The London Satyr

But Robert Edric is about as far from pulp fiction and populist appeal as it’s possible to get. His works are known and adored by an elite group who adore his sprawling historical stories.

This masterful journey through the morass of Victorian contradictions is voiced by Charles Webster, a photographer working for actor-manager Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre who earns a bit on the side by illicitly providing theatrical costumes for pornographic shoots organised by a sinister manipulator known as Marlow.