Richard Davenport-Hines
historian and author of The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics
1 episode
Covers topics in categories such as:
Drugs
Melvyn Bragg discusses the role narcotics and stimulants have played in the history of medicine and their use as both a creative and a destructive force on the lives and work of writers and artists.
23 May 2002
Also featuring: Sadie Plant, Mike Jay