Aired Tuesday March 26,
1:25am - 1:55amon BBC Four HD
The Secret Life of Books
Series 2 Episode 4Performance 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.
- Category
- Documentary / History
- Original air date
- 2015-11-02
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