How can historical fiction be relevant to today’s society but faithful to the facts of the past? Author Laura Shepherd-Robinson joins Nick Cohen to discuss her approach, as she talks us through her novel Daughters of Night, a crime thriller set in the brothels of Georgian London.

• “When writing my books I choose to focus on issues that still have great resonance today.”
• “Many MPs declared that their main reason for going in Parliament was to defend slavery and those who practiced it.”
• “An average prostitute in Georgian London could make in one night what a housemaid made in a year.”
• “The Georgian period was a time when we were turning our minds towards liberal democracy.”
• “Working in politics you see power dynamics close up, and that helped when writing this book.”

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Presented by Nick Cohen. Producers: Jacob Archbold, Jelena Sofronijevic and Alex Rees. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production: Jade Bailey. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production

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