Name: The Blood Test by Idle Eye
Duration: 4 min 9 s
Description: Doctors are invariably hard as nails these days to keep you out of the surgeries. Dr Nunn was no different, particularly when I pointed out my fags were keeping him in work.

Postgraduate Fellow Emma Stammen talks with 2018-2019 Writing for Justice Fellow David Sanchez about his debut novel "All Day is a Long Time"—a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story encompassing addiction, mental illness, homelessness, incarceration, and sobriety.

Works of Justice 201 - David Sanchez on Addiction, Subjectivity, and Selfhood

Doctors are invariably hard as nails these days to keep you out of the surgeries. Dr Nunn was no different, particularly when I pointed out my fags were keeping him in work.

The Blood Test

Idle Eye was originally conceived as a weekly blog, taking a wine-soaked swipe at life in and around West London’s Idle Hour pub. Delivered by Caesarean section in 2011, it was unruly and truculent from the outset, yet managed to hold down its initial brief for a couple of years, harnessed by the sedentary effects of New Zealand Marlborough Pinot Noir.

By Sept ‘13, it had burst its moorings and gone feral. Sexed up, rudderless and at best, bewildering in the extreme, it took a while for things to re-anchor. But as readership nudged into double figures, a new-found confidence was born. The consequent audio represented here is a paean to hard work, self-belief and red wine. It also serves as a template for young people to learn from and better themselves in their own life endeavours.

The Blood Test

Idle Eye

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