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This week’s episode is all about suspending your disbelief! Whether you're dressed for a Renaissance Fair or watching a magician and their assistant on stage.   A Lady Knight by in Kryal Castle by Persephone Waxman In our first story, you will follow the Knight, Lady Molly,  into the heat of battle just 10 minutes outside the Ballarat CBD in Victoria. Produced by Persepho...

Has a friend ever told you they think you have ADHD?   In this episode of Peer Review Diagnosis, host Felicity Weaver explores the humorous yet heartfelt world of “peer-reviewed ADHD”. Through personal stories and insights from psychiatrist Dr. Mohsen Mirzaie, she explores the role casual, “peer-reviewed” observations can play alongside formal diagnosis, and how g...

Halloween.  A time when many when mischievous spirits are going from door to door saying 'trick or treat?'. This week is not a trick, but a treat of three haunting audio stories that might just keep you up at night.   Almost A Ghost Story by Yebu ji There is always good reason to carefully research a place before you there. Our first story, its not just an apartment you have to worry abo...

Just Breath Man by Ben Haywood  This story is a step closer to embracing men’s tears and a step away from toxic masculinity. Ben suffers from depression after knee surgery. Searching for ways to heal online, he finds himself trapped in toxic ideas of masculinity. It’s only when a friend takes him to his breathwork class that he finally breaks down and begins to heal, learning that...

So what do gaming and immigration have in common?    The Love Game by Wing Kuang In our second story from the Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship 2025 , Wing Kuang guides us through a love story of two gamers,  one in Melbourne and one in Shanghai, navigating the complexities of long-distance relationships and the bureaucracy of Australia’s immigration system.    Produced by...

  Wanted: Dunnart Alive by Xanthe Smith This week, a story about searching, both for the elusive Sandhill Dunnart and for a long-lost connection. Xanthe revisits her childhood memories of meeting ecologist Sue Churchill, whose stories of the rare marsupial stayed with her for decades. From Sue’s years of digging pitfall traps in the desert to becoming the world Dunnart expert, their con...

  This week, some beef, friendship, and strange run-ins with some humans and creatures. Magpie by Millie Jones In this story,  a stroll through suburban Mudgee turns into an encounter with the swooping monarchs of the blue gums.  Here’s your ultimate how-to-survive-magpies manual.  Tip: If you cross paths with a magpie, skip the two-hands-above-your-head surrender - just...

  Dome Sweet Dome by Year 8 students  In this story, Year 8 students  imagine a world where meteors poison the skies and zombies spread from Bankstown to Campbelltown. Trapped inside a glass dome with zombies banging on the walls outside, they piece together what makes life worth living. And in the end, humanity is saved by Kendrick Lamar’s zombie-proof backboard and a slam du...

  Black people can be disabled: breaking the cycle of disability stereotypes - Khadija Gbla by Carey Scheer  From surviving a civil war in Sierra Leone to classrooms in Australia, Khadija carried chaos in her body long after the bombs stopped. Her autism was dismissed as a cultural difference by white Australians, scorned as “not Black enough” within her community, and punish...

  This week’s episode is one of those love stories that spans years and countries.    177 Nations of Tasmania: Ana From Panama  First, Ana fell in love with ballet at her home in Panama City.  This passion for dance will take her all over Cuba in the Caribbean, where, at an arts college, she would meet her second love, Elias.   This beautiful story will tak...

This week, two adventures into the uncharted seas of life. Serendipity 海上的人 by Sharon Wongosari After her lupus diagnosis, Sharon lost what she once held most precious: career opportunities, productivity, and the efficiency that once defined her. Yet in losing them, she discovered a self beyond those qualities and began to reclaim her life. She now credits her friends, family, and her spiritua...

  This week, stories about what’s going into your mouth.   Avocado by Michael Sun This story follows Michael’s bizarre coming-of-age journey - stuffed with avocados, awkward dates, and complicated moments with his mom. Born with a big mouth and having a “stronger-than-average immune system”, he went on to claim a Guinness World Record by devouring 20 avocados in a...

  This week’s episode takes us through a war and typhoons in South East Asia and the Asia Pacific.  This week’s episode takes us through a war and typhoons in South East Asia and the Asia Pacific. We learn what a typhoon looks like through the eyes of a child and how even a story of war can be used to talk about the ones we love.     Tubig Lang  The first story...

This week’s episode asks us to pause. To pay attention to the world around us and to think of the power that nature has to heal damaged and abandoned spaces.     Would they survive without humans? The first story is about resilience. Not human resilience, but about the persistence of trees growing in places that you might not expect.  Raihanah takes us on a journey to toxic pl...

Our stories this week look at this dissonance between thinking of COVID-19 in the past tense, while also knowing that it is still a very real threat to many vulnerable people in our community.  Just becasue it isn't in the news isn’t giving us a count of Covid infections anymore doesn’t mean that it's gone away.   Hug In our first story, Cristina talks about the desire a...

This week, we get outside and get our hands dirty as we take a closer look at the world around us, whether that involves rethinking the uses of the land or trying to protect it. This week's stories don't just call on us to pay attention to the environment around us.  It's also a cautionary tale of what can happen when we don't.    The Weedy One  Are weeds just misunderstoo...

In this week’s episode, we continue with stories from the students at the University of Melbourne and explore the idea of having a sustainability mindset – not just when it comes to the environment around us,  but also when it comes to activities that bring communities together or online platforms that try to divide us.  What if nothing matters? With all the crises happening,...

This week, we’re hearing about climate crises and what we can do about them, from students at the University of Melbourne.   All of them challenge us to rethink our relationship to the land, plants and animals around us. It also asks us to consider the impact that the changing climate is having on our health.      Water Is More Than a Resource  Dr Clint Han...

This week, we are celebrating  NAIDOC Week with an audio drama originally written as a short story by Marcus Woolombi Waters, titled 'No Going Home' .   It's a story set in early colonial Australia that explores the disruption caused by invasion and family conflict. Content Warning : This drama includes themes of mass murder and genocide. Please listen with care and always put yours...

This week's story is streaked with the glittering rainbow of magical realism.  Atul Joshi queers the fabric of reality in Sydney on the 40th anniversary of Mardis Gras by opening portals and cruising paradise for another state of being.   That story was written and performed by Atul Joshi, with sound design by Ramon Briant and production assistance by Phoebe Adler-Ryan.    All...

This week, we dive into the All the Best archives, we march alongside the largest lesbian football club in the world,  learn about the not-so-secret lives of drag kings, and … and hear  about the challenges of living with … fake gay clout? Secrets and Confessions  In our first story Jared challenges our assumptions by confessing a shocking secret. That story was writte...

We continue our celebration of June as Pride month with more live performances from Maeve Marsden's Queerstories .   This week’s continued celebration of queer stories is about finding love … or realising that you just want to be loved … whether that’s through a niche television show and a whale obsession or being the only trans woman at a straight sex party in...

It's June! Which means that for Pride Month we are celebrating queer stories and queer storymakers! In this episode, we tackle the gender binary and explore gender identity.     One of da boiiz  How far did you go to fit in when you were in high school? Nico takes us all back to those awkward moments of high school when we might have faked it just to fit in.   And he...

Sydney is full of hidden stories. Lindsey Vassallo guides us to one of those stories hidden under Hyde Park in the Sydney CBD and investigates the mystery of the Travellator. Travelator Lindsey takes a deep dive into Sydney’s most forgotten and strangest landmark, hidden right under the grounds of Hyde Park. The travelator spans almost 700ft and is accompanied by an equally long mural, which...

Welcome to a very special episode of All The Best . Today, we delve into the surreal and cinematic world of Corpse 5 —a dark, sci-fi-tinged journey through sound, story, and imagination. This piece is part of The Exquisite Audio Corpse , an ambitious international collaboration between 75 audio makers from around the globe run by Audio Club, creating a series of seven sonic “corpses&rd...