He is renowned for incredible feats of mind-bending trickery, but Derren Brown’s latest stunt will see the illusionist attempting to convince an ordinary man to push someone off a roof.
In new Channel 4 show Pushed To The Edge, Derren will test our levels of social compliance and obedience to see whether an ordinary man can be convinced to perform the unthinkable act at the launch night of a fictional charity.
Derren said: ‘There’s this dissonance that springs up between what your values are and what you find yourself doing. So whether or not he pushes the guy off the roof in the end, doesn’t say anything about his internal values.