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By women. For women. About everything. Standard Issue is a podcast championing women's voices, and packed with interviews, news, film, opinion and humour.For advertising enquiries, email [email protected]

The Cost of Trust

31 mins; April 02, 2026

The Bush Telegraph: Is that a really long scroll, or are you just pleased to see us?

31 mins; April 01, 2026

Rated or Dated: Chariots of Fire (1981)

34 mins; March 31, 2026

Samira Ahmed’s inside the box

28 mins; March 30, 2026

Elinor Cleghorn on the radical history of mothering

27 mins; March 29, 2026

Outside The Box March 2026

47 mins; March 26, 2026

The Bush Telegraph: Because we got high

33 mins; March 25, 2026

Rated or Dated: Best In Show (2001)

37 mins; March 24, 2026

Now Tat Effby’s baking with gas

25 mins; March 23, 2026

Relatively speaking, with Catherine Carr

28 mins; March 19, 2026

Jess Baxter on Tracey Emin's Second Life

26 mins; March 19, 2026

The Bush Telegraph: Better not get a Travelodge

24 mins; March 18, 2026

Rated or Dated: Jack and Sarah (1996)

28 mins; March 17, 2026

Helen Bain on Syliva Plath’s daffodil days

24 mins; March 16, 2026

Washing up with Isabel Daly

26 mins; March 15, 2026

Flicking #71: I Swear

38 mins; March 12, 2026

The Bush Telegraph: Reports of our cognitive decline are greatly exaggerated

25 mins; March 11, 2026

Rated or Dated: Lone Star (1996)

30 mins; March 10, 2026

Poorna Bell wants more

26 mins; March 09, 2026

Paula Varjack on Nine Sixteenths and changing the narrative

28 mins; March 05, 2026

The Bush Telegraph: Just because you still have your teeth, doesn't mean you're not trying

24 mins; March 04, 2026

Rated or Dated: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

35 mins; March 03, 2026

Annabel Port is adrift but singing

24 mins; March 03, 2026

Understanding Tourette's, with Jess Thom

27 mins; March 02, 2026

Outside the Box: February 2024

46 mins; February 26, 2026

Putting Sister Rosetta Tharpe back in the spotlight

26 mins; February 25, 2026

Rated or Dated: Wildcats (1986)

22 mins; February 24, 2026

Deborah Cohen explains how the internet hijacked health

24 mins; February 23, 2026

AK Blakemore and Natasha Rickman shalt not suffer a witchfinder

27 mins; February 22, 2026

Barking up the right tree, with Catherine Dyson

21 mins; February 19, 2026

The Bush Telegraph: Scandi goals? Sort of

33 mins; February 18, 2026

Rated or Dated: The Misfits (1961)

32 mins; February 17, 2026

Meg Molloy is supporting working-class arts professionals

26 mins; February 16, 2026

It’s not you, says Dr Joanna Cheek, it’s the world

27 mins; February 15, 2026

Flicking #70: One Battle After Another

37 mins; February 12, 2026

Rated or Dated: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

25 mins; February 10, 2026

Sirin Kale on the Birth Keepers

27 mins; February 09, 2026

Eva Brookes was made in China

23 mins; February 09, 2026

Be Better at sustainability with Illana Adamson

26 mins; February 05, 2026

The Bush Telegraph: Anal explosions are the least of our worries

24 mins; February 04, 2026

Rated or Dated: Loch Ness (1996)

31 mins; February 03, 2026

Going for Gold with Aimee Fuller and Vicky Gosling

27 mins; February 02, 2026

The notorious TGT

28 mins; February 01, 2026

Outside The Box: January 2026

28 mins; January 29, 2026

Rated or Dated: Donnie Darko (2001)

31 mins; January 27, 2026

Thrills, spills and a strong female lead

24 mins; January 26, 2026

Dr Donna Peberdy on Screening Sexual Violence

26 mins; January 25, 2026

A timely reminder from history, with Lisa Zahra and Beth Burrows

28 mins; January 22, 2026

The Bush Telegraph: 17 mistakes and some unspeakably good news

35 mins; January 21, 2026

Rated or Dated: From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

31 mins; January 20, 2026

In Room 706 with Ellie Levenson

24 mins; January 19, 2026

Lucia Keskin’s nailing things she should have done

25 mins; January 18, 2026

Flicking #69: A Real Pain

32 mins; January 15, 2026

The Bush Telegraph: 73 questions (most of which are WTAF?)

24 mins; January 14, 2026

Rated or Dated: Save the Last Dance (2001)

28 mins; January 13, 2026

The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto, with Elizabeth Hyman

30 mins; January 12, 2026

Why Laura Hall lay her head in water

26 mins; January 11, 2026

Rated or Dated: Sexy Beast (2001)

27 mins; January 06, 2026

Salima Saxton is a bad patient

27 mins; January 05, 2026

Wendy Welpton wants you on the floor

26 mins; January 04, 2026

Review of the Year 2025

49 mins; December 30, 2025

Rated or Dated: The Railway Children (1970)

30 mins; December 23, 2025

Bears, dogs and creative thinking with Jessica Swale

26 mins; December 21, 2025

Tanya Kirk is ghosting us

24 mins; December 18, 2025

Rated or Dated: Mermaids (1990)

27 mins; December 16, 2025

Padel-ing forward with Alex Brodie

25 mins; December 15, 2025

Dr Suze Kundu brings the sunshine (and science)

26 mins; December 14, 2025

Liz Warner on employees with a difference

23 mins; December 11, 2025

The Bush Telegraph: Good news? Bad news? Dog news?

29 mins; December 10, 2025

Rated or Dated: 9 to 5

30 mins; December 09, 2025

Vikki Stone’s on (oh yes she is!)

26 mins; December 08, 2025

Mary Mandefield’s not dating the same guy as you

26 mins; December 07, 2025

Flicking #68: Sister Midnight

28 mins; December 04, 2025

The Bush Telegraph: Wise owls and other animals

33 mins; December 03, 2025

Rated or Dated: Flash Gordon (1980)

28 mins; December 02, 2025

Small is beautiful, with Emma Rice

23 mins; December 02, 2025

Bonnie Langford knows how old you are

26 mins; November 30, 2025

Outside The Box: November '25

42 mins; November 27, 2025

The Bush Telegraph: Rage against the (old washing) machine

25 mins; November 26, 2025

Rated or Dated: Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)

29 mins; November 25, 2025

Have you heard the good news, with Generation Rent

21 mins; November 24, 2025

Cindy Reymond spots an opportunity in women’s football

26 mins; November 23, 2025

Alice Loxton is walking through history

26 mins; November 20, 2025

The Bush Telegraph: Whoa! Back to the island

29 mins; November 19, 2025

Rated or Dated: Misery (1990)

37 mins; November 18, 2025

Ultra Women with Emma Wilkinson and Lily Canter

27 mins; November 17, 2025

Sarah Grant on history’s most fashionable queen

27 mins; November 16, 2025

I, Spy (with Agnes O'Casey)

24 mins; November 13, 2025

The Bush Telegraph: Another workplace ruined

27 mins; November 12, 2025

Rated or Dated: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

35 mins; November 11, 2025

Hollie McNish: Virgin

26 mins; November 10, 2025

Supplementary Ruth Tongue on nutrition

30 mins; November 09, 2025

Flicking #67: Wicked

37 mins; November 06, 2025

The Bush Telegraph: Dawn of the Planet of the Arbury Apes!!!!!!

31 mins; November 05, 2025

Rated or Dated: Charlie’s Angels (2000)

26 mins; November 04, 2025

Selling cowboy country with Ellie House

26 mins; November 03, 2025

Outside The Box October 2025

55 mins; October 30, 2025

The Bush Telegraph: What a faff

26 mins; October 29, 2025

Rated or Dated: The Long Good Friday (1980)

30 mins; October 28, 2025

There she goes, Gosia Buzzanca’s Beautiful World

25 mins; October 26, 2025

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