DEREK Acorah makes the latest of many visits to the Wyvern Theatre next month.

Liverpool-born and Southport-based, Derek is perhaps the most famous British medium of recent times.

The 64-year-old, who says he’s been able to communicate with the dead since an early age, has appeared at theatres around the world, as well as on TV programmes such as Most Haunted and Derek Acorah’s Ghost Towns.

He’s looking forward to coming to Swindon on Thursday, October 2.

“I like Swindon,” he said.

“The Wyvern always seems to attract people who are, to a big degree, sympathetic to this type of work.

“They’re very open minded. If you come to them with a message they’re generally very upbeat about it.”

His audiences include people of all ages, although he says a lot of the older people, perhaps because of losses they have suffered, seem especially attuned to what is happening.

He added: “I suppose and hope and wish that through spirit connection older people especially, once they get that connection to their loved ones, it gives them a sense of great inner peace.”

Sceptics level plenty of criticism at Derek; simply Googling his name or looking it up on YouTube produces a welter of claim and counter-claim.

The man himself says he’s happy to engage with the sceptics – he was the first medium to address the Oxford Union and later told student magazine Cherwell: “I was expecting sceptics. A sceptical mind and a cynical mind are healthy in my opinion, believe it or not, because it shows we’re using that brain matter that the old boss has given us.”

He also claims to have encountered some sceptics who died and subsequently admitted they’d been wrong.

Derek is unshakeable in his insistence on what we can look forward to after physical death.

“The person can look forward to being released immediately from pain,” he said.

“There then follows great elation at finding themselves in the company of loved ones surrounding them, seeing them for the first time in however many years.

“There’s also the elation of learning that it’s true – ‘I’m alive’.”

 

  • Tickets for Derek’s Wyvern appearance, which starts at 7.30pm, cost £18.50, and various discounts are available. Further information is available on 01793 524481 and via swindontheatres.co.uk