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is an expert on the physical and mental benefits of being with much younger men. The Toyboy Diaries by Wendy Salisbury is published by Old St Publishing
Julia Quenzler may be the most widely viewed portraitist currently working in Britain. For more than 20 years she has provided sketches of those appearing in court. .
Jan Beccaloni is Curator of Arachnids at the Natural History Museum. Her husband is Curator of Cockroaches.
Some of Jan's favourite eight-legged creatures join her in the studio.
According to the Guinness Book of RecordsÌýVic Armstrong is the world's most prolific stunt double. Vic doubled for Harrison Ford in the first three Indiana Jones filmsÌýand for Christopher Reeve in Superman II.
We speak to a mother whoseÌýson has been addicted to heroin for a number of years. ForÌýher son'sÌýsafety she decided to step in and manage his habit.Ìý
Quentin Hutchinson is an archeologist who discovered a silver amulet in a grave that was initially regarded as the earliest evidence of a Christian burial in Britain. It should have marked the highpoint of his career...
Elaine Higgins married a soldier serving in the SAS, but it was only after his death that Elaine discovered that he'd been lying about his working life...
Jeannette Belliveau describes herself as an 'accidental sex traveller'. She had flings with local men whileÌýon holiday in Greece, the Caribbean and Brazil. Romance on the Road is published by Beau Monde Press, ISBN-13: 978-0965234412
John describes how he found himself in a long term relationship with a violent woman
Ìý : offers support toÌýmen who have experienced domestic abuse or violence
Dr Grossman is a neurosurgeon. He was working at the Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas when President Kennedy was assassinated and was one of a handful of doctors trying to save his life.
The Lebensborn Society was the brainchild of Heinrich Himmler. He encouraged liasons between German men and Scandinavian women – in the hope that the result was blond haired and blue eyed. Bjorn Lengfelder is one of them...
Kathryn Nutbeem was only five years old when her father, Major Roger Nutbeem of the Royal Army Medical Corps was one of 48 men killed aboard the Navy ship Sir Galahad.
As a teenager, Kathryn decided to embark on a journey that would help her to deal with losing her dad.
Kevin FirthÌýlived in Wolverton Street (pictured) for 10 years. WhatÌýhe didn’tÌýknow when he bought the house was that it was the site of a notorious, unsolved & brutalÌýmurder
Jack LewisÌýwas a Formula 1 driver for a brief period in the late 1950s /early 1960s. Then he gave it all up.
Nick Peake has a cough that started in 1993 - he has been coughing for the past 15 years. Examined by countless specialists, he's tried numerous remedies, all to no avail.
Life without a surname? It was 1979 whenÌýMargaret Sandra made a Statutory Declaration that from then on she'd be known only by the first two names her parents had given her.
Sandra Levi's late fatherÌýwas a Rabbi &Ìýone of the founders of the Council of ChristiansÌý& Jews. ButÌýhe was also an incorrigible womaniser.
Ìý Rites and Wrongs is published by Melrose Books ISBN-10: 1906050473
Colin & Josephine Arnold bought their lovely old house with stunning views over the North Sea 20 years ago, but their homeÌýis being eaten away by coastal erosion -Ìýsee the picturesÌý
A chance encounter with a bottle of whiskyÌýat a wine fair in 1984 led Mark Reynier to decamp to a remote Scottish island, Mark is now the very successful owner of theÌý whisky distillery on the Hebriddean island if Islay.
Max Valentin buried a bejewelled owl worth over £100,000 somewhere in the vastness that is France, but he made the clues so tricky thatÌý has never been found.
Diane & her husband have 10 grandchildren. But for years she has had to fight to see many of them – having been excluded from their lives by their parents.
Alan Brogan & Irene Kinnair were both placed in an orphanage when they were young. But the end to their story proves sometimes good things do happen to good people.ÌýSee more photos of Alan and Irene
Alex Kurzem was just five years old when the SS arrived in his Latvian village and, despite being Jewish, he became their mascot The Mascot:The Extraordinary Story of a Jewish Boy and an SS Extermination SquadÌý is published by Rider & Co.ÌýISBN-10:1846040361
Alan Brogan & Irene Kinnair were both placed in an orphanage when they were young. But the end to their story proves sometimes good things do happen to good people.ÌýSee more photos of Alan and Irene
Leonie Pope was brought up in Wales but adoptedÌýin Australia. WhenÌýshe traced her birth mother she discovered shocking facts about the circumstances of her adoption. Leonie is a member of what's known as theÌý of Aboriginal children who were forcibly removed from their birth parents & placed in children's homes.
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Julia Johns met her future husband on a blind date, New Years Day, 1989. After a whirlwind romance, they married in May of the same year. What she didn't know was her husband still married to another woman, something she didn't discover for 13 years.
In 1975 Toni Balestra ended up in a coma after a car accident.ÌýWhen Toni emerged, his memoryÌýwas irreparably damaged. Now Toni can recall his life before the accident inÌýgreat detail but he can’t remember what happened a few hours ago.
Cheryl and Wyndham Johnstone are two people who you could quite happily chat to all day. They have, between them, two lovely daughters and both share a refreshingly ‘glass half full attitude to life’. They have been married for a couple of years – I’m sure if you met them in the park you would simply think ‘what a super family’.
But they met in circumstances which were far from idyllic, through theÌý - which stands for Widowed and Young. Both of them had lost their partners in horrible circumstances when they were only just starting out on their lives together. Cheryl was just 17 weeks pregnant when her husband Glen died suddenly.
After re-enacting the famous final dance scene from the film on their wedding day 18 months ago, Julia Boggio and her husband James Derbyshire decided to put their film on to the popular website YouTube for friends and family to view inÌýthe USA and inadvertantly became an internet sensation
is aÌý14 yearÌýold composer and conductor. Since his solo debut in December 2002, he has been recognized internationally as a phenomenal young musician.
Jonathan Challinor's day job is as a barrister specialising in criminal law but when his father died last year he inherited Norfolk House Prep School in Edgbaston.Ìý
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Mr Challinor Sr. took ownership of the school in 1967 after the owner was declared bankrupt and, along with another parent, decided to try and keep it running as long as they could, until more suitable owners were found. But the school developed to the point where Mr Challinor thought he would keep it running full time. The school has become so successful that in a recent Sunday Times poll, it was the 35th best school in Britain.
Dr Mark Newman is a Tropical Systematic Botanist at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. In layman’s terms, he’s a plant collector or plant hunter. He’s travelled all over the world looking for new species of plant, especially in his area of speciality, ginger.
Robert lives in London and is studying for a film degree. He is a Kosovan Albanian whose family lived in Macedonia – a place to which he says he can never return. He wants to become a British citizen and is currently waiting to hear if his permission to stay in this country has been extended. But can he demonstrate – as ministers want those coming to this country to do from now on – that he has a willingness to integrate and can he demonstrate good behaviour? And if he can does that make him British?
Sam Sky Wild had a decidedly communal upbringing. In fact his name shouldn’t be Wild at all – but his parents decided to cut the ties that bind through a surname and also allow him to be brought up by everyone in their commune.
Having had her heart broken – and endured some pretty painful relationships -ÌýChloe has decided that her happiness lies in dating married men. She finds them through a website which aims to provide exactly that kind of service. She doesn’t expect any of them to leave their wives for her…and she wanted to tell us why she shouldn’t be condemned.
is an expert on the physical and mental benefits of being with much younger men.
Paul Craney suffered from autophobia - an intense self-fear, or fear of being alive. He describes how he overcame his condition. 
Chrissie De Rivaz is going to be frozen when she dies so that she can be thawed and brought back to life in the future. 
Headless lady Pat Gresham spent her working life losing her head, sitting in a goldfish bowl, or being electrocuted. 
Julia Quenzler may be the most widely viewed portraitist currently working in Britain. For more than 20 years she has provided sketches of those appearing in court.
was inspired by a degenerative eye condition to set off on a world wide adventure of extreme sports.
Jan Beccaloni is Curator of Arachnids at the Natural History Museum. Her husband is Curator of Cockroaches. 
We hear from the policemen who went onto a rooftop to investigate the noise and got more than they bargained for.
commands HMS Vengeance which contains in its safe the authorisation for launching Trident.
Neil Epstein hasn't had a good night's sleep for 37 years.
Will Calder was a regular sperm donor when he was a student back in the late '80s.
Sybil Le Fleur grew up in Burma with her sister Blanche but in 1941 theirÌýlives were torn apart by the Japanese invasion.Ìý 
Daniel Jubb is one of the world's leading rocket scientists.
ChrisÌý& Doug Young are relationship counsellors. Their marriage survivedÌýDoug's serial affairs over the course of twelve years. 
Helen McKendry was 15 when her mother, Jean McConville, was abducted by the IRA in December 1972.
According to the Guinness Book of RecordsÌýVic Armstrong is the world's most prolific stunt double. Vic doubled for Harrison Ford in the first three Indiana Jones filmsÌýand for Christopher Reeve in Superman II. 
Lyn Witheridge describes how she was a victim of bullying at work.
88 year old Susi Linton recalls Kristallnacht, 70 years ago.
We speak to a mother whoseÌýson has been addicted to heroin for a number of years. ForÌýher son'sÌýsafety she decided to step in and manage his habit.Ìý
Quentin Hutchinson is an archeologist who discovered a silver amulet in a grave that was initially regarded as the earliest evidence of a Christian burial in Britain. It should have marked the highpoint of his career...
Elaine Higgins married a soldier serving in the SAS, but it was only after his death that Elaine discovered that he'd been lying about his working life...
Jeannette Belliveau describes herself as an 'accidental sex traveller'. She had flings with local men whileÌýon holiday in Greece, the Caribbean and Brazil.
Nick Pearce was 9 years old in 1968, when his family went on holiday to the USA to help his father recover from a heart attack.
Father Patrick Keegans was the local priest in Lockerbie on 21st December 1988.
20 year old Matthew Ahmet trains with the Shaolin Monks in China and tries to enlighten young people here when he's back home.
Yvonne Craig Inskip grew up in theÌý1940sÌýwithÌýno father, but two mothers.
Anne Hobbs was on a school exchange visit to Prague in August 1968 & experienced the Russian invasion first hand. 
Roman Halter survived the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp, then late in life began a correspondence with Albert Speer, Hitler’s architect.
Nobuko Pollock survived the atomic bomb in Nagasaki then fell in love and moved to Belfast.
Kerry Cohen describes how she became a sex addict.
John describes how he found himself in a long term relationship with a violent woman
Robert WatsonÌýruns theÌýÌýand helps to trainÌýmodern day butlers.Ìý
lived as a Jehovah's Witness until 4 years ago, when she made the decision to leave and rebuild her life.
Ben Mee saw an advertisement for a zoo for sale and decided to buy it.
is now 92 but when he was just 21Ìýhe decided toÌýhead to Spain to join in the fight against Franco.
Sally Alexander was one of a number of feminist protestors who stormed the Albert Hall stage during the 1970 Miss World pageant
Dr Grossman is a neurosurgeon. He was working at the Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas when President Kennedy was assassinated and was one of a handful of doctors trying to save his life.
Ìýhas been doing magic tricks since he was 4 years old. A fascination with Harry Houdini then led him to become an escapologist.
The Lebensborn Society was the brainchild of Heinrich Himmler. He encouraged liasons between German men and Scandinavian women – in the hope that the result was blond haired and blue eyed. Bjorn Lengfelder is one of them...
Ex Royal Protection Officer, Ken Wharfe, recalls the Grosvenor Square riots of 1968.
Kathryn Nutbeem was only five years old when her father, Major Roger Nutbeem of the Royal Army Medical Corps was one of 48 men killed aboard the Navy ship Sir Galahad. 
Kevin FirthÌýlived in Wolverton Street (pictured) for 10 years. WhatÌýhe didn’tÌýknow when he bought the house was that it was the site of a notorious, unsolved & brutalÌýmurder
Natalia Aggiano's mother was killed by her father.ÌýÌýNatalia forgave her father and helped him to come to terms with what he had done.
Sarah Anderson developed a rare cancer when she was 10 &Ìýhad her arm amputated. Her family never spoke about the loss
19 year old Fraser Doherty is the creator of , anÌýenterprise started in his parents’ kitchen when he was justÌý14. 
Jack LewisÌýwas a Formula 1 driver for a brief period in the late 1950s /early 1960s. Then he gave it all up.
Nick Peake has a cough that started in 1993 - he has been coughing for the past 15 years. Examined by countless specialists, he's tried numerous remedies, all to no avail.
Life without a surname? It was 1979 whenÌýMargaret Sandra made a Statutory Declaration that from then on she'd be known only by the first two names her parents had given her.
Charlotte donatedÌýher eggs, Helen rented out her womb and Alex hadÌýher baby.
Sandra Levi's late fatherÌýwas a Rabbi &Ìýone of the founders of the Council of ChristiansÌý& Jews. ButÌýhe was also an incorrigible womaniser.
In March 1958, when Fiona MacCarthyÌýwas 18, she was among the last 1400 debutantes to be presented to the Queen.
Colin & Josephine Arnold bought their lovely old house with stunning views over the North Sea 20 years ago, but their homeÌýis being eaten away by coastal erosion -Ìý
Wibke Bruhns is the daughter of a Nazi officer who was executed for his part in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
Imran Rehman was taken to Pakistan for a holiday aged 17 where he found himself forced into marriage.
Michael Briant recalls how he found himself staring down the barrel of an AK47 in deep Somalian waters when pirates began attacking his boat.
Rudolf Beran's family house and all its contents were confiscated by the Nazi’s in 1942 - including a portrait of his mother. 
is a private investigator whoÌýprovides a honeytrap service or ‘integrity testing’ as he prefers to call it.
A chance encounter with a bottle of whiskyÌýat a wine fair in 1984 led Mark Reynier to decamp to a remote Scottish island, Mark is now the very successful owner of theÌý whisky distillery on the Hebriddean island if Islay.
Alanna Maltby suffers from prosopagnosia, otherwise known as .
Max Valentin buried a bejewelled owl worth over £100,000 somewhere in the vastness that is France, but he made the clues so tricky thatÌý has never been found.
Diane & her husband have 10 grandchildren. But for years she has had to fight to see many of them – having been excluded from their lives by their parents. 
Alan Brogan & Irene Kinnair were both placed in an orphanage when they were young. But the end to their story proves sometimes good things do happen to good people.Ìý
Dr Stewart Adams is a man we owe a great deal of thanks to as he was the man behind the development of Ibuprofen
Eddie Batha tells us about life with narcolepsy.
Reverend Tom WillisÌýhas carried out hundreds of exorcismsÌýover the years.
Svetlana Lloyd found herself modelling forÌýChristian DiorÌýin 1950s Paris.
is a 27 year old cage fighter from North London who fights under the stage name of the Hun
Ben PridmoreÌýhas wonÌýthe World Memory ChampionshipÌýand is currently number two in the world in the memory sports ranking.
Sandra BrownÌýbelieves her father was involved in the disappearance of a young girl 50 years ago andÌýhas spentÌýyears trying to prove his guilt.
Alex Kurzem was just five years old when the SS arrived in his Latvian village and, despite being Jewish, he became their mascot
Tony Cross decided to leave the army and take up a contract as a security guard operating in Iraq.
Back inÌý1981ÌýÌýwrote a bestsellerÌýabout solving the Rubik's cube and he was just 12 years old.ÌýÌýÌý
As a forensic artist Lois Gibson has helped convict more than 1,000 criminals. See her fascinating reconstructions on 
Sue TilleyÌýwasÌýLucian Freud’s muse for several years,Ìýposing as the subject of hisÌý'BigÌýSue' works.
Professor John Burland is Emeritus Professor of Soil Mechanics & he is the man who he saved the Leaning Tower of Pisa - from leaning over
David Elvy'sÌýtwin Dawn died within minutes of her birth and ever since he has searched for the part of him thatÌýis missing.
Leonie Pope was brought up in Wales but adoptedÌýin Australia. WhenÌýshe traced her birth mother she discovered shocking facts about the circumstances of her adoption. Leonie is a member of what's known as theÌý of Aboriginal children who were forcibly removed from their birth parents & placed in children's homes.
FromÌýthe age of twenty two Roger hasÌýspent his life in a sexual twilight world as a eunuch.
Julia Johns met her future husband on a blind date, New Years Day, 1989. After a whirlwind romance, they married in May of the same year. What she didn't know was her husband still married to another woman, something she didn't discover for 13 years.
In 1975 Toni Balestra ended up in a coma after a car accident.ÌýWhen Toni emerged, his memoryÌýwas irreparably damaged. Now Toni can recall his life before the accident inÌýgreat detail but he can’t remember what happened a few hours ago.
Cheryl and Wyndham Johnstone are two people who you could quite happily chat to all day. They have, between them, two lovely daughters and both share a refreshingly ‘glass half full attitude to life’. They have been married for a couple of years – I’m sure if you met them in the park you would simply think ‘what a super family’. 
Katya Galitzine is a descendant of Catherine the Great. Does that make her a Russian princess?
After re-enacting the famous final dance scene from the film on their wedding day 18 months ago, Julia Boggio and her husband James Derbyshire decided to put their film on to the popular website YouTube for friends and family to view inÌýthe USA and inadvertantly became an internet sensation
is aÌý14 yearÌýold composer and conductor. Since his solo debut in December 2002, he has been recognized internationally as a phenomenal young musician.
Jonathan Challinor's day job is as a barrister specialising in criminal law but when his father died last year he inherited Norfolk House Prep School in Edgbaston.Ìý
Dr Mark Newman is a Tropical Systematic Botanist at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. In layman’s terms, he’s a plant collector or plant hunter. He’s travelled all over the world looking for new species of plant, especially in his area of speciality, ginger. 
