Lucy and Franki are back with more dispatches from vintage women’s glossies. This week, Lucy is heading to Honey magazine March 1976 – but it’s less Patti Smith and Sex! on the Kings Road, more women named Sue and unequal division of household labour. We also meet the last of debutantes, contemplate a bath-time workout, and witness a disastrous PR campaign for British Rail. Meanwhile Franki is underwhelmed by “Strip Monopoly”. And the Mag Hags ponder: did the editorial staff of mid-70s Honey realise they were selling the bucolic lesbian dream? Want to see more of this mag?Sign up for the Mag Hags newsletter. Read all the features we talk about in the show, see the amazing adverts, enjoy vintage fashion, beauty, and lifestyle tips, and get access to loads of other bonus bits. Plus episode transcripts straight to your inbox. Go to maghags.substack.comCHAPTERS04:43 – Intro to Honey March 197611:18 – Weekending: Five women tell us what their average 1976 weekend looks like31:35 – *An ad break from 1976*35:04 – Is selfishness a sin or a necessity? Therapy speak, 1976-style 45:53 – Fashion and beauty tips from 197647:16 – How lovely to be beautiful? Honey tackles the immutable question: is being hot bad, actually?51:25 – A brainwave for bathtime: a workout how-to that is absolute perfection, 10/10, no notes52:35 – What's hot and what's not in 1976LINKSRead: ‘Having it all: Love, success, sex, money, even if you’re starting with nothing’ by Helen Gurley BrownRead: Helen Gurley Brown obituary by Sali HughesPodcast: The Rest is History – Britain in 1974Read: From balls to Bridgerton: a brief history of debutantes and the social season --Mag Hags is written and hosted by Lucy Douglas and Franki Cookney.Editing and audio production by Franki Cookney.Our theme music is Look Where That Got You, Mattie Maguire. Additional music: Leotard Haul, Dez Moran. Both courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the very first episode of Mag Hags, the podcast that every modern woman should know.Join Franki and Lucy as they dive into the glossy archives of women’s magazines to find out what's still hot, and what's definitely not. And where else to begin than the OG of having it all: Cosmopolitan.Franki has travelled back in time to October 1982, when The Pill turned 21 and publishers were just cottoning on to the idea that women buy books.Elsewhere, a hapless man gets some Thatcherite therapy and the Mag Hags get some dinner inspo from a truly astonishing advertiser.Plus, Lucy reveals her daddy issues about His Majesty King Charles III.Want to see more of this mag?Sign up for the Mag Hags newsletter. Read all the features we talk about in the show, see the amazing adverts, enjoy vintage fashion, beauty, and lifestyle tips, and get access to loads of other bonus bits. Plus episode transcripts straight to your inbox. Go to maghags.substack.comCHAPTERS07:09 – Intro to Cosmo October 198209:33 – Girl Bossing vs Having It All10:29 – The pill that promised so much: A review of 21 years of oral contraceptives written by someone who's never taken them26:47 – *An ad break from 1982*30:09 – Talking It Out : A Cosmo "counselling" session that reads more like a scolding38:13 – Tactful sex tactics: Can you use the word "fondle" without laughing42:28 – Fashion and beauty tips from 198244:42 – Frills or Thrills: Trashy paperbacks are having a moment. Is it good, steamy fun or patronising frivolity?48:37 – What's hot and what's not in 1982LINKSResearch: On coils and ectopic pregnancies: Safety, efficacy and patient acceptability of the contraceptive and non-contraceptive uses of the LNG-IUS | International Journal of Women’s Health, 2009Read: On Erin Pizzey: Feminism’s Purity Wars by Helen Lewis | The Atlantic, Feb 2020--Mag Hags is written and hosted by Lucy Douglas and Franki Cookney.Editing and audio production by Franki Cookney.Our theme music is Look Where That Got You, Mattie Maguire. Additional music: Leotard Haul, Dez Moran. Both courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mag Hags is a brand new podcast that celebrates and interrogates the glossy women’s magazines of the 70s, 80s, and 90s.If you love magazines, 20th century pop culture, and questionable life advice on glossy paper stock, then join us each fortnight when we’ll be diving into a vintage issue to find out what’s still hot, and what’s definitely not.First episode drops WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 02 2024.Subscribe to our newsletter to get access to all the features and adverts we discuss, PLUS extra vintage fashion, beauty and lifestyle tips that we couldn’t quite fit into the show!Mag Hags is written and hosted by Franki Cookney and Lucy Douglas.Trailer editing and audio production by Elly Lazarides.Our theme music is Look Where That Got You, Mattie Maguire, courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.