Performance poet 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.
Name | Type | Role | |
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John Cooper Clarke | Writer | ||
John Cooper Clarke | Host | Presenter | |
John Cooper Clarke | Guest Star | ||
Maurice O'Brien | Director |