The programme that puts you in touch with finance and fashion, politics and poetry, and the lives of women past and present, today examines the history of the courtesan - including the subject of the current serial,
Harriette Wilson.
Her memoirs, read by Patricia Hodge , have been abridged in 15 episodes by HARRIET SMYTH. This week: episodes 11-15. Presenter Jenni Murray Editor CLARE SELERIEGREY