Standard Issue Podcast
1) 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 whatâs undoubtedly one of the meatiest female roles in theatre. Meatiest in its most...Show More
2) 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 her home as a young person. But what she later und...Show More
3) Flicking #65: Better Man
Itâs Robbie Williams, but heâs a chimp! But is there anything more to Michael Graceyâs biopic jukebox musical drama about the British pop phenomenon? Are there any facts in it? And will you look at th...Show More
4) 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 down beer, rumours of Trump's death and odd book c...Show More
5) Rated or Dated: Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Is there anything Meryl Streep and/or Shirley MacLaine canât do? It's a question we return to, as we settle down with Mike Nicholâs 1990 dramedy, based on Carrie Fisherâs semi-autobiographical novel o...Show More
6) 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 The Marlowe in Canterbury, Hannah chats to playwr...Show More
7) Jackie Morris and Tamsin Abbott are wild folk
Fairy tales have long been a source of life lessons and observations. Adding to that tradition and brimming with female power, Wild Folk: Tales From the Stones, by writer and illustrator Jackie Morris...Show More
8) Rated or Dated: Top Hat (1935)
Featuring a couple of bona fide bangers by Irving Berlin, this Fred and Ginger bonanza, in which misunderstandings, misidentification and miscommunication slows true loveâs flow, was the pairâs most s...Show More
9) Karen Dobresâ bitch invasion
In 2017, fashion model and counsellor-turned gender equality campaigner Karen Dobres, found herself on the board of her local football club Lewes FC, despite never having had an interest in the sport....Show More
10) The world as you know it no longer exists
Hold Fast, the latest series of the BBC World Service's Lives Less Ordinary podcast, tells the extraordinary tale of the Avontuur, a 100-year-old sailing cargo ship which left Germany heading for the ...Show More