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Bilal Zafar: The power in taking back control of your life

“I now work as a teaching assistant in a primary school. Initially, I was hoping I would only do it for a month before getting rescued by the chance to be on a panel show I had never heard of. After about a week at this job, I began to enjoy my new sense of responsibility and it helps that I seem to actually be good at this.”

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Chelsea Birkby: The ‘ChelseaHow’ guide to obtaining and yielding power

“Most people are standing in the way of their own power. Often because they stop to question whether power is really what’s going to make them happy. Don’t make that mistake. Follow these steps to use confidence to gain and exploit trust for your own advantage.”

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Coco The Time-Travelling Tart: The truth about history’s most powerful people

“I've spent the last few thousand years circulating among royalty, aristocrats, artists, poets and assorted public nuisances. I've attended their banquets, survived their scandals, witnessed their affairs and, in one regrettable case, briefly married one of them.”

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An Interview with Ted Milligan (as transcribed whilst he was watching a close up magician)

You’ll have to see the show! No, but seriously – I told you that’s not my card! Wait no way, hang on why are you taking your sock off? No way! Oh my God! Yes! That is my card! “

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Gwen Coburn: Five Mythical Monsters That Are Actually Just Strong, Independent Women

“They're just singer-songwriters trying to make their art. Their voices are so powerful they move people to tears and madness. It's not the Sirens' fault if audiences are losing their minds.”

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Jazz Emu: Five Magical Moments From Music History

“Having up to that point been just a regular organic human, Bob Dylan had his internal organs and central nervous system replaced by electronic circuitry at great expense to both himself and the US national grid.”

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Francisco de Nata’s Guide to the Perfect Magical Pastel de Nata

Francisco de Nata is no ordinary giraffe. He’s got a long neck full of dreams, a heart bubbling with custard, and a special love for his Avó (Grandma), whose secret recipe changed his life forever…”

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Holly Spillar: The ghosts of Edinburgh Fringe Past, Present and Future

“Things have changed a lot since the distant past, most notably since 1896 when Athens first introduced the “modern” concept of the “Fringe”. With groovy new venues such as “big pool”, “running track” and “velodrome”. And PR and marketing stunts such as BIG TORCH and BIG RINGS.”

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Rohan Sharma and Dan Bishop are world class magicians. They’re giving it up for comedy

“‘Sorry about him, Rohan’s got a cruel wit,” Dan says as he hoists his body off the table and onto a kitchen chair. ‘Shall we start the interview?’ He fuses his head with his body. My god they’re good at magic.”

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James Trickey: ‘I sold my soul for a grad scheme at KPMG. What happened next will SHOCK YOU’

“Becoming a monetary wizard was actually quite hard. I had to scrub the shoes of the more senior wizards, I gave up my evenings to count gold pieces in merchant stores in places I’d never been before. Places like Staines.”

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A man holding a bunch of red heart-shaped balloons standing next to a woman in a bright green raincoat and leopard print beanie, both posing against a dark purple background.
A woman with curly brown hair and blue eyes, wearing a pink shirt and a pink cardigan, looking slightly to the right with a happy expression against a blue background.
A woman with curly, bright red hair, smiling and leaning forward, wearing a black outfit with a green leaf pattern, against a plain beige background.

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