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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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26:17

Rated or Dated: Charlie’s Angels (2000)

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2025/11/05

The Destiny’s Child theme tune celebrated all the women being independent, but – question - how appropriate are those lyrics for McG’s 2000 “action-comedy” film version of the 1970s TV series? Was it made for Jen, Hannah and Mick? Was it made for any women? And how many Susan Faludi references can Mick fit into a single episode?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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26:12

Selling cowboy country with Ellie House

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2025/11/04

Radio 4 and BBC World Service reporter and producer Ellie House makes some really interesting podcasts. Her latest, The Real ‘Yellowstone’: a battle for the cowboy way of life, focuses on the proposed sale of public land in Montana and the strange political bedfellows that have resulted. Ellie and Hannah also chat about the introduction of National Service for women in Denmark and the joys of travelling for work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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55:16

Outside The Box October 2025

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2025/10/31

It's another OTB of two halves this month, with Mickey joining Hannah to chat about Riot Women, Only Murders In The Building, The Last Frontier and High Potential. Then Jen tag teams in to talk about Slow Horses, Coldwater, Blue Lights and How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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26:46

The Bush Telegraph: What a faff

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2025/10/30

As the concept of ID cards rears its ugly head once again, Hannah and Jen are asking if Keir Starmer’s revolutionary way of eliminating faff will be as effective as Brexit in terms of reducing bureaucracy. Elsewhere, it seems the Home Office could do with some help in getting its day job done. Meanwhile, Henry VIII is repping Sexism of the Week via Hemel Hempstead, there are big international fixtures in Jenny off the Blocks, and thank God, as ever, for the French. If you want to know more about

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30:34

Rated or Dated: The Long Good Friday (1980)

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2025/10/29

Or is it the long good objectification of a young Pierce Brosnan? Mick, Hannah and Jen are here to prove a Rated or Dated can be both, as they watch the cornerstone British gangster flick written by Barrie Keefe, directed by John Mackenzie, and which made a full-blown film star out of the late, great Bob Hoskins. He’s joined by a host of familiar faces, including Helen Mirren, in a film that’s prescient, political, tight and brutal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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25:28

There she goes, Gosia Buzzanca’s Beautiful World

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2025/10/27

As an 18-year-old in search of freedom and adventure, Gosia Buzzanca left her small hometown of Poznan, Poland, eventually settling in Wales. In her new book, There She Goes, My Beautiful World, she charts her physical and emotional journey, teenage traumas, love and loss. Jen chats to Gosia about her book, growing up in Poland, post-Brexit immigration in the UK, and the universal harsh realities facing young women. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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28:45

The Bush Telegraph: Allegedly...

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2025/10/23

With the Grand Old Duke of York’s title now vacant, Mick and Jen visit the horrific allegations against Prince (for now) Andrew, made in Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir, and his other right royal cock-ups. There's more horror, this time in England's maternity wards. But fear not, there's also some joy, including puppies – 13 of ‘em! Woof! – a delicious turning of the tables in SOTW, and some half decent cricket results in Jenny Off the Blocks.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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29:39

Rated or Dated: The Proposition (2005)

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2025/10/21

Can an Australian film be a Western? Can one female character represent all of womankind? Is this the best Ray Winstone? And, most importantly, who's this Nick Cave fella? Find out all the answers, as we watch John Hillcoat's blood-stained, sun-baked drama. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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27:26

Saskia Flower on Lee Miller

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2025/10/20

Model, muse, photographer, and war correspondent: Lee Miller's career covered a lot of ground. What a woman. And now at Tate Britain, you can see the most extensive exhibition of all aspects of her work the UK has seen to date.Assistant curator of the exhibition Saskia Flower catches up with Jen to chat about what's in the exhibition, Miller’s extraordinary life, and looking at both the person and her work through a different lens. Lee Miller is showing at the Tate Britain until February 15

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23:27

The internet isn't just dangerous for girls, with Tir...

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2025/10/17

We talk a lot on Standard Issue about how young women are victimised online, but young men are increasingly at risk too. Something terrifyingly obvious in Tir Dhondy's latest investigation, Blackmailed: The Sextortion Killers, now available to watch on BBC3. Hannah chats to Tir about the victims, the perpetrators and what, if anything, can be done to stop it. You can watch Tir's documentary on the iPlayer here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002kl4v/blackmailed-the-sextortion-killers For

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17:13

The Bush Telegraph: Not just for men!

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2025/10/16

Credit (albeit reluctant) where credit is due, Donald Trump’s only gone and pulled a blinder. Whether it means long-term peace in the Middle East remains doubtful, but Mick and Hannah are also wondering what’s next for Ukraine. How helpful is the word ‘tomahawk’ to any peace process? There are also – you guessed it – nuns, and a fun-for-some run. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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25:46

Rated or Dated: To Die For (1995)

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2025/10/15

Gus van Sant’s black comedy gave Nicole Kidman the opportunity to show her villainous chops to mid-90s audiences. It also took a swipe at a media-obsessed America. But 30 years on, does it feel a bit old hat to modern audiences? What was it trying to say about ambitious women? And bitches – be they crazy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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26:37

Lorraine Stansbie and Kate Flannery are Iron Ladies

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2025/10/14

Iron Ladies is a new documentary about the women of the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike, a time in which working-class women who found themselves at the forefront of a battle against the British state. They fast became the backbone of the fight: organising pickets; keeping families fed, and raising cash to continue the strike. As Lorraine Stansbie and Kate Flannery – two of those redoubtable women – tell our Mick, it changed them. And not only them; it’s fair to say their actions reshaped the landscape of

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27:34

Anne Odeke’s Even More… Ghost Stories

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2025/10/13

Following her success with Princess Essex and the previous two chapters of Ghost Stories…by Candlelight, Anne Odeke has joined forces with High Tide theatre company to co-write Even More…Ghost Stories by Candlelight. The joint production, with Pentabus Theatre, is currently touring both the east and, indeed, west of the country. Jen chats to Anne about the production, urban explorers, and her crazy year, post-Princess Dinubolu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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30:12

The rhyme and reason of history

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2025/10/10

Catherine Clarke's new book - and accompanying Radio 4 series - A History of England in 25 Poems, tackles the big issues. And the smaller ones, too. Hannah chats to her about how poetry has helped shape our view of England and whether that view is accurate, as well the importance of local history and her role as the Director of Victoria County History.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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32:03

The Bush Telegraph: Quick, get Taylor Swift in the...

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2025/10/09

If you're planning a trip to Europe or to leave your bike at a train station, or both, Hannah and Jen have got big news this week. Also, there's a new Archbishop of Canterbury, a woman no less. Who exactly? Doesn't matter. Or so it seems. You know who is good for clicks though? Taylor Swift. Best mention her a few times. Plus there's a lot of football commentator chat and a lot of women's football in Jenny Off The Blocks. The Flicking episode on Pan's Labyrinth is here:

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23:54

Emma Dennis-Edwards is Not Your Superwoman

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2025/10/07

In her play Not Your Superwoman, Emma Dennis-Edwards tackles the sometimes tricksy relationship between mums and daughters. She chats to our Mick about complex intergenerational dynamics, the expectations on mums, intergenerational trauma, the shifting nature of ‘motherland’, and how exciting it is to work with talent as big as Letitia Wright and Golda Rosheuvel. Not Your Superwoman is at the Bush Theatre, London, until November 1, but is currently fully sold out. Fingers firmly crossed for a

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22:11

Vicki Sparks is kicking off

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2025/10/06

Following an epic summer of women’s sport, the UEFA Women’s Champions League is back, starting on October 7 and broadcast in its entirety on Disney+.Jen catches up with commentator Vicki Sparks to find out more about bringing the women’s game to the House of Mouse, who Vicki’s backing in this year’s tournament, and how hard it really is to commentate on live sport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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36:18

Flicking #66: Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry

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2025/10/03

With an awards-bothering central performance from Eka Chavleishvili, Elene Naveriani’s adaptation of Tamta Melashvili’s 2020 novel got smashing reviews across the board. Set in a small, remote village in Georgia, the film brings us Etero, a single, middle-aged woman whose quiet, insular life is exploded by a near-death experience and a sexual awakening. But is Etero isolated or independent? How mean can women feasibly be to one another? Is it a sexy film? And will talking about it prove too much

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29:18

The Bush Telegraph: FINALLY

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2025/10/02

Mick and Jen tackle this week’s news, which finally (FINALLY!) finds Labour kicking the ball towards a goal – and not even an own goal – in moves* that will annoy both racists and people who like kids living in poverty. There’s also an Old Missus, some classic Mick pronunciation, Jen cheering sportswomen all over the shop, and some nuns. Obviously. *Probably. If the wind doesn’t change direction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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