Standard Issue Podcast

It's too rainy, right? Let's all spend the weekend in front of the telly catching up on some excellent documentaries. We chat The Social Dilemma, A Perfect Crime and Challenger: The Final Flight in this month's Outside The Box. Hannah admits to having watched series two of Ghosts twice already and gives Mickey the hard sell, and we talk Des and whether it's fair to judge something on what you wanted it to be rather than what it was. Plus we have feelings on the cancellation of Glow. Because WTF, Netflix?

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Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp and comedian Laura Lexx is the romance we all need right now. Yeah yeah, it’s not real, but it is joyous. You can and should read all about it in Laura’s book, Klopp Actually: (Imaginary) Life With Football’s Most Sensible Heartthrob. She tells our Mick how it all came about, what the man himself thinks so far, and why it’s best to treat Twitter like a child. 

Meanwhile, Jen's slowly easing herself back into work by talking to Rowan Davies head of policy and campaigns at Mumsnet and Maria Booker, programmes director at Birthrights, about their survey on consent and information in the antenatal period. 

In Rated or Dated, Hannah is forced to gird her loins as she and Mick find out whether Goldie-Hawn vehicle Private Benjamin has stood the test of 40 years' time. And there are bears, hammers, Mickey for POTUS (again), and more bears (but chonky) in the Bush Telegraph.

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Incels, pick-up artists, men's rights activists; the internet is literally crawling with angry men and as Laura Bates found out, they are more than happy to indoctrinate youngsters too. The writer and creator of the Everyday Sexism project tells us about her new book, Men Who Hate Women, how online bile is bleeding into the mainstream and why tech companies need to do more to prevent it. It's some sobering, but vital, listening. Tuck in.

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It's that time of the month where Hannah, Mick and our resident film buff Yosra Osman chat about their favourite films. This time Mick's picked 1984's supernatural comedy classic, Ghostbusters. But what about underused Winston? And, erm, predatory Venkman? If Hannah and Yosra don't like it, who's Mick gonna call? (Ghostbusters: 555-2368)

Also features cat interludes and the mystery of why Hannah's hands aren't where we can see them.  

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Wondering what lockdown did to the nation's physical and mental health? Then wonder no longer, because this week Hannah's been on the phone to Dr Daisy Fancourt, one of the team behind the Covid Social Study, to find out how things like sex, age, race and socio-economic grouping absolutely affected how you will have experienced the last six months. Hazel Davis chats to Michelle Rawlins, author of Women Of Steel, which charts the story of the incredible Sheffield women who stepped up during World War II to keep the foundry fires burning. In Rated or Dated, we're bemoaning the wanton waste of perfectly good whiskey - and Jerry Bruckheimer's vision of feminism - as we watch soon-to-be 20 Coyote Ugly. And in the Bush Telegraph, Mick's chatting Brexit, Hannah's chatting Trump and we're all thanking monkey Jesus that David Attenborough's joined Instagram. Tuck in!

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Monday 28 September is International Safe Abortion Day and our hard-working, very tired friends at Alliance 4 Choice got in touch to let us know that while the usual March For Choice can’t happen this year because pandemic, they’ve got some activities lined up over the weekend to celebrate it. It seemed the perfect opportunity to have a catch up about where abortion rights are at in Northern Ireland, with our neighbours in Ireland, and in Gibraltar, Malta and Poland. And so, we’re talking to Danielle Roberts of Northern Ireland’s Alliance For Choice, Anna Carnegie of Ireland’s Abortion Rights Campaign, Selena Victory of No More Shame and Gibraltar For Yes, and – of course! – the powerhouse that is Abortion Support Network’s Mara Clarke.

Happy International Safe Abortion Day! Let’s make bodily autonomy something that every woman can celebrate. 

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One last face-to-face interview before we all become inside people again? You got it. Mick meets up with our music guru/mother of kittens Liz Buckley to celebrate Joan Jett, an incredible musician who isn’t letting turning 62 get in the way of being a rock icon. Hannah gets on the blower to Kaya Stanley Money, executive director of Camden People's Theatre, to find out what's next, both for that venue and for theatre as a whole, why theatre is so expensive to make and the joy of digital.

Plus, in the Bush Telegraph, there’s the Notorious RBG, a surprisingly clear take on what’s what with the government and Covid, and a return to Gilead. And, 30 years on, how are Mick and Hannah’s loving feelings for 1990 supernatural tissue-fest Ghost? And exactly how erotic is *that* pottery scene? Answers and, to be fair, many more questions raised, in this week’s Rated or Dated. 

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In this week's Chops, Hannah chats to radio producer and presenter Katherine Boyle about her move (along with Iain Lee) to Amazon's new streaming service Twitch. They talk about equal pay in radio, niche fandom, working with the Great British Public and the mental health of the nation. Tuck in!

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Welcome to our third Zoomcast - yes we're sticking with that word - where we're joined by comedian and author Jane Hill, and the writer and one third of Drunk Women Solving Crime, Hannah George. We talk about happiness, injuring yourself on the toilet, whether audio books are the ultimate in laziness, and if any of our clothes fit us anymore. You are welcome.

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Dr Jess Taylor is a feminist psychologist, founder and owner of VictimFocus, and author of essential read, Why Women Are Blamed For Everything – an exploration of the many reasons women are blamed for male violence. Because aren't we just? She chats to our Mick about ‘victim’ versus ‘survivor’, how education and the media are letting us all down, and unpicking the tangle of reasons that leads us to blame women for sexual violence committed against them.

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