Directors: Dai Richards
Script: Dai Richards
Photography: Richard Ranken
Editor:James Hay
Sound: Kuz Randhawa
Narrator: Neil Pearson
Producer: Dai Richards
Executive Producer: Edward Mirzoeff
Series Editor: Jenny Abbott
Production: BBC in association with A&E Networks
Distribution: BBC Worldwide
Selected Filmography Dai Richards: The 50 Years War: Israel And the Arabs, 1999; A Very british Mutinity, 1999; A Living Hell, 1998; Hitler's Death: The final Report, 1995;The Mother of all Battles (The Battle Of Kursk), 1993; The Mind of Hussein, 1991.
"Tune in, turn on, drop out" was the catchy motto of one of the most intriguing personalities of the last century. Timothy Leary, a Harvard professor, became a guru of his generation, helped Allen Ginsberg rise to fame by supplying him with consciousness-altering substances, recorded mantras with Jimi Hendrix, and escaped from prison. Loved and hated, for a time revered with almost religious fervor, Leary, “the most dangerous man in America,” left his mark not only his generation but on those to come. This carefully made documentary shows the plausibility of his life without reverting to psychedelic clichés. With “Timothy Leary,“ the BBC once again presents an exemplary reappraisal of an important historical personality.