{"id":801,"date":"2010-06-16T11:04:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T10:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/?p=801"},"modified":"2010-06-16T13:20:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T12:20:44","slug":"pickpocket-on-the-airwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/pickpocket-on-the-airwaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickpocket On The Airwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/bbcradio2newlogo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-803\" title=\"bbcradio2newlogo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/bbcradio2newlogo-300x163.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/pickpocket.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pick Pocket<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/performers\/the-man-of-steal.html\" target=\"_blank\">James Freedman<\/a> was a guest of Jeremy Vine on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio2\/index.shtml?logo\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio 2<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>He was invited to talk about street pickpockets following yesterday\u2019s news that playwright Alan Bennett had had his <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/8740984.stm\" target=\"_blank\">wallet, containing \u00a31,500, stolen by pickpockets<\/a> pretending to clean ice-cream from his coat.<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, James answered questions from callers and gave advice about how to avoid falling victim to a street pickpocket. Then listeners heard Jeremy challenge James to steal something from him. After only a few moments of distracting talk, Jeremy discovered that \u2018The Man of Steal\u2019 had managed \u2018borrow\u2019 his credit card, iphone, car keys, a pen and his wallet!<\/p>\n<p>If you missed it then you can listen to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b00srhn8\/Jeremy_Vine_15_06_2010\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview\u00a0on BBC iPlayer <\/a>(available for 7 days.)<\/p>\n\n<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/\/<!--\nvar addthis_append_data = 'false';\n\/\/-->\n<\/script>\n<div class=\"addthis_container\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=wp-4c32e42a5d9c79e6\" class=\"addthis_button\" addthis:url=\"https%3A%2F%2Fmagicians.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fpickpocket-on-the-airwaves%2F\" addthis:title=\"Pickpocket+On+The+Airwaves\"><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js#username=wp-4c32e42a5d9c79e6\"><\/script><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Button END -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pick Pocket James Freedman was a guest of Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2 yesterday. He was invited to talk about street pickpockets following yesterday\u2019s news that playwright Alan Bennett had had his wallet, containing \u00a31,500, stolen by pickpockets pretending to clean ice-cream from his coat. During the interview, James answered questions from callers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}