Pete Doherty - now and then

I haven’t watched it yet, but I’ve read some excellent reviews of Louis Theroux’s interview with Pete Doherty, broadcast on BBC2 last week.

The Telegraph gave it five stars, The Times four, while the Mail reported:

Pete Doherty wins praise from BBC viewers for his 'fascinating, authentic and unpretentious' interview with Louis Theroux as they praise the unlikely pair's connection: 'Just wonderful chemistry'.

I mention this because a few months ago I wrote about a short film, produced and directed in 2001 by Sharon Peng, who at the time was a student at Bournemouth University.

Smokers’ Corner featured several faces familiar to Forest supporters - including Forest researcher Judith Hatton, our patron Antony Worrall Thompson, and James Leavey, author of two Forest guides - but the star of the film was a young Peter Doherty.

As I wrote here, Doherty’s ‘contributions were (and still are) absolutely priceless - charming, amusing, pretentious, and often all three at once!’.

‘The film,’ I added, ‘is bittersweet because several participants are no longer alive, and in the intervening years Pete Doherty has had his demons but, watching this, you can't help but like him.’

Smokers’ Corner still exists on YouTube, albeit in very poor quality, but if you can overlook that it’s definitely worth watching.

Click here or on the image below.