Standard Issue Podcast

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• Rated or Dated: This Is England (2006)

  October 7, 2026 · 40 min

  Brace yourself for a tension bellyache as Shane Meadows’ violence-smeared, working-class coming-of-age drama gets Rated or Dated. This Is England firmly marked out Meadows as the voice of working-class realism and introduced a host of…

• Anything to add, Penelope?

  October 6, 2026 · 28 min

  Amelia Bullmore is about to star in Margaret Atwood's stage adaptation of her book The Penelopiad. So Hannah grabbed the chance to chat to the actress about The Odyssey and the price its women pay, as well as learning the guitar for Riot…

• Tully Kearney and Melanie Woods are variously excellent

  October 5, 2026 · 27 min

  Paralympic athletes Tully Kearney and Melanie Woods are used to be recognised for their performance in the pool and on the track. And now they’re being recognised for their overall contributions to sport, with nominations in children’s…

• Standard Issue Birthday Podcast (PREVIEW)

  October 2, 2026 · 8 min

  It's 12 years since Standard Issue was founded by the boss, Sarah Millican. To celebrate, and just for the ears of our Patreon supporters, we got together to get the party started with a shuffle through our Spotify playlists.  This is a…

• The Bush Telegraph: She said, they said

  October 1, 2026 · 30 min

  This week Mickey takes a look at the case of the Cornell Seven, as well as what this year's PM, Andy Burnham, has planned for a better Britain. Which may happen. At some point. Meanwhile, Hannah's venturing back into the world of sport…

• Rated or Dated: Sid and Nancy (1986)

  September 30, 2026 · 31 min

  Alex Cox’s biopic of punk-rock’s "ill-fated lovers" Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, starring Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb, was met with critical acclaim upon release and in the years that followed. But has it romanticised a relationship in…

• Laleh Khadivi explores Female Life on Planet Earth

  September 29, 2026 · 28 min

  Iranian-American author Laleh Khadivi’s latest novel, Female Life on Planet Earth, centres on a mid-life woman, Heti, who comes up against some new information about her recently dead mum that questions everything she thought she knew…

• Grace Harper Brighouse on Dependence

  September 25, 2026 · 27 min

  In 2013 director Grace Harper Brighouse began work on a film about her dad Richard’s dying dog, in a bid to heal their fractured relationship. Over the course of filming, tragic events unfolded within the family, changing the nature of the…