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Derren Brown: The Power of Magic, Shoplifting, and Having a Favourite Spatula
Season 2
Episode 2
Published 2 years, 4 months ago
Description
Derren Brown has spent his career making the impossible seem plausible, and the plausible seem impossible — and has strong feelings about a particular spatula, which is somehow equally interesting.
Derren Brown is a master illusionist, mentalist, and bestselling author renowned for performances that blur the line between magic, psychology, and human perception, and for a career spent pushing the boundaries of what audiences think they know about their own minds.
- What a career built on the gap between what people believe and what's actually happening has taught him
- The craft of magic — and why suggestion and storytelling often matter more than technique
- A youthful shoplifting confession at Harrods — and how he frames it now
- Why the unreliability of memory is one of the most fascinating and unsettling things about being human
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