Standard issue for all women.

Hello, hello, Jen here to welcome you to a new week of standard issue and tell you all about today's episode.

But before I do, I assume you'll be wanting to know more about what else we've got on the podcast this week.

So let me educate you.

Tomorrow, Mick catches up with Atusa Saper and Hannah Khalil about my English-Persian kitchen,

Atooza's real-life story of crossing borders and food as an anchor to home.

Brought to the stage by Hannah's script, which includes live cooking, the audience gets to eat.

Sounds like my kind of a play.

On Wednesday, it's rated or dated, and it's my pick.

We're watching Billy Elliott this week, which I have never seen.

I know.

Will it dance into our hearts or pirouettes into our pity?

That doesn't really work, does it?

Anyway, on Thursday, there'll be sky screaming this week from Hannah and Mick,

who are on Bush-Telegraph duties, but back to today. Poet, broadcaster and TikTok sensation

Len Penny was lost on the podcast back in February 224 on the eve of publication of her first

collection of poems, poems. Since then, she's become a Sunday Times best-selling author and picked up a British book award.

In her new collection, Poems Anore, Len writes viscerally about her experiences of domestic violence,

mental health problems, patriarchy, and a four-year fight for justice, as well as love and joy.

I chat to Len about the ups and downs of her last year, why she writes with love and spite,

and getting permission to feel our feelings.

She was an absolute joy to chat to, and in case you're thinking, that all sounds a bit heavy.

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