A podcast by women. For women. About everything. @MicksterNoonan @thatdunleavy @inspireajen
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Bloody lovely stuff from our bloody lovely boss.
In 2014, I was annoyed standing in front of magazine racks at train stations that there was nothing that appealed to me. The usual ‘women’s magazines’ didn’t speak to me and were too centred on beach bodies, white trousers and which fruit my body resembled.
Add to this that I love women. Ever since I worked for WHSmith and then the Jobcentre, I’ve been surrounded with women at work. When I got into comedy, those numbers dropped dramatically (they’re better now hoo-fucking-ray). So I started setting up small work places full of women. My TV series, my new material gig, writers’ rooms, my radio shows. Women, women, women.
I decided to do something about the lack of magazines for women like me (whatever that means) and thus create another all-women work space, a healthy, more interesting and feminist alternative to the magazines that were out there.
And thus began Standard Issue Magazine, edited by the fantastic Mickey Noonan. We were lucky enough to have some incredible women write wonderful articles for us. And the whole thing was run by 12 awesome women.
In 2017, I decided it was time to move with the times and we became a podcast @StandardIssueUK. The team: Mickey Noonan, Hannah Dunleavy and Jen Offord have since created over a thousand brilliant episodes of a podcast that treats women like they have brains, because we do, and are interested in the world. We are for women, by women, about everything. And we shine a light on some incredible sports women, journalists, playwrights, entrepreneurs, heck, all sorts of women from all walks of life who have something to say.
Standard Issue is a podcast championing women's voices, and packed with interviews, news, film, opinion and humour.
And on this International Women’s Day, I’d love you to give it a listen. Or comment on this post if you have listened. Or share it with your followers. It all helps. We hope you enjoy it. We’re super proud of it.
I feel this way about this project every day but today feels like a good day to shout about excellent women and their work.
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Judging by comments on here in relation to #RussellBrand there is still a massive misunderstanding as to what constitutes ‘evidence’ in a criminal trial. If a woman (or man) tells their account in court about an event, THAT is evidence. And it is sufficient evidence to convict.
In today's podcast Jen chats to writer and performer Hannah Reilly about her one-woman show Roleplay, a darkly funny and disturbing look at influencer culture, the commodification of feminism, male violence against women and girls and much more besides. buff.ly/ESLVbx4
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Russell Brand is now a convicted rapist. Understandably, the focus will be on the man himself and what he’s done, but today I’m thinking of the women who came forward. Having gone through a rape trial myself, I know just how much strength is required. Today, they’re my heroes.
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My WhatsApp is full of messages from female friends feeling relieved--and saying the same thing...I bet there are plenty of other powerful men shaking in their boots, wondering if they’ll be next to be called out for sexual harassment, assault and abuse.
🗞 BUSH! Telegraph: All bets are on! 📣
Mick and Jen scamper through this week's news, where they're chatting midterms results, a stone-age KC, a former archbishop with comprehension problems and an much-needed approach to vibes.
Listen here: buff.ly/ESLVbx4
In this week's Rated or Dated, we watched Brassed Off. Is the 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 *checks notes* Tom Jones? Have at it. buff.ly/osapz2o
Kiri Pritchard-McLean, one of standup’s most sparkling stars is now also a vegan farmer. Kiri’s Farm, her new five-part series for Radio 4, follows Kiri and her brother Ali’s journey transforming their land into a permaculture farm. Mick found out more: buff.ly/ESLVbx4
Is Nicki Minaj about to take over press briefings in the White House? Can a wind-up radio get us through the apocalypse, and just how impending is it? Hannah and Jen attempt to answer these questions and more in this week's Bush Telegraph. Dig in! buff.ly/Z9gqI4c
🩸 RATED OR DATED 🎬
It’s Hallowe’en, so Mick’s picked a film considered a classic of the horror genre: Carrie. But has Brian De Palma’s take on Stephen King’s novel stood the test of 50 years? And does Hannah agree Sissy Spacek looks like an axolotl? buff.ly/Z9gqI4c
In today’s podcast, Jen chats to Jodie Reed, co-chief executive of Home-Start UK about the charity’s work supporting families in the home and wider community, the impact of screen-time and why parents are feeling so lonely in such a connected world. buff.ly/Z9gqI4c
In this week's Rated or Dated, Jen's picked 1996 family fantasy adventure Dragonheart, starring Dennis Quaid as a disillusioned knight and Sean Connery as a good-hearted dragon. Will Hannah approve of its interpretation of history? And why is Mick crying? buff.ly/52LPZvw
That 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 humans. Our Mick chats with Natalie Lagstrom, wolf mother at Watermill Wolves.
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Next year, our @inspirejen is running the London Marathon for the Samaritans, so in today's interview she chats to @Helen_Thorn about knees, Vaseline, always having tissues to hand, and finding joy as a middle-aged, woman marathon runner. Dig in! buff.ly/52LPZvw
Relentless silliness, sight gags, wordplay and sheer chaotic comedic energy? Too right it was @MicksterNoonan’s pick for Flicking this month. And so she and Yosra are chatting about last year’s The Naked Gun reboot.
Listen up: buff.ly/52LPZvw
In today's Bush Telegraph @micksternoonan and @inspireajen are talking Shane Gillis and etymology, as well as medical misogyny, good news for victims in rape cases, bold Brexit overtures, and a terrifying new Press Secretary in the White House. Dig in! buff.ly/52LPZvw
In today's interview, Jen chats to evolutionary biologist Judy Wearing about her new book Anxious and Hairy: The Evolution and Culture of Human Hair, why we’re all so preoccupied with our own foliage, and what exactly is the point of public hair? Dig in! buff.ly/scn0uua
📣FRESH POD📚
Liz Hyder’s new book, The Teller of Tall Tales, is aimed at young adults but a total delight for grown-ups, too. @MicksterNoonan chats to Liz about heavy awards, telling tales, the YA audience and – of course – the power of stories. buff.ly/4mb30XU
Evil triumphs when good men say nothing. And so all the men silent in the face of male sexual violence against women and girls must just not give a monkey’s, right? @MicksterNoonan's written this week’s Substack, and she’s asking men to speak up. buff.ly/D0kR0Y5
