Standard issue for all women.

Hello, Hannah here and welcome to Friday's podcast.

But before I get to that, as ever, there's another bit of business.

I have to conduct first what is coming next week.

Well, first up, Jen catches up with Ila Koli,

Compton Verne's curator of folk art and of the exhibition, Troublemakers and Prophets, Elizabeth

Alan and other visionary artists. And they're going to be chatting about Alan's extraordinary

life and work. Me? Well, I'm going to be talking to Helen Lewis about whatever fresh hell

is emanating from our American cousins. Rated or

dated will be back and we are going to be watching 2001's Josie and the Pussycats. And in

flicking, we're going to be watching left-handed girl, which I watched last night, but we're not

going to be recording until next week. So given my memory, I may have to watch it again.

Spoiler alert, I'd be okay with that.

But on to today's podcast,

which is a chat I had with playwright Flora Wilson Brown

about her adaptation of Virginia Woolf's The Waves,

which opens at London's German Street Theatre next week.

There will be a link in the show notes to buy tickets.

Now, Wolf is one of those writers who you either love or hate, or maybe option C, are a bit

intimidated by, which is actually a huge generalisation, because maybe you're're just like me a bit from all three columns.

Flora and I chatted about the appeal of wolf to young people, the issues with adapting her work and the loss of scenes in the modern world.

And if you're a member of the standard issue patron supporters club, you will also be hearing about what Flora's doing next and why

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