IN the middle of a packed London street a topless woman straddles a man in a carriage as they have sex in broad daylight. Moments later the camera sweeps into a brothel, where a string of men are serviced by naked ladies.
Welcome to the first 60 seconds of Harlots, a saucy tale of London’s booming sex industry of the 1700s — and the bawdiest drama the BBC has ever aired.
Starring Lesley Manville and Samantha Morton as rival brothel madames, the series draws heavily on Harris’s List Of Covent Garden Ladies, an annual prostitution guidebook published between 1757 to 1795.
The directory was based on the “inside knowledge” of Jack Harris, known as the “Pimp-General of All England”. Lesley, 64, who has recently been cast as Princess Margaret in.
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