SIM Ep 494 Pod 161: The outside world, the outside gym and the friend only you can see
The world is opening up again, but do all of us feel ready for it? Mick's been on the phone with Standard Issue's favourite psychotherapist, Jane Watson, to find out how to ease ourselves back into th...
21 Apr 20211h 12min
SIM Ep 493 Chops 202: Eating Disorders, self harm and The Fear
Eating disorders have, unusually, made the news a fair bit during the course of the pandemic, which – perhaps unsurprisingly – has seen a rise in eating disorders. And while the official stats aren’t ...
18 Apr 202128min
SIM Ep 493 Outside the Box #32
Mother of God, Line of Duty is back and we've thoughts, loads of them. There's also a whole lot to say about the end of an era for Unforgotten, and three-part ITV series Too Close. Mick's got a lot of...
16 Apr 202139min
SIM Ep 492 Pod 150: Bigamy, bigotry and... Brian?
Narratives around race and ethnicity continue to be reductive and damaging, says journalist Natalie Morris, who chatted to Jen about her new book Mixed/Other, as well as identity, entitlement, and the...
14 Apr 20211h 27min
SIM Ep 491 Chops 201: On This Day She
Women are often missing from history, their roles downplayed, their achievements diminished. In this week's Chops, Hannah chats to three women on a mission to correct this: Ailsa Holland, Tania Hershm...
11 Apr 20211h 1min
SIM Ep 490 Pod 149: Motherhood, history, and thank fuck for Hugh Grant
This weekend is the British Library's HistoryFest, so Hannah's been on the Zoom with one of this year's speakers, Dr Peggy Brunache, to find out more about the trans-Atlantic slave trade and what myth...
7 Apr 20211h 4min
SIM Ep 489 Chops 200: Shaking hands with Ella Al-Shamahi
Covid 19 has given the handshake a bad rap, reckons explorer and paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi, who set out to explore the origins and significance of the greeting in her book The Handshake: A G...
4 Apr 202134min
SIM Ep 488 Flicking #12: Pride
Brace yourself for Hannah's naming of the genre of film that British filmmakers have absolutely mastered and of which 2014's Pride – the (based on a true) story of the 1980s alliance between London ga...
3 Apr 202129min
