Standard Issue Podcast

QI Elf, Museum of Curiosities producer and our resident bookworm Anne Miller came round to Mick's to chat to the team about her new kids' book, Mickey And The Animal Spies. Talk covered spies, animals we’d like to live with, the joy of kids books, and that time Dunleavy worked in Harrods' swimwear section. It was delightful.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

The internet can be a nightmare for women trying to navigate the dos and myriad of don'ts for pregnant women, especially when it comes to staying active during pregnancy. Now that she is very much up the duff, Jen wanted to find out more about what she should be doing to stay fit, and fortunately Dr Marlize de Vevo and Sally Kettle of the Active Pregnancy Foundation were on hand to advise. Spoiler alert: there's no such thing as "should".Just to add, while these birds know their stuff, every pregnancy is different and you should always talk to a GP before you embark on a new exercise regime during pregnancy or if you have any concerns.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

2020 has started with a bang on TV, so we've watched loads so you can get away with just watching the best bits. You are welcome. In this episode we chat Deadwater Fell, Killer Inside: The Mind Of Aaron Hernandez, Cobra, Sex Education, Messiah, The Outsider, You and Cheer. Plus Hannah wants us to make Lucy Worsley a National Treasure. The campaign starts here!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

This week, we chat to actor and writer Katie Arnstein about the final play in her It’s A Girl! trilogy, Sticky Door, which covers her year-long journey of sexual exploration. Journalist and author Susannah Cahalan tells Jen about her book The Great Pretender, about understanding “madness” and the blurring of lines between physical and mental health. In Jenny Off the Blocks, personal trainer and author of Train Happy, Tally Rye, tells us about giving #fitspo the middle finger, and it’s a right old pa-lava in Dunleavy Does Disaster as we scale the dizzy heights of Dante’s Peak. Plus there’s Brexit, Stateside shit-housery and sports bantz in the Bush Telegraph.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

Women's bodies are a constant source of controversy and debate, during pregnancy as much as any other time in our lives. In the first of a series about pregnancy running throughout February, Jen checked out the Foundling Museum's Portraying Pregnancy: From Holbein to Social Media exhibition, and caught up with its curator Karen Hearn, as well as the museum's director Caro Howell, to find out why this stage of a woman's life has historically been so shrouded in mystery, and precisely what an art historian makes of those famous Beyonce snaps.(Picture credit: Beyonce/Instagram)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

Multi-hyphenates Daisy Haggard and Tiff Stevenson joined Mick and Hannah at Kings Place on the eve of the general election – oh heady days of hope! – for a cracking gig, which involved some very entertaining politics chat that led to us all living on an island with talking sharks. Ahh, we wish. There’s also a whirlwind lesson in yoga for Mick and Hannah, a lot of sweating when it comes to thinking of things we like about ourselves, crying in the tax office, Googling big gardens, passive-aggressive presents, full-on aggressive presents, and a whole mess of crisps. Our next live event is at Kings Place is on February 14, with excellent women Pauline McLynn and Ayesha Hazarika. Some people know that date as Valentine’s Day, but whether you’re into hearts and flowers or not, laughter is good for the soul and the loins. Honest. Get your tickets here: www.standardissuepodcast.comSupport 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 Cervical Cancer Prevention Week, so in this episode of the Sunday Chops we speak to Kate Sanger, head of communications and public affairs at Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust, and Mercedes, one of the charity's volunteers. We chatted about the #SmearForSmear campaign, HPV and how it is linked to cervical cancer, and what we can all do to help encourage those who can to have a smear test. 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 our last podzine before that big Brexit date, so this week we're talking to Maike Bohn, from campaign group The 3 Million about how EU27 citizens feel about life in a post-Brexit Britain, what their chances of staying here are and what we can all do to make life a bit easier for them. Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day, Mickey chats to composer Na'ama Zisser about her new work Lovesick, which is part of a special performance at Manchester Jewish Museum on Monday 27 January. In Jenny Off The Blocks, Jen chats to Sport England's Director of Insight, Lisa O'Keefe, about the 5th year of their This Girl Can campaign and the joy of public sweating, and to netball star Ama Agbeze about body image.  And get out your face masks, because we're watching Contagion in Dunleavy Does Disaster. NO PEANUTS!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

Child abuse isn't most people's first choice of conversation topic, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it. Last week, Hannah went to the Internet Watch Foundation to meet its CEO Susie Hargreaves to learn more about what the charity is doing to remove images of child sexual abuse online, why we shouldn't ever call it child pornography and how they look after the mental health of their staff whose job it is to see such videos. 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

No Bush Telegraph or Dunleavy Does Disaster this week but, instead, a whopping four interviews with top women. Hannah chats to Joan Smith, Chair of The Mayor of London's Violence Against Women and Girls Board, about the recent horrendous Cyprus rape case and why it doesn’t end there when it comes to the legal difficulties facing victims of sex crimes. Mick talks to Kiley Reid about her excellent book Such a Fun Age, a whole host of privileges, and life in Trump’s US. Jen catches up with Standard Issue favourite, adventurer and author Paula McGuire, to talk about finding adventure in even the little things, as well as former British No 1 turned Eurosport pundit Annabel Croft, about the Australian Open – surely it’s Serena’s time, right?(And for those of you who want to watch it, all courts and all matches of the Australian Open are live on Eurosport and Eurosport Player)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