Hogarth and Harlots -- Moll Hackabout and Other Creations [10min]

William Hogarth is famous for his bawdy, bustling paintings of teaming London life in the 18th century. This week’s drama on"Woman’s Hour" brings to life one of his most famous heroines, Moll Hackabout, an innocent country girl who meets an unhappy end as a prostitute. Hogarth’s biographer, Jenny Uglow, and satirist Ian Hislop talk to Ritula Shah about the artist’s attitude towards women, and about prostitution throughout the century in England’s rapidly expanding cities. Uglow is author of Hogarth: A Life and World (Faber and Faber).