Episode 6 Help! My School Trip Is Magic


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It's term time again

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and our four magicians have left school on a brand-new mission.

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But do you think you'd recognise them

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if they were outside the classroom?

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Do you?

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Now's your chance, cos they're going deeper undercover

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with new disguises, ambitious costumes and even taller tales.

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# La la la la la! #

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This time, we're taking unsuspecting kids out of school,

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piling them on coaches and sending them on school trips.

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They're off to visit some amazing locations

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where they'll witness incredible magic.

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I was like, "Oh, my gosh!"

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And once again, we're hiding secret cameras in every corner

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so you don't miss a trick on any school trip.

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-The magic is bigger than ever.

-Wow!

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It might be term time, but school's out.

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I can't believe our teachers did that.

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How long will it take before the classes shout...?

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Hello. It's me, Iain, and welcome to Help! My School Trip is Magic.

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Our magicians are no longer supply teachers.

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They're now masquerading as staff in some popular attractions.

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And because we know you know them, we've disguised them even more.

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We've secretly filmed the results with special hidden cameras.

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Today, we have an exciting trip to an athletics stadium planned.

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I'm actually quite active myself.

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I actively avoid exercise.

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Which is why I've invented this -

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it's the jogging inducer.

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Oh! Cake!

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Here's what's coming up. Cake!

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Fergus's athletic magic stretches the imagination

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and turns heads at the track.

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Give it a twist all the way round like that.

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James shows you brilliant skills with a coin and a card

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in Tricks of the Trade.

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You've been sending in clips of all your best magic tricks,

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and later on I will be picking my favourite.

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It's the Wannabe Wizards.

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And John is about to blow some minds with spooky magic

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as the head curator at this attraction.

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Or should I say the shrunken head curator?

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CHILDREN SCREAM

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Cake, come here! Oh.

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Do you think you'd be able to tell if your school trip was magic?

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Do you?

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Cake!

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This is John and Fergus,

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great magicians and bessie mates.

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What's that?

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Ah, John's got Fergus a new pack of cards...

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and a dice...

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and a pen.

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A lolly! Fergus likes those.

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A crayon. How did that stuff get in there?

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Oh, there's more, a ball, always handy.

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What else is in there?

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Are you keeping notes of all this?

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That was always on the cards.

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-FERGUS MOUTHS: Wow!

-Wow, indeed!

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But wait till you see the school trip.

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Here are year four and five getting on the coach.

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They've been set up by their teachers and their parents.

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They think they're going on a regular school trip,

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but it's going to be magic.

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They're going to the Lee Valley Athletics Centre

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to see the hi-tech sporting facilities where gold-medal winning

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Olympians Christine Ohuruogu and Greg Rutherford trained.

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Little do they know they're about to see

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some champion magicians achieve their personal best.

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That is after they've been disguised so the kids don't recognise them.

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While John and Fergus get wigs affixed and make-up applied,

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the class are on their way, blissfully unaware of what

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lies in store - or, indeed, on the track.

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Adios!

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John and Fergus are good sports for dressing as Team GB coaches,

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and John is going to play Fergus' dad...cos he's no athlete!

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I really would be proud to have Fergus as a son.

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Obviously I'm not old enough for that to happen.

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But if I was, he'd be my third choice.

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Here come the kids now.

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I hope the magicians are all warmed up and ready to go.

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I think John's saving himself for the big event.

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They'd better make their way to the starting blocks.

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The school trip seems perfectly normal so far.

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They're excited to see the world-class track,

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but soon they'll be wowed by a world-class trick or three.

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John and Fergus - or should I say Dad and Junior? -

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are on their marks.

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Here comes the class and they're ready!

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Get set and go magic!

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-Good morning, boys and girls. CHILDREN:

-Good morning.

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Yes, and welcome here. This is the Lee Valley Athletics Centre

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responsible for training highly efficient athletes like myself

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and others that you may have seen on the television competing in games.

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Now, my names is Mr Wigon, you can call me Ivor,

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that's my first name, Ivor, I let my friends call me Ivor.

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Hang on a minute, did he say his name was Ivor Wigon?

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-This is my son, here. This is Radley.

-Radley Wigon?

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He's just training up, aren't you, Radley?

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-QUIETLY:

-That's right.

-Speak up nice and loud, son.

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-SQUEAKY VOICE:

-That's right, yeah.

-Wonderful!

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Fergus has squeaky voice and he's in disguise. It's squeaky bum time!

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Get down and give me five, son!

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Get down and give me five. Discipline.

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The girl with the pink flower doesn't know what to make of John.

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She should join the club.

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See how he did that? Didn't even flinch.

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Well done, son, that's lovely. Now, one of the things we do

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when we arrive here is obviously dish out the equipment.

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We've got this small equipment here we keep these in the, er,

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sports equipment buckets.

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As NOT used by Team GB.

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But watch that bucket carefully - it's magic.

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We keep things like the tennis balls for the tennis players,

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we keep shuttlecocks for the shuttle cockers.

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And then the other thing, of course, is my favourite sport

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it was my Olympic sport, I competed for 35 years in the pole vault.

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In fact, I still hold the world record,

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I might say, for the over-20-stone category in the pole vault.

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Bet John bent that pole vault like he's bending the truth!

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Now, I carry my pole vault in here, as well. I just keep it there.

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Hang on a second - how did that get in there?!

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So it's all ready for me. Beautiful piece of equipment.

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If you put all their open mouths together, you'd make the Olympic rings.

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That is Irish maple. You don't see a lot of Irish maple. Now...

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They are loving this athletics lesson,

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but John won't let them pause for a breather just yet.

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We also have to do what we call research and development.

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-Research and development.

-Now, one my favourite sports,

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and Radley's here, is the 4 x 100m and I've got a new little thing

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that we've developed for the 4 x 100m.

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I'm going to show you now, I'll just get it.

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Here comes the next leg of our magical school trip.

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Now, the 4 x 100m is all about the baton passing.

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This is one we've developed.

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This is the new aerodynamic baton,

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you can see it's slightly thinner on one end than on the other

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so it travels through the air a lot quicker.

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In fact, we have shaved a third of a second off a lap

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just using this new baton.

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The baton's more like a magic wand. Keep your eyes on it.

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A gold-medal-winning trick is hurtling towards the class.

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Now, we're going to demonstrate our baton changing, but it's very fast.

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It's so fast, right, you might not even see it,

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it's like the blink of an eye.

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So we're going to do it in slow motion, all right?

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Even then you might not see it.

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So we'll imagine now that I've just ran the 300m leg

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of the 4 x 100m, and I'm coming now onto the last straight.

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We've got Radley there, he's in position.

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And just imagine in slow motion we're running like this, so here we go.

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Whoa, it's like Super Saturday at the London Games all over again!

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John's doing this in slow-mo,

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cos otherwise you'll never see it happen.

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Whoa! The baton threw through the air from John to Fergus.

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Let's get a rewind.

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The speed of light, but in slow-mo -

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I didn't even see it go.

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The class are speechless.

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John and Fergus are milking their golden moment, but no wonder.

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Wonderfully done, I think you'll agree. Well done, son.

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Beautiful passing of the baton, there.

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The lesson's already world-beating but can they top their own record

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with some body- and mind-stretching magic?

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We go all the way down and all the way up.

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Now James is going to set you a magical challenge

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in Tricks of the Trade.

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If you fancy yourself as a magician,

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here's a trick you can try on your mates.

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First, you need to balance a playing card on top of your index finger.

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Then place a coin on top of the card,

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balancing on the end of your finger, just like James is here.

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Touching only the card,

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James is going to show you how to get the card off your finger

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leaving only the coin balancing on your fingertip.

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Sounds pretty amazing, eh?

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James has had to psyche himself up first.

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Grrrr! Keep watching and you'll find out later in the show.

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It's going to be awesome!

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It's time to rejoin our school trip to the athletics stadium.

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John and Fergus have been posing as coaches for Team GB.

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Let's hope our heroes don't trip up before they collect

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their medals for magic.

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As well as doing research and development

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and giving out the equipment, the other thing that we have to do,

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of course, is stretching and exercising.

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And Radley is a bit of an expert, so I'll hand you over to Radley

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and he'll tell you about the things he does here. Away you go, Radley.

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Thanks, Dad. So, today I've brought with me...

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this is called the hyperextension machine.

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He'll be hyperextending the truth.

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The hyperextension machine allows for a greater amount of flexibility.

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So, I'd like to demonstrate that for you now.

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-Who'd like to see it?

-CHILDREN:

-Me!

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Very good, very good.

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-You want me to get you in it, son?

-Yes, please, Dad, if you don't mind.

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The class are getting suspicious,

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but Fergus is about to stretch their belief that little bit further.

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Here we go. So, I'm going to get in here like that.

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In you go, son.

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Brilliant.

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Lovely, yeah.

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Put my head through here.

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Great.

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So, in the hyperextension machine, what we've got is

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a micro filtration system.

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A micro filtration system that circulates heating fluid

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around the machine and around the muscles.

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It means I can stretch them further,

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more than you would think otherwise humanly possible.

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So, we're all going to start off by breathing together

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in a nice relaxed way. So... And in.

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That's it, nice and calmly and slowly and smoothly,

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-slowly and smoothly wins the race.

-That's right, son.

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When I breathe in, I want everyone to stretch up to the air.

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So, stretch up.

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Good, and then stretch down.

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Good, and then stretch up.

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Fergus' hands are stretching up in the hyperextension machine.

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And then stretch down.

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Whoa! How low did his hands just go?

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How low did their jaws just drop?

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This time we'll change over. This is the hard stretch, isn't it, Dad?

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Watch him go! Wow, he's one bendy magician.

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OK, and then back again.

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That's incredible! How does he do that?

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But, Dad, like you've always said to me,

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-it's important you've got a flexible neck.

-Yeah, that's right, son.

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I'm going to stick my neck out

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and predict this trick's going to get even better.

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So, I've made sure now that I've got a super-flexible neck.

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Wow!

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He just rotated his head a full 360,

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and he's winding the class up good and proper with his muscular magic.

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Now, it's not just the upper body you need to do,

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it's the legs, as well.

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So, I stick my legs out like that

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and then I stretch first to the front and the back at the same time.

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His legs are out and the class's eyes are popping out.

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And then I'll change over again just like that.

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They cannot believe it!

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And then once I've done that and held that for a while

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I can shake it out just like that.

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Shake it out? More like leave it out!

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-Will you let me out?

-I'll get you out, son, don't you worry.

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Who enjoyed that? Isn't that cool?

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John's letting him get out, and it's time to let the secret loose, too.

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Now, this brings me neatly on to my next event.

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And that is to tell you

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that I'm not actually an Olympic training athlete.

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They're not as shocked at that fact as you'd like them to be, eh, mate?

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And neither am I.

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-Get out of town!

-In fact...

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NORMAL ACCENT: My name's John, and I'm a magician.

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They didn't see that one coming.

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And I'm called...

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-NORMAL VOICE:

-..Fergus, and I'm also a magician

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and all of you have been set up by your school and your parents.

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There's a camera over there, there's a camera over there,

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there's a camera over there

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and you're all going to be on CBBC's Help! My School Trip Is Magic!

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CHEERING

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Well, MO me down with a feather!

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That was by FARAH the best magic I've ever seen.

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Let's hear what they thought about it.

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I thought that trick was spectacular.

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Fergus's hyperextension machine

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stretched the class's belief to the limit.

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He put his hand on the ground and put his head up in the air.

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That was...fabulous!

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He made their heads spin, and...well, his own.

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His head went round and round, that was really, just, weird.

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He looked like he was running through the air

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and had their hearts racing.

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I'm so, so happy. I'm just... Wow!

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The school trip had no idea that Fergus and John were magicians.

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How long would it take for you to shout...?

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James will reveal the secret

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in Tricks of the Trade.

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Have you worked it out yet?

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And will it work when Katherine and John

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put their heads together on another school trip?

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Come on, be more positive.

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There's an eye-popping trip featuring Fergus

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like you've never seen him before.

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Isn't that horrible?

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Will he fool the class or will they realise their school trip is magic?

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But first, we asked you to send in clips of yourselves

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performing your best magic tricks.

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We received loads of clips from all over the country.

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Each week, I'll be choosing a favourite Wannabe Wizard

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and showing them to you guys.

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My Wannabe Wizard this time is Ally from Wakefield.

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See this card, normal card here?

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Put it in my hand, magic wave and it stands up.

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Wow! That deserves a standing ovation.

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And what's really cool is I can move the card in the air,

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and it's floating, there's no guidance and it's a normal card.

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You might think it's on a piece of string

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but how does he pass his hand around it?

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Round, round, round my hand.

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My head's spinning. Let's get a re-spin.

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Thank you for watching.

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The pleasure's ours, Ally - great trick!

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These are magicians Katherine and John.

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They're about to fool another school trip,

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but not before John has bounced around.

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Katherine's got plenty to throw into the mix.

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Double the magicians, double the fun.

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This is year four getting on the coach.

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They've been set up by their teachers and their parents.

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They think they're going on a regular school trip,

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but it's one big school trick.

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They're going to Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Museum,

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and they won't believe what they're about to see.

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Just in case, we're disguising our magicians. That's not John, is it?

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Oh, it's worse! Only joking, handsome.

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While Katherine and John get their stories straight

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and their wigs straighter,

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the class are on their way, and they have

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no idea what on earth is waiting for them.

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Katherine and John have adopted some interesting alter egos,

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and as a heads-up, they also have some help from a little friend.

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Do you recognise him? Ugly, isn't he?

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He's not that tall in real life, are you?

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HIGH VOICE: "No, I'm not."

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The kids have arrived and they're enjoying

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the weird and wonderful exhibits.

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ALL: Eww!

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It's a perfect cover for our magicians,

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since they, too, are strange and unexplained.

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The magic's weighing heavy on John's mind,

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but they need to get a move on.

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The kids are getting close. It's OK, Katherine, you're looking good.

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School trip incoming.

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Their minds have been expanded by the exhibits,

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now they're going to be melted by some magic.

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Take it away, Katherine.

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-SOUTHERN STATES AMERICAN ACCENT:

-Hi, boys and girls!

-Er, howdy?

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-CHILDREN:

-Hi.

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Hi, my name is Heidi Claire.

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Heidi Claire? That sounds like "I declare."

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Well, let's hope she doesn't declare she's magic.

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Now, we have a world of remarkable things here, but I'm going to talk

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to you specifically about the more unusual and mysterious ones we have.

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In fact, this is a little collection of my favourite items.

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They look very old and strange, don't they?

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And they belong to a lady called Ida Guess.

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Heidi Claire? Ida Guess? But the school trippers still don't suspect.

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She was an old fortune-teller that came from north Africa

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and this is what she used to wear.

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You can see she used to dress in a very elaborate way,

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and right down here we've got an old scroll.

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That scroll contains a prediction.

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Keep your eyes on that cos it'll become very important.

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Now, this is a prediction Ida wrote over 150 years ago.

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Can you believe that? It's a very long time ago.

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Now, all of these different things here on the table,

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these are thing that she used to carry around with her.

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So, she used to carry around a quite elaborate-looking mask like this,

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and its got some nice colours on that.

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And then also she used to carry around

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this carved out wooden, heavy jug, as well.

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And we've got here a pyramid of

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carved out pretty little elephants, too.

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Now, Ida said if all these items were separate,

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then they didn't have any power.

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But together they had an awful lot of power,

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and they could control what people would do and think.

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Could you imagine?

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She's messing with their minds, but she's going to read them.

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So, I'd like one of you to come up here and help me

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-so who'd like to come up? What's your name?

-Claudia.

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Claudia? That's a very pretty name. Come on up here.

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Step forward, Claudia, you're about to star in a great trick.

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That's great. Now, boys and girls,

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you can imagine, working in a place like this,

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we get an awful lot of deliveries

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of all kinds of strange and wonderful things.

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And it's our job to choose what we're going to do with them.

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So we do one of three things - we either sell the item,

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we display it or we store it.

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You can see here, we've got all the different signs here to show

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what we're going to do with them.

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So, in a moment, Claudia, what I want you to do is choose one of

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these items, but I don't want to see what you're going to choose, OK?

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So, I'm going to stand over here like this,

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and I'm going to close my eyes

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so I cannot see what it is that you're choosing.

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So, Claudia, when you're ready I want you to pick up whichever item

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you like from the table.

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Claudia's picked up the elephant statue

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but Katherine doesn't know she's chosen that one.

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And I'd like you to place that item behind "display".

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Great, have you done that? OK, so you've got two items left.

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I want you to take one of those items and pick it up.

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Claudia's straight in there with the jug.

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Katherine can't possibly know her choice.

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I want you to place that behind the sign that says "sell".

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You see that on the table there? That's great.

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And finally I want you to pick up the last, final item...

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..and I want to place that one

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behind the sign that says "store".

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It's the tribal mask, but Katherine still doesn't know.

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Thank you so much for your help, Claudia.

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Now, honestly, I have no idea which item will be placed where.

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Katherine didn't know which order Claudia would pick up the artefacts.

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But now she's about to surprise them with some amazing fiction.

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Do you remember right at the beginning

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I said that Ida Guess made a prediction over 150 years ago?

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-CHILDREN:

-Yes.

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A prediction that's been there the whole time.

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And this is the prediction that Ida made.

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It says: "You will display the elephant,

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"you will store the mask and you will sell the jug."

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That's kind of spooky, isn't it?

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How is that possible? How did Ida Guess...well, guess?

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-Is that amazing?

-Yes!

-Wow!

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-It's magic and it's a bit spooky.

-Thank you very much.

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Katherine told them a tale about

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a scroll that would foretell the future.

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This is the prediction that Ida wrote over 150 years ago.

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Claudia from the class picked the items at random

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-and put them in place.

-That's great.

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There's no way Katherine could have known the order.

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The prediction was right!

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"You will display the elephant, store the mask and sell the jug."

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But the trip's about to get a fright

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when this shrunken head is brought back to life.

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SCREAMING

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Now it's time for James to reveal the secret in Tricks of the Trade.

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James, who has been patiently standing like this

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will show you how, touching only the card,

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he can get the card off his finger

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leaving only the coin balancing on his finger tip.

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He's been in training for this for ages.

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Here we go.

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One, two, three,

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boom!

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Let's get a rewind!

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You just need to give the card a hard flick

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right on one of the corners... and practise loads.

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Did you get it?

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Now you've got a trick with a flick to flip your mates' minds.

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It's time to rejoin our school trip

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to the museum of the weird and wonderful.

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The kids think Katherine's way out there,

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but still don't suspect she's magic.

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That was lovely!

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John's about to turn the whole outing on its head.

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It's great to be here, thank you very much for coming to see us

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here at the attraction.

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Now, I'm in charge of some of the stuff here.

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I look after what we call the oddities.

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The oddities, yes, we call them oddities.

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In fact, my wife says I'm one of the biggest oddities here.

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-We're all thinking it.

-I don't think she likes me, my wife.

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Anyway, I'm one of the curators.

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That's what I do, I curate the things.

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In fact, I like to think that I'm the head curator but I'm not, I'm not.

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I'm not the head curator.

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I'm actually even better than that - I'm the shrunken head curator.

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It's marvellous that, isn't it? Who's heard of a shrunken head?

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They haven't heard of it.

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But they won't forget it after John's trick.

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Shrunken heads, right, they don't do them now,

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but hundreds of years ago

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the tribes, right, in places like Ecuador and Peru, you know, in South America

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they used to get the enemies, right, and when they'd

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captured them, they'd shrink the head right down, really small.

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Grisly but true.

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Now, the problem is, with shrunken heads, there's a lot of fakes.

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You can't tell the real ones from the fake ones.

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My job here is to make sure

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we know what the real ones and the fake ones are.

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Normally a good way of telling a real one is they're very ugly.

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They look horrible. Urgh! I've got a shrunken head to show you.

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I've got one over here, look. And, er...

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They're fascinated by John's chat. Hope he doesn't get too big headed.

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Now, brace yourself, cos he's an ugly little fella.

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Look at that. Isn't that horrible? Eh?

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That little face looks familiar. Maybe I've seen it in a nightmare.

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Now, there's only way to tell if this is a real shrunken head.

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And what we have to do to tell if it's a real one,

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we have to re-hydrate it.

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You know when you have mashed potato, that stuff out the packet,

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and you put the water in and it all goes back up to mashed potato?

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She's nodding nervously.

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Re-hydration. So what we can do, if we put all the water

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and the moisture and vitamins back in the head,

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it makes it nice and big, you see? Lovely.

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So, we can do that with one of these.

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This is it, this is my re-hydration unit.

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Or a box of tricks.

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Now, we can give it a try with this one.

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I'll just put the box over here, like that.

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And then when I put the head in the box, you see,

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all the moisture gets sucked out of the atmosphere

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and put back into the head,

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and we find out if it's a real one. That's lovely, isn't it?

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They can't believe this - it sounds impossible.

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We'll have a little look.

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I'll just put it in here like this, just there, hang on.

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Just put it there, look. Wonderful.

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What'll happen is, I close this door like that

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and what happens now is that head gets re-hydrated.

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It sucks the moisture from all around us

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and all the vitamins and the minerals

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and the bits of...bits of egg, anything that's in the air.

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-John's getting carried away.

-There could be egg in the air, I don't know.

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And it sucks it all in, into that box, like that,

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and then hopefully we can find out if it's a real one, you see?

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Cos if all the air's back in, it should look...

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CHILDREN GASP AND SHOUT

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Whoa, the shrunken head is re-hydrated!

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I nearly did a nervous wee in me pants!

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What I can tell from that, you see, as soon as I've done that

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I know that that is a real head. It's marvellous, isn't it?

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I've seen that head before. I never forget a face.

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Isn't that good?

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HEAD GASPS, CHILDREN SCREAM

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Oh, I think it's a real one! I think it's real, boys and girls!

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That's Fergus' head, but where's his body?

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You can see right under the table, there's nowhere to hide.

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Look at you!

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Oi, what are you doing here?

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It speaks.

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I'm just talking to them about shrunken heads and everything.

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I thought you... They... I... I was re-hydrating.

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You don't even work here!

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Ah. No. That's... That's enough of that.

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Don't you shut that trap back up! I'm telling you, don't you do it!

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Let me out! Shh!

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The head's back in, the secret's nearly out.

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He's actually right, boys and girls.

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I don't really work here. And I don't really talk like this.

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NORMAL ACCENT: I talk like this. And my name's John.

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-And I'm Katherine.

-And this fella here...

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I'm Fergus.

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I knew I knew him! He's not just a pretty face, that Fergus. Not even.

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-And we're all magicians.

-Hear the collective sigh of relief.

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And you've all been set up by your teachers and your parents.

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And there's camera over here, there's a camera over there,

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and there's one up there and one over there.

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And you're all going to appear on CBBC's Help! My School Trip Is Magic!

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CHEERING

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That trick was incredible!

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I hope it doesn't go to their heads - shrunken or not.

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It was amazing. It was just amazing.

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Just put it there, look.

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John put the tiny yet familiar-looking head into the box.

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Like that.

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First the head was small and then it was really big.

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Because if all the air's back in, it should look...

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The shrunken head was re-hydrated into a full-size one.

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HEAD GASPS, CHILDREN SCREAM

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When I saw that it opened its eyes, I was really scared.

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Oi, what are you doing here?

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It spoke and it was Fergus!

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He had a bit of a headache.

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You don't even work here.

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It was kind of like petrifying to me

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cos I didn't think that would actually happen.

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A petrifyingly good trick, and this school trip were totally fooled.

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Er, not all shrunken heads are ugly. Check out this beauty!

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See you later.

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But until then, if you're on a school trip

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and you think something magic's going on,

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maybe you'll find yourself shouting

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Help! My School Trip Is Magic!

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