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Now, how upsetting is it when your fans are tweeting and saying that you're a

cheat and a fake? It must be really upsetting for you.

I think people would expect me to be really upset.

But I'm loving all the controversy and all the talk about magic.

Did you use wires?

You were supposed to be levitating above the shard.

We can see the wires. Is that how you did it?

Hi everybody, welcome to Even Brilliant World of Magic.

Now what you're about to witness is the most amazing piece of magic ever.

Magic has allowed me to travel all over the world.

From the streets of Miami to the peaks of the Austrian Alps.

The townships of South Africa to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

From Vegas to LA.

Venice to Singapore.

Paris to Varanasi.

But as my journey came to a close, I wanted to head back to where it all

The North.

I was on a road trip back to Bradford.

But along the way, I wanted to visit a couple of my favourite northern cities.

First stop, Manchester.

I was in Manchester and had headed down to the Parklife Festival in Heaton Park,

which attracts tens of thousands of festival -goers, no matter the weather.

Later that afternoon, I met up with British soul sensation Sam Smith after

performance on the main stage.

Yeah, let's try this.

I want to try and get inside your mind a little bit. Okay.

I'm scared. I want you to think of any artist that's performing over the

weekend. Okay.

Got someone?

Yeah.

Can I take your program?

Yeah.

Okay.

So weird.

Oh my God.

Is the person you're thinking of, don't say their name, but is it on that page?

Yeah.

Look at me.

That's so weird.

That's so weird.

It's so freaky.

Actually, it's really odd, because normally you can figure out a way in

head that it's not real, but that actually genuinely looks like magic.

Among the other acts playing at Parklife was Grammy award -winning British

singer -songwriter Foxy, who I met up with in her dressing room. How are you

doing, you all right? Hi. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.

You've just come off stage.

Yes. How was it up there? It was insane seeing everyone sing all of my songs

back to me.

And you were going a bit mad for it as well, right?

Yes, I was, yeah.

When you're performing, have you ever injured yourself?

I haven't actually, no. I haven't ever injured myself, luckily. Have you done a

stage dive yet?

Yep, I have stage dived. I've nearly done it, but I'm quite good at flicking

back up and saving it.

Okay. Just hold onto my wrist.

Okay.

I want you to hold really tight.

Squeeze really tight. Oh, my God.

No!

Don't hurt yourself. Don't hurt yourself. Don't hurt yourself.

Oh my god.

He cut himself.

He definitely just cut himself though.

He was cutting really deep, but then... I don't know, I'm really confused.

And now it's fine.

Where's he gone? Is he OK?

As much as I love the comfort of backstage,

I didn't want to miss the real festival.

So as dust started to close in, I decided to venture out into the field.

I love meeting fans, and I guess it's ironic that despite all the years trying

to get backstage, This is where I feel the most alive.

Do you want to try it once?

I've literally only got like my five.

Can you make five?

I mean... What's your name?

Amy. Amy? Yeah.

So if I was to go like this...

It changed. He said Dynamo, and then he said Emmett, and felt my way as well. He

gave me five minutes.

Later that evening, I headed into Manchester City Centre to meet up with

legend and former world champion, Ricky Hatton.

How are you, man? Nice to see you.

I was going to say, do you make my watch or anything disappear or not?

Under normal circumstances, I'd be like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah,

it's right with this.

And check that out, is that real?

Drop it, why not?

We'll be able to get a glass of red in it.

Transforming a wine glass is pretty pointless, so I decided to create

that would be a bit more useful.

How much is that receipt for? Can you see how much it is?

The seats were £5.

£5? Yeah, £5.

That's the problem in here.

Keep holding that for a second.

And... Yeah.

Come a little bit closer, guys.

No way!

No way!

Check out of it.

That's it.

The receipt was for £5 and he turned the receipt into an actual £5 note.

I'm just wondering if you could stop here for a couple of hours and we'll

really good time.

If you could share with a few of them.

I've got one here for £3 ,000.

I was in Manchester and had headed to a clothing warehouse to meet two of the

city's best -known entrepreneurs, Anthony and Chris Donnelly.

The Donnelly brothers found international fame as the brains behind

label Guillaume Goy, and have since released a book and new clothing brand,

Own.

Welcome to Manchester.

It's my age.

I bought the weather as well.

This is Big Daddy.

This should be long lost, son.

You all right, yeah? How's everyone?

All right?

It's pretty safe to say that you guys have had a pretty eventful life.

Yeah. And your life's been that eventful, actually.

You've recently written a book, right?

I've got a book out. Still breathing.

Have you got a copy?

Yeah. Can you get one out?

Yeah. Where's the book? It's the one on the desk here.

But I don't want to touch it. I want you to open it up.

Thank you.

I'm the strong one. He's my PA.

I

want

you to, together, think of a story that's in the book. Think of a moment

your life.

and then flick through and find a word.

Do it together, yeah?

I'll look over here so I'm not looking at anything, I'm not peeking, you guys

can check me out so I'm not doing anything.

When you've got a word, just let me know, close the book and just let me

Three, got it.

Got it?

You guys are pretty tough to read.

Yeah, that's what they all say.

I think this is not like a descriptive word.

You're thinking of a name.

It's a man's name.

He's not told anybody or spoke to anybody other than me and him.

And then he's just got the book, hit the name out, and then without writing it

there, wrote it there. So my mind's pretty blown at the minute.

We're colourful characters, aren't we? We've lived and seen a lot of stuff.

And the story was Pete Doherty in hospital.

And that's out the whole book.

So we could have picked anything.

I told no one nothing.

Well, look, because that was there. That was the spur of the moment.

And I don't know what he's got going on there.

That's bizarre.

Later that afternoon, I hit the road again, heading west towards the port

of Liverpool.

As the day came to a close, I decided to take in some of Liverpool's pubs and

bars.

Yeah, I'm going to use this pin.

If I take this first.

First I'll nail like this.

I'll take this one.

Can you see the coins on top of there, yeah? Yeah.

Watch. Can you see both coins?

Yeah.

What?

Oh, my God. No, no.

Oh, my God.

What? Did you do that?

How on earth did you do that?

Hang on.

I gave him 250 pence.

He put the two coins on the BMI between the two glasses, and then he banged the

glass, and then somehow the...

The next

morning,

I headed into town to a local skateboard shop.

While I was there, I had a surprise for a group of girls who were working behind

the counter.

How are you doing?

What's your name?

Rachel. Rachel.

Ashley. Ashley.

Bessie. Bessie.

Nice to meet you. I'm Dynamo. Hello, Dynamo.

Let me try something with you.

Okay.

I'm going to turn around so I can't see what you're looking at, but I want you

to look around the store and just choose one thing.

Don't say out loud what it is. It could be a skateboard, trainers, T -shirts.

There's lots of things to choose from.

Okay. I'm going to turn around, so when you've got something, just come tap me

on the shoulder. I've got my eyes covered so I can't see.

Okay, yeah.

That was pretty quick.

You got something in mind? Definitely, yeah.

I

think

it's a skateboard.

I mean, there's lots in here, so... Yeah.

Try and visualise the image on the back of the skateboard.

OK.

It's a dark board, but it's kind of bright at the same time.

I'm getting the image, I don't know why, but I'm getting the image of, like,

diamonds. Yeah.

Is that anything like the board you're thinking of? That's exactly like it.

Can you show us the board?

Just stop.

Just pull it off.

What?

That's really weird. I want to show you what's in my bag. This is interesting.

Oh, no.

Oh, my God.

How?

What?

But I'm so close to him.

Mary Poppins.

I don't even know what you're saying, you know?

It's cool. There's no way it'll fit in there.

It fits anywhere near the back.

I look like proper and whatever.

I've never seen someone pull up their skateboard out of a bag just when I've

hold of it.

I'm going to be thinking about this for the rest of my life.

I had finally arrived back in Bradford and after travelling halfway across the

world, it felt great to be home.

Bradford is where my heart lies and its people and places are all a part of who

I am today.

It is the city that raised me and coming here feels like I've stepped back in

time.

My name's Dynamo. I'm a magician from Bradford.

I guess everyone has a place that's special to them, and this one is mine.

The next morning, I picked up my nan bright and early to take her to the

So I'm going to my son's they're having nickels in there Some

chopped

tomatoes

Yeah. Chopped tomato. I love this.

Steak and kidney.

Steak and kidney, all right. Yeah, I want, oh, wait a minute.

Yeah, I want that sort of there.

That one there, all right. Yeah.

Oh.

Yeah. There you go. Two tins.

Irish stew. No, I don't want Irish stew.

No, steak and kidney.

Oh, that's it, yeah.

That's got a good look. Yeah.

Finished, yeah?

Eh? Are we finished?

Yeah. Well, I want to go down there to plant shop. Oh, we've got a plant shop

after. Eh? We've got a plant shop after. We'll get all this stuff on here.

Wait a minute. I usually put my clothes on.

What is it? All right, you do it and you're going to do it.

Yeah. You see, I have a way of going on.

You've got your own system.

I think this one's at the end here.

Yeah.

Are you all right doing it? Yeah.

Yeah, I can go in there.

Get your money out. That lass can be doing it.

Get on your horses.

You won't have enough with that, I'm telling you now, mate.

How much?

21 .20.

21. I tell you what, you take part, right?

Garda?

Woman.

After dropping my nan off home, I headed to Centenary Square in Bradford's city

centre, which was buzzing with people as the sun came out.

Everyone's seen it?

Seen it?

Let's take it, let's see.

About halfway down, yeah?

See it, yeah?

Just push it in.

Every single card just

turned over.

Every card.

Apart from one.

I want to try something with something of

yours. Do you have anything in your pocket?

I thought it was quite small.

The ring spine.

Yeah, the ring spine.

Oh, that's cool. It kind of spins as well, yeah?

Now, can I take the car?

I don't know how the hell to do that, but that's pretty as ****.

I don't know what just happened.

I don't know what just happened.

It's just impossible.

It doesn't.

That was crazy.

I've never seen that in my life.

Although the quality of life in Bradford has greatly improved since I was a kid,

it still remains in the top 10 % of most deprived areas in the UK, with over 40

,000 children living below the poverty line.

Fortunately, charities such as One in a Million have helped set up numerous

community projects for the local kids.

Oh, I'm getting old.

I'm going to show you how I make mine, yeah?

Now let me show you something even

crazier with one of your planes.

Hello? Yes.

It was almost time for me to leave Bradford and head back down to London.

But before I left, I wanted to drop in to see my best mate Johnny, who works at

a youth enterprise for kids who've been expelled from school.

After

meeting

the kids, I decided to drop in on one of their lessons to see if I'd be able to

hold their attention.

How's everyone doing?

Good. You good? You alright?

Teachers alright at the back?

Yeah, all good.

It's better with teachers at the back, isn't it?

Is it okay if I use some of this stuff?

Yeah, go ahead.

I want to try something with you.

Just think of a number up to 100.

Mm -hmm.

Got one in mind?

Yeah.

I'll write it down on there.

In fact, everyone just keep your eye on the pencil.

No.

What was the

number?

19.

Look.

He looked at me a bit weird, like, you know.

And then he got the pencil, sort of like, you know, like, I don't know, just

next to you.

And wrote 19 on this number that I thought.

The pencil just moves on its own.

He went and started moving and writing in the paper. It's dead weird.

It's impossible.

I don't know how I did it.

I come to work and then I see a bloke floating in the air.

Maybe magic does exist.

I was back down in London, and I'd headed to a youth centre in Tower

meet Harold Tillman, the patron of Variety Children's Charity.

Harold had asked me to become an ambassador for the charity, in order to

raise some much -needed funds.

But I thought it would be a good idea to come down and meet the kid.

Good morning.

Hey, good morning.

Welcome to Manchester.

Oh, no, this is exciting.

All the kids in here, yeah? All the kids in here, come and meet everybody.

You know, Variety, a 65 -year -old charity, has been the most amazing

for children over that period of time.

This mud shoot is one of the venues that kids come in, play, meet each other.

You're working with me to help build this. I think it's incredible. Thank you

much. Shall we go and meet the kids?

Yeah, come and meet the kids.

Can you make an Eiffel Tower out of cards? Yeah!

I don't know, I mean I can do some pretty cool things with cards, like I

make some cool sculptures like this, you know.

In London, there's loads of big sculptures in there. You've got the...

We've got the Walkie Talkie building.

Big Ben as well, yeah.

There's the Gherkin as well. There's some really, like, funny names for all

different buildings in London, right?

Let me try this.

What's your name?

Eve? Eve? If you were to give a name for one of the London buildings, what would

you call it?

Um, carrot.

A carrot?

Obviously, you know, these are just cards and I can't make a big... carrot

sculpture out of these but imagine right here you're looking out over London

you're looking at the view

So we've got the gherkin.

The

London

carrot.

He told me to choose the name of the building.

I chose carrot.

And then he was, like, placing cards onto the window, and then a

carrot showed up.

I don't know, I feel like there's got to be something behind it all, but then

seeing it in real life, it's just amazing.

The following week, I had a surprise for the kids I'd met at Mud Shoe.

I'd arranged a special visit to the view of the Shard.

which sits on the 72nd floor of Europe's highest building and has the most

spectacular viewpoint of London.

How you doing? You alright?

Hello.

Come on, come and talk to her.

How you doing?

High five.

How you doing, man?

Good to see you.

I know, I know. It's a scary view, isn't it? Look it out.

You can see everything from here. It's the highest building in Europe. Do you

know that?

Is this the first time you've been to the Shard? Yeah.

It's quite a crazy building, right?

We're actually outside now.

I've been lucky enough to see some incredible things in my short lifetime.

And I truly believe that in order to inspire the next generation, we have to

show them the possibilities that lie all around us.

Does anyone see where I walked across the water?

Real magic isn't about tricking people.

It's not about deception or fakery.

It's about doing something that nobody thought possible.

Taking an idea and bringing it to life no matter the odds.

It's about inspiring those around us and showing that we are only limited by our

imagination.

Many people say they don't believe in magic.

but for me it is totally, inexplicably, real.

As the kids left, I took a moment to look out across this vast city, and it

suddenly felt like a huge part of my life was coming to an end.

When I started out on this adventure, armed only with my camcorder and a

I never would have imagined how far it would have taken me.

Magic has literally changed my life and hopefully I've been able to share some

of my experiences with all of you.

I want all of you guys to get your phones out.

Not just us, but everyone.

Oh, no!

Get out of here!

No, no, no, no, no, no.

You guys just changed. No!

Crazy. That is the best trick I've ever seen.

There's no wires. We can see it. There's nothing.

It was unbelieving for me. How can you do that?

Anyone got any receipts?

We're just pawns in Dynamite's cave.

We might be writing our songs for you.

Some people will never believe in magic, and maybe failure is more comforting

than success, but the magician's flights are there to make a question, and

misdirection is the biggest part of the trick.

Come to work and then I see a bloke floating in the middle of the air.

It just nicks you, do you know what I mean? Maybe, I don't know, it is magic,

does exist sort of thing.