Standard Issue Podcast

This week, Team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord find out just how loyal you should be with your cash (and how much inertia is costing us) thanks to more solid nous from our personal finance expert Vix Leyton, whose advice is always bang on the money. Anne Miller gives Mickey and Hannah the gen on what books to read right now, and our human film guide Yosra Osman shares her cinematic must-sees as Oscar...

This week, Team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord chat to Miss L about the acting industry and @proresting, her Twitter timeline raising awareness of casting call bullshit. Comedian Angela Barnes talks Newsjack and how to write satirical comedy in an era where the news itself has jumped the shark, and journalist Nadine McBay offers a beautiful, lyrical insight into living with Multiple Sclerosis. Jen's...

The awesome Alison Inman, president of the Chartered Institute of Housing and all-round top bird, joined the team to chat about social housing, how the lack of it affects women (particularly those in abusive relationships), and what can be done to help. Come on you YIMBYs! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...

In this episode of In Conversation..., Hannah Dunleavy and Sarah Millican chat with Sally Lindsay and Jo Enright about the best shit daytime telly, birthday epidurals, boiling tea-bags in a kettle and being the shape of a Brown Owl. Recorded at Leamington Spa Comedy Festival, October 2017. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...

In this week's Chops, Allison Vale stuns Team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord into almost silence with fascinating tales of women's derring do and achievements. The stories are taken from Allison's new book, A Woman Lived Here, which charts London's remarkable women and the reasons they deserve a blue plaque. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acas...

It's Saturday Bitchin' and this time our Mick needs to vent about the (inevitable) backlash to the #MeToo movement. But don't worry, she's also solved the problem of the patriarchy – as long as no one (Hannah) gets too distracted by David Bowie's crotch, Friends or He-Man. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...

This week, team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord have a good old natter with Hoxton Hall's Artistic Director Karena Johnson about the theatre's new season, Female Parts, Mickey has a chat with Bryony Kimmings about cancer - namely her show, The Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer, and we get giddy over story time with Allison Vale, who's talking about her excellent book A Woman Lived Here. Elsewhere,...

Glorious nanochemist and all-round corking bird Dr Suze Kundu (aka @funsizesuze) joins Team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord to chat women in STEM. All nine per cent of them (FFS). And she teaches us how to make water from the sun. Sort of. 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...

This week, skint AF team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord get some tips from consumer queen Vix Leyton about tapping into cash you didn't think you had, Aoife Moore talks Repeal the 8th and how we can all help and Dr Suze Kundu gives us the lowdown on women in science. Bogeys are in, out and all over the shop in Sarah's SMQT, Jen chats a load of isms happening in sport and Dunleavy Does Disney's Toy St...

It's a Chops with a bit of a difference this week as our excellent @inspireajen inspires a you. Jen bloody loves her sportsings, but it wasn't always that way. She talks a bit about how and why her attitude to being active changed and chats to Sport England's Kate Dale about the need for #ThisGirlCan and fitness instructor Wendy Ambrose-Green about how you're never too old, unfit or shy to get int...

It's Saturday Bitchin' and our Hannah's getting her tits in a twist again. Know who'd probably tweet about that? Toby (fucking) Young, Titmaster General and all-round ridiculous egg. Since we recorded this, he's stepped down from the Office for Students, presumably to concentrate on tweeting about the lady lumps, but there are many MANY reasons he should never have got the role in the first place....

This week, team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord get back on the news trail, Karen Campbell shares some tips on how to get your shit together on all life fronts and Dotty Winters gives us the lowdown on surviving self-employment. Hannah's back Outside The Box, with a host of excellent TV programmes to get you through January's dark nights and sad bank balance, Jen chats to Sport England's Kate Dale abo...

In this episode of In Conversation..., Mickey Noonan and Sarah Millican chat with Jessica Fostekew, Grainne Maguire and Julia Raeside about Don Draper, Hillary Clinton, throwing bricks at TVs and that time the Queen got well excited about cows. Recorded at Hen & Chickens, London, on September 19, 2017. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...

In this episode of In Conversation..., Hannah Dunleavy and Sarah Millican chat with... men. That's right. Gender inequality is shit for everyone so for International Men's Day, we did a one-off In Conversation with bona fide blokes Elis James, Richard Osman, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Tom Allen. Topics include reading reviews, catching trains, never being able to finish the Internet and Pinterest, the pl...

In this episode of In Conversation..., Hannah Dunleavy and Sarah Millican chat with Stephanie Beacham, Suranne Jones, Jojo Moyes and Deborah Frances-White about getting sacked in front of John McEnroe, first dates, disasters at nativity plays and how we should all just be a lot more like Stephanie Beacham. Recorded at Leicester Square Theatre on December 14, 2017. Support this show http://supporte...

This week, team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord talk to consumer rights queen Vix Leyton about what's what when it comes to shopping and returns (and bad hairdressing experiences), and journalist Alice Hutton explains why we should all give a shit about the slow death of local newspapers. Jen chats to filmmaker and activist Daisy May Hudson about Half Way, her award-nominated documentary about hidden...

As part of our Sarah's book tour, Hannah caught up with her in Cambridge for a chat about all sorts of stuff from confidence to class, as well as some questions from the audience. Lovely stuff. 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 episode of In Conversation..., Mickey Noonan and Sarah Millican chat with Jess Phillips MP, Katherine Ryan and Alex Jones about massive babies, stand-up poos, exploding seagulls, adorable feet and the fear of potential Frankencunt. Recorded at Leicester Square Theatre on November 5, 2017. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...

This week, team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord get some excellent pass-agg Christmas gifts ideas from comedy writer Sarah Morgan that'll piss off your homophobic uncle while putting cash in various charities' coffers – win! Music guru Liz Buckley talks to Mick about her favourite albums of 2017, and Dannie Grufferty, co-ordinator of The Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness, tells the team all about the co...

This week our Hannah and Jen are joined by resident film buff, Yosra Osman to talk films of the year. They had a good old natter about Oscar gaffes, monkeys in dystopian societies and the loveliness of Jamie Bell. 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...

Crikey chiefs, it's only a bloody bonuscast. Our Hannah has been selflessly watching all of the best telly (well, as much of it as she can squeeze into her eyes) and here shares what pleased her most in 2017 in a special end of year Outside the Box. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your...

Brace yourself Maureen, I'm coming in. Or at least that's what it becomes clear comedian Maureen Younger would love for Outlander's Jamie Fraser to whisper, as team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord discover while MY and fellow comic Jen Brister (that's right, she of the literally shitty caravan experience) tell them all about what inspires their podcast, Droughtlander. Film buff Yosra Osman discusses t...

Filthy, lurid and with no-punches-pulled, Korean-American comedian Margaret Cho is out of rehab and back on tour with her new show, Fresh Off The Bloat. She chats Weinstein, Trump, making people laugh and speaking out with Hazel Davis. 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...

In this episode of In Conversation..., Hannah Dunleavy and Sarah Millican chat with Rebecca Front, Scarlett Moffatt and Evelyn Mok about the circle of ice-cream life, Adele-ing in the bath, the joy of capes and light-up tree Jesus. Recorded at Leicester Square Theatre on October 5, 2017. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...

Our Jen joins Cariad Lloyd to chat to the all-round smasher Susan Wokoma about her West End debut in Labour Of Love, diversity – or rather the lack of – in entertainment, politics, and why she's C3P-No. 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