Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Confessions of an English Opium Eater

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S2 E4: 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.