Séamas O'Reilly: The restaging of a single interview must be catnip for audiences

A Very Royal Scandal was released this week
Harry Houdini was born Erik Weisz in Budapest in 1874, the son of a rabbi who moved his family to America when Harry was just three. Raised in dire poverty, he was a circus act by the time he was nine, and a globally famous stunt performer by the time he was 25. Within five years he was travelling Europe challenging local police forces to “restrain him in shackles and lock him in their jails”, successfully breaking out of Dutch prisons, German police stations and Siberian prison transport trucks — sometimes fully naked, having been searched beforehand for any trace of contraband.