A portrait of Aphra Behn, the 17th-century writer by Maureen Duffy
Narrated by Henry Knowles

Aphra Behn, sometime spy, observer of colonialism and slave revolt in Surinam, was, in the London of the 1660s, a prodigy: a woman earning her living by writing. Triumph and slander attended her in the high baroque world of Restoration theatre and political satire.