meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Standard Issue Podcast

SIM Ep 949 Chops 290: Liz Jensen’s Wild and Precious Life

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Liz Jensen is better known for her fiction writing, but the author and activist has just published a memoir, Your Wild and Precious Life: On Grief, Hope and Rebellion. Her new book documents her grief after the death of her son Raphael, a zoologist and ecological activist, in 2020, aged just 25, and her fight for the future of our planet, in his name. In this week’s Chops, she talks to Jen about the cathartic experience of writing the book, the parallels between grieving the loss of a child and grieving the destruction of the planet, the point of protest, and the radicalising nature of bereavement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

If you could get rid of everything bad about banks and build one from scratch,

0:04.3

you'd build a different kind of bank.

0:06.4

One that has actual people you can talk to 24-7, not robots,

0:11.2

doesn't invest in fossil fuels,

0:13.2

charges no extra fees for spending abroad,

0:15.7

and definitely doesn't close before you finish work.

0:18.2

You'd build tools to help manage bills,

0:20.5

teach kids good money habits,

0:22.3

and give interest on personal and joint accounts.

0:25.8

So what would that look like?

0:27.8

Starling Bank, the Bank Built for you. standard issue for all women.

0:44.0

Hello, Jen here to tell you about this week's episode of the Sunday Chops in which I chat to writer Liz Jensen.

0:52.0

But before I do, do you like us? Do you love us? Do you want to help us on

0:56.6

our quest to make more women focus-centered championing, whatever you want to call it,

1:01.3

earfodder? Well look you're in luck because we'd like that very much

1:05.2

We are working on our Patreon content and there is going to be more coming soon so if you're already signed up thank you very much and if you're already signed up, thank you very much, and if you're not, you're about to be in for a treat.

1:16.0

But you can already sign up now and go ad free, if you like that sort of thing.

1:22.0

For not very much cash at all and that's over on

1:26.2

patreon.com forward slash standard issue. If you're happy with what you've got thanks very much

1:31.8

cool we appreciate you and your

1:33.9

listens nonetheless but we've got some quality stuff coming up including

1:38.9

interviews with Jenny Cleman Anishka Warden and Holly McNish to name but three, so get yourself subscribed for

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Standard Issue, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Standard Issue and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.