Weekend Woman's Hour: Jessie Ware, Women managaing male footballers, Comedian Susie McCabe
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
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 season, and it follows a string of losses and the dismissal of the previous coach. We talk to Rosi Webb, previously one of the few female coaches in charge of a men's team in England for five years, alongside Laura McAllister, former international footballer and Vice President of UEFA.
Figures show there are close to one million people diagnosed with dementia in the UK, of which two thirds are women. A campaign to highlight the caring duties that fall on the families of those diagnosed with young-onset dementia launches this week. We hear from Emilia, who spent her teenage years tussling with the medical community to get her mother - in her late 40s - diagnosed, and Amy Pagan from the charity Younger People With Dementia.
Scottish comedian Susie McCabe is a stalwart of the BBC comedy scene - from The News Quiz and Breaking the News to Just a Minute and Have I Got News For You? It was in 2024, while touring, that she had a heart-attack. She was only in her mid-forties at the time. It made her not only take a long hard look at her life, but it also inspired her latest show, Best Behaviour. Susie joins Nuala McGovern to discuss making comedy gold out of life's trials and tribulations.
Presenter: Datshiane Navanayagam Producer: Simon Richardson
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Dilley Carter and I love organising. |
| 0:11.6 | In my brand new podcast, sort your life out, unpacked, celebrity guests join me to unbox three revealing items from their home. |
| 0:18.7 | Oh, wow. I wasn't expecting this. Along the way, |
| 0:22.5 | I'll be giving you practical hacks to help you declutter your life as well. This is the tough |
| 0:26.8 | love I need. Don't hold back. I'm definitely tucking you with me back to my house. Sort your life out, |
| 0:32.6 | unpacked. Watch on eye player. Listen on BBC Sounds. Hello and welcome to the programme, bringing you highlights from The Woman's Hour Week. |
| 0:40.9 | As she launches her new album, singer-songwriter Jessie Ware talks to me about her process |
| 0:46.0 | and opening up about her life through music. |
| 0:49.0 | I love normal life. |
| 0:50.2 | I was enjoying living, normality in all its kind of forms. |
| 0:54.7 | And so I wanted to allow like domesticity to be a part of this record. |
| 0:58.9 | We also have a moving interview with a young woman about caring for her mother |
| 1:02.7 | who suffered from young onset dementia. |
| 1:05.3 | She was like, there's nothing wrong with me. |
| 1:07.1 | I'm absolutely fine. This is ridiculous. |
| 1:09.1 | Of course I don't have dementia. |
| 1:10.2 | It could never happen to me at this age especially. There's comedian Susie McCabe on turning a health crisis |
| 1:15.9 | into comedy. God bless the two middle-aged paramedics who came and literally done ECGs and |
| 1:23.8 | they saved my life. And we hear about the first woman appointed to coach a men's team in one of Europe's top five football leagues. |
| 1:31.5 | She'll probably be feeling that most females experience when they walk into a room full of males that they have to prove themselves. |
| 1:38.2 | And the spotlight is on them. |
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