BEN: DIARY OF A DRUG ADDICT

Sky One Monday 9pm

"Extraordinarily powerful" Sunday Times.

Radio Times said this film is an "unrelentingly grim documentary which presents a horrific reality".

Time Out said "A bleak depiction of a heroin addicts death, as Sky1 makes a welcome foray into serious documentary making".

Filmmaker Olly Lambert’s unflinching film about the last two years of a 14 year heroin addiction.

I will be watching this documentary, I'm hoping to understand why a bright schoolboy from a loving, middle-class family raised in a quiet, picturesque village, he was a Boy Scout, loved cricket, played in the school orchestra and looked forward to the annual family holiday. But despite his privileged start in life Ben found himself on the road to ruin, injecting heroin up to four times a day.

Can this film be a warning to others not yet on this path? Ben's film is being shown in schools in Stafford as a pilot scheme, lets see what happens in the future and whether this type of reality tv earns a place on the screen.

His mum said. “What I really wanted more than anything was to educate the authorities – the probation service, the police, the hospitals Ben went to,” she says. “Because I feel that heroin addicts don’t have any face in society. They’re counted as the lowest of the low.”