Harry Houdini's war on clairvoyants
26 October - 14 mins
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Let Me Explain with Seán Defoe
100 years ago this Halloween the famous escape artist Harry Houdini died.
For the next decade his wife would conduct a seance every year on his anniversary - not trying to prove Houdini could communicate from the world beyond, but that the clairvoyants, mystics and soothsayers who claimed to talk the dead were frauds.
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