Although Billy Roberts has been psychic from a child,whooping cough at the age of three left him with an incurable respiratory disease.He was not expected to survive his teens and spent many months out of the year in hospital.On leaving school at 16 in 1962 he was playing lead guitar in a rock band.He lived between Paris and Brussels,touring and supporting the biggest names in the world of music,such as Chuck Berry,The Moody Blues,The Yardbirds,The Small Faces and The Who,to mention but a few.His world gradually fell apart when he found himself unable to function without drugs and it was at his lowest ebb that the Spirit World came back into his life with a vengeance. His first collection of Ghost Stories was published in 1975,and some of his stories have been broadcast on BBC3 and Radio 4.He served many spiritualist churches all over the country and was a registered healer with The National Federation of Spiritual Healers.He lectures and holds workshops in universities and centres worldwide.In 1984 he founded the Thought Workshop,the northwest's first centre for Psychic & Spiritual Studies in Liverpool.In 2003 he opened The Paranormal Study Centre in Penny Lane.He has appeared on television all over the world and had his own series Secrets of the Paranormal.He featured on the Playstation 2 Game,Ghosthunter,filmed in New Orleans.Recently he was the Guest Medium on Most Haunted on Living TV.