Standard Issue Podcast

This week we’re doing things a bit differently. We’re always wanging on about how gender inequality is a ballbag for everyone – because it is. And so, around International Men’s Day on November 19, we decided to do a series of interviews where we chatted to blokes about what’s going on with the dudes.

In this episode, Mickey has a frank and frankly heartbreaking conversation with Luke Hart about how language around domestic violence and coercive control needs to change. Luke is a domestic violence campaigner and co-author, alongside his brother Ryan, of Operation Lighthouse, which tells the story around how his mum Claire and sister Charlotte were murdered by his father.

The National Domestic Violence Freephone Helpline is 0808 2000 247.

In our other #IMD interviews, Mickey chats with author and mental health advocate Matt Haig about brain diahorrea, Hannah talks booze culture and growing up the child of an alcoholic with Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth, Jen chats how sport can help kids in communties affected by crime and violence with Fight For Peace's Dr Jacob Whittingham Vigors, and also talks to writer, performer and campaigner Jordan Stephens about toxic masculinity.

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In this Chops, the team chats with historian Dr Fern Riddell, author of The Victorian Guide To Sex and Death In Ten Minutes: Kitty Marion: Activist, Arsonist, Suffragette. Dr Fern explains the joys and importance of being an #immodest woman, what the Victorians can teach us about sex (spoiler: it's a fuckload), and talks about the life of Kitty Marion, music hall actress, fierce woman, suffragette and Fern's original #MeToo moment. We also discover that Captain Offord does NOT find scary raves a turn on and that Hannah's some sort of airforce royalty.

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This week we’re doing things a bit differently. We’re always wanging on about how gender inequality is a ballbag for everyone – because it is. And so, ahead of International Men’s Day on November 19, we decided to do a series of interviews where we chatted to blokes about what’s going on with the dudes.

In this episode, Jen catches up with writer, performer and campaigner Jordan Stephens, who found fame at a young age as part of hip-hop duo, Rizzle Kicks. They talked about toxic masculinity, redefining prescribed gender characteristics and why putting men on a pedestal can actually harm them.

If some of the subjects Jen and Jordan touch on in this interview have affected you, or you feel you need to talk, you can contact the Samaritans in the UK and Republic of Ireland by phone on: 116 123, or via email at: [email protected] (UK)/[email protected] (ROI).

Keep your ears peeled for chats with writer and mental health advocate Matt Haig; Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth; Dr Jacob Whittingham Vigors of Fight For Peace; and domestic violence campaigner Luke Hart.

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This week we’re doing things a bit differently. We’re always wanging on about how gender inequality is a ballbag for everyone – because it is. And so, ahead of International Men’s Day on November 19, we decided to do a series of interviews where we chatted to blokes about what’s going on with the dudes. Keep your ears peeled for chats with writer and mental health advocate Matt Haig; writer, performer and campaigner Jordan Stephens; Dr Jacob Whittingham Vigors of Fight For Peace; and domestic violence campaigner Luke Hart.  

Because next week is also Alcohol Awareness Week, Hannah went down to Westminister to talk to Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth about being the child of an alcoholic, how society views drinking and why it's good to talk, no matter how hard it seems. 

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In this month's Outside The Box, we talk HBO's Intimacy Co-ordinators, plus House of Cards, Daredevil, what's keeping Luther, a big cancellation and Informer. Which is all but nothing to the news that Deadwood is finally returning. Deadwood, Deadwood, Deadwood. Get it in your ears. Also, Deadwood.

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This week we’re doing things a bit differently. We’re always wanging on about how gender inequality is a ballbag for everyone – because it is. And so, ahead of International Men’s Day on November 19, we decided to do a series of interviews where we chatted to blokes about what’s going on with the dudes. Keep your ears peeled for chats with writer Matt Haig, Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth MP, writer, performer and campaigner Jordan Stephens, and domestic violence campaigner Luke Hart.

In this episode Jen took herself off to North Woolwich to meet Dr Jacob Whittingham-Vigors, Head of Programmes at the Fight For Peace London Academy. They chatted about the organisation's work using boxing and martial arts among other things, to help support the development of young people in communities affected by crime and violence, the challenges facing young men in inner cities, and the life lessons of Rocky Balboa. 

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With the 22nd UK Jewish Film Festival in full swing at cinemas around the country, Hannah recently managed to grab some time with Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann about her brilliant documentary The Waldheim Waltz, which examines how Austria came to elect Kurt Waldheim, a former Nazi, to the role of president during the 1980s. No, really.

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This week we’re doing things a bit differently. We’re always wanging on about how gender inequality is a ballbag for everyone – because it is. And so, ahead of International Men’s Day on November 19, we decided to do a series of interviews where we chatted to blokes about what’s going on with the dudes. Keep your ears peeled for chats with Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth MP, writer, performer and campaigner Jordan Stephens, domestic violence campaigner Luke Hart and Dr Jacob Whittingham-Vigors of Fight For Peace.

We’re kicking off our series of man specials with Mickey talking to awesome author and mental health advocate Matt Haig brain diahorrea, the many perils of Twitter and how Netflix has got it in for shut-eye. 

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The team were delighted to catch up with author and performer, A.L. Kennedy ahead of the publication of her cracking new book The Little Snake. As well as the book, they chatted about the state of the nation, the art of storytelling, and the curious incident of the dog and the plate glass window, and as you'll hear, they had a very lovely time indeed.

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In this episode, the team chat cash-money with journalist and author of Money: A User's Guide, Laura Whateley, revealing Mick's allergy to the word 'pension' in the process. They're also joined by Anna Bogutskaya, festival director of Underwire, the only film festival dedicated to celebrating female talent, which kicks off on November 16. Mick catches up with Alliance For Choice's Danielle Roberts to find out where things are at in the fight for abortion rights in Northern Ireland, Jen natters with Team GB trampolinist Kat Driscoll ahead of the Trampoline World Championships and Dunleavy Does Disney's Wreck-It Ralph. Also, meat-faced jizzclown David Cameron makes an unwelcome return to the Bush Telegraph and Swim England blames 'the past' for its sexism of the week.

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