Standard Issue Podcast

We're sooo close to being allowed to do anything else other than watch TV, but with a few weeks still to go, here's what we've been enjoying and not enjoying over the last month. We give a big cheer a...

19 Maalis 202152min

Working from home has been the bane of many people’s lives over the last 12 months, but Harriet Minter, journalist, broadcast and author of new book Working From Home, reckons there are some pretty se...

17 Maalis 20211h 17min

Is there a place for seminal second-wave feminist Betty Friedan in modern feminist thinking? On what would have been the 100th anniversary of her birth, Thread has published Friedan’s classic text, Th...

13 Maalis 202132min

Ideas around feminism might change over time, but the battles feminists face have alarming continuity. Dr Hannah Dawson, historian of ideas at King's College London, has charted feminist thought from ...

12 Maalis 202134min

In the fourth of our International Women's Day 2021 podcasts, Hannah chats to Kerrang!'s only female DJ, Sophie K, about women in rock music, from those on the stage to those writing about them. They ...

11 Maalis 202137min

You can't win as a woman with a body, for being too fat, too thin, too muscly and so on, but Laura "Biceps" Hoggins, PT and co-director of The Foundry gym, has learnt to give zero fucks, about this. I...

10 Maalis 202145min

In the second of our International Women's Day 2021 podcasts, Hannah chats to actress Katy Wix about her soon-to-be-released book Delicacy: A Memoir about Cake and Death. They discuss body image, the ...

9 Maalis 202157min

Feminist lawyer, fierce campaigner for women’s rights, founder of the Centre For Women’s Justice, a charity and public interest law firm holding the state to account for violence against women and gir...

8 Maalis 202131min