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The Prophet of Opium

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

A portrait of Thomas De Quincey author of Confessions of an English Opium Eater written and presented by Stanley Williamson with ' ... a theatre seemed suddenly opened up and lighted up within my brain, which presented nightly spectacles of more than earthly splendour accompanied by deep-seated anxiety and gloomy melancholy such as are wholly incommunicable bywords.' Readers JOHN CHRISTIE
DEBORAH MACLAREN. DAVID NEALE and PATRICK ROMER
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
(Paul Webster is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 11.0am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas de Quincey
Presented By:
Stanley Williamson
Readers:
John Christie
Readers:
Deborah MacLaren.
Readers:
David Neale
Readers:
Patrick Romer
Unknown:
Paul Webster
De Quincey:
Paul Webster
Source: Radio Times

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