[kirklancaster]

I've just watched an excellent documentary on BBC 4 about the Great James Randi and it is unmissable viewing.

Randi is a very famous magician who has offered a cool million dollars to any psychic, clairvoyant, and medium etc who will PROVE their powers under laboratory conditions. Thus far, after decades, no one has claimed it.

The abhorrent Uri Geller is only one of many whom Randi has exposed as crooks, but it is the 'human interest' aspect of this documentary which lifts it way above the ordinary. Randi is a gay man but kept it private for decades, and his live-in-partner of 25 years is suddenly arrested - bringing Randi out of 'the closet'.

I love Randi and this documentary is brilliant.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...ics-and-frauds