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, 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, perfo...

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. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...

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 Ashwort...

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. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissu...

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, perf...

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. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/s...

For this Sunday Chops, we hand over the reins to the excellent Lucy Nichol, mental health advocate extraordinaire and author of the brilliant A Series of Unfortunate Stereotypes, which started out as a regular Standard Issue column. For this Chops, Lucy wanted to focus on some of the very many stigmas that still surround mental health and what we can do to get them to jog on. And so she’s chatted...

In this gigcast, we got Hannah Dunleavy, Sarah Millican, Luisa Omielan, Janeane Garofalo and Su Pollard onstage to see what would happen. Crikey. There’s tit-covering trousers, a dearth of condoms, a blast of Madonna and a frankly hilarious bum story. We recorded this gigcast back in August in Edinburgh at The Stand Comedy Club as part of our Edinburgh Fringe run. It was even more deliciously bonk...

In this week's Chops, Mickey talks to self-proclaimed 'refuge connoisseur' Cash Carraway about her warm, darkly funny one-woman show, Refuge Woman. Cash talks the reality of life in a women's refuge, the devastating effect of government funding cuts and the rage-inducing condescension of the media. Channel 5, she's looking at you. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast....

In this week's podzine, the team put their marching boots on - again - to join the 700,000 or so crowd at Saturday's People's Vote March in London. As well as drawing serious props for their signage and indeed dog-age, the team caught up with MPs Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston and Joanna Cherry; Lara Spirit of Our Future, Our Choice; Sorcha Kirker of the Highlands and Islands Students' Association;...

Two portions of Chops again this week! We are kind to you. In this episode, as part of our series celebrating Black History Month, Hannah speaks to award-winning black feminist writer Claire Heuchan about her new book What is Race? Who are Racists? Why Does Skin Colour Matter? And Other Big Questions - and manages to squeeze in a couple of questions of her own. And when you're done with this Chops...

In this Chops, inspired by GLOW and the fat bespandexed lads of the 1970s and 80s, our Mick gets in the ring with WrestlePro coach Sam Bailey and pro-wrestlers Lana Austin and Hollie to get to grips with the art of wrestling. Tip: it hurts your elbows. She also chats to Emily Read, founder of Pro Wrestle Eve and a leading light in the world of women's wrestling. Grab your leotard, Big Mickey Hotpo...

Oh hello, listener, meet jam-packed podcast. This week comedian and multi-hyphenate Samantha Baines comes in to the studio to tell us about hearing loss and why Hannah should get a less 1970s hearing aid. Elizabeth Foley and Beth Coates talk inspirational women and their new book What Would Boudicca Do?. Hannah and Mick meet Selina Cartmell to chat about her first year as Artistic Director of The...

We are spoiling you rotten this week with two servings of Chops, once again! Since October is Black History Month, for the four Sundays of October, we’re chatting to brilliant black women doing incredible things. Last week, Mick chatted to Wanna Be podcast host and CEO of the Shoutout Network, Imriel Morgan, next week Hannah catches up with Claire Heuchan about her book for kids, What Is Race? Who...

In September, councillors rejected plans to sell the site of the last of Ireland's infamous Magdalene Laundries to a Japanese hotel chain. We met Dr Maeve O'Rourke to find out what survivors would like to see on the site instead, as well as learn more about what life was like for women who found themselves incarcerated there against their will. And how they still face a battle for justice. Support...

In another treat for you this week, our Jen has been tearing around the BFI's 2018 London Film Festival, in which this year the Institute is screening more films by female filmmakers than ever before. Jen caught up with the directors (and a producer!) of three top films showing at this year's festival: Naziha Arebi and Flore Cosquer, director and producer of Freedom Fields, an inspiring documentar...

In this month's Outside The Box, there's almost too much TV to take in. Hannah, Jen and Mickey try their best and talk the best of the month's watching, including The Deuce, Bojack Horseman, No Offence, Mystery Road and Upstart Crow. You're welcome! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your...

In this week's podzine, Mick and Hannah meet up with the Drunk Women Solving Crime, aka Taylor Glenn and Hannah George, to chat true crime, booze and very audible gasping. Ahead of National Adoption Week, which starts on October 15, adopter Dotty Winters shares the pros, cons, joy, tears and hard-won wisdom of the process. Author Jean Hannah Edelstein talks about her new non-fiction This Really Is...

Double Chops ahoy! In this, the second portion of Sunday Chops, our Mickey's having a brew with Pauline McLynn, aka Mrs Doyle from Father Ted, Libby Croker from Shameless, Yvonne Cotton in EastEnders and many theatre roles, including right now Mother Courage in Red Ladder Theatre’s immersive promenade production of Brecht’s classic Mother Courage and Her Children (which is absolutely excellent and...

Double Chops portions ahoy! Monday 1 October marked the start of Black History Month and for the four Sundays of October, we’re chatting to brilliant black women doing incredible things.  Jen will be catching up with Elizabeth Uviebinené and Yomi Adegoke, authors of black girl bible Slay In Your Lane, Hannah chats with Claire Heuchan about her book for kids, What Is Race? Who Are Racists? Why Does...

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 importa...

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/standardissues...

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, ap...

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 s...

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 a...