Christopher Eccleston on class, capitalism, fame and shame: 'My eating disorder was imprisoning'
One of Britain's best actors is back on stage as Scrooge. He reflects on his Salford childhood, his rebirth after a breakdown " and why we need to get the Tories out As a child of no more than seven or eight, Christopher Eccleston saw an animated version of A Christmas Carol. It was his introduction to the Dickens classic and he was so taken with it, he says, that he started to draw it "quite obsessively. The scene w…