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Clare FMLocal Support Driving Kilrush Christmas Spending BoostThe steadfast support of locals is said to be responsible for a notable surge in Christmas spending in Kilrush.
Traders across West Clare's capital have unanimously reported an upturn in fortunes this festive period.
Nationwide, punters will spend over €3.9bn this December, as traders begin to wind down for Christmas Day.
The average household spend is also expected to hit €1,600, which is a 14% rise on last year.
Owner of Anchor Crafts in Kilrush Pauline Dunleavy says they're noticing a significant rise in business.
One of the newest additions to the town is hailing the local support for the Christmas spending boos...
2025-12-2402 min
BACK2HOUSE RADIOBack2House Radio – Angela Gilmour – House 2 House Featuring DJ Decky – 2.4.25BACK2HOUSE RADIO - Bringing you the best in House Music from across the Decades and broadcasting around the world. Listen here to Angela Gilmour on her latest broadcasted Radio show every Wednesday. Thank you to all our listeners. Playing the very best in Deep House, Soulful House, Disco House, Funky HouseThis show is also available on Apple Podcasts, Deezer, Amazon Music and Youtube Podcasts under Back2House Radio Check out our Website, incoming Back2House Radio House Music Events, Current Music News and features and so...
2025-04-021h 58
128 hpm128 hpm ep.149 29.11.241.Hannah Khemoh, Wez Whynt - We Move (Kg Sunset Remix)
2.Pacha - One Kiss (Daves Heavenly Star Mix)
3.Urban Blues Project (feat. Bobby Pruitt) - We Are One (Art of Tones Remix)
4.Apilum - Sweet Lips (Kry IT Remix)
5.David Morales, Antoinette Dunleavy - DO YOU BELIEVE (Vocal Mix)
6.Angelo Ferreri - Lesdenz!!! (Jay Vegas Remix)
7.Saison - Keep My Mind
8.EAdrian Hour - verything
9.Yuuki Yoshiyama - Rise Up
10.Arado - The Jungle Tribe
11.Angel Heredia, Siwell - Hypno Dance
12.Deetron - Starblazer (Marco Lys Remix)
13.Bob Sinclar, Steve Edwards - World, Hold On (Club Mix)
14.Oliver Heldens & RoRo...
2024-11-291h 28
Love to be... RadioLove to be... Radio 214 | Trimtone,, Mark PicchiottiChicago house legend mark Picchiotti joins Trimtone for 2 hours of new music
TRIMTONE
Moscat - Silver (Original Mix) [Down To Funk Records]
Brent Anthony - Drop It (Original Mix) [Love t o be... Recordings]
Hatiras - You Are A Star (Original Mix) [Spacedisco Records]
DJ Kone & Marc Pelacios 'Secret Place' (Extended Mix) [Jackies Music Records]
Ben Miller - Burn The Candle (Extended Mix) [Club Sweat]
Tenacious - So Good (Extended Mix)
Mark Picchiotti
Babert “Dance To Da House”
The Vision, Ben Westbeech & KON feat. Andreya Triana
Jame Curd & Winkar “Sexy L...
2024-10-152h 00Love to be... RadioLove to be... The Global Connection Show 214 | Trimtone,, Mark PicchiottiChicago house legend mark Picchiotti joins Trimtone for 2 hours of new music
TRIMTONE
Moscat - Silver (Original Mix) [Down To Funk Records]
Brent Anthony - Drop It (Original Mix) [Love t o be... Recordings]
Hatiras - You Are A Star (Original Mix) [Spacedisco Records]
DJ Kone & Marc Pelacios 'Secret Place' (Extended Mix) [Jackies Music Records]
Ben Miller - Burn The Candle (Extended Mix) [Club Sweat]
Tenacious - So Good (Extended Mix)
Mark Picchiotti
Babert “Dance To Da House”
The Vision, Ben Westbeech & KON feat. Andreya Triana
Jame Curd & Winkar “Sexy L...
2024-10-152h 00
Standard Issue PodcastLove letters to ScotlandPlaywright Stef Smith is best known for her, well, plays. But her award-winning BBC Scotland drama, Float – a tender tangle of love, life and identity in small-town Scotland – is also well worth your time. Season one is already bingeable on the iPlayer and, ahead of season two hitting screens at the end of the month, our Mick chatted to Stef about water, women in love, representation, and the joys of being a soppy sausage.Talking of soppy sausages, Jen’s quite rightly feeling emotional about what seeing sporting women means to girls getting into sporting. And has top-ti...
2024-03-281h 00
Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 892 Flicking #41: Raising ArizonaRaising Arizona, The Coen Brothers’ second film, is a screwball comedy starring Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter, as a loved-up couple who can’t have kids of their own and so decide to steal a baby. It’s also a Dunleavy family favourite, hence our Hannah choosing it for this month’s Flicking. Will Raising Arizona raise Mick and Yosra’s spirits as high as Cage’s hair? Or will it sink like two prisoners returning to the clink through a tunnel of mud? Find out!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted...
2023-09-1624 min
Organic MattersSeason 2: Manure master classThis week on Organic Matters, we speak to Padraig Dunleavy. Padraig is a beef finisher and tillage farmer in Co Galway with an obsession with high quality manure and soil health. He speaks to presenter Hannah Quinn-Mulligan about how he tends his farmyard manure and his farm business.
2023-09-0224 min
Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 883 Flicking #40: EnchantedIt’s our Yosra’s turn picking Flicking and she’s been a bit nervous about making Hannah and Mick watch Enchanted, 2007’s live-action/animated musical fantasy romantic comedy film from the House of Mouse, starring Amy Adams as would-be princess Giselle transported from her cartoon world to actual New York City for a reality check and, potentially, true love’s first kiss. That’s right: Yosra’s chosen a Disney princess movie. Will Mick and (especially) Hannah suffer Nam-style flashbacks to some of the horrors of Dunleavy Does Disney? Or will there be a fairytale happy ending? *EastEn...
2023-08-1926 min
Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 873 Flicking #39: Who Framed Roger RabbitCartoons and live action living together in total harmony? Movie fan Mickey Noonan has picked a cinematic game changer for this month’s Flicking. Robert Zemeckis’s boundary-bashing, genre-mixing, Oscar-nabbing 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a tightly structured classical noir script packed to the gills with gags and boasting a career-best performance from delightful furball Bob Hoskins. A joy for all the family, right. Right? Have Hannah Dunleavy and Yosra Osman got their stern judging faces on or is this episode a total love fest? Find out!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast.
2023-07-2229 min
Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 862 Flicking #38: The Philadelphia StorySTOP PRESS: Hannah Dunleavy – yes, *our* Hannah Dunleavy – has only gone and picked a rom-com for Flicking. In the face of such a shocker, will Mick and Yosra even be capable of speech in order to share their thoughts on 1940’s ‘comedy of remarriage’ The Philadelphia Story, starring powerhouse trio Katherine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant? Well, of course. Not least because there are some domestic violence LOLZ and attitudes towards women that don’t quite cut the mustard in 2023. But what do they all have to say about the rest of the film and the glorious Hepburn? Find out.
2023-06-1726 min
Tom Anderson ShowTom Anderson Show Podcast (1-20-23) Hours 1 & 2HOUR 1 Retired General Kellog overviews Ukranian support against Russia from the U.S. and other nations / (FOX News) https://www.foxnews.com/video/6318965666112Prosecutors announced yesterday that actor Alec Baldwin and Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed will be charged with involuntary manslaughter for the on-set shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza in 2021 / (MB) https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/alec-baldwin-and-rust-armorer-charged-2021-on-set-shooting?Ret Gen Kellogg overviews support of Ukraine / (FOX News) https://www.foxnews.com/video/6318965666112Alphabet cuts 12,000 jobs at Google / (NPR) https://www.npr.o...
2023-01-211h 25
Tom Anderson ShowTom Anderson Show Podcast (6-24-22) Hour 1 & 2HOUR 1U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe vs. Wade / (NYT) https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/06/20/us/roe-wade-abortion-supreme-court/roe-wade-overturned-supreme-court?smid=url-shareTwo major changes in gun rights from a U.S. Supreme Court decision and soon-to-be Senate/House bill / (NYT) https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/us/politics/senate-supreme-court-guns.html?Charles Steigleman (whose show airs at 5 PM tonight)Hannah Cox on the American Innovation and Choice Online Act / https://bipartisanpolicy.org/explainer/s2992/Gregory Conley with the American Vaping Association / https://vaping.org/author/gregoryconley/HOUR 2Juul ban will hurt big tobacco / (MB) https://www.morningbrew...
2022-06-241h 24
Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 737 Flicking #26: Four LionsShe’s kept it quiet until now, but turns out Hannah loves Kayvan Novak. Who knew? (Everyone. Everyone knew.) But his beautiful face isn’t the only reason our Dunleavy’s a colossal fan of Four Lions, Chris Morris’s 2010 cult gem about an inept gang of jihadis. But will it make Yosra and Mick laugh? Will it make them cry? Both? Find out in this month’s Flicking. WARNING: Toploader earworm imminent… Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more...
2022-06-1128 minStandard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 715 Pod 197: Hosting refugees, fierce Victorian women, and how’s that serenity?Areej Osman is a senior placement coordinator at Refugees At Home, and this week, she’s explaining the realities of hosting a displaced person. She and Jen chat pros, cons, vulnerabilities and responsibilities. Victorian girl power is the foundation of author Liz Hyder’s latest fiction, The Gifts, and she’s talking to Mick about fierce women, unscrupulous surgeons, surprise wings and the joyful power of storytelling. In Jenny Off The Blocks, there’s a surprise retirement and more cricket, while in Rated or Dated, Hannah’s pick of 1997 Aussie cult classic The Castle leads to some Dunl...
2022-03-301h 20
What Are You Making Me Watch?S1 Band of Brothers Episode 8 The Last PatrolWe're back - after a short break - to chat about Episode 8, The Last Patrol. Paul reckons it's his favourite episode so far, and he and Hannah chat nepotism, revenge, insubordination, Webster's lovely clean hair and why Dexter Fletcher might be the king of the Paddington hard stare. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-11-3025 minWhat Are You Making Me Watch?S1 Band of Brothers Episode 7 The Breaking PointThis time, Hannah and Paul watch episode 7, The Breaking Point, and we're talking decision-making, disaster and Donnie Wahlberg. Hannah's got some big claims about the best hour of TV HBO's ever made, so we ponder the other candidates. Plus there's contributions from the ever-reliable James Holland and Matthew Leitch. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-11-0540 min
The Good Robot Andys (ogg)s09e04 The Handmaid’s Tale season 4 – The Good Robot AndysJoined by our very special guest Hannah Dunleavy off that Standard Issue podcast, we discuss, with many spoilers, season 4 of The Handmaid’s Tale. We cover all the important topics such as:
Can you actually have too much of looking deeply into Elisabeth Moss’s face while she bears suffering?
What on earth are the programme-makers trying to say, and is it a good thing to be saying?
Could it be something about anger being OK? But surely if so, they would … etc.
Do you identify more with Janine or Commander Lawrence?
Don’t worry – conclusions are drawn....
2021-10-2543 minThe Good Robot Andys (mp3)s09e04 The Handmaid’s Tale season 4 – The Good Robot AndysJoined by our very special guest Hannah Dunleavy off that Standard Issue podcast, we discuss, with many spoilers, season 4 of The Handmaid’s Tale. We cover all the important topics such as:
Can you actually have too much of looking deeply into Elisabeth Moss’s face while she bears suffering?
What on earth are the programme-makers trying to say, and is it a good thing to be saying?
Could it be something about anger being OK? But surely if so, they would … etc.
Do you identify more with Janine or Commander Lawrence?
Don’t worry – conclusions are drawn....
2021-10-2556 minWhat Are You Making Me Watch?S1 Band of Brothers Episode 6 BastogneWe're back with episode six, just in time for the WORST CHRISTMAS EVER. We talk medics, mistakes and magical snowscapes as things start to look brass monkeys for Easy Company. Plus, we chat to James Holland about camaraderie and his new book Brothers In Arms and - check out the history on us - Martin King tells us about the nurse Augusta Chiwy. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-10-2249 minWhat Are You Making Me Watch?S1 Band of Brothers Episode 5 CrossroadsThis week, Hannah and Paul chat about Dick Winters, officers and episode five, Crossroads. Plus Hannah's talking women's history again, learning a whole lot about Marlene Dietrich from actor Peter Groom. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-10-0837 min
What Are You Making Me Watch?S1 Band of Brothers Ep 4 ReplacementsThis week, Hannah and Paul tuck into episode four, Replacements, and talk about fresh meat, retreat and mob retribution against women. And, maybe surprisingly, Abba. Plus, James Holland is on hand to tell us what went so wrong with Operation Market Garden. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-09-3028 minStandard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 550 Pod 173: Awkward laughter, being your own champion, and sentient fuckholesNothing delights comedian Njambi McGrath more than the spice of uneasy laughter. Ahead of the Soho Theatre run of her standup show, Accidental Coconut, she chats to Mickey about mining humour from hardship, her incredible grandmother and her new Radio 4 series Njambi McGrath: Becoming Njambi. In Jenny Off The Blocks, Jen’s on the Zoom with boxer, model and activist Ramla Ali, who’s recently added ‘author’ to her arsenal, with new book, Not Without A Fight.Plus, Hannah’s bristling with righteous anger as she quite rightly gives The Lancet what for in Bush Telegraph. And g...
2021-09-291h 11
What Are You Making Me Watch?3: S1 Band of Brothers Ep 3 CarentanThis week, we're watching episode three of Band of Brothers, Carentan. We'll be talking about Blithe's fear, Speirs' speech and what Band of Brothers teaches us about men and manhood. Plus Hannah's been on the phone to Matthew Brown from American Battlefields and Monuments Commission about how thousands of American servicemen came to be buried in Cambridge, England. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-09-2340 min
What Are You Making Me Watch?S1 Band of Brothers Ep 2 Day of DaysThis week, Paul and Hannah tuck into episode two, and chat about D-Day and how those effects look 20 years later. There's more from historian James Holland on whether historical accuracy is necessary in war drama and Hannah chats to actor Matthew Leitch, aka Floyd Talbert, about fandom, cast reunions and a whole lot more. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-09-1640 min
What Are You Making Me Watch?S1 Band of Brothers Ep 1 CurraheeBand of Brothers might be one of TV's most beloved series, but Paul's never bothered to watch it. Before now. Hannah, on the other hand, is a huge fan. In this first episode they chat about big budget TV, whether Paul can identify a single character under those helmets, and whether Sobel's overbearing style might turn out to be good thing. They're also catching up with actor Ben Caplan to find out about the horrors of boot camp, and historian, author and WW2 expert James Holland about how BoB stacks up against other war dramas. Our GDPR privacy...
2021-09-0951 min
Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 454 Gig 59: Millican, Dunleavy, Noonan and OffordWhat a year, eh? The almost constant doom and gloom of 2020 is why we decided to record a relentlessly chipper gigcast for the start of 2021. And so we got the Standard Issue family – Mick, Hannah, Jen and the boss Sarah Millican – together for a Zoom natter. Chat includes flotation tank horror, contouring with Marmite, tiny hats for rats, playing find the poo, Penguin Ski Sunday, book recommendations, and the unmitigated joy of a good cackle.This podcast was recorded at the beginning of December.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast....
2021-01-031h 02Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 410 Pod 122: Freedom of speech, Black British history, and a final disasterAs kids return to schools, Lavinya Stennett of The Black Curriculum tells Mick why Black British history needs to be mandatory teaching within the national curriculum and chats about the #TBH365 campaign aiming to make that a reality. Hannah talks to award-winning novelist Elif Shafak about her new non-fiction book, How To Stay Sane In An Age of Division, and why we should all spend a bit more time engaging with people we don't agree with. There’s back-to-school confusion, hat drama and tail-eating snakes in the Bush Telegraph. And it's fishing – shit yeah! – in the final Dunleavy D...
2020-08-261h 12Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 408 Pod 121: Refugees, debut novels and dubious jerkyWith the ever-pressing situation of refugees back in the headlines, Mickey gets on the phone to Ethiopia to talk refugees, camps and coronavirus, and how women and girls are particularly affected, with Betelhem Mengistu, a Community Wellbeing Initiative Co-ordinator for the International Rescue Committee. Hannah's been on the blower to Baltimore to chat to Kate Reed Petty about her amazing debut novel True Story and how her time on a jury in a rape trial inspired it. Then it's off to the Andes In Dunleavy Does Disaster, as we watch Alive. They thought they had problems, Hannah's lost her bingo c...
2020-08-191h 07
Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 405 Gig 55: Duker, Moore, Dunleavy and NoonanHannah and Mick are joined by excellent comedians Sophie Duker and Thanyia Moore for our second gig via the wonder of Zoom. Chat is wildly varied, taking in feet, anal hygiene for cats, true love for Michaela Coel, why powerful women get labelled as 'difficult', dungarees, silver wolves, woke foxes, the mum perspective, and the evergreen nature of fart jokes. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020-08-1248 minStandard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 399 Pod 119: Recovery, NEETs and make ours a large oneLessons from history, the life-changing power of confidence, lots of Scotch and a 90s revival all play big roles in this week’s podzine. Annabel Bligh of The Conversation UK and The Anthill Podcast tells Mickey about new podcast series Recovery, a fascinating six-parter looking at key crises through history, and society’s subsequent recovery, to see if any parallels can be drawn with what’s happening today. Hannah talks to Kate Nation, founder of Turtle Dove, a charity aiming to empower young women not in education, employment or training – NEETs – about what they do and the incredible d...
2020-07-291h 13Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 389 Pod 116: shielding, Coming Undone and Olympic mummingDisability activist Gem Turner has been shielding, and she talks to Hannah about what that means, whether she feels ready to go back into the real world and what the last few months have taught her about how this Government views disabled people. Award-winning journalist and editor-in-chief of Empire magazine Terri White chats to Mickey about her beautiful, hard-hitting memoir Coming Undone, an extraordinary book, dealing with poverty, child abuse, alcoholism and mental breakdown. And time-travelling Jen is here again, catching up with the awesome – in the most literal meaning of the word – Jo Pavey about being an Ol...
2020-07-011h 22Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 385 Pod 114: funerals, fashion and slow-moving magmaFancy a strangely uplifting listen about funerals? Well, Mick catches up with Poppy Mardall, founder of Poppy’s Funerals, to find out about funerals in the time of coronavirus and lockdown, how people are adapting and creating new rituals to say goodbye, and how it might have changed the landscape forever. Given leaving the house is now a real possibility again, we’re having to think about getting dressed, so Hannah talks to fashion journalist Naomi Barling about how lockdown might have changed our views on whether clothes are use or ornament. They also chat about how fashi...
2020-06-171h 09Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 382 Pod 113: Caring, broadcasting and runningIt’s National Carers Week, so in this week's podcast, Mickey chats to Penny Wincer, two-time unpaid carer, single mum and author of Tender: The Imperfect Art of Caring about the loaded nature of the word carer and how, in the UK, disabled people have been thrown under the bus. Hannah catches up with performance duo Hunt & Darton to find out how their arts project Radio Local is helping communities unearth their good news stories. She may be on maternity leave, but Jen's left us a cracking chat with queen of athletics Asha Philip, in the first of a two...
2020-06-101h 12Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 371, Pod 109: Hugging, homelessness and Handsy JoeWe all miss hugging our friends, right? But will we ever feel safe to do it again? This week, Mickey got on the phone to psychotherapist Jane Watson to find out why all our emotions are clamouring to have a go in lockdown and how we can prepare ourselves for the outside world again. Hannah chats to Sarah Halls of Wintercomfort, an outreach service for rough sleepers, about how they are coping in the current chaos. Plus she's talking about Biden vs Trump with comedian Kate McCabe. In Jenny Off The Blocks, Jen looks at the equal pay issue f...
2020-05-061h 35Standard Issue PodcastSIM EP 369 Pod 108: Helping refugees, saving businesses, and not counting caloriesIn this week’s podzine, Mick chats to Sam Hudson of the charity Women For Refugee Women about how women refugees in the UK are faring in the Covid-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, on the business side of the coronavirus crisis, Jen chats to Hannah Turner-Voakes, founder and director of small business Paper Dress Vintage, about the impact of the virus and lockdown. Following on from BBC programme The Restaurant That Burns Off Calories, writer Lucy Nichol catches up with campaigner and author Hope Virgo to talk about how to have a responsible conversation about diet and eating disorders. I...
2020-04-291h 23Standard Issue PodcastSIM EP 367 Pod 107: Beauty Bankssss, Shakesssspeare and snakesssSnakes on a podcast! It's almost a theme this week. But not quite. We'll get to the reptiles in odd places, but first journalist, author and beauty guru Sali Hughes chats to Mick about her work as co-founder the excellent Beauty Banks charity and #HelpingHands, its sibling initiative getting essential toiletries to people in need during the pandemic.Ahead of Shakespeare Day, Hazel Davis chats to Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford, about why the Bard enjoys such longevity, and how his women fare. Jamie Chadwick, winner of last year's inaugural W Series, joins Jen...
2020-04-221h 24Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 365 Pod 106: Remembering Brexit, coping with stress and massive wormsWith reports of domestic violence soaring in LockdownUK, Mickey gets on the phone to Dawn Redshaw, who runs two women’s refuges in Salford, to learn how they are coping and what we can do to help. We've all lost track of what's happening with Brexit, so Hannah asks Best For Britain CEO and Remainiacs host Naomi Smith for the latest. Writer and mental health campaigner Natasha Devon tells Mick and Jen about her new book Yes You Can: Ace Your Exams Without Losing Your Mind. The boss, Sarah Millican, joins us for another Dunleavy Does Disaster as we watch Tr...
2020-04-151h 19Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 362 Pod 105: Child birthing, soul baring, and top jobbing.In this episode, Jen chats to Rebecca Schiller, co-founder and trustee of Birthrights, about what they’re doing to help pregnant women during the coronavirus outbreak. Mick has a natter with Kayleigh Llewellyn, writer and creator of award-winning BBC comedy drama series In My Skin. Rachel Reeves, now shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, spoke to Jen back in March about her book Women of Westminster, and why we need to see more women in the top jobs in government.In Jenny Off The Blocks, Jen recaps the many cancellations in women’s sport, Hannah stretches...
2020-04-081h 50Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 360 Pod 104: Recovering from coronavirus, understanding autism and keeping fitSarah Millican, Rachel Parris, Nacoa, front room personal training, autism, Coronavirus, unsexy disaster, and tit slings: it is a BUMPER episode. Hannah catches up with Hilary Henriques from charity Nacoa to find out how they're continuing to provide support to children of alcoholics in Lockdown UK, and she also talks to comedian Rachel Parris, who explains what it's like to have Coronavirus, as well as what's coming up for fans of The Mash Report. And it’s World Autism Awareness Week, so Mick chats to artist and author Charlotte Amelia Poe about their book How To Be Aut...
2020-04-011h 47Standard Issue PodcastSIM EP 356 Pod 102: Bugs, boys and books.This week's podcast comes straight from our respective self-isolation bunkers, because frankly, we can't sustain this rate of hand-washing.Joining us - and you - is our resident music guru Liz Buckley, who brings us some much needed joy by way of the Pet Shop Boys. Hannah goes to author Claire Allan for some advice on what to get our reading chops around during these most-long of days.We're herding nans and chomping on budget apples in the Bush Telegraph, while in Jenny off The Blocks, Jen is chatting about renowned unskilled footballers t...
2020-03-181h 28Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 353 Pod 101: sexual feeling, groundbreaking feats and shit pieWith very clean hands, this week's podzine brings you Sex and Lies, as author Leila Slimani tells Jen all about her new book looking at the secret sex lives of women in Morocco, a country that still expects its women to be virgins or married.Part of the brilliant Vaults Festival, Miles Apart Together is a new play charting world-beating feats accomplished by women you've never heard of. But you're hearing about them now, as actor Meg Kubota tells our Hannah about Annie "Londonderry" Kopchovsky, Bessie Coleman and Junko Tabei. In Jenny Off The B...
2020-03-111h 14Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 337 Pod : Drugs, reality bubbles and the seaLooking for a clever woman? Well, lucky you, we've four of them for you and that doesn't even include us. This week, Mick catches up with photographic artist Mandy Barker to talk about her exhibition Our Plastic Ocean, a retrospective of her work addressing the global crisis of marine plastic pollution. Jen talks to science journalist Ziya Tong about her book The Reality Bubble and society's blindspots. And Hannah's chatting to Dr Suzi Gage about her new book Say Why To Drugs and what the Gavin and Stacey Christmas special can teach us about attitudes to recreational drug taking. In...
2020-02-121h 33
Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 336 Chops 146: Anne Miller, Hannah, Jen, Mickey and the Animal SpiesQI Elf, Museum of Curiosities producer and our resident bookworm Anne Miller came round to Mick's to chat to the team about her new kids' book, Mickey And The Animal Spies. Talk covered spies, animals we’d like to live with, the joy of kids books, and that time Dunleavy worked in Harrods' swimwear section. It was delightful.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020-02-0924 minStandard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 327 Pod 96: Believing women, being brave and breaking records.No Bush Telegraph or Dunleavy Does Disaster this week but, instead, a whopping four interviews with top women. Hannah chats to Joan Smith, Chair of The Mayor of London's Violence Against Women and Girls Board, about the recent horrendous Cyprus rape case and why it doesn’t end there when it comes to the legal difficulties facing victims of sex crimes. Mick talks to Kiley Reid about her excellent book Such a Fun Age, a whole host of privileges, and life in Trump’s US. Jen catches up with Standard Issue favourite, adventurer and author Paula McGuire, to talk about...
2020-01-151h 15Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 324 Pod 95: Fuck no! Yes dogs! And a sinking feelingEver wanted to harness the power of ‘No’? Yes? Thought so. In that case, Hannah’s chat with the ever-excellent guide to giving no fucks and sweary delight Sarah Knight is for you, as she talks through ways to make saying no easier. Her book Fuck No! is absolutely worth your yes.Tour de force Rosalind Blessed currently has two plays in rep at the Old Red Lion Theatre, London, and she tells us about The Delights Of Dogs and the Problems Of People and Lullabies For The Lost, both of which cover hefty topics, including domestic violen...
2020-01-081h 24Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 302 Pod 91: Best buys, big hitters and busy beesIn this week’s podzine Hannah chats to author Anna Cosslett about her new book Your Life As I Knew It, about bringing up her severely autistic son, Huw. We’re joined in the studio by our resident consumer expert and all-round lovely person Vix Leyton to give us the lowdown on bagging a Black Friday bargain and what the Brexit is happening in the world of retail. There’s electoral Wacky Races, questionable gynaecological procedures and some cheeky identity theft opportunities in the Bush Telegraph, homage paid to boxing great Nicola Adams in Jenny Off The Blocks, and quite...
2019-11-131h 23Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 299 Pod 90: Greenham, Blue Peter and the bright white of another Ice AgeRadical women, bloody-minded women, successful sports women: there's loads of positive stuff in this week's podcast – hurray! Hannah learns all about the excellent Greenham Women Everywhere project from its co-coordinator Rebecca Mordan, who explains the work of, and shares anecdotes from, the extraordinary campaigners of the Greenham Common peace camp of the 1980s. Mickey has a lovely natter with author and erstwhile Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis about her latest novel, How It Was, and they cover loads of ground including the joys of being invisible, Blue Peter (obvs), and mother-daughter relationships. Jen's got a lot to applaud in Jenny...
2019-11-061h 20Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 294 Pod 89: People power, split screens, and blood lustOn this week’s pod, Mick chats to Alliance For Choice’s Danielle Roberts about some good news on reproductive and gay marriage rights in Northern Ireland, following changes to the law this week. Hannah speaks to former Conservative, now Lib Dem MP Heidi Allen about what’s going on in Parliament about Brexit this week and how you can help push for a People’s Vote. Jen speaks to author Kiran Millwood-Hargrave about her new book The Deathless Girls and bloody lusty, sex lusty, sexy lady things. Plus she's chatting racism in football (again, sighs) and motor sport in Jenny O...
2019-10-231h 27Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 285 Pod 86: Reproductive rights, coal mining and MarsAbortion rights, Victorian-esque coal mines, dead dictators and dodgy CGI: this week’s podzine is quite the mix. Filmmaker Lucy D'Cruz tells Hannah and Jen all about the current situation regarding reproductive rights in Argentina and her new documentary My Body, Their Choice. (Get involved with the crowdfunder, here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/abortion-my-body-their-choice#/). Mick chats with author Liz Hyder about her brilliant debut fiction, Bearmouth, kids down coal mines, women with wings and that time a surgical procedure had a 300 per cent mortality rate. There’s Bullseye, bad politicians and BBC bullshit in the Bush Te...
2019-10-021h 14Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 276 Pod 85: Musical women, medical women and maniacal laughterThis week Mick and Jen catch up with star of the stage and screen Jodie Prenger, currently touring in the National Theatre’s production of Shelagh Delaney’s taboo-breaking play, A Taste of Honey (https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/a-taste-of-honey-uk-tour), to talk about mimicking everyone from your nan to Liza Minnelli. Hannah chats to tour guide and living history practitioner Ailsa Clarke to learn about the Edinburgh Seven – the first women to train to be doctors in the UK (https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/edinburgh-seven-0). There’s no records and new records in Jenny off the Blocks, Double Daves...
2019-09-111h 13Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 273 Pod 84: Essex girls, equal pay and more football pleaseCarrie Gracie – that's right, the fierce AF BBC journalist who kicked Auntie right in the nuts over equal pay – joins us to talk about exactly how being "mad, bad and determined" helped her win a previously unthinkable fight with her employer. She also explains how she wants to help all women get the equal pay they deserve, as she shares her story, research and advice in her new book, Equal: A Story of Women, Men and Money. Listeners, we swooned. Also swoonsome is playwright Sadie Hasler, who's tackling Essex Girl stereotypes in her new play, Stiletto Beach, which o...
2019-09-041h 09Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 267 Pod 83: cats, dogs, mums, babies, and books on fireCats in space, dogs in graveyards and other animal biographies come to the fore as Hannah chats with Kimberlie Hamilton, children's author of Rebel Cats; Brave Tales of Feisty Felines and Rebel Dogs: Heroic Tales of Trusty Hounds, both of which have new pride of place on the Dunleavy bookshelf. Suzy K Quinn reveals all the Lies We Tell Mothers, which is handily also the title of her latest book (sorry, but it's time to wave ta-ra to that pineapple induces labour myth). Jen's rightly fuming about the racism once more rearing its ugly head in foo...
2019-08-211h 16Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 265 Pod 82: reproductive rights, social history and erotic hobbitsThis week busy bee Mick chats to Dani Beckett of UK campaign organisation Abortion Rights about what's currently what in England, Scotland and Wales and how BoJo's new Cabinet might impact this and – surprise! – not in a positive way. She also catches up with comedian Anna Drezen to talk about her Edinburgh Show Okay, Get Home Safe!!, and hobbit erotica, among other things. Hannah chats to Dr Shirin Hirsch about Disrupt, the People's History Museum's exhibition marking 200 years since the Peterloo Massacre, an in Jenny Off The Blocks, Jen's raging about the Forbes 100.Since we're up in Edi...
2019-08-1452 min
Standard Issue PodcastEp 261 Pod 81: Old women, con women and high-fashion monksWhy don't more of us appreciate how interesting older women are? It's a question we put to author and social history fan Kate Thompson, who came to tell us about her new novel Secrets of the Homefront Girls and why, when you've written about real-life matriarchs, there's no going back. Rachel DeLoache Williams talks to Hannah about being taken in by a con woman, enduring a high-profile trial and her new book My Friend Anna. Jen's serving up a shit sandwich in Jenny Off The Blocks and there are smashed cafetieres all over the Bush Telegraph. Plus, Mick enjoys w...
2019-08-071h 17
The DrinkEp 14: A cup of tea with Jane HillThis week Hannah meets author and comedian Jane Hill to talk about what led her to conclude she was an alcoholic, how she gave up and why booze is so intrinsically linked to fun. Spoiler alert: Contains more stories about how Hannah broke stuff when she was drunk. Like bones.
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2019-04-1600 min
The DrinkEp 13: Shit-Faced (not shit-faced)This week, Hannah goes for a cup of tea with Isobel Wroe Wright from Shit-Faced Showtime and David Ellis from Shit-Faced Shakespeare, to talk being drunk on stage, looking after your mates and drinking LOTS OF WATER. Spoiler alert: Contains an anecdote about being drunk in a sand-trap with a guitar. What more do you people want?
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2019-04-0900 min
The DrinkEp 12: A pint with Tiernan DouiebThis week, Hannah meets comedian Tiernan Douieb for a lunchtime pint to find out how diabetes can affect what you drink and what you're like when you're drunk. Plus, they chat the perils of absinthe and you can find out which one of them ended up in a skip. SPOILER ALERT: It's both of them.
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2019-04-0200 min
Drunk Women Solving CrimeHannah Dunleavy, Big Bertha & Where There's Smoke...Podcaster, articulate drinker & whiskey fiend Hannah Dunleavy cheated on her 'Standard Issue' chums to help the Drunk Women solve a crime of epic proportions. At least, the size of the perpetrator was epic according to history, hence the name 'Big Bertha,’ who had a silver tongue when it came to getting people to buy whatever she was selling, regardless of whether it was hers to sell in the first place. Guest Hannah also tells a tale of her own in which she got to use some questionable self-defense tactics taught to her by her dad and this week's listener cr...
2019-03-2749 minDrunk Women Solving CrimeHannah Dunleavy, Big Bertha & Where There's Smoke...Podcaster, articulate drinker & whiskey fiend Hannah Dunleavy cheated on her 'Standard Issue' chums to help the Drunk Women solve a crime of epic proportions. At least, the size of the perpetrator was epic according to history, hence the name 'Big Bertha,’ who had a silver tongue when it came to getting people to buy whatever she was selling, regardless of whether it was hers to sell in the first place. Guest Hannah also tells a tale of her own in which she got to use some questionable self-defense tactics taught to her by her dad and this week's listener cr...
2019-03-2749 min
The DrinkEp 11: Windy London with Femi OluwoleThis week Hannah meets Our Future Our Choice's Femi in a very windy London to talk being teetotal, how Nigel Farage has used alcohol to present himself as a man of the people and why you should always make your kids drink if you've bought a new car.
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2019-03-1500 min
The DrinkEp 10: Lunch time drinking with Nick MillerThis week, Hannah indulged in a spot of lunch time drinking with sports journalist Nick Miller, to chat booze and sports fandom, the horrors of waking up in a tent with a hangover and why he never chooses the wine. Hannah also pretends to know stuff about sport. She's fooling no-one.
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2019-03-0700 min
The DrinkEp 9: Pre-show with Olga KochThis week, Hannah meets comedian Olga Koch to talk drunk dialling,the perfect number of pints and how not to ruin your Uber rating. Plus Hannah pretends to know stuff about Champagne. It doesn't suit her.
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2019-02-2600 min
The DrinkEp 8: Confusing coffee with Evelyn MokThis week Hannah attempts to buy coffee for the Swedish comedian Evelyn Mok. Which is more of a drama than it sounds. But they did manage to have an interesting chat about the "Asian Flush", crying on the night bus and knowing the right time to leave a party. So it all worked out well in the end.
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2019-02-2200 min
The DrinkEp 7: Diet coke with Paul SinhaHannah meets comedian and quizzer Paul Sinha to talk drunken weeping, the best and worst kind of stag do, and the art of pacing yourself. Plus there's a small quiz. Because of course there is.
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2019-02-1200 min
The DrinkEpisode 6: Dry January with Taylor GlennHannah meets American comedian, former counsellor and one third of the Drunk Women Solving Crime podcast, Taylor Glenn to talk interventions, dry counties and parenting with a hangover. Plus the good way to be pissed at work.
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2019-02-0500 min
The DrinkThe Drink Episode 5: Pre-show with Sam AveryIn this week's episode, Hannah talks to comedian and parenting author Sam Avery about drinking in the park, knock-off spirits and drunken sleepwalking. Warning, contains drunk nans.
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2019-01-2900 min
The DrinkThe Drink Episode 4: G&T with Lou ConranThis week Hannah has comedian Lou Conran round for a few gin and tonics and a chat about how booze mixes with mood and how it mixes with grief. And about what happens when you drink too many cocktails when you've only eaten a jacket potato. Spoiler alert, it's not pretty.
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2019-01-2200 min
The DrinkThe Drink Episode 3: Wetherspoons with the Scummy MummiesThis week, Hannah goes for a pint with comedians Helen Thorn and Ellie Gibson, AKA The Scummy Mummies, to talk "reward" drinking, drunk audiences and a 300-mile pub crawl. Definitely contains swearing. Possibly contains a lingering smell of singed pubic hair.
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2019-01-1500 min
The DrinkThe Drink Episode 2: A cup of tea with Greg JennerIn this episode, Hannah goes for a cup of tea with historian Greg Jenner to find out why he's teetotal, why Prohibition didn't work and what happens when you jump over a hedge without checking what's on the other side.
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2019-01-0800 min
The DrinkThe Drink Episode 1: Me, Mickey and the best part of a bottle of bourbonHannah Dunleavy kicks off The Drink by getting her Standard Issue co-host Mickey Noonan to ask some questions about when she drinks, what she drinks and why she drinks it. They chat about being the child of an alcoholic, why notions of "ladylike" drinking can do one and why you should always take care when getting on a train. Contains anecdotes. And swearing. And sweary anecdotes.@thedrinkpodcast
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2019-01-0100 min
Flixwatcher: A Netflix Film Review PodcastEp #060 In Bruges with Hannah Dunleavy and Jen Offord from Standard IssueOMG! Episode 60! Hannah and Jen from Standard Issue (a podcast by women for women BOOM!) return for Hannah’s choice In Bruges. Where to start with In Bruges? It’s a 2008 film from Martin McDonagh starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two hitmen attempting to lay low in Bruges. What follows includes a batshit awesome performance from Ralph Finnes, a coke fueled racist rant from a dwarf actor and enclaves. It’s a comedy in case you were wondering. In the arc of Colin Farrell this is brilliant and hilarious, the chemistry between him and Gleeson is genuine and co...
2018-05-3042 min
GriefcastEp.35 Hannah DunleavyCariad talks to journalist + writer Hannah Dunleavy (BBC, Standard Issue Podcast) about the death of her Dad in 2016. As ever they discuss grief, parking + why holly on a coffin can be dangerous.You can tweet the show @thegriefcast, follow us on instagram @thegriefcast or email us thegriefcast@gmail.com because you are not alone.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/griefcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2018-05-021h 05
Flixwatcher: A Netflix Film Review PodcastEp #046 Creed with Hannah Dunleavy and Jen OffordIts Episode 46! We’re reviewing Creed with Jen and Hannah from Standard Issue! The 2015 sort of spin-off, sort of sequel sequel in the Rocky film series. Michael B. Jordan is the son of Apollo Creed and Sylvester (‘sentient piece of corn beef’) Stallone returns as Rocky. If you have a vague interest in the Rocky series and can get over the fact the main character is called ADONIS Creed then this film is for you. If you have no interest in the Rocky series, or boxing and think a main character called ADONIS Creed is ridiculous then step out of the...
2018-02-2249 min
Cambridge RadioSunday Breakfast with Tobias Bown: Standard Issue PodcastTobias is joined by Hannah Dunleavy to find out about the Standard Issue live podcast recording happening in Cambridge later this month.
2018-01-0408 min