Since this isn't unmagical, I guess I'm posting it in the wrong forum, but I couldn't figure out where it should go.

Last night I lost three hours of my life to youtube, which has three episodes of a BBC documentary on the history of magic. Wonderful, wonderful stuff, and I'm very glad I watched it. I won't post links here: just type BBC history of magic into youtube's search engine.

It's very good, but just a wee bit quirky. They managed to get through the entire episode on close up without mentioning the names Dai Vernon or Josh # whatever.

So a heads up to those who haven't heard of it.