As a one-off special I took a look at some of the most successful women in music – thirty of the best female singer/ songwriters.

You can listen back to the whole show here and a full track listing is below:

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Girls just wanna have fun by Cyndi Lauper

Talk to me of Mendocino by Kate & Anna McGarrigle

I do not want what I haven’t got by Sinead O’Connor

Heart of glass by Blondie

Coal miner’s daughter by Loretta Lynn

Chuck E’s in love by Rickie Lee Jones

Strange fruit by Billie Holiday

Diamonds and rust by Joan Baez

Drop the pilot by Joan Armatrading

La vie en rose by Edith Piaf 

This is love by P J Harvey

The way we were by Barbra Streisand

Born this way by Lady Gaga

The music weaver by Sandy Denny

I knew you were trouble by Taylor Swift

Edge of Seventeen by Stevie Nicks

Fever by Peggy Lee

Ray of light by Madonna

Me and Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin

Play dead by Bjork

Back to black by Amy Winehouse

Hello by Adele

Feeling good by Nina Simone

Brass in pocket by The Pretenders

There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis by Kirsty Maccoll

It’s too late by Carole King

Jolene by Dolly Parton

Because the night by Patti Smith

Running up that hill (a deal with God) by Kate Bush

Big yellow taxi by Joni Mitchell