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Aleister Crowley - poet, mountaineer and black magician – in some ways looms larger and more sinister now than at the time of the death in a seedy Hastings boarding-house in 1947.

Presenter Frances Donnelly speaks with those who knew Crowley or have written about him - Arthur Calder-Marshall, Robin Cecil, Francis King and Angela York – to disinter the facts from the fiction obscuring the life of a man who delighted in being styled "the wickedest man in the world".

Producer: Graham Tayar

First broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 in April 1986.