The Samaritans was founded in 1953 by Bartonian Chad Varah who described the service then as “just a man willing to listen, with a base and an emergency telephone.”  The organisation now has more than 20,000 volunteers across some 200 branches answering a call for help every six seconds from people who are going through a difficult time.  David Wildman  from the Scunthorpe branch describes the work of Samaritans now and in the past.