High Road to Xanadu

A Point of View: A Point of View: Clive James by BBC

Nov 6, 200910:13Society & Culture

Clive James reflects on the seductive allure of illegal narcotics, and lays the blame for their attractions at the door of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his trip to Xanadu.

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