Standard Issue Podcast

For women by women: a podcast magazine (podzine) championing women's voices, founded by Sarah Millican, and packed with interviews, news, film, opinion and humour.

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Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 42m. Bisher sind 918 Folge(n) erschienen. .

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 32 days 2 hours 43 minutes

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Good sisters, bad sisters, and some rebirth


Writer and Standard Issue fave Kerry Hudson is back with brand-new memoir, Newborn, the follow-up to her previous work, Lowborn. In this week’s podzine, Hannah jumps on the Zoom to talk with Kerry about class, social mobility, money and why you can't air fry your way out of poverty.   A self-professed Mary Shelley “obsessive”, our Jen was delighted when news of Lesley McDowell’s new novel Clairmont, landed in her inbox...


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episode 944: Again, With Feelings with Catherine Bohart


Comedian and total smasher Catherine Bohart chats to Mick about her new show, Again, With Feelings – and much more besides.


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 February 25, 2024  32m
 
 

SIM Ep 943 Pod 293: Gambling, fighting and getting your whole family in a room together


Lindsay Duncan - you heard us! - is on stage at the National Theatre in a revival of Dodie Smith's Dear Octopus, so of course Jen jumped at the chance to chat to her. They were joined by the play's director, Emily Burns, to discuss family dynamics, age and a whole lot more...


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 February 21, 2024  1h24m
 
 

episode 942: Len Pennie’s Poyums


Performance poet Len Pennie chats to Mick about her debut poetry collection, Poyums, her love of the Scots language, therapy vs art, and the problem with "nice guys".


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 February 18, 2024  23m
 
 

episode 942: Flicking: Past Lives


Greta Lee and Teo Yoo star in Celine Song’s debut feature, which follows deeply connected childhood friends Nora (Lee) and Hae Sung (Yoo) over the course of 24 years and an ocean of separation. It’s a gentle, poignant, philosophical, maybe romance, chosen by Yosra for this month’s Flicking. But will it have enough wallop for Mickey and not too much of the soppy stuff for Hannah? Find out. 


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 February 17, 2024  29m
 
 

Where are we going? What does it mean? And what is this film?


Comedian Jess Fostekew on Geoff Capes, podcasteer Catherine Carr on where people are off to, and a hard chomp taken out of 1994's Reality Bites in Rated or Dated.


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 February 14, 2024  1h19m
 
 

episode 941: Olga, Ola, Othello and okay, let’s DANCE MONTAGE


Olga Koch, a fresh Othello, glorious allyship, and the deep, deep joy of a dance montage.


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 February 14, 2024  1h13m
 
 

SIM Ep 940 Pod 291: Where are we going? What does it mean? And what is this film?


Comedian, writer, podcaster, friend of Standard Issue, and glorious human being Jess Fostekew is back on tour her new show Mettle, and so Mick jumped at the chance to talk to her about it. They also chat buses, bulking, and the tiny birds of Geoff Capes...


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 February 7, 2024  1h17m
 
 

SIM Ep 939 Chops 286: Broken Water, broken nights, and the highs and lows of mumming


Being a mum is great, but it can also be relentlessly challenging and impossibly difficult. Not to mention that from the day they're born, you know you'll eventually lose your children to adulthood.


In her late 30s, writer and actress Michele Winstanley gave birth to a much-wanted child, and quickly realised that mumming wasn't the sugar-coated dream she'd been sold...


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 February 4, 2024  34m
 
 

SIM Ep 938 Pod 290: Live from Antarctica and the Fountain of Destiny!


Sort of. This week, Jen's been on the satellite phone to bone fide polar adventurer Harpreet ‘Preet’ Chandi. Preet recently broke a third World Record, becoming the world’s fastest woman to complete a solo unsupported ski expedition to the South Pole. She chats to Jen about the how and why, accepting failure when it comes, becoming a role model and looking after your mental health...


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 January 31, 2024  1h8m