WARNING: discussion of nudity and classism. 

This week's news was filled with the controversy surrounding a new statue of a naked female figure constructed in the memory of Mary Wollstonecraft, a pioneering feminist author. This episode will talk you through the environment in while Mary lived and worked- a rigid social hierarchy in Britain and the anarchy of France mid-Revolution- and the broader question of nudity in Art that has been brought to the surface by Maggi Hamlin's sculpture.

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