The Bush Telegraph: A whole lot of maths
This week’s apocalypse is brought to you by Mick and Jen. They’re chatting about the early release of prisoners, which may require more nuan...
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Rated or Dated: The Go-Between (1971)
We escape a red hot summer to visit, checks notes, another red hot summer in Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter's adaptation of LP Hartley's nov...
Vix Leyton, Chief Petty Officer
Comedian and long-time Standard Issue friend Vix Leyton's latest show – Chief Petty Officer – is on at the Edinburgh Fringe right now. She c...
Digging up Buried stories, with Lucy Taylor
Investigative journalist Lucy Taylor is, along with her partner in podcasting and partner in life Dan Ashby, responsible for the award-winni...
The Bush Telegraph: “He would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark”
Is there a new grifter on the scene? Hannah’s been nose to the ground around the ever-growing tall tales of Jason Arday, the University of C...
Rated or Dated: Mission: Impossible (1996)
“Wake up, Claire, Jim’s dead! They’re all dead!” Is the subtle way Tom Cruise’s super-cool spy Ethan Hunt tells a woman her husband’s been k...
Susannah Walker is In Her Place
When it comes to women and girls being not just welcome and safe in public places and spaces, but also thought about and designed for, Susan...
Working the algorithm with Kathryn Jezer-Morton
Like it or loathe it, social media is a huge part of our everyday lives. That's the topic sociologist and journalist Kathryn Jezer-Morton gr...
Outside The Box July 2026
In this month's guide to the best and worst TV, we're watching Cape Fear, Katie Price: Nothing To Hide, Ann Droid, Jesy Nelson; Life Changin...
Rated or Dated: Point Break (1991)
Kathryn Bigelow’s “wet western” action-thriller has something for everyone: Keanu Reeves’ face if your Jen, Gary Busey in general if you’re...
Emma Linley-Clark on why 40 years should have been enough
On July 28, 1986, estate agent Suzy Lamplugh went to work as normal, preparing to meet a client. She was never seen again and no trace of he...
Cathi Unsworth: Proud to be Goth
Writer and music journalist Cathi Unsworth’s compilation for Ace records, Dressed in Black: Goth Divas From the Dark Side 1941-2025, shines...
The Bush Telegraph: Wait… Andy Burnham?!?
The UK has a new Prime Minister, and you’ll never bloody guess who it is. Mick and Jen talk about the King of the North’s brand new office,...
Addie E. Citchens on the sins of the father
Addie E. Citchens’s debut novel, Dominion, received A LOT of award nods. And rightly so: set in the Mississippi Delta, it’s a powerful story...
Bravo Glasgow, with Eilidh Doyle, Ellie Simmonds and Beth Tweddle
After stepping in at the 11th hour to save the event, Glasgow will host The Commonwealth Games when they kick off on July 23. Jen jumped on...
Flicking #75: Die My Love
A Lynne Ramsay film? It’s been a while… The director’s psychological drama slash postpartum nightmare garnered loads of praise for lead acto...
Jenny Off The Blocks Special: We're doing alright at sport
England in a World Cup semi-final, a Brit in the semis at Wimbledon and Unions Jacks all over the F1 drivers' table, that's a busy few weeks...
Rated or Dated: Legally Blonde (2001)
This fish-out-of-water comedy-cum-bubblegum “feminist” smash, starring Reece Witherspoon as pink-loving sorority princess Elle Woods, made a...
Welcome to Utopia/Dystopia* (*Delete as applicable)
Eleanor Drage is one of the UK’s leading AI ethicists and gender studies researchers, working at the University of Cambridge. Her first book...
The making of an icon, with Beatriz Garcia-Velasco
In her short lifetime of just 47 years, Frida Kahlo was a relatively little-known artist. Now, she's a global icon. And while her actual wor...