“I was arrested on the flimsiest of evidence. I was occupying the driver's seat of a car that didn't belong to me.”

— John Cooper Clarke

Series 1 - Crime and Retribution (23 Nov 2016)
BBC Radio 4 - Dr John Cooper Clarke at the BBC (Nov 2016)

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English performance poet 1951

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“I was arrested on the flimsiest of evidence. I was occupying the driver's seat of a car that didn't belong to me.”

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