In this week's Chops, Hannah chats to author Kerry Hudson about her autobiographical book Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain's Poorest Towns , which is now out in paperback. They chat about how class politics has changed post Brexit. why the middle-class view of growing up poor is often wildly inaccurate and that thorniest of words, "privilege". Have at it. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
Aug 16, 2020•34 min
Hannah and Mick are joined by excellent comedians Sophie Duker and Thanyia Moore for our second gig via the wonder of Zoom. Chat is wildly varied, taking in feet, anal hygiene for cats, true love for Michaela Coel, why powerful women get labelled as 'difficult', dungarees, silver wolves, woke foxes, the mum perspective, and the evergreen nature of fart jokes. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn mo...
Aug 12, 2020•49 min•Ep. 405
Glorious Rock Bottom is straight-talking journalist and author Bryony Gordon’s candid and compelling sobriety memoir. In this chat with our Jen, Bryony explains what made her realise her drinking was a problem, what it means to be an alcoholic, how she learned to tell the stigma around alcoholism to jog on, expectation vs reality when it comes to AA, why we need to take responsibility for our own actions, and why she decided to share her personal story with the world. Support this show http://su...
Aug 09, 2020•28 min•Ep. 404
Fancy a weekend in front of the telly? Yeah, you do. So let us offer some suggestions in August's Outside The Box, where we chat Mrs America, There She Goes, Perry Mason and The Plot Against America . Open snacks on three, two... 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...
Aug 07, 2020•24 min•Ep. 403
Everyone agrees that intimacy coordinators are a good idea, but what do they actually do? This week, Mick chats to Ita O’Brien about her work, including in Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You, to find out more. We're also catching up with Jen on maternity leave to see how she and Lyra are doing. In Dunleavy Does Disaster we watch The Last Sharknado because, well because one of you asked us to. Er, thanks? In the Bush Telegraph, we're talking about how Trump can't actually delay the next election, ...
Aug 05, 2020•1 hr 13 min
In this week's Chops, Jen chats to Prof Linda Scott, internationally-renowned expert on women's economic development and author of hit new book The Double X Economy . They chat about women's spending power, who advertising is really aimed at and if the gender pay gap isn't all a massive ploy to keep mothers at home. 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 meg...
Aug 02, 2020•25 min
Our resident film buff Yosra Osman shares her pick this week. Find out why Barry Jenkins' 2016 Oscar-winner Moonlight is (one of) her favourite(s), what Hannah and Mick make of it and just how much Yosra loves Janelle Monáe. 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...
Aug 01, 2020•27 min•Ep. 400
Lessons from history, the life-changing power of confidence, lots of Scotch and a 90s revival all play big roles in this week’s podzine. Annabel Bligh of The Conversation UK and The Anthill Podcast tells Mickey about new podcast series Recovery , a fascinating six-parter looking at key crises through history, and society’s subsequent recovery, to see if any parallels can be drawn with what’s happening today. Hannah talks to Kate Nation, founder of Turtle Dove, a charity aiming to empower young w...
Jul 29, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 399
We've some big hitters from the world of feminism for you in this week's podcast. You are welcome. First up, Mickey chats to Woman's Hour 's Jenni Murray about fat shaming, changing attitudes and her new book Fat Cow, Fat Chance . Hannah talks to Labour MP and woman of action Stella Creasy about why she's working to make misogyny a hate crime. In DDD, we're less than rapturous about the Rapture as we watch Left Behind . Plus there's bona fide good news and a correct usage of the word hero in the...
Jul 22, 2020•1 hr 7 min
Journalist and documentary maker Jenny Kleeman talks to Mickey about her astonishing debut non-fiction, Sex Robots & Vegan Meat . Five years in the writing, Jenny delves into new innovations in technology on the frontiers of sex, food, birth and death that will, in the future, change the way we live (and die) forever. They talk about the impact these technologies will have on women, which tends to be – wait for it! – negative and also tends to outweigh any negative effect on men. They also c...
Jul 19, 2020•31 min•Ep. 397
Period blood, poos stuck in windows, sex robots and death machines: squeamishness be damned in this week’s episode. Journalist and documentary maker Jenny Kleeman tells Mickey about her debut book, Sex Robots & Vegan Meat , a fascinating, terrifying and darkly funny look at technological innovations currently in the pipeline that could potentially change how we live (and die) forever. Hannah catches up with Kelly O’Sullivan, writer and star of new film Saint Frances, which opens in cinemas l...
Jul 15, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 396
Lucy Nichol takes the Chops reins this week. Society loves to stigmatise, but more often than not, the whole story isn't in the public domain. Lucy talks to a woman who had her children taken into care. They chat about her very personal story, about how things went wrong, the assumptions we make about motherhood and mental health, and what it all meant for her and her (now back together again) family. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast...
Jul 12, 2020•37 min•Ep. 395
Sold on the idea of watching things filmed in lockdown yet? We weren't immediately, but in this month's Outside The Box, we talk about the roaring success of Talking Heads and the stupid fun of Staged . Plus we're chatting The Salisbury Poisonings , The Sinner, Athlete A, Roll Red Roll and What We Do In The Shadows . And there's early thoughts on Mrs America , which we'll cover in full next month. Along with Perry Mason . Because Hannah hasn't mentioned Matthew Rhys for at least 20 minutes. Supp...
Jul 10, 2020•51 min
Lockdown and social distancing may have stopped our gigcasts, but that doesn't mean we can't try our best to replicate them for you*. So, as we had planned to go to Brighton this summer, we've instead made Brighton come to us in the form of excellent comedians Zoe Lyons and Jen Brister. We chat hardcore running, excessive drinking, using the toilet as an office and having a breakdown in the Co-op. Who doesn't want to listen to that? * Over Zoom. Yes we miss seeing your faces and look forward to ...
Jul 08, 2020•1 hr 10 min
Terri White's debut book, Coming Undone, A Memoir , is an extraordinary piece of writing that deals with child abuse, alcoholism, mental breakdown and much more. She and Mick talk about all of that and also about kids growing up in poverty and how that’s still a reality now, why trauma shouldn’t be couched in euphemisms and metaphors, how Terri's view of success has altered, and why the fuck she decided to record her own audiobook. Over on this week's other Chops, Jen chats to Ashley 'Dotty' Cha...
Jul 05, 2020•40 min•Ep. 39
Angry at the world? You probably should be. But, as Ashley 'Dotty' Charles tells us in this week's Chops, if you don't pick your battles, you can't win the war. The broadcaster and writer tells Jen about her excellent (and much-needed) new book Outraged: Why Everyone is Shouting and No One is Talking , about the difference between productive and not-at-all-helpful indignation, and how some people have built a career from being outraged. Because there's so many excellent women and not enough time...
Jul 05, 2020•35 min
Steven Spielberg's 1975 classic Jaws is our Mick's pick for this episode of Flicking. She and Hannah are joined by film buff Yosra Osman to talk the joys of Bruce the big fish, definitions of manhood, pissed-up stars, an iconic score and that speech. Because everyone's seen Jaws. Right, Yosra? 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 04, 2020•33 min•Ep. 390
Disability activist Gem Turner has been shielding, and she talks to Hannah about what that means, whether she feels ready to go back into the real world and what the last few months have taught her about how this Government views disabled people. Award-winning journalist and editor-in-chief of Empire magazine Terri White chats to Mickey about her beautiful, hard-hitting memoir Coming Undone , an extraordinary book, dealing with poverty, child abuse, alcoholism and mental breakdown. And time-trav...
Jul 01, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 389
June is Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month, which exists to raise awareness about these communities within the UK. That’s 300,000 people, and sadly, if not unsurprisingly, they’re facing racism on an individual and systemic level every day. And so Mickey caught up with Josie O Driscoll, director of GATE Herts and founder of Report Racism GRT, and Professor Margaret Greenfields, professor of Social Policy and Community Engagement at Buckinghamshire New University. Margaret shares some pretty...
Jun 28, 2020•42 min•Ep. 388
We love women, we love history, we love a whole lot of women's history. So, the good news is, in this week's podcast, Mickey chats to a Standard Issue fave, writer Anneka Harry about her new book Gender Rebels , which celebrates the diverse, defiant and daring women who changed the rules, and their identities, to get shit done. Broadcaster Sue Elliott-Nicholls has, like all of us, been Zooming and she shares her thoughts about her mini-me in the corner. We've Part II of Jen's interview with athl...
Jun 24, 2020•1 hr 9 min
Everybody loves a bit of history, right? Even if it's just that it gives us a break from living through it. In this week's Chops, Hannah chats to Rachel Crossley from the East End Women's Museum about how it came into being (and is that a yarn, believe us), its celebration of the Equal Pay Act, how you can help collect stories that reflect the diversity of East London and what the future holds for this celebration of ordinary and extraordinary women. Spoiler alert: it's very exciting. Support th...
Jun 21, 2020•25 min
Fancy a strangely uplifting listen about funerals? Well, Mick catches up with Poppy Mardall, founder of Poppy’s Funerals, to find out about funerals in the time of coronavirus and lockdown, how people are adapting and creating new rituals to say goodbye, and how it might have changed the landscape forever. Given leaving the house is now a real possibility again, we’re having to think about getting dressed, so Hannah talks to fashion journalist Naomi Barling about how lockdown might have changed ...
Jun 17, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 385
Penny Wincer is a two-time carer, single mum and author of the eye-opening Tender: The Imperfect Art of Caring . In this Chops, she chats to Mickey about the loaded nature of the term ‘carer’, how disabled people have been thrown under the bus, the absolute pittance unpaid carers receive in the UK, the unique intersection of disability, the medical versus social model of dealing with disability, and the importance of individual stories in helping us understand what need to be done to make lives ...
Jun 14, 2020•31 min•Ep. 384
In the first of this week's Chops, Hannah chats to Dr Helen McCarthy, historian and author of the fantastic new book Double Lives . They chat about the history of working motherhood, how society and feminism have viewed mums and work, and how working mums have viewed themselves. And, in the midst of the worst crisis in childcare in living memory, they ask what the future may hold for women who want to have kids and careers. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hos...
Jun 14, 2020•27 min
Lockdown might be easing but that's no reason to give up on your TV viewing. This month, Hannah and Mickey chat about the marvel that is Michaela Coel, and her new drama I May Destroy You . There are documentaries aplenty as we watch 16 Shots and Crip Camp . Mickey talks Windrush drama Sitting in Limbo and there's twice as much Mark Ruffalo to go around as Hannah chats I Know This Much Is True . Tuck in! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast . Hosted on Acast. See ac...
Jun 12, 2020•35 min
It’s National Carers Week, so in this week's podcast, Mickey chats to Penny Wincer, two-time unpaid carer, single mum and author of Tender: The Imperfect Art of Caring about the loaded nature of the word carer and how, in the UK, disabled people have been thrown under the bus. Hannah catches up with performance duo Hunt & Darton to find out how their arts project Radio Local is helping communities unearth their good news stories. She may be on maternity leave, but Jen's left us a cracking ch...
Jun 10, 2020•1 hr 12 min
Dr Rachel Clarke is a specialist in palliative medicine, author of Dear Life: A Doctor’s Story of Love and Loss , and outspoken supporter of the NHS. In this episode, she chats to Mickey about the current state of things in the NHS, what with coronavirus, lockdown and government aides doing whatever the fuck they like, and shares some cockle-warming stories of how she’s helped people live their last days to the full, the heartbreaking story of her dad’s terminal cancer diagnosis, and some frankl...
Jun 06, 2020•38 min•Ep. 381
Tom McCarthy’s 2003 indie gem The Station Agent is our Hannah’s pick for this episode of Flicking. What will Mick and Jen make of this darkly funny tale of Fin (Peter Dinklage) a man who just wants to be left the fuck alone? And what will it tell them about Hannah? 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 06, 2020•21 min•Ep. 380
Jen might be on mat leave, but we have her time-travelling counterpart in this episode. She's talking to author and illustrator Laura Dockrill about her new book What Have I Done?, an account of her experience of postpartum psychosis and the continued misconceptions and misinformation around women’s health. Mick chats with Dr Rachel Clarke, specialist in palliative medicine, author of Dear Life, and wonderfully outspoken supporter of the NHS, about the possibility of dying well and the joy of a ...
Jun 03, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 379
As you probably know, we love old people here at Standard Issue , so our Jen got on the phone to Meryl Davies, chief executive of Re-engage, about respecting your elders and what we can do to help those who are socially distancing right now. We asked journalist and folk music fiend Hazel Davis to get on the phone with musician and ethnomusicologist Dr Fay Hield to chat about how the pandemic is affecting musicians and the inventive ways in which they’re surviving. Hannah chats to Dr Alyson McGre...
May 27, 2020•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 378
