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Standard Issue Podcast
By women. For women. About everything. Standard Issue is a podcast championing women's voices, and packed with interviews, news, film, opinion and humour. For advertising enquiries, email sales@auddy.co
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The Bush Telegraph: Dawn of the Planet of the Arbury Apes!!!!!!
There's a cryptid been spotted in Cambridge and it's far from the least believable thing you'll hear in today's podcast, where Mickey and Hannah are c...
Rated or Dated: Charlie’s Angels (2000)
The Destiny’s Child theme tune celebrated all the women being independent, but – question - how appropriate are those lyrics for McG’s 2000 “action-co...
Selling cowboy country with Ellie House
Radio 4 and BBC World Service reporter and producer Ellie House makes some really interesting podcasts. Her latest, The Real ‘Yellowstone’: a battle f...
Outside The Box October 2025
It's another OTB of two halves this month, with Mickey joining Hannah to chat about Riot Women, Only Murders In The Building, The Last Frontier and Hi...
The Bush Telegraph: What a faff
As the concept of ID cards rears its ugly head once again, Hannah and Jen are asking if Keir Starmer’s revolutionary way of eliminating faff will be a...
Rated or Dated: The Long Good Friday (1980)
Or is it the long good objectification of a young Pierce Brosnan? Mick, Hannah and Jen are here to prove a Rated or Dated can be both, as they watch t...
There she goes, Gosia Buzzanca’s Beautiful World
As an 18-year-old in search of freedom and adventure, Gosia Buzzanca left her small hometown of Poznan, Poland, eventually settling in Wales. In her n...
The Bush Telegraph: Allegedly...
With the Grand Old Duke of York’s title now vacant, Mick and Jen visit the horrific allegations against Prince (for now) Andrew, made in Virginia Giuf...
Rated or Dated: The Proposition (2005)
Can an Australian film be a Western? Can one female character represent all of womankind? Is this the best Ray Winstone? And, most importantly, who's...
Saskia Flower on Lee Miller
Model, muse, photographer, and war correspondent: Lee Miller's career covered a lot of ground. What a woman. And now at Tate Britain, you can see the...
The internet isn't just dangerous for girls, with Tir Dhondy
We talk a lot on Standard Issue about how young women are victimised online, but young men are increasingly at risk too. Something terrifyingly obviou...
The Bush Telegraph: Not just for men!
Credit (albeit reluctant) where credit is due, Donald Trump’s only gone and pulled a blinder. Whether it means long-term peace in the Middle East rema...
Rated or Dated: To Die For (1995)
Gus van Sant’s black comedy gave Nicole Kidman the opportunity to show her villainous chops to mid-90s audiences. It also took a swipe at a media-obse...
Lorraine Stansbie and Kate Flannery are Iron Ladies
Iron Ladies is a new documentary about the women of the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike, a time in which working-class women who found themselves at the forefr...
Anne Odeke’s Even More… Ghost Stories
Following her success with Princess Essex and the previous two chapters of Ghost Stories…by Candlelight, Anne Odeke has joined forces with High Tide t...
The rhyme and reason of history
Catherine Clarke's new book - and accompanying Radio 4 series - A History of England in 25 Poems, tackles the big issues. And the smaller ones, too. H...
The Bush Telegraph: Quick, get Taylor Swift in the title, it's good SEO
If you're planning a trip to Europe or to leave your bike at a train station, or both, Hannah and Jen have got big news this week. Also, there's a new...
Emma Dennis-Edwards is Not Your Superwoman
In her play Not Your Superwoman, Emma Dennis-Edwards tackles the sometimes tricksy relationship between mums and daughters.
She chats to...
Vicki Sparks is kicking off
Following an epic summer of women’s sport, the UEFA Women’s Champions League is back, starting on October 7 and broadcast in its entirety on Disney+.<...
Flicking #66: Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
With an awards-bothering central performance from Eka Chavleishvili, Elene Naveriani’s adaptation of Tamta Melashvili’s 2020 novel got smashing review...
The Bush Telegraph: FINALLY
Mick and Jen tackle this week’s news, which finally (FINALLY!) finds Labour kicking the ball towards a goal – and not even an own goal – in moves* tha...
Rated or Dated: Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Is Sidney Lumet's 1975 bank robbery drama of its time? Or years ahead of its time? Or still pretty relevant to today? Or all of it? Find out as we wat...
The Bush Telegraph: Nun-stop news
Hannah and Mick tackle this week’s headlines, looking at whether Jess’s Rule is progress or a damning indictment of the NHS, worrying about young girl...
Rated or Dated: Billy Elliot (2000)
Stephen Daldry’s 2000 coming-of-age comedy-drama made big waves on both sides of the Atlantic, and a star of its young lead, Jamie Bell. But how funny...
Atoosa Sepehr and Hannah Khalil’s English Persian Kitchen
Food glorious food: not only does it sustain and nourish us as individuals, it brings together communities, crosses borders and merges cultures. When...
Len Pennie annaw
Poet, broadcaster, and TikTok sensation, Len Pennie was last on the podcast back in February 2024 on the eve of publication of her first
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Outside The Box September 2025
It's Emmy time again and this month we're chatting about the good and bad choices made this year. Which is also an excuse to talk about The Penguin. W...
The Bush Telegraph: Bellend Olympics
A freedom of speech special awaits you this week, as Hannah and Jen debate the rights and wrongs of opinions expressed on the killing of Charlie Kirk,...
Rated or Dated: Psycho (1960)
What’s a young man to do when he can’t stop murdering women he fancies? Blame his mum, obviously. The malign power of mothers is just one of several t...
Kate Bryan wants you to art
Art historian, curator and broadcaster Kate Bryan is on a mission to wrest control of the art world from asymmetric haircuts and aloofness, and put it...
Harriet Dyer asks you to please turn down your puffer jacket
It’s silly turned up to 11, as Mick catches up with brilliantly bonkers comedian Harriet Dyer, who describes her standup as a fizzy blancmange of whim...
Maia Novi and Invasive Species
After a much-lauded off Broadway run, Maia Novi's play about the time she was involuntarily held in a mental health facility has arrived in the UK. Th...
The Bush Telegraph: A man’s best froggy hypocrite
Mick and Jen are on Bush Telegraph duties this week and, unlike it does for Sabrina Carpenter, the idea of men doing more housework is not getting the...
Rated or Dated: Brokeback Mountain (2005)
The "gay cowboy movie" certainly opened the door for a lot of other films, but how does it fare 20 years later? Hankies at the ready as we take anothe...
Witch? Refugee? Tragic hero? Natalie Haynes talks Medea
The story of Medea has been popular since antiquity and continues to endure today. Not least because big names want what’s undoubtedly one of the meat...
Dr Ingrid Clayton on the fourth "F" of trauma
It took clinical psychologist, trauma therapist and complex trauma survivor Dr Ingrid Clayton years to understand how she had reacted to abuse within...
Flicking #65: Better Man
It’s Robbie Williams, but he’s a chimp! But is there anything more to Michael Gracey’s biopic jukebox musical drama about the British pop phenomenon?...
The Bush Telegraph: Back from the dead?
Returning from a BT hiatus, Mickey and Hannah take a rifle through some of the daftest stories of the week, including AI failures, ball pits, watered...
Rated or Dated: Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Is there anything Meryl Streep and/or Shirley MacLaine can’t do? It's a question we return to, as we settle down with Mike Nichol’s 1990 dramedy, base...
Here come the (incredibly divisive) girls
A century after their birth, the Mitford Sisters continue to fascinate and appal in equal measure. As a new play about them, The Party Girls, opens at...