Show Notes
This week we are exploring the liminal spaces. Looking for answers between what we think that we know and the unknown spaces.
Between Two Worlds by Olivia Wright What’s your take on card readings, psychics and traditional understanding of fate and spirituality? Producer Olivia takes on a journey to explore the realm of psychics and why people are drawn to them. Producer: Olivia Wright Supervising Producer: Thomas Phillips Featuring: Michelle Buckley; Callum Moloney
Navigating a grief by Isaure Duruy Sometimes new understandings of the world can come through dealing with the passing of a loved one. Theo talks to producer Isaure about his experience of the passing of his mother from cancer. Producer: Isaure Duruy Supervising Producer: Thomas Phillips Featuring: Theo Schwartzmann
Funeral Trees by Fionn McCabe Coming to see the world in a new way can come from a simple misunderstanding. Fionn’s attempt to explain the death of a loved one to his son creates a new and beautiful understanding. Written and read by Fionn McCabe Producer: Zacha Rosen
This story was originally published on Or It Didn’t Happen, an audio fiction radio show from fbi.radio’s archives.
Stargazing by Jiali Hong Do you ever just sit still at night and just look at the stars? It's probably pretty hard to do if you live in the city, but if you get out of the city, into the bush on a clear night, you might be surprised at what you can see. Producer Jiali interviews Sam, a 26-year-old astrophysicist who drives outside of the cities to chase stars in the night sky. Produced by Jiali Hong Featuring: Sam Supervising Producer: Mell Chun Music: Youtube Free copyright/ Bilibili Free copyright
If you are looking for more stories like this 🙂! Stargazing, Navigating A Grief, and Between Two Worlds were produced by students at the University of Melbourne, in collaboration with the Centre for Advancing Journalism. Special thanks to Louisa Lim, Thomas Phillips, Dan Semo, Mell Chun and Persephone Waxman. You can hear more student stories from this cohort over at The Yarn.
All the Best Credits Host: Gabriella Accaria Executive Producer: Melanie Bakewell Programming & Community Coordinator: Catarina Fraga Matos Production Manager: Kwame Slusher Digital Trainee: Imogen Brosnan (Thank you so much, Immi!) Theme Music composed by Shining Bird Episode Tile: Jennifer Ibe And a special shout-out to all our volunteers!
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"...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
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.
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.
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: