Ep. 494 - Ben Hart
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Ben Hart is a magician best known for reaching the grand final of Britain's Got Talent in 2019, finishing third. He has returned to the programme several times, on BGT: The Champions, America's Got Talent: The Champions, and Britain's Got Talent Christmas Spectacular. An award-winning performer, he’s also a writer, inventor, and designer of magic tricks and illusions. At the age of 16, Ben won the prestigious "Young Magician of the Year" award from The Magic Circle. He wrote and starred in Killer Magic on BBC Three, Ben Hart's Life Hacks with the Voice, pranking the celebrity judges of The Voice UK, including Boy George, Paloma Faith and Ricky Wilson, appeared in a regular slot within Now You See It on BBC One hosted by Mel Giedroyc. He’s also been in the Sorcerer’s Apprentice on CBBC, The One Show and multiple times on This Morning. Ben has written and performed 7 solo shows, each premiering at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and has performed as part of Impossible, playing two seasons at the Noël Coward Theatre in London's West End. He is currently preparing his new show for Edinburgh which he’ll be premiering at the Palais Du Variété (Assembly George Square Gardens from 30 July to 24 August 2025. He’ll then be touring it all over the country, including performances at the famous Wilton’s Music Hall in London, in September .
Ben Hart is our guest in episode 494 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
Get tickets for The Remarkable at Edinburgh, here - https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/the-remarkable-ben-hart .
Get tickets for Ben’s tour of The Remarkable, here - https://benhartmagic.com .
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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .
Music by Pass The Peas Music .
Artwork by matthewboxall.com .
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| 0:00.0 | A likable young girl who's burned her family home to the ground, a man with no memory of the night he killed his wife, |
| 0:06.0 | a teenager whose visions and voices have had murderous effect. |
| 0:09.8 | From Broadmoor to the Old Bailey, these are the true stories from the casebook of Britain's leading forensic psychiatrist, |
| 0:16.6 | described as engrossing by Dr. Richard Shepard, gripping, by the Irish Independent, and, as tense as a thriller by the Daily Mail, |
| 0:24.1 | the criminal mind by Dr. Duncan Harding is available now in paperback, e-book and audiobook. |
| 0:45.0 | ...and audiobook. Hello and welcome to my time capsule. |
| 0:53.4 | I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is the podcast where people tell me five things from their life they wish they had in a time capsule. |
| 0:55.0 | They pick four things that they really love, and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. And my guest in this episode is Ben Hart. |
| 1:02.3 | Now, Ben is a celebrated English magician known for his inventive style and blend of sleight of hand, |
| 1:08.1 | illusion and stagecraft. He's an award-winning performer, and he's also |
| 1:12.2 | a writer, inventor and designer of magic tricks and illusions. At the age of 16, Ben won the prestigious |
| 1:18.4 | young magician of the year award from the Magic Circle. He reached the grand final of Britain's |
| 1:23.6 | Got Talent in 2019, finishing third, and has returned to the program several times on Britain's Got Talent in 2019, finishing third, and has returned to the program several times |
| 1:28.9 | on Britain's Got Talent the Champions, America's Got Talent, the Champions, and Britain's |
| 1:34.0 | Got Talent Christmas Spectacular. He wrote and starred in Killer Magic on BBC 3, Ben Hart's |
| 1:40.3 | Life Hacks with The Voice, pranking the celebrity judges of the Voice UK, including |
| 1:45.1 | Boy George, Paloma Faith and Ricky Wilson. He appeared in a regular slot on Now You See |
| 1:50.8 | it on BBC One, and he's also been in The Souserouser as Apprentice on CBBC, the one show, |
| 1:56.8 | and has appeared many times on This Morning. Ben has written and performed quite a number of solo shows, |
| 2:02.6 | each premiering at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, |
| 2:05.7 | and has appeared as part of Impossible playing two seasons |
| 2:09.0 | at the Noel Coward Theatre in London's West End. |
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