Millions of people in the UK are doing Lockdown alone, but you'd be mistaken for thinking they don't exist if you listened to the Government or the media. So, Hannah got on the phone to comedian Lou Conran to swap stories of Solo Lockdown. They chat about filling the hours, irrational and rational fears, and what this whole shebang can tell us about the value we put on childless or single women. Have at it! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. See...
May 24, 2020•33 min
Maytree is a respite centre for people who are feeling suicidal, and this week our Jen chats to its director, Natalie Howarth, about the impact of lockdown on our mental health and how to help someone you’re worried might be suffering. Mick catches up with consumer rights queen Vix Leyton about what’s what in the time of coronavirus, how Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act remains the consumer’s friend and the places online that can help you chase claims. Sport is (sort of) BACK in Jenny off t...
May 20, 2020•1 hr 21 min
What can we learn from the ancient Greeks? And what should we probably unlearn from them? In this episode, Jen chats to Professor Helen Morales, classicist and Argyropoulos Chair in Hellenic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They chat about Helen's new book Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths and how ancient misogyny still underpins modern society, as well as some pilgrimages to Dollywood, among other things. Support this show http://supporter.acast.c...
May 17, 2020•36 min
Back on February 14 this year, Mickey and Hannah were joined by actor and one-woman cat herd Pauline McLynn and journalist, political commentator and comedian Ayesha Hazarika. Now then, there’s some stuff in here that is clearly just jokes and lols – we absolutely do not endorse alcoholism or stalking. But hopefully you already knew that. And it’s very much worth remembering this was recorded back in February before we were officially in a global pandemic, And so, please get ready for topics inc...
May 13, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 374
Back on February 14 this year, Mickey and Hannah were joined by actor and one-woman cat herd Pauline McLynn and journalist, political commentator and comedian Ayesha Hazarika. Now then, there’s some stuff in here that is clearly just jokes and lols – we absolutely do not endorse alcoholism or stalking. But hopefully you already knew that. And it’s very much worth remembering this was recorded back in February before we were officially in a global pandemic. And so, please get ready for topics inc...
May 13, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 374
Since cinemas are consigned to the list of things we used to do in these coronavirus-y times, we decided to have a watch of some of our own favourite films. Jen chose first, and opens this series with "classic" 90s comedy, Kindergarten Cop . Yes, we were surprised too. But can a man looking after children sustain the interest of the rest of our intrepid viewers for an hour and 50 minutes? Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy ...
May 09, 2020•26 min
Young love, epic drugs binges, basketball, a golden box and an orange Michael Sheen - this month's Outside The Box has it all. We chat the highs and lows of Quiz, Normal People, Mike Judge Presents Tales From The Tour Bus, The Last Dance, Unorthodox, Devs and The A Word . 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. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
May 08, 2020•39 min
We all miss hugging our friends, right? But will we ever feel safe to do it again? This week, Mickey got on the phone to psychotherapist Jane Watson to find out why all our emotions are clamouring to have a go in lockdown and how we can prepare ourselves for the outside world again. Hannah chats to Sarah Halls of Wintercomfort, an outreach service for rough sleepers, about how they are coping in the current chaos. Plus she's talking about Biden vs Trump with comedian Kate McCabe. In Jenny Off Th...
May 06, 2020•1 hr 35 min
Quizzes are helping make Lockdown UK a bit more bearable, but you already knew that, right? Have a point! Hannah got on the phone with quiz enthusiasts and hosts of the excellent podcast Fingers on Buzzers , comedian Lucy Porter and The Chase 's Jenny Ryan. They chat about why we just love getting questions right, how quizzes are the perfect tool for socially-distanced socialising and what the nation's favourite quiz shows can tell us about society at any given time. Support this show http://sup...
May 03, 2020•33 min
In this week’s podzine, Mick chats to Sam Hudson of the charity Women For Refugee Women about how women refugees in the UK are faring in the Covid-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, on the business side of the coronavirus crisis, Jen chats to Hannah Turner-Voakes, founder and director of small business Paper Dress Vintage, about the impact of the virus and lockdown. Following on from BBC programme The Restaurant That Burns Off Calories , writer Lucy Nichol catches up with campaigner and author Hope Virgo t...
Apr 29, 2020•1 hr 24 min
The Fawcett Society has been fighting sex inequality since 1886. Mick caught up with its CEO, Sam Smethers, to talk specifically about women and Coronavirus, and how the pandemic is further highlighting structural inequality. Which is bad, yes, but Sam does have hope that this means those at the top might realise things need to change when it comes to moving forward post-Coronavirus. https://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on...
Apr 26, 2020•26 min•Ep. 368
Snakes on a podcast! It's almost a theme this week. But not quite. We'll get to the reptiles in odd places, but first journalist, author and beauty guru Sali Hughes chats to Mick about her work as co-founder the excellent Beauty Banks charity and #HelpingHands, its sibling initiative getting essential toiletries to people in need during the pandemic. Ahead of Shakespeare Day, Hazel Davis chats to Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford, about why the Bard enjoys such longevity, an...
Apr 22, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 367
We don’t know about you, but animals are playing a big part in keeping us sane (sort of) in these unsettling times. And so, Hannah and Mick got on the Zoom to Dr Judy Puddifoot – TV vet and all-round top woman – to ask her advice on looking after your pets in the lockdown and put those myths about animals spreading the virus to bed. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. V...
Apr 19, 2020•24 min•Ep. 366
With reports of domestic violence soaring in LockdownUK, Mickey gets on the phone to Dawn Redshaw, who runs two women’s refuges in Salford, to learn how they are coping and what we can do to help. We've all lost track of what's happening with Brexit, so Hannah asks Best For Britain CEO and Remainiacs host Naomi Smith for the latest. Writer and mental health campaigner Natasha Devon tells Mick and Jen about her new book Yes You Can: Ace Your Exams Without Losing Your Mind. The boss, Sarah Millica...
Apr 15, 2020•1 hr 20 min
The coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc on the NHS and among users of the healthcare system, including pregnant women. Currently up the duff, our Jen caught up with Rebecca Schiller co-founder and trustee of Birthrights, and author of the very excellent book Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan: A Revolutionary Guide to Pregnancy, Birth and the Weeks That Follow . They chatted about what Birthrights is doing to help provide advice to, and advocate for pregnant women, what impact coronavirus is having...
Apr 12, 2020•33 min
Got a huge amount of time to watch TV? Struggling to watch TV? Either way, we feel you. In this month's Outside the Box, we chat Tiger King, In My Skin, Trigonometry, The Nest and The English Game . Plus Hannah and Mick finally catch up with Tim Minchin's Upright *chef's kiss*. 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. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Apr 10, 2020•37 min
In this episode, Jen chats to Rebecca Schiller, co-founder and trustee of Birthrights, about what they’re doing to help pregnant women during the coronavirus outbreak. Mick has a natter with Kayleigh Llewellyn, writer and creator of award-winning BBC comedy drama series In My Skin . Rachel Reeves, now shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, spoke to Jen back in March about her book Women of Westminster , and why we need to see more women in the top jobs in government. In Jenny Off The Block...
Apr 08, 2020•1 hr 50 min
In this episode Jen chats to Layla Saad, teacher, speaker and author of new book White Supremacy and Me: How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism, and Change the World. They talk about white supremacy and why white people need to dismantle it, the intersection of privileges, performative wokeness and, er, Laurence Fox. 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 meg...
Apr 05, 2020•33 min
Sarah Millican, Rachel Parris, Nacoa, front room personal training, autism, Coronavirus, unsexy disaster, and tit slings: it is a BUMPER episode. Hannah catches up with Hilary Henriques from charity Nacoa to find out how they're continuing to provide support to children of alcoholics in Lockdown UK, and she also talks to comedian Rachel Parris, who explains what it's like to have Coronavirus, as well as what's coming up for fans of The Mash Report . And it’s World Autism Awareness Week, so Mick ...
Apr 01, 2020•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 360
With the world in chaos, there's never been a more important time to look after your staff, so Hannah's been talking to The Royal Society of Chemistry CEO Dr Helen Pain and Laura Norton, Senior Programme Manager (Inclusion & Diversity), about its new support line. They chat about the advice and support they are providing for people experiencing (or indeed witnessing) bullying and harassment in the workplace, why it's needed and why it's vital to reach those guilty of bullying as well those b...
Mar 29, 2020•24 min
In a time where the need for a steady ship couldn't be greater, and ahead of an anticipated announcement about the result of the Labour Party's leadership contest, Jen caught up with leadership adviser Niamh O'Keeffe. They talk about her new book Future Shaper: How Leaders Can Take Charge in an Uncertain World , what makes a good leader, and who's running the coronavirus show on the world stage, right now. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. See ...
Mar 29, 2020•36 min
If you've found the last few weeks stressful - and who hasn't? - we're here with some help. Mick talks to Katya Jezzard-Puyraud of Lighthearts UK to get some tips on dealing with anxiety, and long-time home edder Hazel Davies gives us some tips for coping now that schools have all been shut. We've also got Abortion Support Network’s Mara Clarke filling us in on what’s happening to women needing to access abortion services in the time of coronavirus. And in Jenny Off The Blocks, Jen chats to jour...
Mar 25, 2020•1 hr 36 min
Kate Isaacs is the founder of the #NotYourPorn campaign, whose mission is to hold porn companies to account. She believes revenge porn should not be a porn category, and consent should come before profit. Which you'd think would be hard to argue with. However, as you’re about to hear in this chat she had with our Mickey, Pornhub – very much the Johnny Big Balls of commercialised porn – isn’t making it easy for victims of non-consensual porn to get justice. Or indeed, videos taken down. You can h...
Mar 22, 2020•51 min•Ep. 356
This week's podcast comes straight from our respective self-isolation bunkers, because frankly, we can't sustain this rate of hand-washing. Joining us - and you - is our resident music guru Liz Buckley, who brings us some much needed joy by way of the Pet Shop Boys. Hannah goes to author Claire Allan for some advice on what to get our reading chops around during these most-long of days. We're herding nans and chomping on budget apples in the Bush Telegraph, while in Jenny off The Blocks, Jen is ...
Mar 18, 2020•1 hr 29 min
The art world's not exactly been what you'd call welcoming to women over the years, as you can discover at London's Guildhall Art Gallery's latest exhibition Enchanted Interiors . In this week's Chops, Hannah chats to curator Katty Pearce about the gilded cages women have been kept in, the glass ceiling facing female artists and whether or not the Pre-Raphaelites deserve all the side-eye Hannah's been giving them. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Aca...
Mar 15, 2020•22 min
There's probably never been a better time to stay inside and watch some TV, so let us give you some pointers in March's Outside The Box. We talk Inside No 9, This Country, Bojack Horseman, Home, Last Tango in Halifax, Night on Earth, Rio and Kate: Becoming A Step Family, The Stranger, The Trials of Gabriel Fernadez and Locke and Key. Yes, that's a whole lot of telly. * If you're looking for that link Hanah promises on Reconstruction , look no further: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7ypw_mNn8A ...
Mar 13, 2020•46 min
With very clean hands, this week's podzine brings you Sex and Lies , as author Leila Slimani tells Jen all about her new book looking at the secret sex lives of women in Morocco, a country that still expects its women to be virgins or married. Part of the brilliant Vaults Festival, Miles Apart Together is a new play charting world-beating feats accomplished by women you've never heard of. But you're hearing about them now, as actor Meg Kubota tells our Hannah about Annie "Londonderry" Kopchovsky...
Mar 11, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 353
It's the last in this year's International Women's Day series (although, in truth, every day is IWD at Standard Issue) and Hannah has been to chat to writer and photographer Samra Habib. They talk about her book We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir , and about what it's like both to be LGBT in Muslim communities and a Muslim in LGBT communities. Don't forget to listen to all our our IWD20 series, where we talk to brilliant women including Amelia Bullmore, Sophie Walker, Helen Lewis, V...
Mar 08, 2020•31 min
For this, the International Women’s Day Eve episode in our series of IWD 2020 interviews, Mick caught up with fierce feminist, relentless activist and CEO of the Women’s Resource Centre, Vivienne Hayes. They chat challenging systemic sexism, class, the power of solidarity, the vital importance of women’s spaces and Pay Back The Tampon Tax – the Women’s Resource Centre’s excellent campaign for the government to give the cash raised by VAT on tampons and sanitary pads to the women’s sector. Which ...
Mar 07, 2020•45 min•Ep. 351
In part five of our series for International Women's Day 2020, Jen and Mick talk to Helen Lewis, journalist and author of the new book Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights . They talk about speaking up, erasing history, cancel culture, and the #oneballcampaign, among many other things. Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights is available now, published by Jonathan Cape. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...
Mar 06, 2020•48 min
