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Woman's Hour

Game BAFTAs, Baroness Kishwar Falkner, Football Fans

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The 22nd BAFTA Games Awards will take place at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre in London tonight. Datshiane Navanayagam is joined by this year’s host, YouTube gaming influencer Elz The Witch. Who are the female runners and riders for this year's awards, and what impact are these women having on the games industry? Datshiane is joined by Baroness Kishwer Falkner former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. A year ago, the Supreme Court made its landmark judgment on single-sex spaces. In a long-running case against the Scottish government brought by gender-critical campaigners For Women Scotland (FWS), the court clarified that, for the purposes of the Equality Act, the legal definition of a woman was based on biological sex. She'll be responding to the government announcement this week that the new guidance on single-sex spaces will be published next month after elections on the 7 May. Away From Home: The Untold Stories of Women Football Fans is an exhibition currently on at the Beacon of Light in Sunderland. Portraying the experiences of women on the terraces of the north-east since the 1950s, it looks at the more recent feminisation of sports fandom over the last 30 years and how it's led to more opportunity for women to actually become football fans. But has this led to gender equality? Co-curator Stacey Pope is Professor in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Durham University and joins Datshiane to tell us more.

Children as young as 13 could be recommended sexually explicit content on social media platform X, according to a new report which exposes potential breaches of the Online Safety Act. The Centre of Countering Digital Hate has warned that X’s algorithm and “weak safeguards” mean porn is being recommended to teenagers, and they're also being exposed to possible direct sexual contact from adults. The CCDH's CEO Imran Ahmed joins Datshiane to discuss. Citlali Fabián was announced last night as the winner of Photographer of the Year at the Sony World Photography Awards, receiving amongst other things, $25,000 in prize money. She’ll be telling Datshiane about her winning series Bilha, Stories of my Sisters, in which she photographs several women from the Indigenous communities across the Oaxaca region of Southern Mexico, highlighting their pioneering work.

Presenter: Datshiane Navanayagam Producer: Corinna Jones

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Hello, I'm Dashianiani Noveniagum and welcome to Women's Hour on BBC Radio 4.

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Good morning and welcome to the programme.

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Now ahead of the 22nd BAFTA Games Award taking place this evening,

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we're diving into the world of gaming and how women

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are forging their own paths through it. Now, if it's something you're passionate about,

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don't step away because we'll be talking to the host of the awards very shortly. And if you're

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a gaming fan yourself, well, get in touch with us and let us know. Will you be watching the awards tonight?

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Or do you enjoy watching others play?

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Is gaming a way to lose yourself in something completely different?

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