Standard Issue Podcast

Author Rebecca Wait makes a return visit to the podcast to chat to Hannah about her latest book Havoc, a dark comedy about a mystery illness that breaks out at a girls' boarding school in 1984. They chat about Cold War anxiety, hysteria and, of course, Picnic at Hanging Rock.


Grab a copy of Havoc here


Or Suzanne O'Sullivan's The Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories of Mystery Illness here

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This summer marks the 19th year of the Arcola Theatre’s seminal Grimeborn festival, a season of new and reworked operas.

Jen chats to the Arcola’s executive director, Leyla Nazli and Lisa Logan,
the composer behind new work After My Breath, about bringing opera to Dalston, why people find the art form intimidating, and those comments by Timothée Chalamet.

The Grimeborn Opera Festival runs from 15 July to 5 September at the
Arcola Theatre, London.

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After her first book - Ashes to Admin - was published, a lot of people got in touch with Evie King to tell her they'd been inspired to get plans in place for the end of their lives. If that's what she could achieve without trying, she thought, why not write a book to help people through the whole process? Hannah chats to Evie about Get Ahead of Being Dead, wills, funerals and why the hard conversations are always worth it.


You can buy Ashes to Admin here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/ashes-to-admin/evie-king/9781915306302


And Get Ahead of Being Dead here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/get-ahead-of-being-dead/evie-king/9781804193785

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Is too much screen time really the scourge of the under-twos? And exactly how excited should we be that the first ever female Labour Prime Minister is Andy Burnham, a man who isn’t even Prime Minister yet? Jen and Mick tackle these hot button questions and more in this week’s flirt with the news, which also includes another heinous rape trial, legitimately great news for young women, and Greg Cotswolds.

Here's that BBC news story on the men named in the Stockport rape trial: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnv9er181lno
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No-one's going to argue that Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical doesn't have issues, but does it still have things to recommend it? Is Anna an early feminist? Does it contain a banger? Is The Small House of Uncle Thomas a masterpiece? And why was young Hannah so fascinated by Yul Brynner? 
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