Magic

I have had a passion for magic for as long as I can remember. While still at school I started performing on TV and was asked to give a private performance for the Queen. At 18 I became the youngest member of The Magic Circle and began performing professionally. In 2007 I toured Kenya with a school friend, the magician DMC, and sold the DVD of our trip to fund the building of a new school (Telegraph article here). In 2008 we were official magicians to the Beijing Olympics. In 2010 I was challenged to escape from a jail cell at Oxford Castle for a documentary about Zorro. Later that year I gave my first lecture to magicians in Japan.

My TV appearances include:

  • Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (twice)
  • Blue Peter (five times)
  • Innovation Nation
  • MAGIC
  • Mystery Files
  • Ready, Steady, Cook!
  • Revolver
  • Richard & Judy
  • Xchange

I do not currently work professionally but I still perform for special occasions. Here is an old publicity photograph:

RichardEscaping

I am always happy to hear from other magicians.