Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue Podcast

By women. For women. About everything. Standard Issue is a podcast championing women's voices, and packed with interviews, news, film, opinion and humour. For advertising enquiries, email sales@auddy.co

Episodes

The Bush Telegraph: Nun-stop news

September 24, 2025 • 22 mins
Hannah and Mick tackle this week’s headlines, looking at whether Jess’s Rule is progress or a damning indictment of the NHS, worrying about young girls reporting being sad every day, charting how the Taliban continues to take its misogyny up yet another notch, and finally – finally – finding something* to like about golf.  *Sister Rene of the Humility of Mary order https://malala.org/countries/afghanistan Learn more about your ...
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Rated or Dated: Billy Elliot (2000)

September 23, 2025 • 34 mins
Stephen Daldry’s 2000 coming-of-age comedy-drama made big waves on both sides of the Atlantic, and a star of its young lead, Jamie Bell. But how funny is it? Is that dancing actually any good? And is that really how they select people for the Royal Ballet School? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Atoosa Sepehr and Hannah Khalil’s English Persian Kitchen

September 22, 2025 • 26 mins
Food glorious food: not only does it sustain and nourish us as individuals, it brings together communities, crosses borders and merges cultures. When Atoosa Sepehr fled an abusive marriage in Iran, she found herself alone and lonely in London. And then she started cooking. The Persian dishes she created providing an anchor to the home she missed and forging friendships in the one she was creating.  In My English Persian Kitchen, A...
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Len Pennie annaw

September 21, 2025 • 27 mins
Poet, broadcaster, and TikTok sensation, Len Pennie was last on the podcast back in February 2024 on the eve of publication of her first collection of poems, Poyums. Since then, she’s become a Sunday Times bestselling author, and picked up a British Book Award. In her new collection, Poyums Annaw, Len writes viscerally about her experiences of domestic violence, mental health problems, patriarchy, and a four year fight for justice,...
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Outside The Box September 2025

September 18, 2025 • 51 mins
It's Emmy time again and this month we're chatting about the good and bad choices made this year. Which is also an excuse to talk about The Penguin. We've also been watching King of The Hill, Only Murders in the Building, I Fought the Law, Hostage, The Newsreader, King & Conqueror, and Unknown Number: The High School Catfish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Bush Telegraph: Bellend Olympics

September 17, 2025 • 28 mins
A freedom of speech special awaits you this week, as Hannah and Jen debate the rights and wrongs of opinions expressed on the killing of Charlie Kirk, as well as the rights and wrongs of hammering nails through your penis. There’s added joy from some nuns on the run and - finally - some good news for Keir Starmer and the families of the 97 victims of the Hillsborough Disaster. We also bring you the latest in women’s sport and some ...
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Rated or Dated: Psycho (1960)

September 16, 2025 • 34 mins
What’s a young man to do when he can’t stop murdering women he fancies? Blame his mum, obviously. The malign power of mothers is just one of several themes raised by the  genre-defining Hitchcock classic and discussed by Mick, Hannah and Jen. Hold onto your shower curtains, it’s time for some piercing violin.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Kate Bryan wants you to art

September 15, 2025 • 29 mins
Art historian, curator and broadcaster Kate Bryan is on a mission to wrest control of the art world from asymmetric haircuts and aloofness, and put it firmly back in the hands of us all. In her new book, How To Art, which is illustrated by David Shrigley, she sets about doing exactly that. Jen chats to Kate about entering the art world from a working-class background, how to talk about art even if you don’t really know what you’re...
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Harriet Dyer asks you to please turn down your puffer jacket

September 14, 2025 • 25 mins
It’s silly turned up to 11, as Mick catches up with brilliantly bonkers comedian Harriet Dyer, who describes her standup as a fizzy blancmange of whimsy. Delicious.  Harriet’s currently on her biggest UK tour to date with her show Easily Distra…, but found some time to chat to Mick about mental health, getting trapped in cupboards and what she’s like at parties.  Tickets for Harriet’s tour can be found here: harrietdyer.com. Lear...
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Maia Novi and Invasive Species

September 11, 2025 • 26 mins
After a much-lauded off Broadway run, Maia Novi's play about the time she was involuntarily held in a mental health facility has arrived in the UK. The Argentine writer and actor speaks to Hannah about Invasive Species, inner monologues, ambition and the advice Michaela Coel gave her. Tickets for Invasive Species are here: https://kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/invasive-species-q1qt More info about the Standard Issue membership cl...
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The Bush Telegraph: A man’s best froggy hypocrite

September 10, 2025 • 29 mins
Mick and Jen are on Bush Telegraph duties this week and, unlike it does for Sabrina Carpenter, the idea of men doing more housework is not getting them going. In other news, can you kill someone with menstrual blood? And was Angela Rayner right to resign? Plus, Jenny Off the Blocks returns with all things women’s sport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Rated or Dated: Brokeback Mountain (2005)

September 9, 2025 • 34 mins
The "gay cowboy movie" certainly opened the door for a lot of other films, but how does it fare 20 years later? Hankies at the ready as we take another look at  the small story, big landscape romance that was robbed at the Oscars. Don't @ us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Witch? Refugee? Tragic hero? Natalie Haynes talks Medea

September 8, 2025 • 27 mins
The story of Medea has been popular since antiquity and continues to endure today. Not least because big names want what’s undoubtedly one of the meatiest female roles in theatre. Meatiest in its most gruesome sense, as Medea is most famous for killing her children in order to get revenge on her faithless husband.  Or at least that’s the headlines. It is, of course, more complicated (if no less horrifying) than that, so our Mick w...
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Dr Ingrid Clayton on the fourth "F" of trauma

September 7, 2025 • 27 mins
It took clinical psychologist, trauma therapist and complex trauma survivor Dr Ingrid Clayton years to understand how she had reacted to abuse within her home as a young person. But what she later understood to be a relational-trauma response known as “fawning” also helped her to make sense of her behaviour and relationships in the years that followed. And now that work informs her book, Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Los...
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Flicking #65: Better Man

September 4, 2025 • 32 mins
It’s Robbie Williams, but he’s a chimp! But is there anything more to Michael Gracey’s biopic jukebox musical drama about the British pop phenomenon? Are there any facts in it? And will you look at that cast: Steve Pemberton! Alison Steadman! Damon Herriman! Jonno Davies (who? what?). It’s (oddly) Hannah’s pick, (poor?) Yosra’s second watch and (warning) may contain Mick singing.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...
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The Bush Telegraph: Back from the dead?

September 3, 2025 • 24 mins
Returning from a BT hiatus, Mickey and Hannah take a rifle through some of the daftest stories of the week, including AI failures, ball pits, watered down beer, rumours of Trump's death and odd book choices. While in Sexism of The Week, it turns out everything has been fixed in our absence. Oh no wait, it hasn't. Shame. Chloe's story about The Salt Path is here: http://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-real-salt-path-how-th...
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Rated or Dated: Postcards from the Edge (1990)

September 2, 2025 • 26 mins
Is there anything Meryl Streep and/or Shirley MacLaine can’t do? It's a question we return to, as we settle down with Mike Nichol’s 1990 dramedy, based on Carrie Fisher’s semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. But to what extent is it based on Fisher’s real-life relationship with her mum, Debbie Reynolds? How well does it reflect issues around addiction? And, another question we return to: what is Roger Ebert even on about? ...
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Here come the (incredibly divisive) girls

September 1, 2025 • 27 mins
A century after their birth, the Mitford Sisters continue to fascinate and appal in equal measure. As a new play about them, The Party Girls, opens at The Marlowe in Canterbury, Hannah chats to playwright Amy Rosenthal about why their stories still resonate, sisterhood and the frivolity of evil. Tickets for The Party Girls are here: https://showtours.co.uk/the-party-girls-tour-dates/ More info about becoming a Standard Issue sup...
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Jackie Morris and Tamsin Abbott are wild folk

August 28, 2025 • 24 mins
Fairy tales have long been a source of life lessons and observations. Adding to that tradition and brimming with female power, Wild Folk: Tales From the Stones, by writer and illustrator Jackie Morris and stained glass artist Tamsin Abbott, is officially one of the most beautiful books in our Mick’s possession. She chats with Jackie and Tamsin about the power of stories, the collaborative process, finding just the right sky and th...
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Rated or Dated: Top Hat (1935)

August 26, 2025 • 25 mins
Featuring a couple of bona fide bangers by Irving Berlin, this Fred and Ginger bonanza, in which misunderstandings, misidentification and miscommunication slows true love’s flow, was the pair’s most successful film. But will the ‘idiot plot’ be too frustrating for words? Can Mick deal with the sheer amount of tap dancing? Why is Hannah screaming and refusing to look at the screen? And what am “Venice”? Learn more about your ad choi...
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