SIM Ep 365 Pod 106: Remembering Brexit, coping with stress and massive worms

SIM Ep 365 Pod 106: Remembering Brexit, coping with stress and massive worms

With reports of domestic violence soaring in LockdownUK, Mickey gets on the phone to Dawn Redshaw, who runs two women’s refuges in Salford, to learn how they are coping and what we can do to help. We've all lost track of what's happening with Brexit, so Hannah asks Best For Britain CEO and Remainiacs host Naomi Smith for the latest. Writer and mental health campaigner Natasha Devon tells Mick and Jen about her new book Yes You Can: Ace Your Exams Without Losing Your Mind. The boss, Sarah Millican, joins us for another Dunleavy Does Disaster as we watch Tremors. Plus we chat Priti Patel's unorthodox counting method and the plight of local newspapers in the Bush Telegraph. Yes, we are spoiling you. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Washing up with Isabel Daly

Washing up with Isabel Daly

Despite very little experience in feature filmmaking, director Isabel Daly teamed up with writer Issy Brett and actor/writer/producer, Carys Glynne, to make Washed Up, their debut feature film on a sh...

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Flicking #71: I Swear

Flicking #71: I Swear

Kirk Jones’s biographical drama based on the true life story of John Davidson, the man who taught Britain about Tourette Syndrome, is currently no 1 in the Netflix UK charts. It bagged lead actor Robe...

13 Mar 38min

The Bush Telegraph: Reports of our cognitive decline are greatly exaggerated

The Bush Telegraph: Reports of our cognitive decline are greatly exaggerated

Turns out we all just need to be a little more Linford, a little less Peter. Just one life lesson from Mick and Jen’s look at the news this week. There’s also the issue of savings versus compensation,...

12 Mar 27min

Rated or Dated: Lone Star (1996)

Rated or Dated: Lone Star (1996)

Long regarded as the peak of American indie filmmaking in the 1990s, John Sayles neo-western/murder mystery has a cracking cast and asks a huge moral question. Hannah thinks it's way ahead of its time...

11 Mar 30min

Poorna Bell wants more

Poorna Bell wants more

When she turned 40, journalist and author Poorna Bell decided she’d had enough of being told her best years were behind her – not least because she was seeing so many older women absolutely killing it...

10 Mar 26min

Paula Varjack on Nine Sixteenths and changing the narrative

Paula Varjack on Nine Sixteenths and changing the narrative

A “wardrobe malfunction” during the 2004 Superbowl halftime show caused a huge furore and changed the course of Janet Jackson’s career for decades, while her fellow performer, Justin “Trousersnake” Ti...

6 Mar 28min

The Bush Telegraph: Just because you still have your teeth, doesn't mean you're not trying

The Bush Telegraph: Just because you still have your teeth, doesn't mean you're not trying

Sure, the news is all about the Middle East, but what else is going on? Quite a bit. In this week's Bush Telegraph, Hannah and Jen talk about how "baby brain" is actually good for women, the Telegraph...

5 Mar 24min

Rated or Dated: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Rated or Dated: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Fava beans and Chianti all round as Mick’s picked Jonathan Demme’s Oscars-dominating 1991 psychological horror. Or is it a thriller? Other questions addressed include: how’s Hannah feeling about Scott...

4 Mar 35min

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