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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

DAILY: History Through Fiction

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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Society & Culture, Government, News, Politics

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

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.” www.patreon.com/bunkercast  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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

0:05.5

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

0:13.0

I loved going to college.

0:14.0

It's good you can retrain and do something.

0:16.0

Yeah, yeah.

0:17.0

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0:55.3

look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello everyone my name is Nick Curran and welcome to the bunker. Today I want to talk about something that annoys me very much.

1:16.5

Lots of things annoy me very much,

1:17.7

but this annoys me particularly

1:19.4

the crow barring of contemporary concerns into history. You watch, I don't know, BBC adaptations of the

1:27.0

War of the World and read second-rate historical novels and they're all ultra-liberal sentiments are bunged in there and it's not those

1:35.8

sentiments are wrong they just feel false and artificial and as if you're being

1:40.4

manipulated. A writer who triumphantly avoids that is Laura Sephard Robinson who's

1:47.0

with me in Scudio. Greetings Laura.

1:48.6

Hello and thanks very much for having me on. It's my pleasure. Her novels if you haven't read them,

1:53.6

Blood and Sugar and Daughters of the Night are historical frillers set in the

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