Sounds Iconic: Groundbreaking Women

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Nicola Adams talks to 5 Live about her career and how she wants to inspire others

Agatha Christie talks about how boredom and a lack of formal education led her to writing

Barbara Castle introduces the Equal Pay Act at the Labour Party Conference in 1969

Angela Davis talks about her politics and discusses how her time in jail affected her.

Rosa Parks on the day she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in 1955

Tracey Ullman, actor and comedian, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.

Interview with Northern Irish astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell on her life and work

Virginia Woolf speaks about words and their impact in 1937

Sasha Fierce is left at the door as Beyoncé speaks to Sara Cox and MistaJam.

V talks to Jenni Murray in 2004 about body image and her new play The Good Body

Teen activist Greta Thunberg talks to Amol Rajan about climate change and her life.

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