The Bush Telegraph: Bad news, good news, bear news
It’s Mick and Jen on Bush Telegraph duty this Thursday 9 May. They’re talking: male entitlement (whaaa?); police incompetence (no way!); remarkable women (come on now!); institutional sexism (surprise...
9 Touko 202422min
Rated or Dated: East is East (1999)
Does everyone have half a cup of tea? Great, let's begin. In this week's Rated or Dated, we're watching 1999's comedy-drama East is East. But how well does the comedy and drama really gel? Does anyone...
8 Touko 202424min
Britain's got Georgie Carroll (temporarily)
Georgie Carroll went from being a nurse in Rochdale to a stand-up comedian in Adelaide. In this podcast, she's chatting to Hannah about wanderlust, career changes, being on Britain's Got Talent and th...
7 Touko 202421min
Yuan Yang explores the new China
When journalist Yuan Yang’s activist friend Sam joked about Yuan writing the news story if Sam was ever detained… and then disappeared, Yuan knew there was a bigger story to tell about modern China. H...
6 Touko 202421min
Standard Issue: A new frontier
We interrupt your normal Standard Issue broadcast this week to tell you about the *new* normal Standard Issue broadcast, starting on Monday 6 May. But don’t worry, it’s not a cryptocurrency podcast. O...
1 Touko 202410min
SIM Ep 966 Chops 297: Stranger Things (and even stranger things) with Kate Trefry
Stranger Things: a bonafide telly phenomenon. The Duffer Brothers’ Netflix series has won an army of diehard fans across all demographics with its big budget mix of horror, fantasy and 80s nostalgia t...
28 Huhti 202433min
SIM 965 Pod 302: Blue Lights, cricket whites and on Wednesdays we wear pink
The BBC's Belfast-set police drama Blue Lights is back on our tellies, so Hannah grabbed the chance to talk to one of its stars: former comedian, now novelist and actor, Andi Osho. They chat about und...
24 Huhti 20241h 27min
SIM Ep 964 Chops 296: Powering up with Yasmin Ali
Most of us would be able to name our energy provider and probably a list of reasons we’re annoyed with them, but when it comes to the hows and whos that get it to, say, our plug sockets, details can b...
21 Huhti 202433min
