THE IBM HAVE HAD SOME GREAT AND DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS at this highlight event - John Fisher, John Calvert, Michael Bailey, Gay Blackstone, Alan Shaxon and others. This  presentation  commemorates their former secretary Jeffrey Atkins and this year’s lecture was outstanding and one of the best. Geoffrey Durham, superb actor, director and long standing professional magician gave a masterly lecture with an actor’s voice that commanded enthusiastic attention from the filled Congress Theatre revealing the secrets of presentation. But showman that he is he entertained the eye as well as the ear by also showing some of his outstanding magic from his show that successfuly toured Britain for many years. The Rice Bowls, The Multiplying Bottles, The Linking Wedding Rings, the dynamic giant size Hydrostatic Glass and many other professional gems along with historical anecdotes about his early tuition from Ken Brooke.

If you had paid him privately for a lesson in how to present magic it would have cost you many hundreds of pounds. It was top drawer stuff from a top professional. It was worth the price of  the convention registration alone.

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