Weekend Woman's Hour: Jessie Ware, Women managaing male footballers, Comedian Susie McCabe

About this episode

The episode features Jessie Ware discussing her new album, a report on online safety for children, and the appointment of a female coach in men's football.

The singer-songwriter Jessie Ware's new album, Superbloom, was released this week. As well as being known for her music, Jessie's family’s passion for food led to the weekly podcast, Table Manners, that she co-hosts with her mother Lennie, featuring celebrity guests like Ed Sheeran and Kylie. Jessie joins Datshiane Navanayagam to talk about her new album, inspired by disco and funk and how she became more confident in her 40s. We hear about a new report alleging breaches of the Online Safety Act. Children as young as 13 could be recommended sexually explicit content on the social media platform X, according to the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, who say X's algorithm and what it describes as "weak safeguards" mean teenagers are also being exposed to possible direct sexual contact from adults. Imran Ahmed, CEO at the Centre for Countering Digital Hate joins Datshiane to explain. For the first time, a woman has been appointed to coach a men's team in one of Europe's top five football leagues. Marie-Louise Eta has been named interim Head Coach of Union Berlin in the German Bundesliga, the equivalent of the Premier League here. It's a sudden appointment, until the end of the…

People in this episode

Host: Nuala McGovern

Guests: Jessie Ware, Imran Ahmed, Rosi Webb, Laura McAllister

Topics covered

• music
• online safety
• women in sports
• football coaching

Keywords

• Superbloom
• Table Manners
• disco
• funk
• Online Safety Act
• Centre for Countering Digital Hate
• Marie-Louise Eta
• Union Berlin
• Bundesliga

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Superbloom, Table Manners

Books & works: Weekend Woman's Hour, Superbloom, The News Quiz and, Breaking the News, Just a Minute, Best Behaviour

Places: Europe, England, UK

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