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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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51:17

Outside The Box September 2025

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2025/09/19

It's Emmy time again and this month we're chatting about the good and bad choices made this year. Which is also an excuse to talk about The Penguin. We've also been watching King of The Hill, Only Murders in the Building, I Fought the Law, Hostage, The Newsreader, King & Conqueror, and Unknown Number: The High School Catfish.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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28:12

The Bush Telegraph: Bellend Olympics

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2025/09/18

A freedom of speech special awaits you this week, as Hannah and Jen debate the rights and wrongs of opinions expressed on the killing of Charlie Kirk, as well as the rights and wrongs of hammering nails through your penis. There’s added joy from some nuns on the run and - finally - some good news for Keir Starmer and the families of the 97 victims of the Hillsborough Disaster. We also bring you the latest in women’s sport and some very strange noises from Hannah’s neighbour. Learn more about your

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34:16

Rated or Dated: Psycho (1960)

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2025/09/17

What’s a young man to do when he can’t stop murdering women he fancies? Blame his mum, obviously. The malign power of mothers is just one of several themes raised by the genre-defining Hitchcock classic and discussed by Mick, Hannah and Jen. Hold onto your shower curtains, it’s time for some piercing violin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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29:46

Kate Bryan wants you to art

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2025/09/16

Art historian, curator and broadcaster Kate Bryan is on a mission to wrest control of the art world from asymmetric haircuts and aloofness, and put it firmly back in the hands of us all. In her new book, How To Art, which is illustrated by David Shrigley, she sets about doing exactly that. Jen chats to Kate about entering the art world from a working-class background, how to talk about art even if you don’t really know what you’re talking about, and why snobbery is so rife in the art

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25:12

Harriet Dyer asks you to please turn down your puffer...

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2025/09/15

It’s silly turned up to 11, as Mick catches up with brilliantly bonkers comedian Harriet Dyer, who describes her standup as a fizzy blancmange of whimsy. Delicious. Harriet’s currently on her biggest UK tour to date with her show Easily Distra…, but found some time to chat to Mick about mental health, getting trapped in cupboards and what she’s like at parties. Tickets for Harriet’s tour can be found here: harrietdyer.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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26:12

Maia Novi and Invasive Species

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2025/09/12

After a much-lauded off Broadway run, Maia Novi's play about the time she was involuntarily held in a mental health facility has arrived in the UK. The Argentine writer and actor speaks to Hannah about Invasive Species, inner monologues, ambition and the advice Michaela Coel gave her.Tickets for Invasive Species are here: https://kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/invasive-species-q1qt More info about the Standard Issue membership club is here: Standard Issue Podcast | creating a magazine for ears, by

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29:00

The Bush Telegraph: A man’s best froggy hypocrite

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2025/09/11

Mick and Jen are on Bush Telegraph duties this week and, unlike it does for Sabrina Carpenter, the idea of men doing more housework is not getting them going. In other news, can you kill someone with menstrual blood? And was Angela Rayner right to resign? Plus, Jenny Off the Blocks returns with all things women’s sport.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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34:25

Rated or Dated: Brokeback Mountain (2005)

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2025/09/10

The "gay cowboy movie" certainly opened the door for a lot of other films, but how does it fare 20 years later? Hankies at the ready as we take another look at the small story, big landscape romance that was robbed at the Oscars. Don't @ us.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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27:43

Witch? Refugee? Tragic hero? Natalie Haynes talks Medea

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2025/09/09

The story of Medea has been popular since antiquity and continues to endure today. Not least because big names want what’s undoubtedly one of the meatiest female roles in theatre. Meatiest in its most gruesome sense, as Medea is most famous for killing her children in order to get revenge on her faithless husband. Or at least that’s the headlines. It is, of course, more complicated (if no less horrifying) than that, so our Mick was delighted that author, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes’

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27:50

Dr Ingrid Clayton on the fourth "F" of trauma

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2025/09/08

It took clinical psychologist, trauma therapist and complex trauma survivor Dr Ingrid Clayton years to understand how she had reacted to abuse within her home as a young person. But what she later understood to be a relational-trauma response known as “fawning” also helped her to make sense of her behaviour and relationships in the years that followed. And now that work informs her book, Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves. Jen chats to Ingrid about why we sometimes lean into

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32:28

Flicking #65: Better Man

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2025/09/05

It’s Robbie Williams, but he’s a chimp! But is there anything more to Michael Gracey’s biopic jukebox musical drama about the British pop phenomenon? Are there any facts in it? And will you look at that cast: Steve Pemberton! Alison Steadman! Damon Herriman! Jonno Davies (who? what?). It’s (oddly) Hannah’s pick, (poor?) Yosra’s second watch and (warning) may contain Mick singing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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24:45

The Bush Telegraph: Back from the dead?

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2025/09/04

Returning from a BT hiatus, Mickey and Hannah take a rifle through some of the daftest stories of the week, including AI failures, ball pits, watered down beer, rumours of Trump's death and odd book choices. While in Sexism of The Week, it turns out everything has been fixed in our absence. Oh no wait, it hasn't. Shame. Chloe's story about The Salt Path is

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26:50

Rated or Dated: Postcards from the Edge (1990)

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2025/09/03

Is there anything Meryl Streep and/or Shirley MacLaine can’t do? It's a question we return to, as we settle down with Mike Nichol’s 1990 dramedy, based on Carrie Fisher’s semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. But to what extent is it based on Fisher’s real-life relationship with her mum, Debbie Reynolds? How well does it reflect issues around addiction? And, another question we return to: what is Roger Ebert even on about? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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27:49

Here come the (incredibly divisive) girls

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2025/09/02

A century after their birth, the Mitford Sisters continue to fascinate and appal in equal measure. As a new play about them, The Party Girls, opens at The Marlowe in Canterbury, Hannah chats to playwright Amy Rosenthal about why their stories still resonate, sisterhood and the frivolity of evil. Tickets for The Party Girls are here: https://showtours.co.uk/the-party-girls-tour-dates/ More info about becoming a Standard Issue supporter is here: Standard Issue Podcast | creating a magazine for

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24:15

Jackie Morris and Tamsin Abbott are wild folk

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2025/08/29

Fairy tales have long been a source of life lessons and observations. Adding to that tradition and brimming with female power, Wild Folk: Tales From the Stones, by writer and illustrator Jackie Morris and stained glass artist Tamsin Abbott, is officially one of the most beautiful books in our Mick’s possession.She chats with Jackie and Tamsin about the power of stories, the collaborative process, finding just the right sky and that aforementioned female power. Wild Folk isn’t as easily available

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25:37

Rated or Dated: Top Hat (1935)

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2025/08/27

Featuring a couple of bona fide bangers by Irving Berlin, this Fred and Ginger bonanza, in which misunderstandings, misidentification and miscommunication slows true love’s flow, was the pair’s most successful film. But will the ‘idiot plot’ be too frustrating for words? Can Mick deal with the sheer amount of tap dancing? Why is Hannah screaming and refusing to look at the screen? And what am “Venice”?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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28:31

Karen Dobres’ bitch invasion

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2025/08/26

In 2017, fashion model and counsellor-turned gender equality campaigner Karen Dobres, found herself on the board of her local football club Lewes FC, despite never having had an interest in the sport. But she discovered a passion for the women’s game and The Rooks made headlines as the first football club ever to pay its men’s and women’s team players equally. Her new book Pitch Invasion: My Story as a Feminist on a Football Club Board charts her time on the board. Jen caught up with Karen to chat

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28:52

The world as you know it no longer exists

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2025/08/22

Hold Fast, the latest series of the BBC World Service's Lives Less Ordinary podcast, tells the extraordinary tale of the Avontuur, a 100-year-old sailing cargo ship which left Germany heading for the Caribbean in early 2020. What happened next could never have been predicted, as the world was gripped by a global pandemic and the 15-strong crew found themselves unable to disembark for 188 days. Hannah was delighted to chat to producer Christina Hardinge and composer Noémie Ducimetière about making a

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66:18

Outside The Box August 2025

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2025/08/21

This month's Outside The Box is a podcast of two halves. First up, Mickey and Hannah are chatting about Department Q, Untamed, Bookish and Parenthood. Then Jen arrives, and she and Hannah discuss Unforgivable, The Gone, Too Much, The Gilded Age and 1000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story. Yes, that is a whole lot of telly.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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28:26

Rated or Dated: Babe (1995)

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2025/08/20

A pig herding sheep? A kids film getting loads of Oscar nods? A main role containing just 16 lines of dialogue? Join Hannah and Jen as they discuss these and other unheard of (unherd of?) things, after watching an understated farmyard classic.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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