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Standard Issue Podcast

Rated or Dated: Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975)

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Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A fictional mystery without a solution masquerading as a true story is Australia's best film, you say? We do. Well, Hannah does anyway. But what does Mickey make of Peter Weir's dreamy boarding school drama/horror on a first watch?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to rated or dated.

0:11.8

It's another two-hander this week and one of those hands is mine.

0:15.2

And I'm waving it.

0:16.1

Hello, it's Mickey Noonan.

0:17.6

I am joined by that there, fill in the gaps. Miss Hannah Dunleavy.

0:23.4

Miss Hannah Dunleavy. Well done. How tight is your corset today? Two lots of corsets in a row.

0:29.7

Very, very different corsets. Very different corsets. If people didn't listen to last week, yeah,

0:36.5

we were watching Rocky Horror.

0:42.4

Yeah. There's always a link. We're very clever. We always try to segue. We absolutely do not.

0:48.7

Please don't ask us about it. Hannah, what film that we watched this week, although set in the year 1900, contains the description of Bournemouth. Still accurate this very day.

0:55.4

This time we watched Peter Weir's first film

0:59.6

and possibly Australia's best film.

1:02.3

More on that later.

1:04.2

Picnic at Hanging Rock released this week in 1975.

1:08.8

Now it's going to be hard for me to keep listeners in suspense for the next 20

1:12.1

minutes or so given I've talked a lot about what a great film I think this is. In fact, I've been

1:18.8

kind of obsessed by it since I first watched it when I was about eight. It's interesting.

1:24.9

By myself, I might add.

1:28.2

I assumed I watched it with my parents,

1:30.5

but I a couple of years ago discovered that neither of them had seen it,

1:34.0

so presumably I watched it by myself.

1:36.0

I absolutely love it,

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