- Title: Making Fortunes
- Date: 1st September 1997
- Summary: Trainee psychics in the making - from job-centre to tarot card readings and crystal ball gazing. The Glasgow Psychic Centre makes 3,000 predictions a week for an average fee of £5. It's a flourishing business involving 0891 phone lines, exhibitions and face to face consultations from a back street base in Glasgow's Govan area. The clients are mainly women. Some come for entertainment but most seek understanding and hope in life's many crises. Staff say they often feel more like social workers than psychics. The centre needs and average of 40 fortune tellers and suffers from a constant turnover as the 'less gifted' drop out. So Sean O'Farraig, the centre's founder, is constantly advertising for people who think they have some psychic ability - the vacancies are even posted in local job centres - and he runs regular induction and training programmes. This documentary follows three contrasting 'would be' psychics from the job centre to the crystal ball. It's about our growing fascination for the paranormal and the people on both sides of the table.
- Description:Documentary about Scotland's only psychic phone-in centre in Glasgow which takes recruits from local job centres abd trains them in the ancient arts of fortune telling. It takes around 2,000 calls perweek from people seek- ing psychic guidance. Tarot card reader Margaret Lei and egg reader Niklas McCormick are part of the team on hand to advise callers but are they truly psychic?
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Fresh Film & Television (Scotland) LTD
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:01/09/1997
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s