Susannah Walker goes feral, walking The Hard Way

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Susannah Walker is one of the co-founders of brilliant charity Make Space for Girls, which campaigns for parks and other public spaces to be as welcoming for teenage girls as they are for teenage boys. Because it has implications, not least the question ‘who do public spaces belong to?’ Spoiler: it ain’t women. And so, in Susannah’s new book, The Hard Way: Discovering the Women Who Walked Before Us, she examines women’s place in the countryside, walking ancient tracks, discovering some excellent wild women sidelined by history, and going a bit feral herself. She’s chatting to Mick about all of this and more, in this Monday episode. And if you’re Marlborough way, you can see Mick chatting to Sus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.0	Kicking off with me, Mickey and this Monday interview with Total Smasher and Wild Woman in Progress Susanna Walker.
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1:19.2	Tomorrow Jen catches up with actress broadcaster and standard issue alumna Sue Elliot Nichols about her new
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