Standard Issue Podcast

In the first of this week's Chops, Hannah chats to Dr Helen McCarthy, historian and author of the fantastic new book Double Lives. They chat about the history of working motherhood, how society and feminism have viewed mums and work, and how working mums have viewed themselves. And, in the midst of the worst crisis in childcare in living memory, they ask what the future may hold for women who want to have kids and careers.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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lockdown might be easing but that's no reason to give up on your TV viewing. This month, Hannah and Mickey chat about the marvel that is Michaela Coel, and her new drama I May Destroy You. There are documentaries aplenty as we watch 16 Shots and Crip Camp. Mickey talks Windrush drama Sitting in Limbo and there's twice as much Mark Ruffalo to go around as Hannah chats I Know This Much Is True. Tuck in! 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s National Carers Week, so in this week's podcast, Mickey chats to Penny Wincer, two-time unpaid carer, single mum and author of Tender: The Imperfect Art of Caring about the loaded nature of the word carer and how, in the UK, disabled people have been thrown under the bus. Hannah catches up with performance duo Hunt & Darton to find out how their arts project Radio Local is helping communities unearth their good news stories. She may be on maternity leave, but Jen's left us a cracking chat with queen of athletics Asha Philip, in the first of a two-part interview. And in Dunleavy Does Disaster we watch Knowing, where everyone's so busy shouting each other's names they don't notice how truly dreadful the film is. We did though. And in the Bush Telegraph, sigh, well, it's the world right now. There's no getting away from it.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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr Rachel Clarke is a specialist in palliative medicine, author of Dear Life: A Doctor’s Story of Love and Loss, and outspoken supporter of the NHS. In this episode, she chats to Mickey about the current state of things in the NHS, what with coronavirus, lockdown and government aides doing whatever the fuck they like, and shares some cockle-warming stories of how she’s helped people live their last days to the full, the heartbreaking story of her dad’s terminal cancer diagnosis, and some frankly horrifying stats on hospice funding. 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom McCarthy’s 2003 indie gem The Station Agent is our Hannah’s pick for this episode of Flicking. What will Mick and Jen make of this darkly funny tale of Fin (Peter Dinklage) a man who just wants to be left the fuck alone? And what will it tell them about Hannah?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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jen might be on mat leave, but we have her time-travelling counterpart in this episode. She's talking to author and illustrator Laura Dockrill about her new book What Have I Done?, an account of her experience of postpartum psychosis and the continued misconceptions and misinformation around women’s health. Mick chats with Dr Rachel Clarke, specialist in palliative medicine, author of Dear Life, and wonderfully outspoken supporter of the NHS, about the possibility of dying well and the joy of a prize bull in a hospice. Mick and Hannah welcome Lucy Reynolds to the DDD fold as they tackle 1998 asteroid flick Deep Impact and find the lack of hope somewhat refreshing. Also, the roar of fury continues in the Bush Telegraph, and there’s genuine, heartfelt, no-word-of-a-lie sympathy for men’s experience of the menopause in SOTW. Altogether now: poor men.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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

As you probably know, we love old people here at Standard Issue, so our Jen got on the phone to Meryl Davies, chief executive of Re-engage, about respecting your elders and what we can do to help those who are socially distancing right now. We asked journalist and folk music fiend Hazel Davis to get on the phone with musician and ethnomusicologist Dr Fay Hield to chat about how the pandemic is affecting musicians and the inventive ways in which they’re surviving.Hannah chats to Dr Alyson McGregor about her new book Sex Matters and how Covid-19 presents an opportunity to change how we conduct health studies and collect statistics. Jen's talking big money and the chances of skipping the Tokyo Olympics entirely in Jenny Off The Blocks and in DDD, we watch classic bad filmPlan 9 From Outer Space. And in the Bush Telegraph, we're – er - let's just say, we're furious. You can probably guess why.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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

Millions of people in the UK are doing Lockdown alone, but you'd be mistaken for thinking they don't exist if you listened to the Government or the media. So, Hannah got on the phone to comedian Lou Conran to swap stories of Solo Lockdown. They chat about filling the hours, irrational and rational fears, and what this whole shebang can tell us about the value we put on childless or single women. Have at it!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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maytree is a respite centre for people who are feeling suicidal, and this week our Jen chats to its director, Natalie Howarth, about the impact of lockdown on our mental health and how to help someone you’re worried might be suffering. Mick catches up with consumer rights queen Vix Leyton about what’s what in the time of coronavirus, how Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act remains the consumer’s friend and the places online that can help you chase claims.Sport is (sort of) BACK in Jenny off the Blocks, there are some strange hues of leather and shaky cameras galore as Dunleavy Does Disaster takes on Earthquake, and some absolute bastard donkeys in the Bush Telegraph. The bastards. 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

What can we learn from the ancient Greeks? And what should we probably unlearn from them? In this episode, Jen chats to Professor Helen Morales, classicist and Argyropoulos Chair in Hellenic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They chat about Helen's new book Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths and how ancient misogyny still underpins modern society, as well as some pilgrimages to Dollywood, among other things.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 megaphone.fm/adchoices