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SIM Ep 360 Pod 104: Recovering from coronavirus, understanding autism and keeping fit Apr 01, 2020

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Sarah 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 Autistic.

In Jenny Off the Blocks, Jen talks to personal trainer and media fitness expert Anna Reich about how you can stay fit during lockdown. The boss joins the team for Dunleavy Does Disaster and totally cheats while watching 2003 journey to the centre of the Earth, The Core, and there are acronyms aplenty in BT but a dearth of bras in SOTW.

Get jigg(l)y with it!

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SIM Ep 359 Chops 155: Workplace bullying and harassment Mar 29, 2020

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With the world in chaos, there's never been a more important time to look after your staff, so Hannah's been talking to The Royal Society of Chemistry CEO Dr Helen Pain and Laura Norton, Senior Programme Manager (Inclusion & Diversity), about its new support line. They chat about the advice and support they are providing for people experiencing (or indeed witnessing) bullying and harassment in the workplace, why it's needed and why it's vital to reach those guilty of bullying as well those being subjected to it.

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SIM Ep 358 Chops 154: Shaping the future with Niamh O'Keeffe Mar 29, 2020

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In a time where the need for a steady ship couldn't be greater, and ahead of an anticipated announcement about the result of the Labour Party's leadership contest, Jen caught up with leadership adviser Niamh O'Keeffe. They talk about her new book Future Shaper: How Leaders Can Take Charge in an Uncertain World, what makes a good leader, and who's running the coronavirus show on the world stage, right now.

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SIM Ep 357 Pod 103: School closures, stress and the back of Mia Farrow's head Mar 25, 2020

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If you've found the last few weeks stressful - and who hasn't? - we're here with some help. Mick talks to Katya Jezzard-Puyraud of Lighthearts UK to get some tips on dealing with anxiety, and long-time home edder Hazel Davies gives us some tips for coping now that schools have all been shut. We've also got Abortion Support Network’s Mara Clarke filling us in on what’s happening to women needing to access abortion services in the time of coronavirus. And in Jenny Off The Blocks, Jen chats to journalist Carrie Dunn about what the abrupt end to the football season means for next year's Women's Euros. Hannah's having the time of her life, watching Avalanche, very much the Crossroads of disaster films. Plus there's trolley trolls, pregnancy and the Windrush scandal in the Bush Telegraph. Tuck in. Stay safe. And socially distance. Until next week!

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SIM Ep 356 Chops 153: #NotYourPorn Mar 22, 2020

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Kate Isaacs is the founder of the #NotYourPorn campaign, whose mission is to hold porn companies to account. She believes revenge porn should not be a porn category, and consent should come before profit. Which you'd think would be hard to argue with. However, as you’re about to hear in this chat she had with our Mickey, Pornhub – very much the Johnny Big Balls of commercialised porn – isn’t making it easy for victims of non-consensual porn to get justice. Or indeed, videos taken down.

You can help by visiting notyourporn.com and following and sharing the campaign on social media, where you’ll find it on Twitter with the handle @notyourporn.

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SIM EP 356 Pod 102: Bugs, boys and books. Mar 18, 2020

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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 the US Women's national team. Last but by no means least, there are incongruous sporting and indeed geological references in Dunleavy Does Disaster as Hannah takes on Gladiator, sorry, Pompeii.

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SIM Ep 355 Chops 152: Gilded cages and glass ceilings in art Mar 15, 2020

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The art world's not exactly been what you'd call welcoming to women over the years, as you can discover at London's Guildhall Art Gallery's latest exhibition Enchanted Interiors. In this week's Chops, Hannah chats to curator Katty Pearce about the gilded cages women have been kept in, the glass ceiling facing female artists and whether or not the Pre-Raphaelites deserve all the side-eye Hannah's been giving them.

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SIM Ep 354 Outside The Box #20 Mar 13, 2020

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There's probably never been a better time to stay inside and watch some TV, so let us give you some pointers in March's Outside The Box. We talk Inside No 9, This Country, Bojack Horseman, Home, Last Tango in Halifax, Night on Earth, Rio and Kate: Becoming A Step Family, The Stranger, The Trials of Gabriel Fernadez and Locke and Key. Yes, that's a whole lot of telly.

* If you're looking for that link Hanah promises on Reconstruction, look no further: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7ypw_mNn8A

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SIM Ep 353 Pod 101: sexual feeling, groundbreaking feats and shit pie Mar 11, 2020

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With 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 Blocks, Jen’s wondering if it’s time for Phil Neville to sling his hook as far as his management of the Lionesses is concerned, and in the Bush Telegraph the team talks COVID-19, convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein and #WeToo, and the problem with the Labour leadership race. Well, one of them anyway.

And there are more fun and games in Dunleavy Does Disaster, as Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson saves what's left of the day while his on-screen daughter goes tits akimbo in 2015's San Andreas.

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SIM 352 IWD20 #7: Samra Habib's Queer Muslim Memoir Mar 08, 2020

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It's the last in this year's International Women's Day series (although, in truth, every day is IWD at Standard Issue) and Hannah has been to chat to writer and photographer Samra Habib. They talk about her book We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir, and about what it's like both to be LGBT in Muslim communities and a Muslim in LGBT communities. Don't forget to listen to all our our IWD20 series, where we talk to brilliant women including Amelia Bullmore, Sophie Walker, Helen Lewis, Vivienne Hayes and Su Pollard. And Happy IWD to you all.

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