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Higgs began as a director of children’s television and was BAFTA-nominated for pre-school animation before going on to create and produce the
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in 1977. During Higgs’s research, he interviewed
Campbell’s wife, the actress
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Stranger Than We Can
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Love and Let Die: Bond, The Beatles and the British Psyche
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KLF: Chaos, Magic, Music, Money review by The Quietus
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I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary
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Cosmic Trigger - The Final Secret of the Illuminati
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