Performance poet and former heroin addict John Cooper Clarke explores Thomas de Quincey's autobiographical classic Confessions of an English Opium Eater, and discovers how his fellow Mancunian's addiction memoir avoids the cliches of modern 'misery-lit' in favour of something much more unsentimental and psychologically complex.
Title | Confessions of an English Opium Eater |
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Genres | Documentary |
Release Date | 2015-11-02 |
Episode Runtime | 00 Hours 30 Minutes |
Season Number | 2 |
Episode Number | 4 |
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