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Confessions Of An English Opium-Eater
- Publisher
- BBC Audio
- Publish Date
- 1 May 2013
- Run Time
- 56 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Thomas De Quincey (Dramatised By Lavina Murray)
- Narrator
- Full Cast, James Nickerson, Oliver Cotton
- Duration
- 56 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 May 2013
- ISBN
- 9781471345340
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- BBC Audio
- Genre
- Films, cinema, Television, Radio / podcasts, Biography: general
Synopsis
A full-cast dramatisation of Thomas De Quincey's 1821 autobiographical account of his consumption of the liquid opiate laudanum, a legal painkiller of the time, and his painful and surreal descent into addiction. Starring Oliver Cotton as the older Thomas and James Nickerson as the younger Thomas. Written by Lavinia Murray. Directed by Gary Brown.
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