How Houdini Made Magic: 7. Master the media

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“It was the making of Houdini”. That’s how one magician described Houdini’s dramatic “Mirror Handcuff escape”. In London’s Hippodrome, in 1904, Houdini wowed the 4000 gripped audience members as he broke free from handcuffs designed by the Daily Illustrated Mirror to be impossible to escape. The resulting international media coverage was seismic for Houdini’s career. But was it a masterful escape? Or a brilliantly conceived piece of mutually beneficial publicity? Derren Brown explores how…