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Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue Podcast

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 By women. For women. About everything. Standard Issue is a podcast championing women's voices, and packed with interviews, news, film, opinion and humour. For advertising enquiries, email sales@auddy.co Social Sciences
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  • Rated or Dated: Save the Last Dance (2001)

    Rated or Dated: Save the Last Dance (2001)
    Jan 14 2026
    Thomas Carter’s teen dance film helped launch the career of Julia Stiles, but has she been wronged by public perceptions of her dance skills in the years that followed? How many tropes are too many tropes? And can it hold a torch to 1983's Flashdance? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    29 mins
  • The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto, with Elizabeth Hyman

    The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto, with Elizabeth Hyman
    Jan 13 2026
    Holocaust Memorial Day is coming up later this month (Tuesday 27 January), so Hannah's been on the Zoom with historian Elizabeth Hyman to talk about her non-fiction book The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto. They talk about five very different women who lived there, the work they did for their people and the tough choices they made. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    31 mins
  • Why Laura Hall lay her head in water

    Why Laura Hall lay her head in water
    Jan 12 2026
    Feeling bogged down by meetings and out of her depth at work, travel writer Laura Hall quit her job and embarked on a fresh challenge to get her life back on track. Her new book, The Year I Lay My Head in Water: Swimming Scandinavia in Search of a Better Life, documents the year that followed, spent cold-water swimming around Scandinavia. Jen chats to Laura about the book, the appeal of the sea, the insanity of cold-water swimming, and the absolute joy of taking on a daft challenge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    26 mins
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