Noted

Dec 19 2023

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Are your drugs safe? Should you book plastic surgery via your DMs? Do you still need to come out?
Mary Mandefield makes sense of the talking points that matter to you… meeting the people who really know their stuff and the ones who have lived it too. New episodes every Wednesday.
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Noted is an original podcast production from The News Movement and Persephonica.
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Fast fashion: “Enough clothes to dress the next six generations”

Dec 19 2023 27 mins

I’m on a first-name basis with the people who work in my local charity shops. I love them. In fact I’d say nearly all of my wardrobe is second hand. And it’s not just me, studies suggest the market for ‘pre-loved’ items could even become bigger than ‘fast fashion’ by 2029, so it looks as though thrifting is here to stay - but why? I’m Mary Mandefield and in thi

DJ Target: “We didn’t know Grime would be this big"

Dec 13 2023 27 mins

Grime is the UK genre which has led to worldwide stars. Now over twenty years later, its origins are being told on our screens. It’s Mary here, and on this episode of Noted we’re exploring and celebrating Grime music and culture. I’m speaking to Grime legend DJ Target, whose show ‘Grime Kids’ follows the summer plans of a group of young boys in East London in 2001, w

How will dating look in 2024? With Anna Williamson

Dec 05 2023 28 mins

I love dating! But I’ll be the first to say that sometimes it’s long.It’s Mary here and luckily, I heard that in 2024 it could be different… The dating app Bumble has surveyed thousands of its users about how they date. And it looks like we’re moving towards more openness, less judgement when it comes to dating. I invited Channel 4’s Celebs Go Dating agent, An

Pressing pause on babies. Is egg freezing the answer?

Nov 28 2023 27 mins

Have you ever thought about egg freezing?Almost half of Gen Z say they’re worried about their future fertility, in a report from fertility benefits company Apryl. Egg freezing is the fastest growing fertility treatment in the UK. For many people, freezing your eggs feels like a bit of an insurance policy, and could let you have children in the future. But is it always that s

Is winter making me depressed?

Nov 21 2023 23 mins

If the winter months leave you feeling pretty low then maybe you’re suffering with something that around 2 million others in the UK are going through too. It’s called Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD. It’s a kind of depression linked to the change in seasons, and is thought to be caused by a lack of sunlight. So how do you know if you have it, and what can you actuall

Caster Semenya - race, gender and being herself

Nov 15 2023 26 mins

When Caster Semenya sprinted to victory in the 2009 World Championships, it should have marked her place as an athlete on the global stage. Instead, it opened the door to questions about whether she should be allowed to compete at all. Semenya was called for a gender verification test and it was leaked to the media that she was born with differences of sexual development (DSD)

The flight that didn’t take off: the UK’s Rwanda policy

Nov 07 2023 22 mins

In April 2022, the government announced a new policy to reduce migration to the UK that involved sending asylum seekers who reached British soil without permission to have their claims processed in Rwanda. The Rwanda policy has been debated in the media and in courts of law for the past 18 months and the most crucial legal case yet is being decided right now in the Supre

An appetite for Ozempic: is skinny back in?

Nov 01 2023 31 mins

Elon Musk, Amy Schumer and even our ex-prime minister Boris Johnson have openly said they’ve tried Ozempic, a diabetes drug that can also be used for weight loss. I’m Mary, and in this episode of Noted, I want to understand what Ozempic actually is, why it’s so popular and is it actually safe? Sophie Peachey from The News Movement explains why it feels like we’re

“You can buy a knife through TikTok”

Oct 24 2023 28 mins

You can buy knives through snapchat and TikTok, and offences with a sharp instrument are up, 4.7% higher than 2021-2022.It’s Mary here, and I want to understand why knife crime is an issue that never seems to go away.Faron Alex Paul set up Faz Amnesty, an organisation that offers vouchers to people when they hand in their knives, without involving the police. I asked him what we

I’m a man changing how we face toxic masculinity

Oct 18 2023 21 mins

Andrew Tate - we’ve all heard the name. He’s a self-described misogynist and what’s more worrying, is that he has a huge influence. Eight in ten boys aged between 16 and 17 have seen his content, according to charity Hope Not Hate. They also found that boys were more likely to have seen Tate’s material than had heard of our Prime minister, Rishi Sunak, which is mad.But what