The true story of a secret all-female intellectual club in 18th century Edinburgh inspired Lucy Porter to write her debut play, the stand-up tells Jay Richardson. Lucy Porter is writing an historical ...

It’s 1717 in Edinburgh, at the height of the Enlightenment, and the sisters are doing it for themselves. Lucy Porter‘s new play, inspired by the true story of the club of its title, depicts the ...

As a vicious civil war between two equally obnoxious forces rages around her, a young working-class woman adopts an abandoned baby and spends the duration of the conflict keeping herself and the child ...

Lucy Porter’s sitcom set in pre-enlightenment Edinburgh. This week, intellectual giant Isaac Newton (Gavin Mitchell) is in town and he’s struggling with a new theory to explain why things keep falling ...

1717 - the inaugural meeting of a secret society where young ladies exercise their minds. In Lucy Porter's sparkling play, the constraints of the day have a habit of intruding as they search for a ...