(When asked about the method for a trick where a member of the public answers a public pay-phone only to immediately slump to the floor as if asleep)… - Derren Brown

This program fuses magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship. I achieve all the results you’ll see here through a varied mixture of those techniques. At no point are actors or stooges used in the show.

Walthamstow Stadium: Where hundreds of men, who all look like my dad, come to watch some thin dogs running around.

Now I know what you are thinking; “how did he know what was drawn in the envelope?” Clearly, I must have detected in his voice the accent of my home town, Bristol, so he’s only going to be thinking of a tractor or marrying your own sister. A tractor's easier to draw so Bob's your uncle... and your Dad. And you'd be right.