In this week’s podcast, Dame Joanna Lumley introduces stories about punishment, prostitution and pugilism:

• Ritual Humiliation written by Joanna Clarke and performed by Lulu Freeman [Charing Cross, Central London]
• An Unlikely Purchase written by Sarah Fleming and performed by Olivia Bell [A Coffee House in Bedfordbury, Covent Garden, a Theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Field,  and Holy Trinity Church, Wensley, Yorkshire]
• “The Celebrated Professor of the Fist” written by James Rampton and performed by Cassius Konneh [Moulsey Hurst in Surrey and Horse and Dolphin pub in Leicester Square]

Sound editing by Jon Jardine