Danielle Ward: Seventeen

As host of the reliably entertaining Do The Right Thing podcast, Danielle Ward is well versed in dispensing advice. And with the hubris of a 37-year-old trying to help a 17-year-old she found in distress, she's been inspired to share her best life lessons for teenage girls, offering nine pearls of wisdom from a woman mostly horrified by the way the world is moving.

Not that she's setting herself up as a role model or looking back to the nineties with excessive, rose-tinted nostalgia. Many of her initial laughs spring from taunting the optimism of that decade with the benefit of cynical hindsight. Most of her suggestions relate to sex, an area in which she's a late bloomer struggling to make up for her early naivety while urging girls not to subscribe to porn-inspired male fantasies. Her 'do as I say, don't do as I do' mentality also applies to meeting celebrities, with Ward's gifts as a musician having enabled her to embarrass herself in front of a number of high-profile stars.

Despite only charging £1 for under-21s to get in, the altruism of her endeavour takes a back seat to her desire to score points against the world, with a wonderfully delivered metaphor for suspicion of feminism and terrorism, a rail against the housing policy that's condemned a generation to terrible rented accommodation, and the occasional dig at the expense of her boyfriend. Acerbic but playful, Seventeen doesn't quite add up to the sum of its disparate parts but it's a bracing manifesto for early afternoon.