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Derren Brown turns into Nostradamus – and I predict you’ll submit to one gasp-inducing stunt after another

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Apollo theatre, London Prophecies are impossibly fulfilled by the superstar who takes his cue from the legendary French seer in his show Only Human Do we have free will – or are the words I am about to write, the four stars twinkling atop this review, pre-ordained? That’s the stuff Derren Brown conjures with in his new show Only Human, which takes its inspiration from Nostradamus’s ability to foresee the future.…

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