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Western Morning News
|July 11, 2025
THAT'S THE VIBE OF FASCINATING PODCAST THAT SHINES A LIGHT ON DISMISSED WOMEN FROM HISTORY
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Jameela Jamil is giving women a second chance to tell their story - and these ones are sexy, scandalous and straight from the bedrooms of powerful men.
The actress and activist has teamed up with historian Dr Kate Lister for Audible to champion six women lazily dismissed over the centuries as bits on the side, or written out of the history books and shamed by tutting men folk.
This story is from the July 11, 2025 edition of Western Morning News.
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