Standard Issue Podcast

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 y...

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 d...

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...

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/standardiss...

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 ta...

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...

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

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 litt...

It's gigcast time again and we've another terrific line-up for you. Back in April, our Sarah and Mickey In Conversation-ed with Konnie Huq, Rachel Parris, Shazia Mirza and Lucy Mangan, where they talked stolen shoes, being the face of sex toys, expandable foam and breaking your coccyx.  Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...

In this week's Chops, our Mickey Noonan talks to Laura Kyrke-Smith, director of communications at International Rescue Committee, Europe, an organisation doing incredible work to help refugees in the short and long term. She also chats to Yasmin Kadi (pictured), musician, actor – and refugee. Yasmin and her family were forced to flee their home in Sierra Leone during the blood diamond war and her...

On this week’s podzine, team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord chat 14th century Italian broads and female leaders with business psychologist Paula Gardner; writer Rabiah Hussain talks to us about her debut play Spun, female friendships and micro-aggressions, and we bid “ahoy there!” to journalist Julia Raeside who drops by to talk to us about her Howard’s Way inspired podcast, Always There. Kanye West...

In this week's Sunday Chops our Jen catches up with Kait Borsay, journalist, broadcaster and co-founder of The Offside Rule Podcast, to talk all things World Cup related. They chat about whether or not the England squad can cut the mustard in Russia, top tips for a cheeky flutter, what's going on with women in sports broadcasting and whether or not it's fair to compare Raheem Sterling - or Jen - t...

In this episode, team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord meet Sara Nelson from independent watchdog Transport Focus and go full Partridge to talk about the current trainageddon and how you got to fight for your right to traaaaavel. Mick and Hannah chat to the excellent Lisa Holdsworth from the Writers Guild of Great Britain to discuss the ridiculous gender disparity in screenwriting, and Jen gets her Wor...

It's Sunday Chops time again! This week we have more from that great chat between our Jen and Sarah Clementson from the Centre for Action on Rape and Abuse, a charity doing vital work in Essex. (Which is why we'll be supporting them at our upcoming In Conversation event at the Harwich Festival, please come if you're nearby). In the meanwhile, here's Jen and Sarah talking #MeToo, how CARA is helpin...

On this week’s podzine, Team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord are back, riding high on the crest of a historic wave of a new era in women’s rights. Well, in Ireland, anyway. Literary expert Anne Miller is giving her shout-outs for your summer reading list; Jen chats to Sarah Clementson from the Centre for Action on Rape and Abuse in Essex about how they’re helping women and why women need that help so...

Blimey O'Reilly, it's a corking gigcast for your ears, champs. In this In Conversation, Sarah Millican and Hannah Dunleavy had an excellent time with Ruth Jones, Fern Britton, Wunmi Mosaku and Sally Wainwright. WE KNOW! Chat included the changing world for women on TV, #MeToo, cats bums, cats on trains and that time Sally Wainwright may or may not have killed a man.   Support this show http://supp...

In this week's Chops, Jen and Mick had the pleasure of meeting journalist, broadcaster, activist and straight-up legend Caryn Franklin to talk about feminism and diversity in fashion, ageism and identity, and why it's always better to metaphorically tip over a table. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Lea...

This week team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord get the lowdown on the goings on at a ComicCon from proud geek and cohost of the Strong Female Leads' podcast, Debra-Jane Appelby. Strong Female Leads' other cohost, American comedian Kate McCabe, talks about the big problem of guns in the USA, and Jen and Mick meet broadcaster, journalist, activist and bona fide icon, Caryn Franklin, possibly the fierces...

Mickey and Hannah went to the Houses of Parliament to meet MP for Don Valley, Caroline Flint, to talk about 21 years in the Commons, changing attitudes to women in politics and why Labour has yet to have a female leader. 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....

This week Team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord return to normal podcasting business, with Mick chatting to resident music guru Liz Buckley about Viv Albertine of The Slits, as Albertine publishes her second book, Throw Away Unopened; Hannah and Mick chat to Caroline Flint MP about booze and being a child of an alcoholic, and our Jen has a natter with author Kit de Waal about her new book The Trick To...

For this Chops, we sent intrepid journalist Hazel Davis to make friends with Katy Brand and Anita Dobson – she totally came up trumps. The chat centres on Brand's forthcoming debut play, 3Women, which eavesdrops on a chat between, um, three women – a daughter, mother and grandmother in the same family – before a big family do. Dobson plays grandmother Eleanor. This is a cracking chat about women,...

On May 25, Ireland votes on whether to allow women access to safe and legal abortions for the first time. In a special, two-part documentary, we look at the campaign to Repeal The 8th and talk to some of the women at the heart of it. About the current situation. About current attitudes. About the campaign's chances of success. And we ask what the future might hold for the women of Ireland and othe...

On May 25, Ireland votes on whether to allow women access to safe and legal abortions for the first time. In a special, two-part documentary, we look at the campaign to Repeal The 8th and talk to some of the women at the heart of it. About the current situation. About its repercussions. About the sad history of reproductive rights in Ireland. And about how to win hearts and minds on this tradition...

In this Chops, Mick and Hannah basically listen in awe as Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton deputy assistant commissioner of the London Fire Brigade, expert psychologist, author and all-round top bird, talks fire safety, the humans behind the badge, why there's space for more women in the service and how we can learn to help ourselves. Seriously, she's incredible and when her book – Through The Fire – comes...

In this episode, team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord chat what's hot on DVD in the next few weeks with film buff Yosra Osman. Mick catches up with author Julia Pierpont to talk The Little Book of Feminist Saints and the fierce women that inspired it, and Hannah and Mick get all hot and flustered in the presence of Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton, deputy assistant commissioner of the London Fire Brigade, psyc...