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Woman's Hour: Safer sport for women, novelist Nadine Matheson, Sabrina Ali on Dugzi Dayz

Safer sport for women, novelist Nadine Matheson, Sabrina Ali on Dugzi Dayz

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Safer sport for women, novelist Nadine Matheson, Sabrina Ali on Dugzi Dayz

What kind of questions are appropriate for a coach to ask a sportswoman about her health?

What kind of questions are appropriate for a coach to ask a sportswoman about her health? When are physical examinations ok? We discuss safer sport for women.

Now that women’s sport is advancing, we need clear safeguarding rules for women and girls about what is and isn’t okay when it comes to talking about female health outside the realm of medicine. That’s the call from Baz Moffat, one of the co-founders of The Well HQ, which aims to break barriers in women’s sport and champion education about female health. She joins Hayley Hassell to tell us more about their new Safer Sport poster campaign and why it’s needed.

Once one of Russia's biggest pop stars, Manizha represented the country at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2021. Then Russia invaded Ukraine and Manizha used her songs and her platform to share her anti-war views. Subsequently her concerts were cancelled, her music banned and Manizha's safety, both in real life and online, has been compromised. She talks to Hayley about her life and her new single Candlelight.

How do we keep children safe online? Hayley is joined by Esther Ghey and Marinna Spring to discuss Ofcom's new safety codes of practice.

Bestselling author Nadine Matheson is a criminal defence lawyer and uses her own experiences in the world of criminal law to build her stories and characters. She talks to Hayley about the new book - ‘The Kill List’ - and why there aren’t more black female detectives in crime novels. 

Four girls sitting in a Mosque in detention are stuck in darkness after a power outage. To pass the time, they tell Somali folktales and bond in a modern day take on The Breakfast Club. That’s the scene for Dugsi Dayz, performing now at the Royal Court Theatre. The writer and actor Sabrina Ali joins Hayley in the Woman’s Hour to tell us more about it.

Presenter: Hayley Hassell
Producer: Laura Northedge
Studio Producer: Neva Missirian

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