Standard Issue Podcast

Mickey and Hannah went to the Houses of Parliament to meet MP for Don Valley, Caroline Flint, to talk about 21 years in the Commons, changing attitudes to women in politics and why Labour has yet to have a female leader. 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

This week Team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord return to normal podcasting business, with Mick chatting to resident music guru Liz Buckley about Viv Albertine of The Slits, as Albertine publishes her second book, Throw Away Unopened; Hannah and Mick chat to Caroline Flint MP about booze and being a child of an alcoholic, and our Jen has a natter with author Kit de Waal about her new book The Trick To Time and her efforts to get more working-class voices in writing. Jen is paying tribute to Chelsea and England midfielder, Katie Chapman, in Jenny Off The Blocks, Hannah shatters some dreams as Dunleavy “does” Disney’s The Aristocrats, and there’s a triumvirate of wrong by way of Berlusconi, Polanski and Farage in the Bush Telegraph.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

On May 25, Ireland votes on whether to allow women access to safe and legal abortions for the first time. In a special, two-part documentary, we look at the campaign to Repeal The 8th and talk to some of the women at the heart of it. About the current situation. About current attitudes. About the campaign's chances of success. And we ask what the future might hold for the women of Ireland and other countries where women are currently denied the right to reproductive care and rights over their own bodies.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

On May 25, Ireland votes on whether to allow women access to safe and legal abortions for the first time. In a special, two-part documentary, we look at the campaign to Repeal The 8th and talk to some of the women at the heart of it. About the current situation. About its repercussions. About the sad history of reproductive rights in Ireland. And about how to win hearts and minds on this traditionally divisive issue. 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

In this Chops, Mick and Hannah basically listen in awe as Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton deputy assistant commissioner of the London Fire Brigade, expert psychologist, author and all-round top bird, talks fire safety, the humans behind the badge, why there's space for more women in the service and how we can learn to help ourselves. Seriously, she's incredible and when her book – Through The Fire – comes out next spring, we'll be first in line at Waterstone's.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

In this episode, team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord chat what's hot on DVD in the next few weeks with film buff Yosra Osman. Mick catches up with author Julia Pierpont to talk The Little Book of Feminist Saints and the fierce women that inspired it, and Hannah and Mick get all hot and flustered in the presence of Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton, deputy assistant commissioner of the London Fire Brigade, psychologist, author, TV muse and all-round brilliant bird, as she tells them what inspired her forthcoming book, Through The Fire, and explains the realities of being a firefighter.Jen's chatting football in Jenny Off The Blocks, Hannah's reached Bolt in Dunleavy Does Disney and there's all manner of wrongness on Tinder and coming out of John Humphry's mouth in the Bush Telegraph.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

In this In Conversation, Sarah Millican and Mickey Noonan had a corking time with Isy Suttie, Bridget Christie and Roisin Conaty. Chat included foreign bodies in places they shouldn’t be, the joy of shame, fast dog ejaculation, watching telly on all fours, why you should never accept a drink from Isy and a strange photo request from Roisin. 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

Hannah, Jen and Mickey talk news, reviews and the best things to watch on TV this month. This week Hannah's tackling the return of Roseanne, Idris Elba's In The Long Run and why you should never go with a hippy to a second location. 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

In this episode, team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord chat to Russian standup Olga Koch about the state of the world right now, and wish they were as bold as Christine Robertson who quit Facebook five years ago and hasn't looked back. Mick chats to Maria Harris, owner of Tall Bird Records, about opening a record shop and what's happening for Record Store Day on April 21. Jen catches up with super-cool runner Kate Carter and gets the lowdown on becoming a marathon addict and Dunleavy Does Disney's The Emperor's New Groove and stumbles into a Sting wormhole. There's also some meat-pie madness in the Bush Telegraph and Jen has a ‘you needed to be there’ moment about a photo on Facebook. Strap in lads.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

This week, team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord speak to all-round brilliant woman Mara Clarke, founder of the Abortion Support Network, about the forthcoming Irish referendum on May 25 (#repealthe8th #trustwomen). TV vet and absolute smasher Dr Judy Puddifoot chats National Pet Month, #BreedToBreathe, why Hannah's cats are so weird and whether Mickey’s old boy wanted to date her, and Mick and Hannah get their canal legs and investigate living on a houseboat by drinking tea on a barge with comedian Karen Bayley and her dog Boatman Bertie. Also, Dunleavy Does Disney reaches Alice In Wonderland and Jen's got the latest from the Commonwealth Games.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