Classic Serial - Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

By Lavinia Murray. 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. Older Thomas ...... Oliver Cotton Younger Thomas ...... James Nickerson Brunnel/Tutor ...... Mark Chatterton Able Big/Ong ...... Eric Potts Betsy ...... Lisa Allen Groaty/Wordsworth ...... David Fleeshman Edith ...... Gemma Harvey Ann ...... Sara Bahadori Directed by Gary Brown.