8

    Instant Recall

    This week we explore taking unnecessary risks, being in the wrong place at the wrong time and how you and your friends can remember the same events very differently. Like very, very differently.    The Medina by Patrick Lazzar Our first story takes us to Egypt.  When the hustle and bustle of the Medina, a chaotic market in the heart of the city centre, becomes all too overwhelming, a stranger offers to show Seamus and his friend Alex  a "secret leather market." Producer: Patrick Lazzar  Supervising Producer: Nicholas Doring  Featuring: Seamus McDyre Tutor: Camilla Hannan     Routine Traffic Stop by Eleanor Crosby-Hardman In a small Victorian town, Craig, on his way to work, finds himself in the middle of a real-life police drama and ends up on the other side of the car crash of a lifetime. Producer: Eleanor Crosby-Hardman Peer Supervising Producer:  Ellie Starkiss Featuring: Craig Hardman Tutor: Dylan Bird   As We Remember It by Alannah Kein Have you ever had that experience where you realise that your memory of an event doesn't match anyone else's version of the story? April 10th, 2026. A night in Adelaide city for Gather Round. As they retraced one night, their stories of the event began to conflict in surprising ways. Through a seemingly simple story of friends, football and beverages, this audio piece explores a bigger question. Are our memories a record of the truth, or simply the stories we come to believe as such? Producer: Alannah Kein  Peer Supervising Producer: Saro Blaikie Featuring: Michaela Kein; Leo Hemsley; Abhay Narsai Tutor: Dylan Bird   Don't forget to check out our Substack! 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 Episode Tile: Jennifer Ibe And a special shout-out to all our volunteers!   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    Instant Recall
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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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  • Creator
    FBi Radio
  • Years Active
    2010 - 2026
  • Episodes
    100
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 FBi Radio
  • Show Website
    All The Best

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