SIM Ep 854 Pod 255: The great outdoors and a colossal prick

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Making babies for a chance to win cold, hard cash sounds like something out of a dystopian nightmare, but was something wealthy lawyer and high-level prankster/prick Charles Vance Millar planned for lols in Toronto, in the decade after his death in 1926. When our Hannah heard about Caroline Lea’s fictional retelling of the shockingly real-life Great Stork Derby in her latest novel Prize Women, she had to talk to her. They chat about Vance Millar, the women who got caught up in his dubious legacy and why the number of children women have is topical again. Award-winning and best-selling author, and long-distance runner, Dr Rachel Hewitt was interested in the erasure of women from the history of sporting pursuits in the great outdoors, when a series of family bereavements made her question loss in the wider sense. She joins Jen to chat about In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors, her new book, which examines grief, the things women lose - or rather are taken from them - just by virtue of their sex, and the women who blazed a trail in early outdoor sports. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.9	18 plus Disney's Applied take time to think.
0:44.6	Hello, Hannah here and welcome to episode 255 of The Standard Issue Podcast.
0:51.9	You don't usually get to hear me first how exciting for you.
0:56.2	For reasons I won't bore you with, there's not a bush telegraph or a rated or dated
1:00.4	this week.
1:01.4	Although there is one reason which is not at all boring, which is that Mickey and I went
1:06.3	to Rome at the weekend to see the boss.
1:09.0	Now, normally when I say that, I have to explain that when I say the boss I mean Sarah
1:13.7	Millican and not Bruce Springsteen, but on this one occasion I don't mean Sarah Millican,
1:19.3	I do mean Bruce Springsteen, yes we did have a lovely time, thank you very much.
1:24.1	I've got some fun pictures of it which I'm going to put on our Patreon site for our
1:27.6	subscribers to have a look at, should they wish.
1:30.6	Thanks for giving us some of your hard earned cash, it is always appreciated, consider
1:35.9	me doing Steve Van Sant face as your reward.
1:40.5	And every cloud has a silver lining, a little bit of extra space means we're able to bring
1:44.5	you a slightly longer interview this week, one that I did with author Caroline Lee about
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