Standard Issue Podcast

Catherine Dyson's latest play, The Last Picture, focuses on an emotional support dog, Sam, who is taking a group of school children on a trip around an exhibit focusing on Europe in 1939. She chats to Hannah about empathy, dogs, antisemitism, audiobooks and the National Theatre.

You can see The Last Picture in Manchester, Bristol and Guildford. More details and tickets here: https://ett.org.uk/our-work/the-last-picture/

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What does a “streamlined” UK border look like? And if you vote for the MP of one party, should they be allowed to defect to another? These are just two questions Jen and Mick pose as they rootle around this week's news. What did they find? Well, there's a new immigration policy bothering British dual-citizens and, upsettingly as ever, more from the man who’d like to bother many more besides: Nigel *groans forever* Farage. There’s better news from the EU about companies discarding textiles, as well as a sexism Olympics alongside a JOTB report on the regular one.

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Miller, Huston, Monroe, Gable, Ritter, Clift and Wallach - what could possibly go wrong? Well, during filming, a lot. And while seemingly nobody was happy with the end result, The Misfits is now regarded as one of the best films of the 1960s. Will Mickey and Hannah agree?

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As well as being a freelance cultural strategy and communications consultant*, Meg Molloy is the founder of the Working Arts Club, a brilliant network supporting arts professionals from working-class backgrounds.

She’s chatting to Mick about the lay of the land for working-class kids wanting to access the arts, why it’s important they can do so, what the Working Arts Club is helping to make happen, and why Madge maybe needs to calm down about Margate a bit.

*Find out more about what that means with Mick’s first question

Find out more about Working Arts Club here. And more about Meg's exciting IWD auction project for AOAP here.
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The news: a constant source of anxiety, rage and misery in our lives. It’s probably no coincidence then, says psychiatrist, and psychotherapist Dr Joanna Cheek, that rates of mental health problems are skyrocketing.

Jen chats to Joanna about her new book, It’s Not You, It’s The World: A Mental Health Survival Guide for Us All, why “triggers” are actually useful, the perils of living in a world we weren’t really designed for, and whether or not the younger generation really are just less hardy.

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