Standard Issue Podcast

Working-class, feminist comedian Rachel Fairburn has long been a guaranteed good laugh on the comedy circuit, and a must-listen on All Killa No Filla, her smash hit true crime podcast with fellow standup Kiri Pritchard-McLean. 

Rachel’s new show, Vexy Beasts, moves her into the ‘character comedy’ bracket, as she introduces hairdresser Leanne, fighting for her salon’s life while spilling the T on her clients, in the fictional Manchester suburb of Harpurvale. Our Mick was keen to find out more.

Give Rachel a follow on Instagram, or visit her website for forthcoming gig details.

As ever, there is bonus natter for our £5 and above Patreons, which includes more class chat and a whole load of Blackpool love. 
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In her new book, Pleasure: The Reclamation of My Body, journalist and broadcaster Emma-Louise Boynton interrogates the societal forces that teach women to mistrust their bodies and perform rather than feel pleasure. Jen chats to Emma about Emma's own story, the impact of the male gaze and digital culture on women’s pleasure, why gendered ideas around sex and pleasure are doing us all a disservice, and about Emma's live event series and media platform, Sex Talks.

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Planning on spending the weekend on the sofa with all the fans pointed at you? Here are some suggestions on what you could watch at the same time. This month, we're talking about Two Weeks in August, The Four Seasons, Rivals, The Witness, The Burroughs, Widow's Bay, World War Two with Tom Hanks and what we make of World Cup coverage so far.

* Hannah's chatting about why she thinks The Pitt's Dr Robby is less than a hero on out Substack here: https://standardissuepodcast.substack.com/p/dr-robby-is-the-pits

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It’s feeling swampish in the UK this week, but spare a thought for the poor old Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool over in Washington DC. It seems Donald J Trump can think of nothing else. If the leader of the free world is distracted, the leader of the UK is... well, to be decided/Andy Burnham following Keir Starmer's resignation. There’s sexism live from the ITV kitchen, Hannah's found some elderly nuns hoping Scotland don’t come home too soon, and Jen's feeling cynical about Serena Williams in Jenny Off The Blocks.

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Steven Spielberg’s swashbuckling, whip-cracking, quip-cracking archaeologist Indiana Jones’s first adventure was beating the Nazis to the lost Ark of the Covenant. Will film picker Mick keep her big love for the film and its flawed hero under her fedora? Spoiler: NO! But what will Jen and Hannah have to say about the breakneck Oscar-nabbing adventure film that launched a thousand adventure films in its image? And also, George Lucas if you’re reading/listening: WTAF, man?
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