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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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29:22

Cariad Lloyd does not know where she went (but she...

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2025/05/19

Cariad Lloyd is an actor, comedian and writer (and one of our faves), who has been talking about grief since the death of her father when she was 15. She’s turned her experiences into an award-winning podcast, Griefcast, and a bestselling book, You Are Not Alone. She’s now written a children’s book, Where Did She Go?, which aims to improve how we talk about death with children. Jen catches up with Cariad to chat about youngsters and grief, normalising those conversations, and fascinations with

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44:54

Outside The Box May 2025

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2025/05/16

The big news is that someone has finally finished Mad Men, but if you're looking for some more recent TV, we've got that too. We chat about Poker Face, The Last of Us, Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes, Austin, The Four Seasons and Malpractice in our big round-up of the month's TV.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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27:29

Rated or Dated: La Haine (1995)

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2025/05/14

A film about racial tensions, police violence and disaffected youth? And this might be dated, you say? OK, probably not, but join us anyway as we talk about one of France's most well-respected films, why it's funnier than you'd imagine, and its breakout star Vincent Cassel.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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27:29

Sara Harrak and Leah Harvey take up some space

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2025/05/13

When writer and director Sara Harrak got back into 5-a-side as an adult, she became obsessed, which led to her short film, Solers United. Starring Leah Harvey as Bills, it follows the trials and tribulations of a grassroots women's and non-binary team fighting for survival. Jen chats to Sara and Leah about community, gentrification, taking up more space, and the legend that is Dame Kelly Holmes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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26:35

Bonnie Tsui On Muscle

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2025/05/09

Journalist, author and life-long athlete Bonnie Tsui is fascinated by muscle: how it looks; what it does, and how we think about it. Her curiosity led her to the meat of her new book, On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters, which explores the world of muscle from five different perspectives: strength; form; action; flexibility, and endurance. Jen chats to Bonnie about the nature and narrative of muscle, perceptions around strength, and taking a look under the proverbial

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30:25

The Bush Telegraph: No poo-ing on the slide please

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2025/05/08

Should Labour be addressing immigration? Should men be mammographers? Does anyone fancy being imprisoned in the Jorvik Viking Centre? Jen and Hannah attempt to answer these and many other important questions in today's podcast. Plus, in Jenny Off The Blocks, we're talking about ACL injuries and good news for Charlton Athletic.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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28:20

Rated or Dated: Gladiator (2000)

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2025/05/07

Ridley Scott’s epic regeneration of the swords and sandals genre made megastars out of Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix and bagged a whole load of metal for the trophy cabinet, alongside a heap of box-office kerching. But 25 years on, does this tale of blood, brutality, bread, circuses and vengeance still thrill? Mick, Hannah and Jen share their thoughts. Unleash hell. Or just have a listen, your call. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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29:02

Laura Bates on the new age of sexism

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2025/05/03

Feminist writer, campaigner, and one of Standard Issue’s firm favourites, Laura Bates’s latest non-fiction is called The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny. Anyone fretting about the good old age of sexism, fret ye not, because it is still alive and kicking and very much fuelling and influencing the new one. And it’s impossible to stress enough how critical a moment right now is: this isn’t futuristic, distant and improbable amplified version of the same old, same old,

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28:15

Flicking #61: Challengers

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2025/05/02

It’s game, set and love matches in our Yosra’s pick of 2024 films, as she, Mick and Hannah watch Luca Guadagnino’s sweaty tale of rivalry on and off the courts. Starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, it was a bit of a critics’ darling and a box-office champ. But does that mean a flying sausage for our three women? Or will they take issue with the plot, the characters, the tennis, the depiction of women (woman), and the Golden Globe-winning score? Ooh, it’s a mystery. Learn more about your

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24:20

The Bush Telegraph: You'd think, right?

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2025/05/01

There’s a whole load of ‘but why the feck isn’t that already happening?’ in Hannah and Mick’s look at the news this week, as they take in nudification apps (no thanks), fresh rules for the police (yes please), and new investigations at old mother and baby institutions in Ireland (finally). Still, good news comes in the shapes of Jon Bon Jovi, miniature dachshunds, and new shoes.Plus Sarah Millican's Light Relief for £5+ Patreon members. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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26:52

Rated or Dated: Look Who’s Talking (1990)

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2025/04/30

Director Amy Heckerling is known for films centred on thefemale experience, but how feminist is a film about a woman narrated by an actual man-baby? Or a single mum hell-bent on finding a dad for her young child? Jen, Mick and Hannah revisit 1990’s Look Who’s Talking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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28:24

Lucky boys with Chloe Hadjimatheou

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2025/04/29

If an adult male grooms a teenage girl into a sexual relationship, we're increasingly likely to call it abuse. But reverse the sex of the perpetrator and victim and attitudes are very different. In her latest podcast, Lucky Boy, journalist Chloe Hadjimatheou investigates one such case. She chats to Hannah about why female abusers are judged less harshly and their victims are often not seen as victims at all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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27:50

Have Lauren Mishcon and Nicole Goodman tried this?

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2025/04/28

Anyone who’s ever been anywhere near social media can attest to the somewhat loose definition of “self-care” adopted by society. Broadcasters Lauren Mishcon and Nicole Goodman, keen to challenge the deeply consumerist notions underpinning the wellness industry, and so their podcast, The Self-Care Club, in which they try and test different practices, was spawned. Now in its fifth year, the podcast has also led to a book, Have You Tried This: The Only Self-Care Book You Will Ever Need. Jen catches up

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25:22

Sophie Gilbert on how pop culture turned women...

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2025/04/25

In Girl On Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves, Pulitzer-nominated journalist Sophie Gilbert underlines how popular culture isn’t an innocuous force. She chats to our Mick about how focusing on how women and girls have been presented in pop culture from the late 1990s through the first two decades of this century revealed modern misogyny has been shaped by a mass culture attuned to male desire and all-pervasive pornography. Girl on Girl is published by John Murray

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22:47

Rated or Dated: Leon (1995)

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2025/04/23

Once cool, now ick. That could describe so many things from 1995, but in this instance it's Luc Besson's thriller about a prepubescent girl and her assassin neighbour. But could it all have been so different? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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27:00

Meeting history with Amy Ng

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2025/04/22

Two young women walk into a theatre in China in 1935 and so begins a relationship that spans a turbulent period of history and ends with the death of one of them. Hannah chats to playwright and historian Amy Ng about her latest play, Shanghai Dolls, about finding the women behind the legends of Sun Weishi and Madame Mao, and about how we could all probably do with brushing up on our Chinese history. More information and tickets here: https://kilntheatre.com/whats-on/shanghai-dolls/ Learn more about

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24:15

Abigail Johnson on nineties nostalgia and millennium...

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2025/04/21

Books are a bit like buses for author Abigail Johnson, who signed a two-book deal after taking a punt on a creative writing course during the pandemic. Fast forward a few years, and Abigail's debut novel The Secret Collector is out now. Jen catches up with Abigail to talk about loneliness, learning from our elders (and indeed youngers), and the best bug that never happened. The Secret Collector is available now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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31:49

Outside The Box April 2025

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2025/04/18

There's a long weekend ahead and if you want to spend it watching telly, then you do you. Have some help choosing in the form of our monthly chat about TV, in which we're talking about The White Lotus, The Last of Us, After the Party, Dying for Sex, Black Mirror, Black Snow and Black Doves. Yeah, we saw the pattern there too.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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32:28

The Bush Telegraph: Mon dieu! Did we say we liked...

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2025/04/17

Things are looking very worrying over in America, so of course we're talking about that. But we manage to get in a lot of other stuff too, including workers' rights, good news about bad games, rich women in space, mean girls in tennis and some more dreadful French pronunciations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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33:33

Rated or Dated: American Psycho (2000)

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2025/04/16

Comedy? Horror? Satire? A full-length Huey Lewis and the News music video? There’s a lot going on in Mary Harron’s big screen adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s controversial 1991 bestseller. Will Christian Bale’s much-lauded turn as Patrick Bateman blow Mick, Hannah and Jen away or turn their stomachs? What does a female director’s perspective bring to the exaggerated misogyny? Is any of it actually real? Do you like Phil Collins? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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