Real Magic - I mean - the real stuff

UK TV Documentary have a series on the history of performance magic which far outstrips such shows as The Masked Magician Reveals, and all that nonsense. Yeah, that show revealed old tricks you might find in the books in your library, etc - but this series of six shows doesn't really reveal much (though it makes hints) but it includes interviews with the top guys - Jim Steinmeyer and other illusion designers, Jeff McBride and other top-class modern performers, and Peter Lamont and other serious historians of magic (and advisors like the exotic, eccentric Ali Bongo!)

Highly recommended!

• Mind Magic 26th Feb 21.00-22.00
• Levitation 27th Feb 21.00-22.00
• Close-Up Magic tomorrow - Thur 8th - 1am- 2am - also - 28th Feb 21.00-22.00
• Disappearances Fri 9th - 1am- 2am - also - 1st Mar 21.00-22.00
• Dangerous Magic Sat 10th - 12 - 1am - also - 2nd Mar 21.00-22.00
• Violent Magic Sat 10th - 1am 2am - also - 3 Mar 21.00-22.00

And if you miss those - one last chance at the whole series from the 14-19 Mar at 2 a.m.

If I can get the damned new machine working I will certainly try to record them for future reference. Excellent stuff, with rare footage, reconstructions, etc.

They have a season going on, so you will find other stuff of interest during this month. Go to their site and Search for 'magic'...as they say...

What do Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Vladimir Nabokov, Orson Welles, James Stewart, Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Lord Mountbatten, Prince Charles, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein and Muhammad Ali have in common?

If you like 'Breaking The Magician's Code, you'll find one on ITV4 on the 14th...21.00-22.00

As ever, for magic related television in the UK, check out Magic Week. (permanent link on the right...)