In this episode Jen chats to Anoushka Warden, writer and performer of My Mum's a Tw*t . They talked about Anoushka's experience of her mum joining a cult when Anoushka was 12 years old (which the play is based on), being a resilient teen and gangsta rap, obviously. 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 28, 2019•22 min
Lucie Rudd is a nurse specialising in oncology and palliative care for more than 20 years and is now an end of life care advisor at Macmillan. She chats to Mick about how wrapping your head around "normal dying" and doing some practical planning, such as writing a will or thinking about what you’d put on your bucket list, earlier rather than later can make it easier to prepare for the inevitable. And, as Lucie wisely notes, ‘Talking about dying will not make someone die.’ We’d do well to remembe...
Jul 28, 2019•35 min•Ep. 256
With the Edinburgh Fringe fast approaching, we’re doing things a bit differently this week, bringing you a selection of our top picks for the festival, and – obviously – they’re all women. We caught up with Cally Beaton about the invisibility (or not) of women over 50; Jess Fostekew talks to us about societal perceptions of strength and femininity and raising a sexist baby; Desiree Burch talks to Mick about self-discovery and All Of The Stairs at Machu Picchu; Laura Lexx tells Jen why we need to...
Jul 24, 2019•1 hr 33 min
In one of two Chops this week, Jen chats to Nicky Dias of Cruse Bereavement Care about why we grieve, why it's so utterly shit and how we can help ourselves and others experiencing a bereavement. We’ve teamed up with Macmillan again, going a bit more in-depth into the topics around death that we touched on at the panel event we did with them back in May. Our first Chops guest was the brilliant Poppy Mardall, founder and director of Poppy’s Funerals, a modern-day funeral company aiming to revolut...
Jul 21, 2019•26 min
In one of TWO Sunday Chops this week, Hannah grabbed some time with choreographer Helen Pickett, whose new narrative ballet The Crucible has its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival as part of Scottish Ballet's 50th anniversary celebrations. They talked about the enduring appeal of Arthur Miller's play, how easy it was to translate into dance and about work to get more women of colour on stage. And Megan Rapinoe. Because of course. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/s...
Jul 21, 2019•22 min
It's been a busy week at SI HQ, Mick's managed to grab some time with Alliance for Choice's Danielle Roberts to see whether last week's vote on abortion rights means it really is Now For NI. Florence Schecter comes in to tell us the latest on The Vagina Museum and we chat to Caroline Burns Cooke about the '70s sitcom legend Yootha Joyce. In Jenny Off The Blocks, Jen meets Paralympian Stef Reid to learn more about next weekend's Anniversary Games. Plus there are actual men on fire in Dunleavy Doe...
Jul 17, 2019•1 hr 16 min
In one of two Sunday Chops this week, Hannah and Mick talk to Priscilla Holbrook, one of the team behind America is Hard To See , which is heading to the Edinburgh Fringe after an award-winning off-Broadway run. It tells the story of Miracle, a community of paroled sex offenders in rural Florida, so we talked to Priscilla about how she got involved, forgiveness and whether calling such men "monsters" does more harm than good. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . H...
Jul 14, 2019•26 min
In this one of two Chops this week, Hannah and Mick catch up with restaurateur, writer and blogger Saima Thompson, who just also happens to be a stage 4 cancer patient. We talked about HOW to talk about death, why it’s important, the reactions of others, cancer and mental health and how perspective changes when you're prognosis is terminal. We’ve teamed up with Macmillan again going a bit more in-depth into the topics around death that we touched on at the panel event we did with them back in Ma...
Jul 14, 2019•31 min•Ep. 251
We're taking a trip to the Upside Down in this month's Outside The Box, when Hannah and Mick chat Stranger Things . There's a whole heap of Matt Berry in What We Do In The Shadows and The Year of The Rabbit . Jen's finally watched Big Little Lies . Plus there's Waco and Surviving America's Most Hated Family . Yes, that is a lot of TV to have watched. You're welcome. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. L...
Jul 12, 2019•25 min
That’s right, Terminator 2 gets the Dunleavy Does Dystopia treatment in this week’s episode. Hold onto your trousers, Arnie fans. There are more bikes, too, as Jen chats to Caroline Folmer, bad-ass cyclist and member of the Donnons des Elles au Velo, who, if you’re not aware of them, are the female cyclists tackling the 21-stage, 3,351km track of the Tour de France. Because it’s NO WOMEN ALLOWED in the actual race. Fucksake. Mick catches up with US journalist and author Lisa Taddeo about her rem...
Jul 10, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 249
Poppy Mardall, founder and director of Poppy’s Funerals, stopped by to share her incredible insider knowledge about what happens within the funeral industry. A lot of it was Brand New Information, at least for Mick and Jen, who basically sat open-mouthed when they found out what you can legally do in your back garden. This is the first in a series of Chops running throughout July, in which we talk about death. You may remember that back in May, Hannah and Mick hosted a panel event talking about ...
Jul 07, 2019•35 min•Ep. 24
This week, team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord catch up with writer, actress and straight-up legend among women, Rebecca Humphries, to chat about her “no bullshit” beauty blog, The Trowel , and what it’s like to be in the eye of a media shitstorm. Hannah has a natter with comedian and bona-fide American Kate McCabe, to find out more about the upcoming Democratic Primary over in the US of A. And in Jenny Off The Blocks, Jen gets the lowdown on the forthcoming Netball World Cup from luminary of the g...
Jul 03, 2019•1 hr 16 min
For this week's Chops, Hannah went to London's Old Vic to meet actor, author and scene-stealer extraordinaire, Sophie Thompson, to chat about her latest play Present Laughter, the perils of fame and talking to herons. They also chatted her books for kids, Zoo Boy , and Detectorists , Because of course they did. 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/adch...
Jun 30, 2019•24 min
Back in April, Mickey and Hannah met comedian Jayde Adams and the legend that is Helen Lederer for another weird and wonderful In Conversation event. And this time, the boss, Sarah Millican dropped in, too. We talked about what we'd save from our homes in a fire, what stories stuck with us from childhood and what happened that time the cat sat on Jayde's mum's head. Tuck in! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...
Jun 26, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 255
The menstrual cycle: it and its associated hormones (big hitters = oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone) have a massive impact on women's lives. And it's not all painful cramps and mood swings. You may have heard Mickey advertising an Audible book called Period Power , which is an unputdownable 126,000 words by women's health practitioner, birth doula and go-to authority on all things menstruation, Maisie Hill. Mick and Jen had a natter with Maisie, and we're pretty sure what she has to say ...
Jun 23, 2019•35 min
A bonus edition of Outside the Box this week, because TV keeps being so relentlessly good. This time we talk Ghosts, Black Mirror, Jessica Jones, The Handmaid's Tale and Years and Years . Plus, there's news of some long-awaited returning series on Netflix. Get it in your ears! 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...
Jun 21, 2019•35 min
Sarah Millican – that’s right, the boss herself! – gets involved in this episode to talk about her new Radio 4 panel show, Elephant In The Room , which starts on Thursday 27 June. Author Dina Nayeri joins Jen and Mick to discuss how we’re treating those seeking refuge in our country, what we can do better, Dina’s own story and her new book, The Ungrateful Refugee . In JOTB, Jen catches up with gold-medal owning Olympian rower Katherine Grainger to talk what’s what in women’s sport right now, and...
Jun 19, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 243
Michael Gove's recent admission that he took cocaine in the past has seemingly affected his chances of becoming our next Prime Minister. But does anyone actually care? And if so, why? We chat to two experts, political commentator Ayesha Hazarika, and host of the Say Why To Drugs podcast Dr Suzi Gage, about who is really driving the conversation on drug use in the UK, about whether honesty is the best drugs policy and about who, if anyone, is winning the war on drugs. Support this show http://sup...
Jun 16, 2019•32 min
Comedian and author Susan Calman chats to Mickey about her new book Sunny Side Up, covering all sorts of stuff, from how to navigate the depressing political environment of people yelling at each other on Twitter to making the future a kinder place for her niece, from ‘Thumbs Up Thursdays’ to being bait on Death Row. There's also cat chat. Obviously. Over on Chops number two, Hannah asks what Michael Gove's recent drugs-related revelations mean for his crack at the Tory leadership contest, and c...
Jun 16, 2019•39 min•Ep. 241
This week we catch up with mental health writer Michelle Thomas about her debut book My Shit Therapist . Frances Ridout, director of the Legal Advice Centre at Queen Mary University London, pops by to tell us about the work she’s doing to help victims of image-based sexual abuse. There’s a sneaky taster of this week’s Sunday Chops with the absolute smasher that is Susan Calman, who's talking to Mick about her book Sunny Side Up . There’s peak Trump, good news/bad news over at Nike, and some Nige...
Jun 12, 2019•1 hr 23 min
With people finding it increasingly hard to make ends meet and growing numbers stockpiling in Brexit bunkers across the land, we caught up with food writer Jack Monroe to chat about her new book Tin Can Cook. Topics covered include massaging cows, the joy of tinned stewed steak, and why we shouldn't be celebrating food banks. 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 me...
Jun 09, 2019•22 min
Was May 2019 the best month of TV ever? Our Hannah thinks so. She, along with Mickey and Jen, talk HBO drama Chernobyl , Sally Wainwright's Gentleman Jack , Shane Meadows' The Virtues, the end of Veep AND the long-anticipated return of Deadwood . Welcome the fuck back. 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...
Jun 07, 2019•27 min
This week, we chat the battle for the right to bodily autonomy in the southern states of America with Staci Fox of Planned Parenthood Southeast. Jen meets Helen Edmundson to talk about her timely adaptation of Andrea Levy's Small Island . There's tennis and news about a free Standard Issue event in Jenny Off The Blocks, and Mickey's talking sweetie-flavoured foofs in Sexism of the Week. Wait, what? Plus, there's inter-generational strife as Dunleavy Does Dystopia watches Battle Royale . Like old...
Jun 05, 2019•1 hr 8 min
What a corker of a gigcast: Jess Phillips MP, Beverley Knight, the boss herself Sarah Millican, Mick and Hannah in the hosting seats, gambols, being bostin’, singing for the Queen, loving Prince, cannibalism in bunkers, Guns N’ Roses in Asda, fruit that’s too chowy-chowy, Scott Bakula, and some incredible signing. Recorded live in March as part of the first Birmingham Podfest. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf...
May 29, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 235
In this week's episode Jen gets giddy abut the Women's World Cup as she chats to a host of excellent women about the upcoming tournament. She's joined by Kait Borsay, host of The Offside Rule podcast to give her top tips on who to watch out for in the England Squad; Manchester City and Scotland forward Caroline Weir talks rivalry with her English teammates; filmmaker Naziha Arebi talks about her film Freedom Fields and countries where women are fighting for more than the right to play; and forme...
May 26, 2019•32 min
This week, Mick catches up with Standard Issue music guru Liz Buckley, to talk all things Miss Franklin thanks to Amazing Grace , the previously unseen 1972 recording of stone-cold soul legend, Aretha. Jen chats to Sandra Gamper and Katie Caiger, hosts of the new podcast, M's The Word , about the stigma and silence around miscarriage and baby loss. And we chat to podcaster, journalist, author and all-round multi-hyphenate Emma Gannon about the art of the side hustle. Meanwhile, there's good and ...
May 22, 2019•1 hr 7 min
Sarah Train, one of Kick It Out's professional clubs equality officers, tells Jen about the work the organisation is doing to end discrimination of all forms - including racism and homophobia - across football, and how football fans can help. Throughout May, Jen's treating you to a selection of sporty Chops in which Jen chats to: Catherine Bond-Muir, CEO of the W Series –the brand new motorsport series for women - as well as drivers Alice Powell and Emma Kimilainen, to find out how the series go...
May 19, 2019•29 min
Sally Wainwright’s Gentleman Jack hits UK screens this Sunday, and last June(!) team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord caught up with Sally on set to learn all about this new Suranne Jones-starring HBO/BBC drama. Giddy kippers? You bet your arse we were. Mickey catches up with Jo Caulfield to talk about her sister Annie Caulfield’s last book, My Cambodian Twin . Annie, who died in November 2016, was a remarkable writer and one of the Standard Issue contributors, and her final tale is an incredible one...
May 15, 2019•59 min•Ep. 231
Let's talk about death. No, wait! Come back. Most people’s immediate reaction might be that death is a morbid topic, but in reality this chat, organised by Macmillan for its Let's Talk About Death campaign and hosted by our Mick and Hannah, was warm, funny and fascinating. And important. It helped that there were four excellent women on the panel. Cathy Rentzenbrink, is the best-selling author of The Last Act of Love , written after her brother Matty’s eventual death from a road traffic accident...
May 12, 2019•59 min•Ep. 230
In this episode, Jen catches up with Associate Professor of Exercise Physiology, Jackie Forsyth and Senior Lecturer in Sport Psychology, Claire-Marie Roberts to talk about their book The Exercising Female , chatting about why more research is needed when it comes to women in sport, and even debunking the odd period myth. Throughout May, Jen's treating you to a selection of sporty Chops in which Jen chats to: Catherine Bond-Muir, CEO of the brand new motorsport series for women - the W Series - a...
May 12, 2019•33 min
