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Standard Issue Podcast

By women. For women. About everything. Standard Issue is a podcast championing women"s voices, and packed with interviews, news, film, opinion and humour. For advertising enquiries, email sales@auddy.co

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26:35

Mary Mandefield’s not dating the same guy as you

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2025/12/08

In the Wild West that is dating apps, women are increasingly turning to novel ways of protecting themselves. Online groups such as Are We Dating The Same Guy, offer women a platform to share bad and evencriminal experiences of dating. Broadcaster and journalist Mary Mandefield investigates the groups in a new Channel 4 documentary, Red Flags: Are We Dating the Same Guy? UNTOLD. So, Jen caught up with Mary to chat about the film, the groups, why women are using them, and if they themselves are

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28:06

Flicking #68: Sister Midnight

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2025/12/05

Bollywood star Radhika Apte is unhappy new bride Uma in writer/director Karan Kandhari’s feature debut, which Hannah’s picked for the last Flicking of 2025. The critics loved it, audiences weren’t so sure. Hannah, Yosra and Mick went in blind with no expectations and were all surprised. But in a good or bad way? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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33:47

The Bush Telegraph: Wise owls and other animals

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2025/12/04

There are abuses of power all over the shop, as Mick talks us through the second phase of Lady Elish Angiolini’s inquiry into the prevention of sexually motivated crimes against women in public, and a truly horrific case in France. Meanwhile, Jen’s looking at more crises in public services, this time in teaching staff. But at least we’ve got Polly. And periods. No, really.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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28:28

Rated or Dated: Flash Gordon (1980)

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2025/12/03

A superhero with no special powers. An intergalactic wrong 'un trying to destroy the earth. Brian Blessed dressed as whatever that is. Welcome to this week's Rated or Dated. Now with added lasers.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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23:54

Small is beautiful, with Emma Rice

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2025/12/02

The Emma Rice Company's adaptation of Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales opened last week to rave reviews. Hannah grabbed some time with its founder, writer and director Emma Rice, to talk about a change of name, a new venue in Somerset, and Thomas. And a lot more besides, including Emma’s time as artistic director at The Globe, something that did not end happily, and why she thinks we’re all being a bit hard on Enid Blyton. More information about the Emma Rice Company here:

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26:30

Bonnie Langford knows how old you are

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2025/12/01

Paddington the Musical – a brand new show written by Jessica Swale, with music by Tom Fletcher – opens its doors at the Savoy Theatre in London this week. Among its impressive cast is Bonnie Langford, who many of us have grown up alongside, given she first graced our television screens back in 1971, aged six. Jen caught up with Bonnie to talk about playing the iconic Mrs Bird, as well as a whole host of other roles over the course of her career, and why we love that Peruvian

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42:22

Outside The Box: November '25

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2025/11/28

In this month's telly round-up, we're watching Death By Lightning, The Beast in Me, Down Cemetery Road, Plur1bus and Caroline Flack: Search for the Truth. Plus Hannah's finally got round to watching Where's Wanda?.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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25:45

The Bush Telegraph: Rage against the (old washing)...

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2025/11/27

Are you angry? Like really angry? Of course you are. Well, does Hannah have a dinner service for you. This week, she and Mick are asking whether the justice system is about to get a little less just, looking at the newly discovered age epochs of the human brain, celebrating having a bank account, and metaphorically smashing small TVs with a sledgehammer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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29:45

Rated or Dated: Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)

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2025/11/26

Christmas already? We know. But can we redeem ourselves if it’s Christmas by way of Jeannot Szwarc’s cult classic, Santa Claus: The Movie? A box office flop, it was nonetheless a hit in the UK, thanks to Dudley Moore’s turn as Patch the ambitious elf, some delightful animatronic reindeer, and top baddy-ing by John Lithgow. But will we agree?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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23:58

Have you heard the good news, with Generation Rent

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2025/11/25

All hail the Renters’ Rights Act, the biggest shake-up to renting in England for more than 30 years, which officially comes into play next May. It’s a bundle of positive news for tenants in private housing, not least the ditching of section 21 “no fault” evictions. So Mick got on the Zoom with Bismah Naqui from Generation Rent, an organisation that’s been working tirelessly for the past decade to amplify the voices and concerns of private renters, to talk about why this is a big win for them and a

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26:03

Cindy Reymond spots an opportunity in women’s football

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2025/11/24

Cindy Reymond is one of the eight women secretary generals who represented host cities during this summer’s UEFA Women’s Euro in Switzerland. That’s right: they were all women. Jen catches up with Cindy to chat about her city of Geneva, what it takes to plan a major sporting event, not being the only woman in the room for a change, and why anyone would even want to host a women's football tournament if they can’t fill stadiums... Spoiler: they really can. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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26:54

Alice Loxton is walking through history

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2025/11/21

When Queen Eleanor died, her husband - Edward I - ordered that 12 enormous crosses be built along the route her body had travelled back to London. Some survive today. Historian Alice Loxton decided to walk that route on the same days. Which sadly for her, was December. Alice tells Hannah about that journey and her new book Eleanor: A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England's Lost Queen, as well as history on the socials and the hidden stories on our own doorsteps.More information on how to support us

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29:07

The Bush Telegraph: Whoa! Back to the island

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2025/11/20

Jen gets a swift and thoroughly unexpected trip through US political rumours this week, as Hannah looks at the latest from across the Atlantic. Plus there's skorts, sports and women-only carriages. What more do you need? Saturday Night Live on edited Trump speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SesRWE02PIU Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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37:47

Rated or Dated: Misery (1990)

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2025/11/19

Another week, another one of film’s most villainous women: this time it’s deranged devotee Annie Wilkes, a role which bagged Kathy Bates an Oscar for mangling the feet, mind and spirit of novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan). Its credentials are impeccable, with a William Goldman screenplay based on Stephen King’s novel directed by Rob Reiner. But, ask Mick, Hannah and Jen, is that bitch crazy? Is she misunderstood? Or is she just a hell of a drug? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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27:10

Ultra Women with Emma Wilkinson and Lily Canter

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2025/11/18

Back in 2019, ultra runner Jasmin Paris made headlines when she smashed the Montane Spine Race, winning the 268-mile race in the depths of winter outright – while still breastfeeding. Her story was sold as an outlier – woman wins mixed race – but there are a lot of them about, particularly when it comes to ultra-endurance running, swimming and cycling. Ultra Women: The Trailblazers Defying Sexism in Sport, penned by journalists and ultra runners Emma Wilkinson and Lily Canter, explores female

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27:17

Sarah Grant on history’s most fashionable queen

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2025/11/17

More than two centuries since her execution, Marie Antoinette continues to influence fashion and culture, and is now the subject of a major new exhibition at the V&A South Kensington, Marie Antoinette Style. Jen catches up with senior curator of the exhibition, Sarah Grant, to talk about the ill-fated former queen of France, why she still fascinates as a cultural icon, and if it's fair to compare her to Kim Kardashian. Marie Antoinette Style is showing at the V&A South Kensington until March 2026,

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24:26

I, Spy (with Agnes O'Casey)

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2025/11/14

There are a lot of spies in pop culture right now. This pleases Hannah immensely, so she jumped at the chance to get on the Zoom with Agnes O’Casey to talk about her role in upcoming play, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, based on John Le Carre's best-selling book. They chat about spies and why we're so fascinated with them, Agnes's role in another spy drama, Netflix’s Black Doves, and her great grandfather, legendary Irish playwright Sean O’Casey.Tickets for Soho Place and the national tour are

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27:22

The Bush Telegraph: Another workplace ruined

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2025/11/13

Bloody women. Is there anything they won’t ruin? Well, Mick and Jen take a stab at this week’s news, in which some institutions are too busy ruining themselves to notice: they’re looking at you the BBC and NHS Trusts. There’s also Spinderella, Stevens, and Jen very much NOT talking about Mary Earps in JOTB. Honest.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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35:25

Rated or Dated: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

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2025/11/12

You know, the one with the good guy versus the evil nurse. Or is it? One of many questions we'll be asking as we watch Miloš Forman's Oscar botherer, set on a ward in a mental health hospital.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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26:55

Hollie McNish: Virgin

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2025/11/11

One of our firm favourites, poet Hollie McNish’s latest collection, Virgin, explores a six-letter word with outsized power. A power that should also be outdated, but is sadly not. It is, as you’d expect from Hollie, a brilliant collection, packed with humour, rage, beauty, heartbreak and hope. She and Mick chat about dangerous words, what ‘virgin’ means to girls and women (and why it shouldn’t), the perils of mashed potato and how to come to terms with the phrase “making love”. Virgin is

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