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Standard Issue Podcast

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

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Safe Haven, which has just opened at London's Arcola theatre, tells the true story of what happened in spring 2001, when two million Kurds fleeing Saddam Hussein's forces found themselves in the freezing mountains, and two Whitehall diplomats decided to intervene. Hannah chats to two of the play's stars, Lisa Zahra and Beth Burrows, to find out more. * Safe Haven is on until February 7. More information and tickets here: https://www.arcolatheatre.com/event/safe-haven/ * You can support Standard Issue here: Standard Issue Podcast | creating a magazine for ears, by women for women | Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Standard issue for all women.

0:02.9

Hello and welcome to Friday's podcast.

0:05.4

Hannah here, because it's my turn.

0:07.5

I'm going to tell you about this podcast and what's coming up in a second, but first,

0:11.7

let me fill you in on what to expect next week.

0:14.7

There's an interview from Jen, who will be chatting to Dr. Donna Piberdi about screening

0:19.3

sexual violence, a research project and online film

0:22.8

results which aims to inspire and support informed conversations around violence against women

0:29.0

and girls. There's also an interview from Mickey in which she talks to author Anna Maloney

0:34.6

about her new thriller The 1012, a total page turner set on a train whose

0:41.1

strong female lead is all the complicated. My contribution will be an outside the box, which will be

0:47.9

very much a podcast of contrast because I absolutely hated some stuff. I'm looking at you, Netflix, and I absolutely loved other stuff. I'm looking at you Netflix.

0:55.2

And I absolutely loved other stuff.

0:58.0

I'm looking at you, the lowdown, and waiting for the out.

1:02.0

There's also, as ever, a rated or dated,

1:05.2

in which we will be watching Donnie Darko.

1:07.4

Spoiler alert.

1:08.3

I forgot how funny it is.

1:10.2

And Mickey and Jen will be taking a look at the week's news because somebody has to do it.

1:16.3

And so to today's podcast in which I am chatting to actors Beth Burrows and Lisa Zara

1:21.6

about a new play, Safe Haven, which has just opened at the Alcola in London.

1:28.1

Written by Chris Bowers, a former British diplomat in Iraqi Kurdistan, it tells the true story

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