Uploaded April 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Magic is all about believing the impossible, but how do magicians fool our brains into thinking we have just witnessed something that goes against everything we know about the real world? We speak to cognitive psychologist and magician Gustav Kuhn to find out.

We speak to Sir David Attenborough, naturalist and host of the new Netflix show Our Planet, and two of the show’s producers about the essential changes we need to make to save our home.

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