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🗓️ 29 November 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Australia’s under-16 social media ban comes into force soon. From 10th December, platforms must take 'reasonable steps' to stop under-16s from opening accounts and remove accounts that already belong to them. Companies who fail to comply could face fines of up to £25m. BBC Sydney correspondent Katy Watson has been talking to teenagers in the state of Victoria. She explains how we got here and updates us on a new legal action being brought to challenge the ban.
Cassa Pancho founded Ballet Black in 2001, aged 21, in response to there being no black or Asian women performing in any of the UK’s ballet companies. This week Ballet Black conclude their UK tour of SHADOWS at London's Sadler's Wells and features as part of its double bill Cassa's adaptation of Oyinkan Braithwaite’s international bestselling novel, My Sister, The Serial Killer.
Have you heard of rage rooms? Or even visited one? Turns out demand for them is surging, and 90% of the UK customers are women. Believed to have started in Japan in the early 2000s, rage rooms are places where people can smash up items such as electronics, white goods and crockery. Nuala McGovern is joined by Jennifer Cox, psychotherapist and author of Women are Angry: Why Your Rage is Hiding and How To Let It Out, and culture journalist Isobel Lewis who has visited a rage retreat.
Camille O’Sullivan has toured with the Pogues and was chosen by Yoko Ono to perform at Meltdown festival in the Royal Festival Hall – now the Irish-French singer is bringing her hit show to the Soho Theatre in London. LoveLetter is a personal response to the loss of the artists who inspired her - particularly her late friends Shane McGowan and Sinéad O’Connor.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Annette Wells
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| 0:55.0 | Two teenagers are challenging Australia's upcoming social media ban for children in the nation's highest court, alleging the law is unconstitutional, as it robs them of their right to free communication. |
| 1:08.2 | Rage rooms. Have you heard of them? Places you can go to break stuff and let off steam. |
| 1:14.0 | Well, demand is surging and 90% of the customers are women. |
| 1:18.9 | Why might that be? |
| 1:20.4 | Also, Casapancho, who founded Ballet Black back in 2001 when she realised that were no |
| 1:26.3 | black or Asian dancers |
| 1:27.6 | performing in any UK ballet companies |
| 1:30.4 | and music from multi-award winning Irish French singer Camille O'Sullivan. |
| 1:36.7 | But first, on December the 10th, Australia plans to introduce |
| 1:40.7 | the world's strictest laws governing how children access social media with an outright ban on children under 16 using social media platforms. |
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