SIM Episode 86 Pod 30: Science, stigmata and saris

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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This week Team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord talk to Anjali Ramachandran about her podcast Nevertheless, and the importance of getting young girls interested in STEM. Lucy Nichol tells us about her book, A Series of Unfortunate Stereotypes, which charts the stigmas surrounding mental health. And Mickey meets Rani Moorthy to learn why the sari inspired her to write a series of plays. Plus Jen's putting the case to save basketball in Jenny Off The Blocks and Dunleavy goes rogue and watches Moana without telling the others.

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0:00.0	May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get
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0:15.0	Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. And the Standard issue for all women.
0:33.0	Hi and Standard Issue for all women.
0:43.0	Hi and welcome to episode 30 of the standard issue podzine.
0:47.0	I'm not Mickey Noonan, as you may well have guessed.
0:51.0	That's because this week what were it containing International
0:54.1	Women's Day and all we've done something a bit different and by different I
0:57.4	mean we've recorded four count them four extra interviews with brilliant women including Laura Bates and
1:04.2	Dr Jill Sutherland. We've literally trekked through actual snow to get some of
1:08.9	these but it was worth it. I spent a whole lot of time this week just staring in awe and occasionally saying
1:15.0	wow and if that isn't the point of International Women's Day I don't know what it is.
1:20.0	More about how you can listen to those special podcasts from Jen at the end of this
1:23.3	podcast. What that does mean is that we've no Bush Telecraft for you this week, but
1:28.4	just to be clear we are still abundant o views on almost everything in case you were wondering or worried.
1:35.9	And we still have a fit to bursting podcast for you today.
1:39.0	First up, as British Science Week will soon be upon us, we speak to Angela Ramachandram from the Nevertheless
1:44.7	podcast about the importance of getting young girls into STEM.
1:47.9	Lucy Nickle tells us about her new book, a series of unfortunate stereotypes which first
1:52.4	started as a column for standard issue
1:54.6	and charts the stigma surrounding mental health. She's joined by Joe Nere who illustrates the book and reads some extracts for us. Mickey talks to playwright and actor Rana Morthy
2:04.0	about what the Sari means to her and why she's writing a trilogy of plays dedicated to it.
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