Explore the world shows the "extraordinary woman"

  They wrote the rules for the women of her time out of the shadows of the men to make their mark in history. Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Coco Chanel, Audrey Hepburn, Agatha Christie, Maria Montessori, Madame Chiang Kai-shek ... Reach answers some of the most extraordinary women of the world, the extraordinary degree of success in fields as diverse as fashion, film, politics, philanthropy, art and activism.

19th Premiere Tuesdays in June at 20.00 clock, "Extraordinary Women" series of 12 episodes will show the stories of some of the distinguished women, the adverse conditions and social prejudices are overcome in order to achieve the best in the industry, the admiration of millions around the world to win.

They seemed to have everything, but often the trials and tribulations of her personal life have been obscured by their success with the public. With archival interviews and dramatic reconstruction, Discovery Channel "extraordinary women pay the price for this exceptional women for their achievements revealed. But in the end overcame all odds to emerge as the triumphant symbol of inspiration in the 20th century.

A special ambassador for UNICEF, Audrey Hepburn was one of the first to admit that his celebrity status might be used to improve the lives of many people less fortunate. Hedy Lamarr is known as the star of the golden age of MGM, but she was also the co-inventor of an early form of spread spectrum communication technology, a key to modern wireless communications. Coco Chanel was an illegitimate child born in a hospital and left in an orphanage, but Coco Chanel rose from poverty unimaginable, the fashion brand of the landmarks of the 20th Century to create the House of Chanel. Josephine Baker, a black artist has taken the world by storm, destined to a life of poverty and racial prejudice to escape, she danced her way to New York and Paris. In a remarkable eight decades of life, Maria Montessori, called the Convention on the pioneering work of a radical new system of education, it leaves a legacy of thousands of Montessori schools around the world. Agatha Christie, the queen of detective fiction written 80 novels and short stories, but his private life remains as mysterious as one of the characters in his novels.

The extraordinary women who appear in the series are:

Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993)

British actress and humanitarian

"I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine"

Grace Kelly (1929-1982)

American actress and Princess of Monaco

"If someone starts with me as a backdrop, I will return to New York"

Agatha Christie (1890-1976)

English crime writer

"Any woman can fool a man if she wants and when he is in love with her"

Coco Chanel (1883-1971)

Pioneering French fashion designer

"Simplicity is the key to all true elegance"

Madame Chiang Kai-shek (1897-2003)

First Lady of the Republic of China

"We write our own destinies, we become what we do"

HedyLamarr (1913-2000)

Originally, Austrian actress and scientific

"I have married men who feel inferior to leave me"

Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998)

American writer, journalist and war correspondent

"Gradually I realized that people be more readilyswallow is the truth"

Maria Montessori (1870-1952)

Italian physician and radical formation

"Education is a natural process spontaneously carried out"

Amelia Earhart (1897-1937)

America's greatest woman flyer

"Courage is the price that life demands for granting peace"

Josephine Baker (1906-1975)

Artist and actress

"I was not really naked. I just have no clothes on"

Wallis Simpson (1896-1986)

American woman, whose marriage to Edward VIII's abdication led inhis

"You can never be too rich or too thin"

Dr. Ruth Westheimer (b. 1928)

Holocaust survivor and renowned sex researcher Zionist sniper turnedworld

"Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots ofrocks. But it goes upward, forward, in the sun"