John Higgs has joined this podcast to talk about William Blake, James Bond, and the Beatles - and now he's back with another iconic British cultural export: the electronic band sometimes called The KLF. He's just released the 10th Anniversary Edition of his book trying to make sense of why they set fire to a million pounds then vanished from public life. His attempt to figure out the answer takes him on a wild ride with counterculture icon Robert Anton Wilson, comic book genius Alan Moore, country superstar Tammy Wynette, and a dead sheep.

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