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Standard Issue Podcast

I, Spy (with Agnes O'Casey)

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

There are a lot of spies in pop culture right now. This pleases Hannah immensely, so she jumped at the chance to get on the Zoom with Agnes O’Casey to talk about her role in upcoming play, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, based on John Le Carre's best-selling book. They chat about spies and why we're so fascinated with them, Agnes's role in another spy drama, Netflix’s Black Doves, and her great grandfather, legendary Irish playwright Sean O’Casey. Tickets for Soho Place and the national tour are here: https://shorturl.at/samTg More information on how to support us here: https://www.patreon.com/StandardIssue Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Standard issue for all women.

0:02.5

Hello, Hannah here and welcome to the last podcast of the week.

0:06.8

There's lots to enjoy coming up next week, including rated or dated,

0:11.1

in which we'll be watching My Beautiful Laundiardette.

0:14.4

And there's the Bush Telegraph.

0:16.0

Plus, as ever, there's some interviews.

0:18.2

What interviews I hear you ask?

0:20.0

Well, Jen will be chatting to Sarah Grant,

0:22.6

senior curator of the V&A exhibition, Mary Antoinette Style. They're going to be talking about

0:29.2

the all-fated former Queen of France, why she still fascinates as a cultural icon, and if it's fair

0:35.0

to compare her to Kim Kardashian.

0:44.8

And, and Mick catches up with journalist Lily Cantor and Emma Wilkinson to hear about the wise and who's of women nailing endurance sports, as documented in their excellent book,

0:51.3

Ultra Women, the Trailblazers defying sexism in sport.

0:56.4

On to this podcast in which I'm chatting to actor Agnes O'Casey about her role in the upcoming

1:02.5

play, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, is based, as you would probably have guessed, on the

1:08.4

John LaCarrie book, which, as you will hear, I am a big fan of.

1:12.1

And it's actually the first time her La Cary book has made it onto the stage.

1:16.1

Unless you count, this plays initial run at the Chichester Festival.

1:20.3

I talked to Agnes about spies and why we're fascinated with them,

1:24.3

her role in another spy drama, Netflix's Black Doves, and her great grandfather,

1:29.8

the legendary Irish playwright, Sean O'Casey. The spy who came in from the cold opens next

1:35.1

week at Soho Place in London before going on to do a national tour. And believe me, it is everywhere.

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