Ben Hanlin is an award-winning magician and presenter best known for his ITV2 show Tricked, which won Best Entertainment Programme at the Broadcast Digital Awards. He has presented Discovery Channel’s Breaking Magic, appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and reached the semi-finals of Dancing on Ice. His live credits include London’s West End show The Illusionists and ITV’s Live at the Palladium. With over two million social media followers, Ben’s magic has been watched by billions worldwide. In 2024, he was named Speaker of the Year at the Speaker Awards. Ben’s podcast, What’s The Trick, regularly gets over a million views a month across social media with guests including Derren Brown, Dom Joly, Andy Nyman, Paul Zerdin, Scott Bennett, Brian Conley and Cally Beaton .

Ben Hanlin is our guest in episode 611 of My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he’d like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .

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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .

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