This site is now archived. This is how you find out about our recent programs
This is an archived site of our early work. For our recent programs please head here
This site is now archived. This is how you find out about our recent programs
This is an archived site of our early work. For our recent programs please head here
Today’s show is about failure: in the best way possible. We reckon failure is the cornerstone to success!
Jack Tsonis shared his story of a note left in a customers bag…that
ended up on the CEO’s desk - check out camp fire collective for more info about their storytelling nights.
Ben Quilty chatted to us about failing HSC art…to go on to become one of Australia’s most respected contemporary painters
Matt Levinson caught up with Yiying Lu who created the Twitter Fail Whale
FBi 94.5’s All The best: Silence
On All the Best this week we broke the golden rule of radio and bring to you one hour of silence- stories of silence that is. We find out what it’s like to hear sound for the very first time, and what it’s like remember through music. How awkward it is to eat dinner in silence with strangers and how it feels to experience a chamber where sound does not exist.
HEARING FOR THE FIRST TIME
Imagine finding out tomorrow that you’re going to lose the ability to hear music, conversations, or even something as simple as your own name. Emilia Terzon spoke with Kate Locke, who experienced just this. Kate’s now an activist for the deaf community…and has been awarded human rights awards for improving standards on things such as closed television captioning.
Kate blogs online about these issues
MUSIC THERAPY
No one’s quite sure how or why, but music has been found to have a surprising positive effect upon those living with dementia. Essy Knoph brought us two stories from Gary Sterling the family member of someone with dementia, and Ruth Bright a practitioner of music therapy.
VANILLA MALTED
Writer Andy Kissane took us for a wild ride in the boot of a Monaro with an extract from Vanilla Malted. “Vanilla Malted” is part of a book
of short stories The Swarm, to be published later this year.
TELEPATHY
Imagine a place you could go to sit in total complete silence. Back in 2008, two artists, David Haines and Joyce Hinterding decided to create just that. Their vision was a space where no external forces, not even electromagnetic radiation could enter- a space ideal for telepathy. David Haines sat down with Katherine Lim to tell her how it came about.
David Haines and Joyce Hinterding are two artists who live and work out of the Blue Mountains. They exhibit internationally and in Australia. For more info head to their website.
SILENT DINNER PARTIES
Silence for artist Honi Ryan is a bit of an obsession. She has been hosting Silent Dinner Parties in homes around the world since 2007 in such exotic places as Berlin, Shanghai and Sydney. Along the way she observes, participates and hypothesises about silence. Last week, she hosted one in Katherine Lim’s kitchen, so we could experience them first hand. To enquire or book a place at a silent dinner party, you can drop Honi Ryan an email at honi@hedonics.com.au
12th of February 2011 - This week, All the Best is exploring RITUALS: ashram yoga, critical mass, pagan healing, rugby obsession, and someone who converts to judasim for love.
Sometimes falling in love means learning a new way to live. We hear a very personal story of a religious conversion - the nitty gritty of ritual and the way it dominated and transformed his life.
This week’s stories on RITUALS courtesy of Madeleine James, Alex Storey, Nick Hadland, Sophie Braham, Emilia Terzon and Essy Knopf.
Riding With Critical Mass is by Essy Knopf. For more, head to Sydney’s Critical Mass.
For more on Emilia Terzon’s story on Ashram Yoga, go to the Acharyas Yoga Centre site.
Ode To Email was created by Sophie Braham. Follow Sophie on Twitter to read more.
Download the entire show here.
5th of February 2011 - This week we’re looking at Sydney’s writers - our city’s poets, songwriters and storytellers. Including stories from Rob Wilson, Adam Gibson, Vanessa Berry, Nick Coyle and Raymond Nedziak.
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Today December 25 2010 is our last show for the year and our final compass edition. Today the compass needle is pointing west: Michele Freeman Chats to her dad about growing up in the West, Westside Publications presents “9 Minutes”, Shannon Williams aka Brothablack tell his story of growing up, performing and working in the west, Nick heads out to Parramatta to found out about “Rise” a project run by “ICE” (Information for Cultural Exchange) and Filmmaker Saif Jari chats to “All the Best” about coming to Australia as a refugee and spending his first three months in the Villawood detention centre.
Today December 18 our “All the Best” Compass points East. We discover Dimitri’s office, chase a mysterious groper named Bluely, read poetry on Bondi Beach with Adam Gibson, meet a retire who has saved more than 160 people from suicide and discover Sydney’s more iconic cemetery.
Today December the 11th The “All the Best” Compass points south. We discover what it is like growing up in the Shire, we learn about the perils of living with 1 degree of separation in Hobart, we visit a West Side publication and chat to a Cronulla local!
Today December 4 we are following the compass North. Michele Freeman presents her Postcard of North Ryde, Vanessa Berry shares her story of growing up in the North, we find out about a group of North Shore Ladies who hang out at the ACP darkroom to revive the lost art of film and we meet Milly Stilinovic a North Shore acting agent who has seen it all!
Saturday 27 November, 2010: Let’s do the timewarp again! Today, we don tights and a tunic with ‘The society for creative Anachronism’ Nikita Agzarian discovers the contents of a 100 year old time capsule, Vanessa Berry goes back in-time to visit Olympia Milkbar and Mike Williams chats to some of Sydney’s most forward thinking residents.
Saturday 20 November, 2010: Today we tell tales of running away! We find out how to run a successfully ‘Chip of a stick’ food-stall, Poppy Silk discusses dragons and running and ATB Nick Hadlan attempts to run a half marathon throughout the show.
Saturday November 13, 2010: Today we look at the very different ideas of homes, houses and the ‘Australian Dream’. Stuart Chater heads to ‘Alpha House’ in Newtown, Jesse Cox has lunch at a Filipino housing cooperative in Auburn, Cheung Ha Lim tells her story of moving from Korea to Melbourne and finally Sydney and Jess Cook presents ‘Beauty of Backyard’.
Today, Saturday November 6 2010 we look at Doing It Yourself. Joal London chats to a home brewing expert, Vanessa Berry goes to ‘This is Not Art’ Zine fair, Brigitte Dagg talks to the owner of The Red Rattler, Sophie Mallam chats to Antonia Hayes about being a mum for the first time at 18 and Pip Smith from Penguin Plays presents her fictional piece ‘The Garden’.
‘All the Best’ Halloween Special, Saturday October 30, 2010! Today Colleen Harrison tells us a ghost story from the rocks, Vanessa Berry has a Halloween party, Toby Schmitz tells his story of Ivan Davies and finally Vincent Price is presented by Ryan Withers.
In 2010 it’s hard to imagine a Sydney without FBi, and thankfully we don’t have to, but in its 8 year gestation from 1995 to it’s launch date of August 29, 2003, the story of how FBi is a tale of tumultuous and triumphant times. First broadcast as part of the 2010 Instant Karma supporter drive, All the Best tells the Story of FBi. If you like what you hear, consider supporting the station? http://www.fbiradio.com/content.php/468.html to sign up and keep us doing what we do.
Producers: Jesse Cox, Eliza Sarlos
Technical: Shelagh Stanton
Presenter: Eliza Sarlos
NB: Strong language contained in the first five minutes of the piece.
