If you were asked to picture the most successful pirate of all time, who would you imagine? Perhaps Long John Silver complete with a perching parrot, or a swashbuckling Blackbeard? Think again! It's Zheng Yi Sao – a former sex worker turned Pirate Queen who terrorised the South China Sea in the 19th Century.

Script by Emma Nagouse, University of Sheffield
Based on original research by Prof Ronald C. Po, The London School of Economics
Animation by Peter Caires
Narration by Tessa Delaunay-Martin

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