This week's episode is all about the incredible Wang Zhenyi. Her main vocation was astronomy but managed she dabbled in maths, poetry and social activism as well. Despite being one of the most important thinkers of the Qing Dynastry, she didn't even make it past the age of 30.

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After being held against her will in a psychiatric hospital aged 21 because of a breakdown caused by a miscarriage, Judi Chamberlin dedicated her life to changing the way people looked at and treated those with mental health conditions. From organising Mad Pride to setting up centres to help people work through their trauma, she did it all.

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For your second episode of the day, we're heading to Germany to meet Charlotte 'Lotte' Reiniger, who was a pioneering animator. She created the first ever feature length animated film, and likely influenced the animation giants we know today.

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Cornelia Sorabji was a person of many firsts, from first female lawyer in India to first woman to pass the bar at Oxford University. Apart from that, she was a massive fighter when it came to women's rights at home and abroad, and used her legal prowess to help those who needed it the most.

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As I'm in Florence, I thought what better way to honour the city than to do an episode about a Florentine woman. She was an astrophysicist, social activist and all round fantastic woman. You'll want to listen to this!

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Jeanne Baret was the first woman to circumnavigate the globe - and she did so by breaking naval law and stowing away dressed as a man! Not only that, but she spent her time making important botanical discoveries.

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Better late than ever! Annie Easley was known as a 'human computer'. She could do maths in her head like nobody’s business, and without her and her calculations the ‘workhorse in space’ Centaur never would have helped man land on the moon. So you have a lot to thank her for...

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CW: Sexual assault/police brutality/racism

15 year old Claudette Colvin made history when she refused to give up her seat on a crowded Alabama bus - 9 months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. She sparked the Montgomery bus boycot which led to the end of segregation on city buses, but was essentially written out of history due to her age, skin colour, and the fact she was a teenage mother. This is her story.

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Mary Beale was the most successful female painter of the Baroque era, and also one of the first ever professional female painters! She was also an inspiration when it came to equality in marriage and business.

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ALERT: Girls! Girls! Girls! has a new home! From now on we'll be broadcast on Women's Radio Station every Monday.

In other news, this week we chatted about Hilda Matheson, a trailblazing producer at the BBC.

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