Standard issue for all women.

Welcome to a brand new week of the standard issue podcast.

Jen here to tell you all about today's episode, but before I do that, here's what else we've

got coming up this week.

Tomorrow, Mick catches up with journalists Lily Cantor and Emma Wilkinson to hear about

the wise and whos of women nailing endurance sports

has documented in their excellent book, Ultra Women.

On Wednesday, it's rated or dated and sad times we can't find My Beautiful Laundra anywhere,

so Mick has repicked 1990's misery, but will we be its number one fans? Gerd's ankles.

On Thursday, Hannah and I get to rootle around in the binfire of the week's news in the Bush

Telegraph and on Friday, Hannah's chatting to author Alice Lockstone about her new book, Eleanor,

a 200-mile walk in search of England's lost queen,

which, to be fair, sounds like the kind of thing I'd do.

Back to today and another queen entirely, Marianne Twanette, in fact, the subject of new VNA

exhibition Marianne Antoinette style.

I was excited when I heard about the exhibition on the life and sartorial times of the former Queen of France,

because who doesn't love the many, many ways in which her sense of fashion has continued to influence?

And to be honest, I thought of loads more examples of this, even in the hours after the interview,

perhaps helped in some way by the fact that my daughter

and I have just started watching Dog Tanyan together. Anyway, I caught up with Sarah Grant,

senior curator of the exhibition, to chat about the ill-fated former Queen of France,

why she still fascinates as a cultural icon. And if it's fair to compare her to Kim Kardashian.

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