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Celebrating women in rock

Anna Calvi chooses her Rock Goddess to mark International Women's Day... and Shaun's got an all-female tracklist.

Anna Calvi's reputation as a guitar virtuoso is just one of the many reasons we've asked her to choose her own Rock Goddess for our special International Women's Day celebration of all things rock.

As an artist, she's an accomplished songwriter, performer, collaborator and singer. Since she came to prominence in the late 00s, she has been nominated three times for the prestigious Mercury Music Prize.

Her debut album came out in 2011 and since then she's had a creatively fascinating career. As well as releasing her own music she has written music for the BBC's Peaky Blinders series and collaborated with the likes of Brian Eno, David Byrne and Marianne Faithfull. Her forthcoming release in March is with none other than Iggy Pop.

Elsewhere on the show, a celebratory gathering of female-led talent on Shaun's tracklist from right across the genres of rock and beyond.

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Music Played

  • Girlschool

    C'mon Let's Go

    • Hit And Run.
    • Sanctuary Records.

  • Jefferson Airplane

    Somebody To Love

    • The Essential.
    • RCA.

  • Sonic Youth

    Kool Thing

    • Geffen.

  • Linkin Park

    The Emptiness Machine

    • The Emptiness Machine.
    • Warner Records.

  • Avery Anna

    No More Tears (live from the let go letters tour)

    • No More Tears (live from the let go letters tour).
    • Warner Records Nashville.

  • Garbage

    I Think I'm Paranoid

    • Version 2.0 (20th Anniversary Edition / Remastered 2018).
    • Infectious Music.

  • Fanny

    Blind Alley

    • Fanny Hill.
    • Warner Records.

  • Melissa Auf der Maur

    Followed The Waves

    • Auf Der Maur.
    • Capitol Records.

  • The Runaways

    Queens Of Noise

    • Queens Of Noise.
    • Island Def Jam.

  • Amyl and the Sniffers

    Hertz

    • Rough Trade Records.

  • Anna Calvi & Iggy Pop

    God's Lonely Man

    • God's Lonely Man.
    • Domino Recording Co.

  • Patti Smith Group

    Dancing Barefoot

    • Wave.
    • Arista/Legacy.
    • 2.

  • Vixen

    Edge Of A Broken Heart

    • Vixen.
    • Capitol Records.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Yesterday23:00
    BBC Radio 2