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Libby Purves meets Dr Kevin Fong; Lin Jammet, son of artist Dame Elisabeth Frink; actor Leslie Jordan; and chef Wolfgang Puck.

Dr Kevin Fong is a consultant anaesthetist at University College Hospital, London. His career has included working with NASA on the effect of zero gravity on the human body and being part of an emergency response team in a hospital trauma unit. In his book Extremes - Life, Death and the Limits of the Human Body, he draws on these experiences to explore how the body responds to extremes of heat, cold, disease and trauma. Extremes - Life, Death and the Limits of the Human Body is published by Hodder & Stoughton.

Lin Jammet is the only child of British artist Dame Elisabeth Frink. The Lightbox in Woking is marking the 20th anniversary of her death with the first major retrospective for more than 25 years. The exhibition features a number of personal items such as the tools she used to create her sculptures. A new edition of Elisabeth Frink Catalogue Raisonne of Sculpture 1947-93 is published by Lund Humphries.

Wolfgang Puck is the chef and founder of Cut at 45 Park Lane. Born in Austria, Wolfgang was taught to cook by his mother and began his formal training at14. He opened his flagship restaurant Spago in Los Angeles in 1982, becoming one of the country's first celebrity chefs. For several years he has been the culinary mastermind behind the annual Academy Awards dinner.

Actor and raconteur Leslie Jordan brings his new one-man show Fruit Fly to London. In the show he asks: "Do gay men really become their Mothers?" and tells of how his own mother, Miss Peggy Sue, continues to inspire him today. The show also relates his colourful life and experiences growing up gay in America's Deep South. Fruit Fly is at the Leicester Square Theatre.

Producer: Paula McGinley.