All The Best

  This week, we are featuring another audio corpse (collection of stories) from our audio corpse challenge.  An audio corpse is like an audio tapestry made with many hands. The line of the stitch in the stories is a reminder that we are all connected.  How does it work?   Our Programming and Community Coordinator, Catarina Fraga Matos,  breaks it down:  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.   audio corpse #2 This audio corpse features an exploration of ancestral memory, whales finding a new way to communicate, the illusion of sanity, a strange explanation about stretch marks, a cooking lesson and the day in the life of an alien.     Participants of  this audio corpse were: M.Cristina Marras,  Lynn Casper, Tessa Cancio Pastor, Rowan Allen, Anna-Maria Woodrow  Sarah Frosh, Jennifer Robnet, Lucy Jollif and Sarah Warren. Special thanks to Catarina Fraga Matos for organising this and to Nili Javid for stitching all the corpses together.     Thank you to Izzi Boustead for this episode's cover art! You can check out the previous audio corpse episode here.  Other audio corpses can be found on our Substack!   Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship Psst … if you have an impactful story to tell, apply now to our Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship!   Audio Flux And don't forget to check out our friends at the Audio Flux podcast.    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.

  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.

 "...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. Special thanks also to Darren Lesaguis, Priya Panchalingam, Yalini and D’Lo. This piece also includes a Tamil song called ‘Sharanam Ayah’ sung by Dhaksh at their dear friend’s funeral.    The title of the piece stems from the work of Filipinx Transfeminine multidisciplinary artist Mark Aguhar, A Litany for My Heavenly Brown Body.  The piece also features original field recordings from family homes in Coimbatore and Madurai (2024), Gadigal-Wangal Country (2026) and a pilgrimage along the Yamuna River (2025).  - Shareeka Helaluddin     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.

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.

  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.