In this week's episode, Mick and Hannah take a trip to Dublin to join the March For Choice and find out what's been going on since the #Repealthe8th referendum back in May, where they natter with a few familiar voices, as well as make some new friends. Mick has a chat with host of the Wanna Be podcast and CEO of the Shoutout Network, Imriel Morgan, to find out why Black History Month is so important and how everyone can and should celebrate it. The team catch up with poetry anthologist Ana Samps...
Oct 03, 2018•1 hr 14 min
On October 20, we'll be in London for the People's Vote March For The Future. In this week's Chops we talk to two women who know their stuff about Brexit, Amanda Chetwynd-Cowieson from For Our Future's Sake and campaigner and businesswoman Gina Miller, about what they think might be around the corner for the UK if or when we leave the EU. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choi...
Sep 30, 2018•41 min
It's gigcast time again and this week we've a real treat for you, the first of the two In Conversation events we recorded at the Stand comedy club during this year's Edinburgh Festival. Hannah and Mickey were joined on stage by comedian and political commentator Ayesha Hazarika, stand-up Lucy Porter and actress and all-round gem Sharon Rooney. They chatted about who's a currant bun (we all are, apparently), that time Lucy got married aged four and why Ed Miliband can't book his own taxis. What e...
Sep 26, 2018•1 hr 2 min
In Chops Two-o (let's just roll with it), our Mick catches up with Jude Christian, director of and fierce imagination behind othellomacbeth , a fresh, feminist mash-up of two of Shakespeare's best-known and most-performed plays. They chat about the Bard, OJ Simpson, wronged women in and out of Shakespeare, the problem with heroes, the Me Too movement and Katie Hopkins as a giant rat. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...
Sep 23, 2018•43 min•Ep. 155
In this week's Chops Uno, Jen and Hannah chat with the properly awesome Natasha Devon, campaigner, Mental Health Collective member and author of A Beginner's Guide To Being Mental, An A-Z From Anxiety to Zero Fucks Given . Topics covered include the rise in self-harm among children, particularly young girls, the perils of social media, and how we can all learn to feel better about ourselves. They also talk about Natasha's excellent Where's Your Head At campaign, which aims to make workplaces mor...
Sep 23, 2018•28 min•Ep. 154
This week we've got a podcast with a difference as we bring you a podzine-gigcast hybrid, hosted by all three of the team. There's a bit of Bush Telegraph, a bit of interview-type chat, a fair few tangents and a whole lot of fun. Recorded live at the London Podcast Festival on September 15, our frankly tremendous guests are Imriel Morgan, host of WannaBe Podcast and CEO of the ShoutOut Network, Chidera Eggerue, blogger, author, founder of #saggyboobsmatter and more commonly known as The Slumflow...
Sep 19, 2018•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 153
It's Sunday Chops time again and this week we're putting you in the capable hands of journalist Hazel Davis. In August, the WHO reclassified hoarding as a mental disorder and, as the child of a hoarder, Hazel shares with us an honest account of her experiences and talks to psychotherapist Rachel Morris about how to help a hoarder and how to help yourself if you've grown up with one.. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...
Sep 16, 2018•33 min
New Wednesday, new podcast (let's make that a saying, eh?) and this week we've got loads of goodness for you. Mickey goes to Glasgow Women's Library to find out more about this valuable resource for women's history. And does a quiz from a Jackie annual. Natch. Hannah meets playwright Dawn King to chat about the West End debut of her award winner Foxfinder , as well as writing dystopia and the barriers for women in theatre. Author Stella Duffy drops by to inspire us to start our own Fun Palace (s...
Sep 12, 2018•1 hr 20 min
It's Sunday Chops time again and this week we have two servings for you. Loosen your belts. In this episode, Mickey and Hannah go to the Echoes of Holloway Prison exhibition to meet journalist and author Caitlin Davies to talk about her new book Bad Girls: A History of Rebels and Renegades . We chat about some of the many women who found themselves in one of the country's most famous prisons - from the Suffragettes and the Greenham Common activists to refugees and unfaithful wives, and ask what ...
Sep 09, 2018•33 min
In this week's second helping of Chops, Jen meets up with blogger, speaker and author Chidera Eggerue, aka The Slumflower, to talk about her new books What A Time to Be Alone and Scribble Yourself Feminist , why you should never seek approval for being you, how Nigerian women are killing it in UK popular culture right now, and of course, why #SaggyBoobsMatter. You can catch Chidera as part of our lineup for the #LondonPodcastFestival at 2pm on September 15, alongside Imriel Morgan and Angela Bar...
Sep 09, 2018•30 min
The team are back with an absolute corker for you this week. First up, we chat to author Hannah Begbie about her new book Mother , and caring for a child with cystic fibrosis. Jen gets double sportsy as she gets on her bike to catch up with tour guide Sophie Campbell and Jess Chu, head of diversity and inclusion at Santander, to talk about the Santander Cycle's Tour de Force, and also has a natter with Charlie Clifford and Amber Stobbs from Charlton Athletic's women's team about the start of the...
Sep 05, 2018•1 hr 39 min
It's a double portion of Chops for you this weekend, you lucky so-and-sos, so keep your ears peeled for our other offering, by way of a chat betwixt Mick, Jen and the legend that is June Sarpong, about her book Diversify . In this particular Chops, Jen and Hannah had a natter with THAT Gina Miller about her new book Rise: Life Lessons in Speaking Out, Standing Tall and Leading the Way. They also talked about being a woman in the public eye, standing strong in the face of microaggressions and, of...
Sep 02, 2018•30 min
In this Chops, Mickey and Jen meet the utterly charming June Sarpong; that's right, that excellent bird off of the telly from the golden age of youth TV. Also, broadcaster, campaigner and now author, as she's penned not one but two books: Diversify and The Power of Women . She tells us about both, about making society a better place, about how women are bloody smashing, and about how Vernon Kaye's accent baffled Hollywood stars on a weekly basis. Also contains some sort of Hollyoaks wormhole. It...
Sep 02, 2018•26 min•Ep. 147
It's gigcast time again. Two in a month? We are spoiling you. This week, we have a recording of an In Conversation event held in Sale in June, with top guests Sian Gibson, Cherylee Houston and Jennie McAlpine. They spoke to our Hannah and the boss, Sarah Millican, about smelling weather (yeah, that's a thing), meeting Take That and how, if your knickers fall down you should just keep walking. You're welcome! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. Se...
Aug 29, 2018•1 hr 10 min
In this week's Chops, Hannah has a cracking chat with Californian theatremaker Annie Saunders about her Edinburgh Fringe show Our Country, which looks at the myths of the Wild West, Antigone and childhood. They also talk younger brothers, medical marijuana and what happens when the law and your own beliefs don't coincide. Tuck in! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...
Aug 26, 2018•29 min
In this week's episode, Hannah's chatting statues being left where they belong, as she catches up with brilliant feminist activist and campaigner Caroline Criado Perez who's fighting for Emmeline Pankhurst to stay put, and she also finds out more about Annie Saunders' play Our Country , which takes in siblings, marijuana and the Wild West. Mick talks to Scottish musician and all-round top bird Carla J Easton, who's bigging up some women pop pioneers for the Edinburgh International Festival's Sin...
Aug 22, 2018•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 143
It's a Chops with a difference as we chat to four excellent women currently doing their thing up at the Edinburgh Festival. Natalie Palamides, winner of last year’s newcomer award, talks to Mick about Nate , her hilarious, physical comedy show involving a moustachioed young bloke basted in toxic masculinity but trying to do the right thing. Hannah catches up with Ingrid Garner about her play Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl In Hitler’s Germany , based on Ingrid's grandmother’s experiences as a ...
Aug 19, 2018•51 min•Ep. 142
In this episode, Mickey and Hannah had a bloody lovely time with Vicky McClure, KT Tunstall and Marian Keyes, chatting about So. Much. Stuff, including Repealed The 8th, axe injuries, de-pinking, This Is England , free crisps, bags of hair and wishing for Lynx Africa. It also contains tap dancing. Yeah, we know that’s not great for audio, but, y’know, buy a ticket; see it happen. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...
Aug 15, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 141
It's Outside The Box o'clock and our Hannah's back with TV news, reviews and opinion. This month, she's chatting Orange Is The New Black , Unforgotten , Sharp Objects , Atlanta and why she's not watching Picnic At Hanging Rock . There's also Emmy chat, Matt Groening, Catastrophe , Dark and Stranger Things news, and your views on which series have used music like a boss. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...
Aug 11, 2018•30 min•Ep. 140
On this week's podzine Team Noonan, Dunleavy & Offord are back to business. Mick preps for Standard Issue's forthcoming Edinburgh journey by having a natter with journalist Shona Craven about where to find feminism at the Fringe. Jen is chatting to a prime example of the above, by way of physiotherapist Elaine Miller who talks about her Edinburgh show Gusset Grippers, and why we need to talk about female incontinence. And Hannah catches up with comedian Tanyalee Davis to hear about her #Scoo...
Aug 08, 2018•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 139
It's Sunday Chops time again and this week we're offering up double portions. In this episode, Hannah and Mickey met author Jo Wheeler to talk about her new book The Hurricane Girls , which tells the tales of many of the women who flew planes for the ATA during the Second World War. Plus, Candy Adkins, the daughter of one of those pilots, joined in the chat too. Herewith, the dope about them... Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...
Aug 05, 2018•37 min
It's Sunday Chops time again and this week we have double portions. In this episode, Ruth Bratt, one of the super talented people behind Olivier Award-winning improvised musical Showstopper! drops by to tells us how on earth they do that. And to give us some top tips about musicals we should probably go see (and a few we shouldn't).Tuck in. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad ch...
Aug 05, 2018•38 min
As the Edinburgh Fringe festival kicks off, we talk to five women about their shows.The super funny Jen Brister talks about Meaningless and raising sons (while living with her mother); rising star Sindhu Vee chats about her debut solo show Sandhog; Jane Hill tells us why she gave up alcohol and her show Addicted To Fun ; and Kiri Pritchard-McLean looks at gaslighting in Victim, Complex . Plus, if you've ever wondered exactly how the improvised musical Showstopper! works, Ruth Bratt stops by with...
Aug 01, 2018•1 hr 20 min
The murder of Anne Searle at the hands of her husband Stephen has been all over the news, and some of the reporting has been appalling – minimising violence against women. Our Mickey chats to Katie Ghose, Chief Executive of Women’s Aid, about what needs to be change in the media, the Femicide Census, the severe threat to women’s refuges, the forthcoming Domestic Violence Bill and what we can all do to help. Photo of Katie Ghose courtesy of Gus Palmer. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com...
Jul 29, 2018•17 min•Ep. 135
It's gigcast time and for this recording back in May, Mick and Hannah travelled to Salford's The Lowry to chat to comedian Lou Conran and actor Julie Hesmondhalgh – diamonds, the pair of 'em. Topics covered include fake legs, bad badges for kids, platinum wallpaper and apologies to Jesus. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jul 25, 2018•58 min•Ep. 134
Would you look at that: a Sunday Chops on a Saturday like the maverick mofos we are. Okay, okay, the reason is: Saturday 21 July is the start of the Hockey World Cup. To learn more about the games at hand and the game in general, we chatted to Olympic gold-bagging TeamGB-ers (Rio, 2016) Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh. And they were awesome. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad c...
Jul 21, 2018•29 min•Ep. 133
Team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord are mostly enjoying a bit of outdoor time in this week's podzine, which is No 44, but should be No 45, given we recorded the Bush Telegraph special at the Women's March on London on the day of Trump's UK visit. Mickey and Hannah are surrounded by birdsong as they chat #TeamEmily with the Brontë Parsonage Museum's Lauren Livesey. Hannah also went to sunny Mold to talk Home, I'm Darling with actress Katherine Parkinson and Theatr Clwyd's Tamara Harvey. And the one ...
Jul 18, 2018•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 132
In this week's episode Team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord are back for the sweatiest of times. Our Mick catches up with the ever wonderful Mairead Enright to find out what’s been going on with abortion legislation in Ireland since the referendum; the team chat to archaeologist Sam Leggett about digging up the past; and Hannah gives you some top tips for TV watching this month. Jen is going ga-ga for Gareth Southgate and Hannah does Disney’s A Bug’s Life . And in the Bush Telegraph, it’s all Trumpy...
Jul 11, 2018•1 hr 25 min
In this Chops, Hannah and Mick chat to the awesome Dr Suzi Gage about her podcast, Say Why To Drugs , and about drugs in general: booze, prescription and illegal. And William Hague; he gets a mention, too. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jul 08, 2018•33 min•Ep. 130
In this week's episode, team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord venture OUTSIDE and somehow manage not to spontaneously burst into flames in the heat. Hannah chats to US journalist Hannah Levintova of the excellent Mother Jones about the current hoo-ha over America's Supreme Court and how it could seriously affect women's rights. She also catches up with bee queen Kath Austin to talk about the buzzy little pollinators and how they help Kath's company making food wrap. Hazel Davis talks to Marianne McNa...
Jul 04, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 129
