Standard Issue Podcast
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After Soul Survivor, with Lucy Sixsmith
After Soul Survivor, with Lucy Sixsmith
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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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- After Soul Survivor, with Lucy Sixsmith · 27 minLucy Sixsmith grew up attending Soul Survivor events and never suspected that years later, its leader would face accusations of abusive behaviour. Hannah talks to her about the…
- The Bush Telegraph: Just crying until we start laughing · 28 minJustice, recognition of abuse, the calling out of CPS tomfuckery, period products: it’s all been a long time coming, but Mick and Hannah are celebrating some wins this week. Are…
- Rated or Dated: In the Bedroom (2001) · 29 minBack in 2001, Todd Field’s directorial debut — an unflinching dissection of love, grief, and vengeance — made waves at the box office as well as in awards season. But did its…
- Marathon Max wants YOU (out on the streets) · 27 minAs her name might suggest, Marathon Max runs marathons. A lot of them. She’s also a running and fitness competition coach, and a professional champion of women moving their…
- Roleplay and shenanigans with Hannah Reilly · 25 minAfter her debut Edinburgh show sold out, writer and performer Hannah Reilly has brought it to the Soho Theatre. Roleplay is a darkly funny and disturbing look at influencer…
- The Bush Telegraph: All bets are on! · 27 minIt’s well done US electorate, who gave Trump’s Republicans a thorough drubbing in the midterms. All eyes on the Democrats: the 2028 presidential race starts now. Still behind the…
- Rated or Dated: Brassed Off (1996) · 37 minIs Mark Herman's tale of a struggling mining community unappreciated? Does it give women a short shift? Does everyone love Pete Postlethwaite? And who is blowing their own…
- A Call to Art, with Karen Livingstone · 28 minAs a major new exhibition - A Call To Art: William Morris and The Pre-Raphaelites - opens at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum, Hannah went to take a look and met the museum's…
- Kiri Pritchard-McLean: the joshing josgin · 26 minKiri Pritchard-McLean is one of standup’s most sparkling stars. She’s also a vegan farmer, and Kiri’s Farm, her new five-part series for Radio 4, is a total delight, following…
- The Bush Telegraph: The sullied toilet cubicles of our minds · 29 minIs Nicki Minaj about to take over press briefings in the White House? Can a wind-up radio be enough to see us through the impending apocalypse, and just how impending is it? And…
- Rated or Dated: Carrie (1976) · 34 minIt’s Hallowe’en, so Mick’s picked a film considered a classic of the horror genre. But has Brian De Palma’s take on Stephen King’s debut novel stood the test of 50 whole years?…
- Jodie Reed and the Home-Start heroes · 27 minParenting is, and always has been, a tough gig. With the rising cost of living, the breakdown of communities and a whole new digital world to navigate for both kids and parents…
- Outside The Box October '26 · 44 minIn this month's round-up of the best and worst TV, we're watching Slow Horses, Blue Lights, WAR, Below, Winter and The Reluctant Vampire. You are welcome. Learn more about your…
- Rated or Dated: Dragonheart (1996) · 29 minJen's picked Rob Cohen’s family fantasy adventure starring Dennis Quaid as a disillusioned knight and Sean Connery as a good-hearted dragon, which was ahead of its time in terms…
- Wolf mother Natalie Lagstrom on wolfie family · 26 minYou know the idea of an alpha wolf, dominating the pack and OBVIOUSLY male... Total wolfshit, mate. Wolves are matrilineal families who work, play and love together a lot like…
- Helen Thorn is always carrying tissues · 27 minNext year, our Jen is running the London Marathon for the Samaritans. It's her second time round the 26.2 mile block, although some 18 years after her first one, her knees ain't…
- Flicking #78: The Naked Gun · 34 minRelentless silliness, sight gags, wordplay and sheer chaotic comedic energy? Too right it was Mick’s pick for Flicking this month. And so she and Yosra are chatting about last…
- The Bush Telegraph: Freed from desire · 24 minWhere does the word 'whore' come from? In this week’s Bush Telegraph, Mick’s wondering if Saturday Night Live guest host Shane Gillis knows (no), cares (no) or has any comedy…
- The Banality of Evil, with Julia Pascal · 27 minHannah Arendt's most famous expression - the banality of evil - might be well quoted, but the woman herself is less widely known. Her time in the Gurs internment camp in France…
- What’s the point of pubes? asks Judy Wearing · 27 minIt seems there’s scarcely a person alive, male or female, who doesn’t have some kind of hang-up about their hair. Whether we have too much, not enough, whether it’s the right…
- Liz Hyder is a teller of tall tales · 23 minAward-winning author Liz Hyder’s new book, The Teller of Tall Tales, is aimed at young adults but a total delight for grown-ups, too. Because we never grow out of stories…
- Rated or Dated: This Is England (2006) · 40 minBrace yourself for a tension bellyache as Shane Meadows’ violence-smeared, working-class coming-of-age drama gets Rated or Dated. This Is England firmly marked out Meadows as the…
- Anything to add, Penelope? · 28 minAmelia Bullmore is about to star in Margaret Atwood's stage adaptation of her book The Penelopiad. So Hannah grabbed the chance to chat to the actress about The Odyssey and the…
- Tully Kearney and Melanie Woods are variously excellent · 27 minParalympic athletes Tully Kearney and Melanie Woods are used to be recognised for their performance in the pool and on the track. And now they’re being recognised for their…
- Standard Issue Birthday Podcast (PREVIEW) · 8 minIt's 12 years since Standard Issue was founded by the boss, Sarah Millican. To celebrate, and just for the ears of our Patreon supporters, we got together to get the party…
- The Bush Telegraph: She said, they said · 30 minThis week Mickey takes a look at the case of the Cornell Seven, as well as what this year's PM, Andy Burnham, has planned for a better Britain. Which may happen. At some point…
- Rated or Dated: Sid and Nancy (1986) · 31 minAlex Cox’s biopic of punk-rock’s "ill-fated lovers" Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, starring Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb, was met with critical acclaim upon release and in the…
- Laleh Khadivi explores Female Life on Planet Earth · 28 minIranian-American author Laleh Khadivi’s latest novel, Female Life on Planet Earth, centres on a mid-life woman, Heti, who comes up against some new information about her recently…
- Grace Harper Brighouse on Dependence · 27 minIn 2013 director Grace Harper Brighouse began work on a film about her dad Richard’s dying dog, in a bid to heal their fractured relationship. Over the course of filming, tragic…
- Outside The Box September 2026 · 40 minIn this month's Outside The Box, Jen and Hannah have been busying themselves watching Slow Horses, Youth, The Blame and Vigil, plus they look forward to the annual Autumn Drama…
- Rated or Dated: The Fisher King (1991) · 24 minA romance/fantasy/drama/comedy, there's a lot going on in Terry Gilliam's New York-set classic. But does the story of grief, guilt and forgiveness still have something to say…
- Diane Page on whether the rainbow is enuf · 24 minA hugely important work when it first ran on Broadway, it’s taken 50 years for Ntozake Shange’s seminal choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow…
- A deeper look at Beryl Cook · 28 minPainter Beryl Cook divided the art world when she burst into the public consciousness in 1976. This year, she would have celebrated her 100th birthday, so Hannah grabbed some…
- The Bush Telegraph: Influence and effluence · 32 minThis week, Hannah and Jen are talking about a Hyrox horror, Carers UK's new report, unrest in the countryside, a drug hoping to stave off Alzheimer's, bad behaviour at Flushing…
- Flicking #77: Weapons · 32 min2025 was a big year for horror, with the genre not only having some big releases, but also taking home some big awards. Including an Oscar for Amy Madigan for her role in Zach…
- Dr Siggie Cohen on being the parent · 27 minMany parents are moving away from the more authoritarian ideas of previous generations. But is it possible so-called “gentle parenting” has passed the point of being useful? Dr…
- Jane Hill has spunk in her eyes · 32 minSeptember is Gynecological Cancers Awareness Month, so Hannah took the chance to catch up with our friend Jane Hill, a writer and comedian who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer…
- The Bush Telegraph: News hullabalooboohoos · 20 minSpider bites, violent pensioners, a Bill about dying that refuses to die, some appalling headline writing, and bonnes nouvelles de France – Mick and Hannah have braved this…
- Alessia Camoirano uncovers Britain’s Forgotten Girls · 26 minAcross Britain, young girls from all demographics are being groomed, trafficked and sexually exploited by drug gangs. Authorities have been warned repeatedly about what’s…
- Rated or Dated: Bandidas (2006) · 23 minSalma Hayek and Penélope Cruz star in Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg’s "Western" "action" “comedy”, but what will the script by *eyeroll* Luc Besson have them do in this tale…
- Louisa Treger on Ruth Ellis’s Fatal Love · 24 minRuth Ellis was the last woman to be executed in England, back in 1955, sparking public outcry and becoming a catalyst for huge change in the justice system. Like many, author…
- Rated or Dated: Idiocracy (2006) · 28 minWhen Mike Judge showed us a vision of America in the future, nobody thought the future would arrive so soon. Did the social satire predict the rise of Trump? Can a film about…
- Suze Kundu eclipses the bad news with the good · 26 minIt’s a podcast of positivity, as our Mick has one of her regular catch ups with NASA’s Suze Kundu. They’re covering all sorts of topics, starting of course, with the recent…
- The Suffrage Detective investigates · 26 minElizabeth Crawford picked up her nickname after decades of work uncovering rare books and collectables related to the suffrage movement. She chats to Hannah about her latest…
- Rated or Dated: AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001) · 36 minIt’s the Spielberg-Kubrick vision of the future no one was sure about at the time, but later got some pretty big acclaim. 2001’s AI: Artificial Intelligence remains a Marmite…
- At home with Vanessa Feltz – literally · 26 minAs the star of daytime TV, radio and podcasts for more than 30 years, there’s not much we don’t think we already know about Vanessa Feltz. But there's always more to learn, so…
- Outside The Box August 2026 · 40 minIn this month's round-up of some of the best and not-so-best things on TV, we're talking about Furious, Possession, Evolution, My Brilliant Career, 100 Years of Solitude, Station…
- The Bush Telegraph: All aboard the bus to Wetwang! · 24 minThis week, Hannah and Mickey look at some of the week's best and worst stories, including major finds by archeologists, the scandal that continues to engulf Cambridge University…
- Rated or Dated: The Others (2001) · 28 minAlejandro Amenábar’s creepy AF tale of grief and darkness in post-war Jersey cleared a path for the return of old-school horror. But does it stand up when you already know the…
- Susan Calman is not going on a sex cruise · 27 minIt’s been a while since comedian Susan Calman went on tour: 10 years, in fact. Her brand new show, Tall Tales, kicks off in September, and promises stories, big laughs, a dose of…
