Article: Meet the real Pete Doherty; ARENA: PETE DOHERTY Tonight, BBC2, 10.45pm.

Byline: MARK WAREHAM

Arena's arts documentaries are few and far between, but invariably well worth the wait, and tonight's is no exception. Reviled and adored in equal measure, Pete Doherty, formerly of The Libertines, now fronting Babyshambles, is a throwback to a pre-boyband era, when musicians experimenting with drugs - sometimes killing themselves in the process - was commonplace. Yet, his ardent fans apart, most observers will know little more than the media image of a junkie pop star dating Kate Moss, the most photographed woman in the world. It's the perfect tabloid car-crash 'marriage' made in hell.

Tonight's film lets the pictures, and its ...

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