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By women. For women. About everything. Standard Issue is a podcast championing women's voices, and packed with interviews, news, film, opinion and humour.
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In this month's round-up of the best and worst TV, we're talking about A Woman of Substance, Gone, Rooster, The Lady, DTF St Louis and Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere.
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Hannah’s been looking for light at the end of the endlessly depressing news-tunnel and found it in the case of seven Adams County sheriff’s
officers vs Joseph “Afroman” Foreman, as well as some delightful canine antics. There’s less happy news about top schools excluding SEND pupils, but a little Brucey bonus if you like not retraumatising victims of domestic abuse. Elsewhere, a gold rush ensues at the athletics, and Jenny Off The Blocks also ponders new FIFA rules on coaches in women’s football.
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Christopher Guest’s second time in the director’s chair involved him putting on a dog show. Co-written with Eugene Levy, this fake documentary about the people getting their pooches ready for the prestigious Mayflower Dog Show (and then the show itself) stars Michael McKean, Catherine O’Hara, Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, Fred Willard, John Michael Higgins, Michael Hitchcock and Jennifer Coolidge. And loads of dogs. Will Mick, Hannah and Jen give it a blue rosette or send it home with its tail between its legs?
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You might know Tat Effby as social media sensation The Caketoonist, sharing her brilliant, doable recipes with a hefty slice of humour all over the social media platforms. Tat’s now an author. Her first recipe book, Bake Your Sweet Time, takes traditional flavour combinations and puts them in recipes that vary in length and difficulty, depending on how much time you want to spend in the kitchen. It’s a triumph. She chats to Mick about caking, baking, and taking sweet liberties.
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Dame Tracey Emin burst onto the art scene in the 1990s and controversy has followed her ever since. Like in 1999, when her Turner Prize-nominated My Bed caused a media frenzy. Emin's raw, autobiographical and confessional work is very personal yet also platforms the wider female experience through its themes of abuse, sexuality, poverty, and reproductive rights.
Jen chats to Jess Baxter, assistant curator of major new exhibition Tracey Emin: A Second Life at the Tate Modern, about the artist, her work, and the expression of the female experience.
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Some 80% of us have at least one sibling, which makes it so commonplace we don't often give it much thought. But we should, says journalist Catherine Carr, and in today's podcast, she talks to Hannah about memory, loss, estrangement, birth order and her new book Who's The Favourite? The Loving, Messy Realities of Sibling Relationships.
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Hannah and Mick have braved this week’s onslaught of fresh hell. They’ve even tried turning it off and on again, but no, the news keeps newsing. And so they’re chatting the timescales of “immediate” change, archaic criminal law going through the Lords, ice cream and landmines in Croatia, and the sad slaying of the Buffy reboot.
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Dench, McKellan, Atkins, (Richard E) Grant! Who doesn’t love a bit of Tim Sullivan’s weepie ‘90s romcom? Hmmm, maybe Mickey and Hannah. Maybe even Jen herself. But can its sublime cast or Simply Red save this week’s offering?
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For her debut novel, Helen Bain chose one of her heroes as her focus: poet, author, arch-confessionist and genius, Sylvia Plath. The Daffodil Days spans a year and a half in Plath’s life, during which she and husband Ted Hughes head to Devon seeking the idyll of country living.
During that time, Plath completed The Bell Jar, gave birth to a son, Nicholas, and wrote the poems that would be posthumously published as Ariel. But she also threw herself full-heartedly into the Devon life, and it’s this and what it tells us about Plath, which Helen so beautifully explores in The Daffodil Days.
She chats to Mick about Plath, female genius, daffodils, hope and bellringing.
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Despite very little experience in feature filmmaking, director Isabel Daly teamed up with writer Issy Brett and actor/writer/producer, Carys Glynne, to make Washed Up, their debut feature film on a shoestring budget. The delightful story of a Cornish artist who accidentally falls in love with a selkie premieres at this year’s BFI Flare, the British Film Institute’s annual LGBTQIA+ film festival.
Jen caught up with Isabel to talk about filmmaking, queer representation in film, Airbnb culture, and the joy of a 90-minute movie.
Washed Up screens at BFI Flare on March 25 and 28 and tickets are available now.
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Kirk Jones’s biographical drama based on the true life story of John Davidson, the man who taught Britain about Tourette Syndrome, is currently no 1 in the Netflix UK charts. It bagged lead actor Robert Aramayo the best actor gong at the recent Baftas, an awards ceremony that led to the film having a fourth act no one was expecting.
Hannah picked it as her next Flicking choice waaaay before any of that occurred. She, Yosra and Mick chat about this frank, powerful, gut-wrenching and funny account of a man still bringing much-needed awareness to a still misunderstood condition.
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Turns out we all just need to be a little more Linford, a little less Peter. Just one life lesson from Mick and Jen’s look at the news this week. There’s also the issue of savings versus compensation, former politicians you probably do not want to find in your mate’s bathroom, an important Mumsnet report into medical misogyny in Sexism of the Week, and news on the Iranian women’s football team in Jenny Off the Blocks.
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Long regarded as the peak of American indie filmmaking in the 1990s, John Sayles neo-western/murder mystery has a cracking cast and asks a huge moral question. Hannah thinks it's way ahead of its time but will Mickey and Jen agree?
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When she turned 40, journalist and author Poorna Bell decided she’d had enough of being told her best years were behind her – not least because she was seeing so many older women absolutely killing it in their various and varied arenas. With that in mind she set about looking at the rules set for women by society, questioning how and why they’d come to be, which in turn became the basis for her new book: She Wanted More: Reimagine your future and live by your rules.
Jen chats to Poorna about why society writes off older women, our fears around ageing, and the art of not giving a shit.
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A “wardrobe malfunction” during the 2004 Superbowl halftime show caused a huge furore and changed the course of Janet Jackson’s career for decades, while her fellow performer, Justin “Trousersnake” Timberlake thrived. Multidisciplinary artist Paula Varjack’s play, Nine Sixteenths, examines the impact of the infamous “Nipplegate” incident.
Jen chats to Paula about the play, the forces of racism, sexism and ageism that conspired to derail Jackson, and the hypocrisy that underlines pop culture.
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Sure, the news is all about the Middle East, but what else is going on? Quite a bit. In this week's Bush Telegraph, Hannah and Jen talk about how "baby brain" is actually good for women, the Telegraph's literally unbelievable school fees story, good news about homelessness in Wales, and sexism in the workplace. And in Jenny Off The Blocks, there's ice hockey, tennis and football.
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Fava beans and Chianti all round as Mick’s picked Jonathan Demme’s Oscars-dominating 1991 psychological horror. Or is it a thriller? Other questions addressed include: how’s Hannah feeling about Scott Glenn; does the film have feminist credentials; what’s with the stereotyping, and how much ham is simply too much ham for Jen’s mum Cath? Fffffffffffffff. Etc.
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Talented multi-hyphenate Annabel Port’s The Other British Museum is a joyful collection of potted histories of recognisable items and our Mick cannot get enough. And so, she got Annabel on the Zoom to chat museum entries, the smell of Imperial Leather, the genesis of weekends, podcasting with Geoff Lloyd, and making a career out of your social awkwardness.
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If the ongoing furore surrounding last week's Baftas has proved anything, it's how poorly understood Tourette Syndrome still is. Hannah chats to campaigner, comedian and the woman behind Touretteshero, Jess Thom, about living with oppositional tics, why everyone supports the disabled community (until they don't), and how the vital Access to Work scheme is being neglected.
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In this month's round-up of the best and worst TV right now, we’re talking about Under Salt Marsh, Small Prophets, How To Get To Heaven From Belfast, Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, Dirty Business and Lord of the Flies. And a surprising amount about caravans. Just because.
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Congratulations Standard Issue Team on your 200 episode
The sound is awful. Skipped this one.
I enjoyed this episode. This was the 3rd one I tried... I started with the first 2 episodes and the sound really isn't great... So just switched off. This one is funny and I can hear it on my head phones!
one of my great aunts had the middle name Markowitz after this revolutionary woman; and her twin brother's middle name was de Valera after another famous Irish nationalist. It was interesting to hear about the person that I only knew as one of the family's 'funny names' (there were quite a few!)
The live gig episodes are amazing. Always have fantastic guests.
Sadly, quality of the sound made this podcast almost impossible to follow, most texts are scripted and read to us without a hint of spontaneity. Those are well written texts and subjects are very interesting, but still I wish that Standard Issue would be bunch of brilliantly written articles (like it used to be), than this poorly made podcast. I hope creators will improve in time.
listen to Episode 8. it's so funny. I nearly choked on the train 🤣