One of our firm favourites, poet Hollie McNish’s latest collection, Virgin, explores a six-letter word with outsized power. A power that should also be outdated, but is sadly not.
It is, as you’d expect from Hollie, a brilliant collection, packed with humour, rage, beauty, heartbreak and hope. She and Mick chat about dangerous words, what ‘virgin’ means to girls and women (and why it shouldn’t), the perils of mashed potato and how to come to terms with the phrase “making love”.
Virgin is published by Fleet and available in all good bookshops. Details of Hollie’s tour can be found at holliepoetry.com.
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Supplementary Ruth Tongue on nutrition
Instagram is a right old pain in the proverbial when it comes to advertising, and our Jen has noticed she’s suddenly getting A LOT of ads targeted at peri/menopausal women. Nutritional supplements promise women everything from a peachy bum to a sound night’s sleep, but how much of it is actually true?
So she jumped on the Zoom with Ruth Tongue, nutritionist, pilates teacher and co-founder of employee wellness company Elevate, to find out how much protein we really need, if supplements are any good for us and why we’re always being sold a dream when it comes to our bodies.
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Flicking #67: Wicked
There’s no doubt that Yosra’s picked* one of last year’s juggernauts: John M Chu’s cinematic take on Winnie Holzman’s ridiculously successful musical version of Gregory Maguire’s dark adult novel reimagining the L Frank Baum children’s books that became a 1939 film classic still beloved today. Phew! That’s a whole load of fan bases to tickle. But what if you’re new to the new version of Oz? Why is it in two parts? Just how hard a sell is it to Mick and Hannah? And is… is Ariana Grande funny?
* An epic fantasy musical? Of course it was Yosra.
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The Bush Telegraph: Dawn of the Planet of the Arbury Apes!!!!!!
There's a cryptid been spotted in Cambridge and it's far from the least believable thing you'll hear in today's podcast, where Mickey and Hannah are chatting about exclamation marks, assisted dying, renters' rights and AI being bad for older women in the workforce.
* If you're missing your Jenny Off The Blocks fix, get over to our Substack where Jen is chatting about Mary Earps' autobiography and the many, many opinions on it: https://standardissuepodcast.substack.com/
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Rated or Dated: Charlie’s Angels (2000)
The Destiny’s Child theme tune celebrated all the women being independent, but – question - how appropriate are those lyrics for McG’s 2000 “action-comedy” film version of the 1970s TV series? Was it made for Jen, Hannah and Mick? Was it made for any women? And how many Susan Faludi references can Mick fit into a single episode?
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