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091: We're taking a short break... (1 September, 2023)

090: Even more WW2-themed magic tricks (15 August, 2023)

089: Will Ayling: The Genie joins the army (1 August, 2023)

088: Werner Reich: Learning magic in Auschwitz (Part 2) (13 July, 2023) 

087: Werner Reich: Learning magic in Auschwitz (Part 1) (8 July, 2023) 

086: Further WW2-themed magic tricks (15 June, 2023) 

085: Ramón Galindo: An American-Latino soldier-magician (1 June, 2023)

084: More WW2-themed magic tricks (15 May, 2023)

083: WW2-themed magic tricks (1 May, 2023)

082: Nivelli: A death camp magician (Part 2) (15 April, 2023) 

081: Nivelli: A death camp magician (Part 1) (1 April, 2023) 

080: Robert Harbin: A magical genius entertains the troops (17 March, 2023)

079: Sydney Piddington: telepathy in a Japanese POW camp (Part 4) (1 March, 2023)

078: Sydney Piddington: telepathy in a Japanese POW camp (Part 3) (14 February, 2023)

077: Sydney Piddington: telepathy in a Japanese POW camp (Part 2) (1 February, 2023)

076: Sydney Piddington: telepathy in a Japanese POW camp (Part 1) (15 January, 2023)

075: Anton Trouvat: A Dutch magician in the Far East (1 January, 2023)

074: James Stewart: Hollywood movie star, war hero and magician (15 December, 2022)

073: Eric Ryder: Liverpool magician makes magic in a German POW camp (Part 2) (1 December, 2022)

072: Eric Ryder: Liverpool magician makes magic in a German POW camp (Part 1) (20 November, 2022)

071: Captive prisoners, captive performers: magic shows in POW camps (1 November, 2022)

070: Halloween Special: Using a Ouija board to escape captivity (31 October, 2022)

069: Mark Raffles: A pickpocket at war (1 October, 2022)

068: Fergus Anckorn: The Conjurer on the Kwai (Part 4) (15 September, 2022)

067: Fergus Anckorn: The Conjurer on the Kwai (Part 3) (5 September, 2022)

066: Fergus Anckorn: The Conjurer on the Kwai (Part 2) (16 August, 2022)

065: Fergus Anckorn: The Conjurer on the Kwai (Part 1) (1 August, 2022)

064: Danny Varney: Magic and the Home Front at the Hackney Empire (Part 2) (15 July, 2022)

063: Danny Varney: Magic and the Home Front at the Hackney Empire (Part 1) (1 July, 2022)

062: Lionel King: The King of Cards conjures with ENSA (15 June, 2022)

061: Vic Taylor: Reminiscences of a showman (3 June, 2022)

060: New Book: The Colditz Conjurer (16 May, 2022)

059: Cortini: A prisoner of the Japanese (3 May, 2022)

058. Maldino: A master illusionist uses magic to bridge between foes (17 April, 2022)

057. The Great Tihany: A circus impresario's narrow escape (1 April, 2022)

056. Five stories of magicians in captivity before World War Two (15 March, 2022)

055. Jasper Maskelyne: How to escape and evade (1 March, 2022)

054. Barbed Wire University: Another lesson in magic (10 February, 2022)

053. Barbed Wire University: A lesson in magic (1 February, 2022)

052. Calling Dr. Ruben! Magician escapes Denmark and becomes life-saving doctor (19 January, 2022)

051. Ben Ali Libi: Dutch magician murdered at Sobibor (1 January, 2022)

050. Wilfred Ponsonby: a conjuror in captivity (Part 3) (15 December, 2021)

049. Wilfred Ponsonby: a conjuror in captivity (Part 2) (1 December, 2021)

048. Wilfred Ponsonby: a conjuror in captivity (Part 1) (15 November, 2021)

047. Jac Olten: A magical escape and a chance encounter (1 November, 2021)

046. Sawing a woman in half... using a machine gun!! (14 October, 2021)

045. Hitler's V-Weapons: Magicians and the battle against the V-1 and V-2 (1 October, 2021)

044. Punx: A POW magician in Wales (and the story of the friendship clock) (15 September, 2021)

043. Bill Bowes: England and Yorkshire cricketer becomes POW conjurer (1 September, 2021)

042. Verdini: Czech magician escapes Nazi blitzkrieg three times, fights in the Battle of Britain... and joins E.N.S.A. (14 August, 2021)

041. Double-bill: Hungarian and Italian magicians make POW 'home runs' (1 August, 2021)

040. Miss Blanche: 'The Lady Magician' uses magic to survive Nazi experiments (14 July, 2021)

039. Day-Glo! Magician brightens up the war to save lives (1 July, 2021)

038. "Exit stage right... and quickly!" Allied magicians rush to escape Germany as war is declared (20 June, 2021)

037. Hungarian magician, Dr. Laszlo Rothbart, survives Nazi concentration camp (1 June, 2021)

036. "For you, the war is over...": American POW makes secret radio (18 May, 2021)

035. 'Bush' Parker: The Escapist (Part 2) (2 May, 2021)

034. 'Bush' Parker: The Escapist (Part 1) (26 April, 2021)

033. 'Never in the field of human conflict...": a magician is one of the few (1 April, 2021)

032. Tommy Cooper: comedy magic legend at war (19 March, 2021)

031. Sol Stone: Shot down US Army Air Corps navigator uses magic to bring relief to refugees (8 March, 2021)

030. Good Magic Awards: 2021 Winner! (28 February, 2021)

029. The Magician of Stalag Luft III (Part 3) (1 February, 2021)

028. The Magician of Stalag Luft III (Part 2) (15 January, 2021)

027. The Magician of Stalag Luft III (Part 1) (2 January, 2021)

026. "Look, Duck, Vanish!": magicians in the Home Guard (18 December, 2020)

025. "A magician is an actor playing the part of a magician" (2 December, 2020)

024. Louis Van Dyck joins the Belgian resistance (14 November, 2020)

023. Entertaining Hitler: Gogia Pasha, the gilly-gilly man (and war worker) (1 November, 2020)

022. H.M.S. Wizard (12 October, 2020)

021. Controversial edition of Hitler's Mein Kampf translated by magician (3 October, 2020)

020. Dutch magician deported to extermination camp (12 September, 2020)

019. Magic over the airwaves (2 September, 2020)

018. Conjuring up war-winning aircraft (16 August, 2020)

017. Oswald Rae: Magician leads E.N.S.A. company through a firefight with Japanese troops! (3 August, 2020)

016. Heroic magician saves lives in Portsmouth Blitz (13 July, 2020)

015. General Douglas MacArthur joins Society of American Magicians (2 July, 2020)

014. U.S. Government orders magic books for troops all over the world (14 June, 2020)

013. Fred Kolb: First Allied magician in occupied Japan? (2 June, 2020)

012. Bertram Otto: Fake Chinese pick-pocket magician a hit with frontline troops (10 May, 2020)

011. Kindertransport magic (1 May, 2020)

010. Evacuees: memories of magic (17 April, 2020)

009. New book: Magician at War (6 April, 2020)

008. Magic at the movies (19 March, 2020)

007. Magic Marine awarded U.S. Medal of Honor (2 March, 2020)

006. Jasper Maskelyne: War Magician? (15 February, 2020)

005. Making money appear! (3 February, 2020)

004. Leslie Lambert: enigmatic Bletchley Park code-breaker (13 January, 2020)

003. Paul Potassy: "Magic saved my life" (1 January, 2020)

002. Operations MAGIC and MAGIC CARPET (15 December, 2019)

001. "Don't be fright!": radio magician's catchphrase helps reassure the nation (1 December, 2019)

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