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'Where did Paul Daniels put his sword?'
To mark 100 years since PT Selbit first performed the infamous ‘sawing-a-woman-in-half’ illusion, Emma Barnett spoke to Debbie McGee about her experience of being a magician's assistant. Plus, a slight mishap whilst performing in front of the musician Frankie Vaughan and his wife.
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