Some people believe in God and some in fate. But Uri Geller super spoonbender and friend of the famous believes in synchronicity.

I'm given a speedy introduction to this belief system as soon as I introduce myself.

"Your name is Nancy?" gasps Geller. "This is what I call synchronicity! There is an American band, Toad the Wet Sprocket, who wrote a song called Nanci and it mentions me. You know the band? I can't believe it! You are the first English person I have come across who knows this band there is a reason you are interviewing me today."

There is indeed. Geller is about to embark on a 20-date tour of his latest stage show, Uri Geller Explains the Unexplained, which kicks off this weekend at the Epsom Playhouse and New Wimbledon Theatre.

The show, says Geller, is a family outing what he likes to call "infotainment".

"I obviously remind people what made me a household name and they are welcome to bring their spoons and broken watches. These things astonish the world, but really they have the function of a placebo for the real message."

Which is?

"Very motivational and inspirational. I change people's lives for the better. For instance, I can almost guarantee you that 95 per cent of the children who come to this show will never smoke or touch drugs in their lives."

This is some claim, but Geller, 59, insists he receives thousands of letters from people whose lives have turned round since meeting him.

He is able to reach them, he says, because he's been there himself growing up in poverty in Israel, being bullied at school for his freakish' psychic powers, surviving his parents' divorce and a subsequent stint in the Israeli army.

By the 1970s, Geller was suffering from bulimia and anxiety attacks, but managed to climb out of his personal black hole through will-power alone a lesson he is keen to pass on to others, from failing lower division football clubs to participants in the Middle Eastern peace process.

What then does he make of the announcement on the morning of our interview that terrorist group Hamas have won the Palestinian elections?

Geller answers carefully: "Until now, the Hamas group have been out to destroy Israel. But because I'm a big believer in world peace, I have the feeling that this could be a blessing in disguise. Once they are an elected political party, they can't keep resorting to hooliganism and terrorism and war."

He is no less vocal on subjects closer to home, from George Galloway's behaviour on Celebrity Big Brother "revolting and denigrating" to Sven's gullibility in falling for the News of the World's umpteenth Arab sheik "this is hardly the first time it's happened!"

In fact, Geller can make an awful lot of sense about current affairs, which only makes his ramblings about UFOs, numerology and synchronicity all the more confusing.

Uri Geller Explains the Unexplained, Epsom Playhouse, Ashley Avenue, Epsom, Friday February 4, 8pm, £9-£16.50, call 01372 742555; New Wimbledon Theatre, The Broadway, Wimbledon, Saturday Febuary 5, 7.30pm, £12.50-£14.50, call, visit www.uri-geller.com