Standard Issue Podcast

This week, Sarah Millican turns the tables and asks the listeners an important life question. Our Jen hooks up with Cariad Lloyd to chat to the excellent Susie Wokoma about Labour of Love, recognition from BAFTA and the diversity problem, Sam Wonfor talks to Catrina McHugh, artistic director of Open Clasp Theatre Company, about Key Change, the company's play being used by the UN to highlight the I...

Team Dunleavy, Noonan and Offord chat to excellent actor, writer and activist Libby Liburd about her one-woman play Muvvahood, which looks at being a single mum and societal attitudes towards parents having to do it on their own – for whatever reason. Spoiler: a lot of attitudes towards single mums still suck a dog's balls. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted...

It's Saturday Bitchin' and our Hannah's getting her tits in a twist again. This time, out-of-time fireworks are on the receiving end of the Dunleavy wrath. And rightly so. Also, no one needs to be in the opening scenes of an episode of Casualty, right? Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about y...

This week Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord catch up with writer, actor and activist Libby Liburd (@LibbyLiburd) about her play Muvvahood and life as a single mother in Britain today. Mick has a natter with Liz Buckley (@Liz_Buckley) about everyone's favourite Icelandic popster, Bjork, and catches up with Amanda F*cking Palmer (@Amandapalmer) about her latest release, Mother. Sarah's all over your life...

A year on from DJT winning the US election, team Dunelavy, Offord and Noonan chat to standup and bonafide American Taylor Glenn about the lows and hi... well, the lows of this hellish trip to Trumpton. Sweet fancy Moses, it's a shitehawks situation? Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your...

This week, team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord chat to comedian and bonafide American Taylor Glenn (@TaylorGlennUK) about the past year of Trump *shudder*. Ahead of Remembrance Day, poet, performer, writer and fighter Lisa Luxx (@LisaLuxx_) talks to us about the importance and vitality of war poetry giving people a voice as she plans her trip to Lebanon to become a war poet herself. Sarah's dealing w...

Team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord chat to Katya Jezzard-Puyraud and Liz Axham, aka LightHearts UK about stress and how to deal with that prick, as well as canny ways to look after your mental health and get a calmer brain.  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 megaphon...

This week, team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord chat to Katya Jezzard-Puyraud and Liz Axham, aka LightHearts UK about stress (Nov 1 is National Stress Awareness Day), how to deal with it and canny ways to look after your mental health. Jen is ALL about the talking, catching up with Cariad Lloyd to find out about her excellent podcast Griefcast, and also having a natter with British film writer and pro...

Teacher Rebecca Solomon chats with our Mickey about Black History Month how it's handled – or more accurately, not really handled – in education, black British history, role models and why people need to stop touching her hair (spoiler: because it's weird and rude). Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Lear...

In this episode of In Conversation…, Mickey Noonan and Sarah Millican chat with Susan Calman, Emma Samms and Rae Earl about Strictly, glitter all over the shop, uppers and downers of the arse, what 10cc is a measurement of and the cheering properties – or not – of a Mr Potato Head .Recorded at the Cheltenham Comedy Festival on September 18, 2017.#TeamCalmanAll of our podcasts are available on iTun...

Molly Sheridan, co-founder of REEK perfume, makeup artist and self-proclaimed 'smelly bitch', came into the studio to talk about the beauty industry and whether it can ever be feminist. And just so you know: she smelt lush. 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 megapho...

This week, Lucy Reynolds talks scary movies in honour of the impending Old Hallows' Eve. The team catches up with Molly Sheridan, makeup artist and co-founder of Reek Perfume about finding space for feminism in the beauty industry, and Debra-Jane Appelby gives us the lowdown on gaming and addiction. Plus all your usual favourites, Jenny Off The Blocks and Hannah "doing" Disney's Robin Hood, Sorry,...

Hannah and Mick took a trip to Pontefract to chat with the absolutely excellent Gem Turner. Gem's blog, Style and Disability (gemturner.com), recently bagged her a Diversity in Media Award. She chatted about fashion, makeup, barriers, disability, sex and her work with Enhance the UK (@Enhancetheuk), and not noticing Big Dris at the big do. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissue...

Writer, comedian and author Rae Earl was a panel guest at our Cheltenham gig in September so our Mickey snaffled half an hour with her beforehand to chat about her new book, It's All In Your Head: A Guide To Getting Your Sh*t Together. Well, that was the plan. The conversation quickly went rogue, taking in everything from mental health to mooncups, Ghostbusters to Michael Palin's duty to be a biga...

This week, the ebullient Rae Earl tells our Mickey about her new book, It's All In Your Head: A Guide To Getting Your Sh*t Together, and bigs up mental health for all. In an empty ballroom of all places. Diversity in Media Award-winning blogger Gem Turner chats to Hannah and Mickey about the importance of talking about disability, as well as her work with Enhance the UK. And of course all your usu...

Our Sarah Millican’s only gone and written a bloody book, the clever little shit! How To Be Champion came out on October 5. Here in the full Chops, Mickey chats to Standard Issue’s glorious founder about meat buckets, not-Chinese burns and tips for being champion even when life's being a prick. Oh, and her book. Obviously. THE ADMIN: Our music was composed and recorded by Barry Hilton, all rights...

Sometimes the world gets properly on our tits and we need to let off a bit of verbal steam. Plus we had an excellent name that we really wanted to use, so we made up another slice of bonus podcasting goodness in order to do so. Welcome, dear listeners to... Saturday Bitchin'.This week, our Hannah gets a right cob on about monumental political, economical and indeed sensical* clusterfuck that is Br...

This week, comedian Kate McCabe gives us her possible POTUS wishlist in the wake of Oprah Winfrey 2020 rumours; Strictly smasher Susan Calman chats about being Greta Garbo among other things in a sneak peek at our forthcoming Cheltenham gigcast; and Mickey talks to our very own Sarah Millican about her brand new book How To Be Champion. Plus all your usual favourites, our Jen is chatting big chang...

In this episode of In Conversation…, Standard Issue's Hannah Dunleavy and founder Sarah Millican chat with Sarah Brown, Rachel Fairburn and Jess Fostekew about pesky Ian McKellan, Tom Fostekew, a brand new version of The Wheels on the Bus, and a new kind of detective agency. Recorded at the The Stand Comedy Club, Edinburgh on August 14, 2017.All of our podcasts are available on iTunes and Acast, a...

In this episode of In Conversation…, Standard Issue's Mickey Noonan and founder Sarah Millican chat with Hannah Gadsby, Urzila Carlson and Val McDermid about dogs in the SAS, what lesbians keep in their knife roll, boob sweat and a new range of car horns. Recorded at the The Stand Comedy Club, Edinburgh on August 13, 2017.All of our podcasts are available on iTunes and Acast, as well as other host...

In this episode of In Conversation…, Standard Issue's Mickey Noonan and founder Sarah Millican chat with Jenny Eclair, Olivia Colman and Kerry Godliman about judging cardigans, dogs in pants, the bravest little girl in the world and Judi Dench’s bogies. Recorded at the Leicester Square Theatre, London on September 3, 2017. All of our podcasts are available on iTunes and Acast, as well as other hos...

Ahead of the debut of Sara Pascoe's stage adaptation of Pride & Prejudice, we sent comedian, actor & Jane Austen expert Cariad Lloyd to get the lowdown. Have a listen to them chatting "Fresh eyes", the ideal proximity from the Bennett sisters on a train, and the beauty of Colin Firth in a lake. THE ADMIN: Our music was composed and recorded by Barry Hilton, all rights reserved. We have an archive...

September is Alzheimer's Awareness Month and in this week's podzine, Leanne Davis shared her experiences of life with her mum Eunice, who has early onset dementia. Here's the full-length piece: warm, engaging, heartfelt and a little bit devastating. THE ADMIN: Our music was composed and recorded by Barry Hilton, all rights reserved. We have an archive full of excellent articles at www.standardissu...

In this episode of the podzine, Cariad Lloyd chats to Sara Pascoe about Sara's stage adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Liz Buckley joins us to chat Debbie Harry, Leanne Davis tells us about life with her mum, who has early onset dementia and Sarah's of a mind to call the zoo hotline. Over in Dunleavy Does Disney, Bambi's in the hot seat and, lawks a lordy, not one character is in Mi...

In this week's podzine, our Hannah spoke to American comedian and actress Caitlin Brodnick about her new book, Dangerous Boobies: Breaking Up With My Time-Bomb Breasts. In the full interview for Chops, Caitlin tells Hannah why she decided to have a preventative double mastectomy after testing positive for the BRCA1 gene mutation, her relationship with her boobs and how bra shopping isn't any easie...