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Standard Issue Podcast

Meg Molloy is supporting working-class arts professionals

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

As well as being a freelance cultural strategy and communications consultant*, Meg Molloy is the founder of the Working Arts Club, a brilliant network supporting arts professionals from working-class backgrounds. She’s chatting to Mick about the lay of the land for working-class kids wanting to access the arts, why it’s important they can do so, what the Working Arts Club is helping to make happen, and why Madge maybe needs to calm down about Margate a bit. *Find out more about what that means with Mick’s first question Find out more about Working Arts Club here. And more about Meg's exciting IWD auction project for AOAP here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.5

Hello there and welcome to the Tuesday podcast.

0:35.3

It's Mickey. By the way, I'm sure my dulcet northernones, but you already knew that. The chat you're about to hear is one

0:41.3

I thoroughly enjoyed with another working class woman, even though Meg Maloy is

0:46.5

firmly southern. Well, there's no beef, only huge respect as Meg is the founder of the

0:52.6

Working Arts Club, a brilliant, ever so necessary network

0:56.4

supporting arts professionals from working class backgrounds. Before you listen to Meg, let me tell you

1:02.2

what else is happening for your ears this week. Jen's chat with psychiatrists and psychotherapist

1:07.1

Dr Joanna Cheek about how to deal with a world on fire is already available and

1:12.0

well worth your time. For rated or dated tomorrow, Hannah and I have watched Arthur Miller via

1:16.9

John Houston with Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, petty talent in 1961's The Misfits. Poor

1:24.6

Horses. Jen and I will be channeling everything we learned from Joanna

1:28.7

Cheek to survive looking at the news for Thursday's Bush Telegraph. And you can catch Hannah's

1:33.8

recent thoughts in this week's substack. Please do subscribe if you haven't already.

1:39.0

And on Friday, Hannah is chatting to writer Catherine Dyson about dogs, dark times and her new play The Last Picture.

1:46.5

But now here is Meg. We are talking about the lay of the land for working class kids wanting

1:51.3

to access the arts, why it's important they can do so, and why Madge maybe needs to calm

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