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Jess Davies does not want to see your dick
Former model Jess Davies started campaigning around image-based sexual abuse after her own experience of it, and the realisation that so many other w…
1 year ago
Flicking #62: Civil War (2024)
The most terrifying dystopias are within touching distance of now. And so it is with Alex Garland's Civil War, in which he uses imagined journalists …
1 year ago
The Bush Telegraph: What *is* this, Mary?
How many kids is too many kids? Well, Boris Johnson and the UK Government are pretty divided on the issue. As well as covering the news of possible c…
1 year ago
Rated or Dated: The Witches (1990)
A kids’ film with genuine horror credentials? Don’t Look Now’s Nicolas Roeg directs Roald Dahl’s 1983 tale of one boy (mouse) and his grandma versus …
1 year ago
Judith and John(s)
Acclaimed biographer Judith Mackrell makes a second visit to Standard Issue to chat about the Johns, a pair of siblings who went from an unhappy hom…
1 year ago
Lesley Sackey is Fighting Forward
After leaving an abusive relationship, former GB Boxer turned entrepreneur Lesley Sackey found herself living in survival mode – until she realised s…
1 year ago
The Bush Telegraph: Be prepared (with teabags and tofu)
Which Standard Issue presenter would survive an apocalypse? Just one of the many important questions Hannah and Mickey are asking in this week's Bush…
1 year, 1 month ago
Rated or Dated: Fame (1980)
Alan Parker’s musical-drama exploded the careers of Irene Cara, Gene Anthony Ray and others, and – thanks to the hit TV series that followed – earned…
1 year, 1 month ago
Dr Suze Kundu has done her research… on research
In an era where misinformation is rife and spreads at light speed, the role of experts in research is more critical than ever. And yet, historical un…
1 year, 1 month ago
Cariad Lloyd does not know where she went (but she knows how to talk about it)
Cariad Lloyd is an actor, comedian and writer (and one of our faves), who has been talking about grief since the death of her father when she was 15.…
1 year, 1 month ago