Tuesday 1 December 2009


The Boland Guest list, Wednesday 2nd December: Great excitement in the Boland camp today when it was announced that Ian Hislop as Maurice has often stated that Hislop is up there in his ‘Who I’d like To Have as a Dinner Guest on Come Dine With Me’ list. Ian is best known as a satirist, writer, broadcaster and editor of the magazine Private Eye. He has appeared on many radio and television programmes, most notably as a team captain on the BBC current affairs quiz Have I Got News for You. In Caroline Chartres' book Why I Am Still an Anglican, Hislop opens his chapter by saying "I've tried atheism and I can't stick at it: I keep having doubts. That probably sums up my position." In 1996 he presented an award-winning documentary series for Channel 4 about the history of the Church of England, called Canterbury Tales. Recent works include the Radio 4 series The Real Patron Saints. On 4 September 2009, Hislop appeared at Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan William’s "The Gathering" at Canterbury Cathedral to discuss religion, society, and journalism among other issues before a crowd of about 1,000.
Next is highly respected international author Tom Bower former Panorama reporter, his books include highly critical unauthorised biographies of Tiny Rowland, Robert Maxwell, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Geoffrey Robinson, Gordon Brown and Richard Branson. He won the 2003 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award for Broken Dreams, an investigation into corruption in English football. His biography of Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge was published in November 2006. An unsuccessful libel case over a passing mention of Express proprietor Richard Desmond in the book was heard in July 2009. A biography by Bower of Richard Desmond, Rough Trader, awaits publication. Former editor of the London Evening Standard. Bower will be talking about the victims of. 89-year-old Nazi John Demjanjuk that he’s interviewed and about the case dubbed 'the last great Nazi war crimes trial' which continued today. Demjanjuk is charged with being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews at Sobibor.
Why I'm ashamed to be a vet: a shocking exposé of the profession that puts pets through 'painful and unnecessary treatments to fleece their trusting owners' This is the headline in the British press that will shock allot of pet owners. Boland finds out the story behind the headline.
These are just a few of the Guests on the Boland Guest List for his Wednesday Show. Boland at 10am on Wednesday


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