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Spare Rib was the first magazine of its kind, aimed at bringing a feminist voice to women up and down the country. Marsha Rowe co-founded the magazine in 1972 after realising that even the counterculture press wasn鈥檛 talking to women. She teamed her experience in and love of mainstream and underground mags to create a publication that became an iconic of the Women鈥檚 Liberations Movement and 听ran for 21 years. The British Library have now made allowing it to reach a new generation. Jenni is joined by Marsha and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett of The Vagenda, a popular feminist blog, to talk about the trail blazing monthly.

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Nigeria and Liverpool forward Asisat Oshoala has been named as the 2015 The 20-year-old forward was the youngest player shortlisted for the award and is the first winner of the new award from the 大象传媒 World Service, voted for by football fans around the world. 大象传媒 sports commentator, Sarah Mullerkin reports on what this means for Women鈥檚 Football and looks ahead to the Fifa Women鈥檚 World Cup which starts on the 6th of June and is hosted by Canada.

Wikipedia is the world鈥檚 most popular encyclopaedia - a hugely influential and also open information source, celebrated as one which anyone can edit. Yet despite this, only nine per cent of its editors are women. It鈥檚 a disparity that鈥檚 said to have influenced not only what pages are created, but also their content. So how much should we worry if our biggest source of knowledge is written almost entirely by men? Why is there such a Wikipedia Gender Gap? And what can we all do to change that? Jenni is joined by Jenny Kleeman, who has written about this for the New Statesman, and by Daria Cybulska of the Wikimedia UK, the charity that supports Wikipedia.

In the last in our series exploring the parent and child relationship in Shakespeare鈥檚 plays, we look at the mother and son relationship. Our reporter Judi Herman has been talking to Pippa Guard, lecturer in Drama and English at the University of Greenwich; to actors currently touring the world playing Gertrude and Hamlet in Shakespeare鈥檚 Globe鈥檚 鈥楪lobe to Globe鈥� production; and to actors playing a pair of historical warring mothers and their sons in King John, the Globe鈥檚 timely co-production with Royal and Derngate Theatres, Northampton, (a town that played a significant part in its story) in the Magna Carta鈥檚 800th centenary year.听

King John, is a joint production by Shakespeare's Globe and Royal and Derngate Theatres, Northampton showing at Salisbury Cathedral as part of the from 27-30 May.

King John then moves to London from 1-27 June

Hamlet, the production by Shakespeare鈥檚 Globe 鈥榦n a two-year tour to every country in the world鈥�, arrives back in the UK in time for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare鈥檚 death in 2016.听

All鈥檚 Well that Ends Well, DVD of 2011 production is available from Shakespeare鈥檚 Globe听

has been launched and this time we鈥檙e looking for the women who are influencing the ways in which we live our lives.听 The final list will be revealed at the beginning of July, but over the next few weeks we鈥檒l be debating influence and who has it.听 Today, Jenni Murray will be considering how influencers spread their ideas and she鈥檒l be joined by Lucy-Anne Holmes, who founded No More Page Three and is the author of How To Start A Revolution and by Gail Parminter, who runs the Mad Women advertising consultancy.听

Who鈥檚 influencing the way you live your life? Woman鈥檚 Hour 2015 Power List: Influencers will identify ten women who have a huge impact on our lives, not because of their job title but because of their personal impact and their ability to influence others. Our considers how influence operates and who has it as they compile a final ranked list to be revealed at the beginning of July. Who would you like to see on the list? You can influence the judges by getting in touch with your suggestions on email or on twitter @大象传媒WomansHour #whpowerlist