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Brothel owner Margaret Wells is on the threshold of moving into a more up-market house in Soho when her premises are raided by the nightwatchmen.

Brothel owner Margaret Wells is on the threshold of moving into a more up-market house in Soho when her premises are raided by the nightwatchmen. Fined for keeping an obscene and bawdy house and unable to make the final payment for her new establishment, she is forced to utilise her greatest asset - her daughter Lydia. Meanwhile, her rival Lydia Quigley is determined that Margaret's grand plans are thwarted.

46 minutes

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Wed 5 Aug 202021:00
BBC Two

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Credits

Daniel MarneyRory Fleck Byrne
Charlotte WellsJessica Brown Findlay
Thomas HaxbyEdward Hogg
WriterMoira Buffini
Sir George HowardHugh Skinner
DirectorCoky Giedroyc
Nancy BirchKate Fleetwood
Lord ReptonTim McInnerny
Justice CunliffeRichard McCabe
William NorthDanny Sapani
Lydia QuigleyLesley Manville
Florence ScanwellDorothy Atkinson
Margaret WellsSamantha Morton
Lucy WellsEloise Smyth

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