Join magician Barry Jones and his writer wife Lora as they reveal the methods behind the world’s craziest real-life mysteries. How can a murderer be in two places at once? A diamond teleport itself five miles as if by magic? Or a host of ghostly faces materialise in an ordinary kitchen floor? Prepare to be amazed, as Barry and Lora pull back the curtain to expose the smoke and mirrors behind these bizarre happenings and more. And you’ll also have the chance to participate in a series of brain-bending audio magic tricks along the way!
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In New York 1908, a husband and wife decorate their tree, only to find that a simple scratch from a pine needle carries a lethal curse. Four years earlier, in New Zealand, a family receives a visit from an assassin who has flown invisibly across the country to find them - and he isn’t Father Christmas.
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Monday Dec 08, 2025
Monday Dec 08, 2025
It is the night of 19th November , 1995. The sky over the small market town of Wem in Shropshire is glowing a violent orange. The historic Town Hall is burning to the ground. But amidst the roaring flames and falling timbers, a local photographer captures something that shouldn't exist. Developing his film, he finds a clear, black-and-white image of a young girl, standing calmly in the heart of the inferno, staring directly at him. But was this a visitor from the grave, or a trick that fooled the experts for fifteen years?
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Monday Nov 24, 2025
Monday Nov 24, 2025
In the dimly lit clinics of the Philippines, psychic surgeons perform the impossible: with only their bare hands, they appear to plunge deep into a patient’s body, pulling out bloody, cancerous tumours before astonished onlookers. The skin is left unbroken, the wound sealed as if by a miracle. But is this a genuine medical marvel, a divine gift of healing, or could it instead be a very clever trick?
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Monday Nov 10, 2025
Monday Nov 10, 2025
In 1914, during a desperate retreat at the Battle of Mons, the British army is on the verge of heavy losses. But as the enemy closes in, a strange vision appears between the two armies: a host of shining angels and ghostly bowmen. The German advance inexplicably falters, and the British are saved. The legend of the Angel of Mons is born, becoming a beacon of hope for the nation. But did soldiers really witness a miracle, or was this famous story born not on the battlefield, but somewhere else entirely?
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Monday Oct 27, 2025
Monday Oct 27, 2025
A woman vanishes without trace during a live TV talent show, only to reappear the following week… dead. With threats that more women are in danger, can journalist Clare Deyes and expert-in-deception Mara Knight work out who was behind this baffling murder – and how it was done – before it’s too late?
Join Lora and Barry for a very special episode of The Magician’s Wife, to celebrate the launch of Lora’s new novel, also called The Magician’s Wife.
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Monday Oct 13, 2025
Monday Oct 13, 2025
In the late 1970s, an ordinary American town begins to be plagued by a series of venomous letters. They start by accusing one of the residents of having an affair, but soon escalate into a large-scale campaign of hate. So when a man is imprisoned as the letter-writer, the town breathes a sigh of relief. Yet the letters continue, even with the supposed possessor of the poison pen safely behind bars. But how is this possible? And just who might the real culprit be? Plus, grab a sheet of paper and join Barry in a sinister poison pen letter magic trick!
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Monday Sep 29, 2025
Monday Sep 29, 2025
When locals of one of the most isolated villages in Cornwall become concerned for their vicar, they go to his home to investigate, finding the building encircled by barbed wire and fully barricaded. Inside, the vicar lies dead, surrounded by bizarre decor and disturbing slogans scrawled onto the walls – decor and slogans which continue in the village church, where they’re accompanied by a far more chilling sight: peculiar cardboard figures, installed in the pews, as if waiting for a sermon. Could these unsettling entities really be behind the vicar’s death, or is there some other reason for the strange goings-on in Warleggan?
See a photograph of Reverend Frederick Densham with his 'selfie stick' here.
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Monday Sep 22, 2025
Monday Sep 22, 2025
For this bonus trick, we present to you a brilliant prank you can share with all your friends. An innocent online questionnaire, testing your aptitude to join the secret service, turns out to be a questionnaire that extracts your victim’s most private and personal information. Listen and find out how you can use this questionnaire to fool your friends.
Click here to create a link to send to a friend/enemy agent: https://nationalsecurity.pages.dev/
Order The Magician's Wife novel here.
Download Lora's free novella here: themagicianswife.co.uk/freebook/
Enjoying our podcast? Support us by buying us a 'coffee' here: ko-fi.com/themagicianswife
Email your thoughts and theories on this case to us at: themagicianswifepodcast@gmail.com
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Join professional TV/stage magician Barry Jones and his wife Lora, a professional writer, to explore some of the world’s craziest mysteries, from true crime to the paranormal. Each fortnightly episode delves into a real-life case and, just like a ”how to” conjuring book, dissects it into two essential components: The Effect— the astonishing spectacle that leaves the public in awe; and The Method— the secret techniques and misdirection that remain concealed from the untrained eye. And not only that, but you, the listener, will be invited to participate in a series of brain-bending audio hallucinations along the way! So prepare to be amazed, as Barry and Lora pull back the curtain to expose the smoke and mirrors behind crimes, hoaxes, the supernatural and much more, unveiling their inner workings.