Harry Houdini has been a big inspiration of mine since before I even started to learn to perform magic. As a young magician I read up on his tricks and techniques which fascinated and amazed me.

On top of being an amazingly talented magician, illusionist and performer, he also showed people that they could quite literally ‘break free’ (as he did regularly during his escape based magic tricks) in a time of oppression.

As a little bit of a tribute, today I’m outlining three of my