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Marcus Fair spent 25 years battling an addiction to heroin and crack cocaine, and long periods of homelessness and being in prison, before finding long-term recovery and founding Eternal Media in 2015. His primary goal in setting up this charity and social enterprise was to help other people in their recovery journey.

For people who had lived almost exclusively in the world of addiction—for many years, some may have spent entire days shoplifting, selling the goods, buying the drug and using—it can be extremely difficult to know what to do when they stop using. This is a problem that Marcus emphasises in the second film below.

Marcus and Wulf reflect on a variety of issues including: why the vast majority of money is spent on helping people 'get off' drugs compared to helping them 'stay off'; the need to put more power into the hands of the experts, the people with lived experience' the role of the Chief Constable of North Wales, Simon Shaw...

Eternal Media's Recovery Hub Podcast (RHP) is designed to give a voice to those in recovery. RHP features conversations between people in recovery, intimate recounting of stories of addiction, finding recovery and how they live their lives in recovery. We also cover the topics of crime, rehabilitation, politics and...