Meeting history with Amy Ng

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Two young women walk into a theatre in China in 1935 and so begins a relationship that spans a turbulent period of history and ends with the death of one of them. Hannah chats to playwright and historian Amy Ng about her latest play, Shanghai Dolls, about finding the women behind the legends of Sun Weishi and Madame Mao, and about how we could all probably do with brushing up on our Chinese history. More information and tickets here: https://kilntheatre.com/whats-on/shanghai-dolls/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunch break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down
0:23.8	tombole open for fun terms apply 18 plus gambleaware dot org standard issue for all women hello hannah here
0:33.9	welcome to the week for those of you who were lucky enough to get a break over Easter.
0:38.1	Hope it all went well. I was one of those people.
0:41.2	Sounded like I was pretending I wasn't. I definitely was.
0:44.3	Lots of stuff coming up this week for you to enjoy. Here's what it is.
0:48.1	Tomorrow, Emerated or Dated, we're going to be watching 1995's Leon.
0:52.8	No prizes for guessing how a film starring a teenager
0:55.8	directed by a man who married a teenager might have aged. Anywho, no BT on Thursday because
1:02.6	aforementioned Easter break, but there is a great interview coming from Friday. Here's a
1:06.9	message directly from Mickey. I caught up, I'm not going to do the accent,
1:11.3	I caught up with journalist Sophie Gilbert, staff writer at the Atlantic,
1:15.5	to talk about her new nonfiction, girl on girl,
1:19.5	how pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves.
1:23.9	You've got to love it when a title does all the work, right?
1:27.6	Thanks, Mick.
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