The Boland guest List Tuesday 13th July 2010. First up is glamour model, authoress and now a singer!!!! Yes a singer !!! she has a new single out she is Katie Price aka Jordan. What a lot of people don’t know that during the 7 June 2001, British General Election, Jordan ran as a candidate in Stretford and Urmston under her real name using the slogan: 'For a Bigger and Betta Future'. As part of her comical election campaign, she promised free breast implants, more nudist beaches, and a ban on parking tickets. In the end, Jordan won 713 votes, 1.8% of the votes cast. Jordan began 2004 by appearing (as Katie Price which she prefers to be known while not modeling) on the reality TV series I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, alternately falling out with John Lydon and flirting in the jungle with singer Peter Andre whom she eventually married. She appeared in several Bushtucker trials, including one where she had to brave a tank full of small, harmless jellyfish for points. Price has a new record out; Free To Love Again and new TV Show ‘For Better Or Worse’ which documents her life after Andre and her new husband kickboxer Alex Read it starts this Wednesday a on ITV2
Next up covers the story of Fighting on the frontline of the war against crime, Bolands guest Cameron Addicott was one of the very few hard-boiled and highly-experienced surveillance operatives to get called up to the secretive and elite Alpha Projects unit - a group of dedicated undercover Customs officers who hunted the UK's most dangerous criminals by extraordinary means - starting with the interception and decoding of their phone calls. Cameron has been an undercover investigator with HM Customs and SOCA (Serious organised Crime Agency) for the past fifteen years. His new book is 'The Interceptor' and is on our website
Among the heartbreaking tragedies created by the 7/7 London bombings, Jullie Nicholson's stood out. The tragic loss of her daughter Jenny , 24, a gifted musician, left Julie questioning her role as a vicar, and she ultimately decided to step down, unable to forgive her daughter's killers. With courage and honesty, Julie will be talking about her story for the first time in her book ' A song for Jenny: A Mothers Story of Love and Loss'.
And finally; This should be fun! 'What On Earth is he Thinking? It's the question women have been asking for years and Zoe Strimpel’s new book claims to have the answer.
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OK ladies, last week The Boland Show gave you David Essex…Had enough time to recuperate??? Now it’s the turn of, wait for it, The lounge Lizard himself Mr Bryan Ferry, smoother than silk, smoother than satin, yes, and even smoother than Maurice himself!!! Ferry. came to public prominence in the early 70's as lead vocalist and principal songwriter for Roxy Music, which enjoyed a highly successful career with three number one albums and ten singles entering the top ten in the u.k. .He continues to have a successful solo career and he coming this way for a private appearance so the only chance you have to hear him ladies is on tomorrow morning’s Boland Show!!!
The oil that's flooded into the Gulf of Mexico has created big concerns about the environmental and economic damage. Another serious outcome has gotten far less attention: Peak Oil. By prompting President Obama to suspend deep water drilling in US offshore waters, the Gulf oil spill is pushing up the date at which the world's conventional oil production peaks. If other nations with offshore oil output also stop exploration and drilling it could speed the arrival of peak oil at a more alarming rate. Maurice’s next guest Dr. Richard Miller is a London consulting geologist who up until 2008 worked for BP preparing private reports on prospects for peak oil.
Next up is Danute Kean. According to Danuta , a casual contempt for men, especially fathers, has crept into much that is pumped out of our TV sets. It's there in TV comedies - from the character of the feckless father Frank in Shameless to Ben, the plain stupid dentist dad in My Family and even Pete Brockman, the ineffectual man of the house in Outnumbered. Danuta is an award winning journalist and publishing commentator. She is also a well respected investigative journalist and has uncovered stories as diverse as the truth about prostitute memoirs and hidden racism in publishing.
Were not sure that Maurice’s final guest would have a chance dating Bryan Ferry but you never know!! Donna Simpson already weighs 43 stone but she is determined to nearly double her size to become the world's fattest woman. The 42 year old will be speaking to Maurice from New Jersey, U:S is set on reaching the 1,000lb mark in just two years. Remarkably she insists she is healthy, despite now needing a mobility scooter when she goes shopping.
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The Boland Show Guest list Wednesday 16th June: For all David Essex fans this is your day. David Essex, 1970's pop icon and heart throb has had an extremely colourful life. He has sold millions of records, topped the charts with songs such as 'Gonna Make You a Star' and Hold Me Close'. His films such as 'That'll Be the Day’ were box office hits as was his appearance in the lead role in the musical Godspell. There was even a time known as Essexmania where after one double performance at the Liverpool Empire, the first house of 3,000 people refused to leave. David is still able to sell out a 50 date tour without advertising which is an amazing compliment. He is now starring in his latest West End musical titled ' All The Fun of the Fair' which is about the darker side of the travelling fairground life.
The findings of The Bloody Sunday Inquiry, also known as the Saville Inquiry or the Saville Report were published on Tuesday. The inquiry was established in 1998 by Tony Blair after campaigns for a second inquiry by families of those killed and injured in Derry in 1972. Prime Minister David Cameron addressed the House of Commons on Tuesday where he acknowledged, amongst other things, that British paratroopers had shot and killed already wounded civilians and apologised on behalf of the British Government. Boland’s next guest Thomas Bartlett is a journalist and author of such books as 'Ireland a history' and 'The Rise and fall of the Irish Nation'.
Earlier this week Barack Obama risked the wrath of September 11th victim's families by comparing the BP oil spill to the 2001 terrorist attacks, as pressure intensified on the White House to show greater urgency over the crisis. Many people who lost relatives in the attacks criticised Obama's decision to compare an environmental disaster with a terror plot in which almost 3,000 people died. One such person is Maurice’s next guest Joy Bennett whose son Oli, a 29 year old financial journalist died in the atrocity and who says that it is an unfair parallel and is really a cruel thing to say. Since Oli's death, as a tribute to him, his family and friends have created the charity www.olibennett.org.uk to help young people from all backgrounds get their business ideas off the ground.
And finally: From September, GCSE pupils will study the words of the singer and television presenter Charlotte Church as part of their English course. The way in which the singer speaks will be analysed by pupils in the subject normally associated more with Shakespeare and Jane Austen. They will also be looking at the words of Gavin and Stacey star Ruth Jones and BBC newsreader Huw Edwards for their English qualifications. Maurice’s final guest Marie Clair is the spokeswoman for Plain English Campaign and says that the focus on celebrities is damaging students chances of employment.
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The Boland Guest list Tuesday 15th June…Have you been watching the world cup, bit like asking was the pope catholic!!! Have you heard that incredible high pitch noise that fills the stadiums at every game. Can you imagine how that must sound non stop for 90 minuets? Well it all come from an innocent trumpet are the controversial Vuvuzela horns and could be banned from World Cup following thousands of complaints from fans, broadcasters and the players. South Africa's World Cup organising chief Danny Jordaan revealed his officials had been swamped by protests about the ear-bursting horns being blown during matches. But World Cup communications chief Rich Mkhondo today appeared to contradict his boss, insisting the plastic horns were here to stay. He said: 'As our guests please embrace our culture, please embrace the way we celebrate. The history of the Vuvuzela is ingrained in South Africa. 'We have modified the mouthpiece, there is now a new Vuvuzela which will blow noise that is 20 decibels less than the old one, Said Boland’s first guest Neil van Schalkwyk, a partner at Masincedane Sport, who manufactures the trumpet. Oh for some peace and quite!!!!!
Next up is Pilar Rahola i Martínez is a Spanish Catalan journalist, writer, and former politician and MP.. She has published several books in Spanish and Catalan, and she is a columnist at La Vanguardia in Spain; La Nación in Argentina; and Diario de América in the United States. She appears frequently on television and has taken part in several university lectures. She comes from a republican and anti-fascist family, and several of her relatives have been politicians or writers. As a politician, she was the only member of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya in Spanish Congress of Deputies in the 5th and 6th Spanish legislatures, and vice-mayor of Barcelona.
Are men big babies when it come to not feeling well? Scientists have confirmed that Man flu does exist and that men are often not as ill as they say they are. Half of men will upgrade a common cold to flu and describe headaches as a migraine to gain maximum sympathy. They will also moan more than women when suffering a bug or virus. Maurice’s guest Karl Elliott is from ' of friendly society Engage Mutual' who commissioned the research. Tuttems !!!!
And finally: Maurice personally requested this guest because as a lot of his listeners know he adores chocolate, cakes, biscuits etc and has been struggling to quit so he can look good in his Speedos this summer ( the thought!!!!). No matter how steely your willpower, or how firm your resolve, the sudden urge for a bar of chocolate or a bag of crisps can be all consuming. For many people, particularly women and Maurice, food cravings are like an alien force that will stop at nothing until you indulge their fiendishly unhealthy demands , his final guest Penny Kendall-Reed is the author of The No Crave Diet.
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The Boland Guest List Wednesday 9th June: When Maurice first read the story about his guest Cynthia Owan, he made two observations 1. He had NEVER read a more upsetting story in his 20 years of broadcasting and 2. He believed that he could never tell it on daytime radio. Can you imagine his shock when he saw Cynthia Owen was his first guest on his Wednesday morning show? Owen grew up in Ireland, the child of two alcoholics, when she was about eight years old, her mother told her to start sleeping in the marital bed. That night when her father came back from the pub, he climbed in beside her and raped her. This continued night after night, often with her mother sleeping in a single bed in the same room. Rapes followed to include her own mother aunty and uncle eventually her mother used her to make money out of filthy pedophiles!!!. Shortly before her eleventh birthday she was made pregnant by her FATHER. Minutes after giving birth to the baby, Cynthia watched in horror as her own mother murdered the tiny infant, by repeatedly stabbing her the face with a knitting needle, believe it or not the baby continued breathing so as the baby was still alive she put her in the gas oven until she stopped. Cynthia’s mother then wrapped the baby girl in a plastic bag, dumped her in an alleyway and made her daughter go back to school and pretend nothing had ever happened. As you can see this is a very very upsetting story so please be warned in advance if you would rather not to listen to the interview.

The euro will break up within five years, according to a survey of leading economists. The dire state of the public finances of Greece and other eurozone members such as Portugal, Spain, Italy and Ireland have driven the single currency to a four year low against the dollar and cast doubts over its future. Boland’s next guest Andrew Lilico, chief economist of the Policy Exchange think tank, says there was nearly zero chance of the euro surviving.

Being a Wednesday it Enterprise where Maurice introduces hugely successful entrepreneurs. First being Kurt Strand who is the Founder of the Swedish company Strand Craft. The company wanted to build something unique for the 'very wealthy' so they built a 17 million pound yacht which is so exclusive that they are only making six models and have already attracted five possible buyers in the first week of it being on the market. The yacht has a very futuristic design with its matching super car which comes free with the boat and its bullet proof windows.

And Finally Stephen Less who is 67, has been running nightclubs and helping other club and restaurant owners to improve their bottom line for several decades. He now runs the six-strong London chain of table dancing clubs, Secrets, which makes undisclosed profits and has even opened an establishment in Covent Garden. Stephen travels frequently around the U.K and abroad to monitor other clubs and potential sites for his business… Less has thousands of stunning girls working in his Secrets Clubs for him so Boland should enjoy this one..

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The Boland Show Guest List Tuesday 8th June: First up is one of the worlds foremost rock keyboard musicians Rick Wakeman, best know as the keyboard front man in the progressive rock band Yes. He is considered by many to be one of the best rock keyboardists of all time. He is known now for his TV appearances on Grumpy old Men and Countdown as well as his hugely popular Saturday morning radio show on Planet Rock.
Next up is the amazing story of Zoya Phan who was born in the remote jungles of Burma, to the Karen ethnic group. For decades the Karen have been under attack from Burma's military junta. Zoya's mother was a guerrilla soldier, her father a freedom activist. At the age of 14 her childhood was shattered as the Burmese army attacked and with their house in flames, Zoya and her family fled. So began two terrible years of running from guns as she joined thousands of refugees hiding in the jungle. Zoya now lives in London and works for the human rights organization Burma Campaign.
Maurice is looking forward to this one: 'Prince Charles is a 'Fruitcake' who abuses his power by using his birthright to further his own beliefs and causes, a conference has heard. The heir to the throne was also branded an 'old fogey' at a conference of the anti-monarchy group Republic. Charles's complicated psychology and obsessive compulsive tendencies formed much of the discussion headlined ' An activist king?' Graham Smith is from the pressure group Republic which supports a republican constitution in place of the monarchy. Boland loves the Royal family so this should be fun.
And finally: As commercial whaling looks set to start again after 24 years, award winning author Philip Hoare gives a heartfelt plea and says ' if whales could scream, no man could tolerate their slaughter'. The more we learn abut the whales that roam our ocean depths, the more marvelous and complex these creatures are shown to be. Which is what makes it such a travesty that nearly 25 years after we said good bye to commercial whaling, it looks set to start again. Philip is the author of six books, the most recent being ' Leviathan or, The Whale, winner of the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. It charts his lifelong obsession with whales
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The Boland Show Tuesday 1st June: Tuesdays show promises to be something very special when you see that the guest list includes an Archbishop of Canterbury, a rape victim, a diplomats wife and an expert on the must-have-pet, a Meerkat !!!!
First up is the former Archbishop of Canterbury George Cary. Carey was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002. He was the first modern holder not to have attended Oxford or Cambridge University. His time as archbishop saw the Church of England allow the ordination of Women priests and a rising debate over attitudes to homosexuality at the Lambeth Conference of 1998. WOW Boland and the Archbishop makes for interesting stuff!!!
Next up Maurine Gibbon: The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition has proposed a ban on the identification of men accused of rape. Which means that most men arrested on suspicion of rape will never be named because the vast majority never get to court. Unless 94% of women are lying, then there are a shed load of guilty men getting away with rape, including those who are reported to the police. Critically acclaimed author, Boland’s guest Maureen Gibbon was raped when she was sixteen. Nothing could take away her pain. Until she decided to go and visit rapists in jail so that she could try and come to terms with what happened to her. Her book ' Thief' is based on her experience.
The Foreign Office won't like it and her husband isn't too keen either but, after 25 years travelling from embassy to embassy and hellhole to hellhole, Maurice’s guest Cherry Denman, a diplomats wife, reveals the riotous truth about their perilous postings. Her book is Diplomatic Incidents: The Memoirs of An (Un) Diplomatic Wife.
Finally: Thanks to one of the most brilliant TV campaigns, the Meerkat is now a must-have pet. But behind the cute image lies shocking cruelty and exploitation. This oddly compelling creation - a smoking, jacket-wearing puppet with a Russian accent has more than 720,000 friends on Facebook and the the advert has been watched more than half a million times on Youtube. Now, some of these fans have decided to take their enthusiasm for Aliksandr Orlov to the next level by buying a Meerkat - even though the RSPCA says the creatures are wholly unsuited to being kept as domestic pets. Craig Redmond is from the Captive Animals Protection Society.
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The British Ambassador to Spain, Giles Paxman made a fleeting visit to the Talk Radio Europe studios to be interviewed by Maurice Boland. The Ambassador was on a brief visit to the Costa del Sol to attend the Age Concern Garden Party. He had a brief tour of the Talk Radio Europe studio complex and a chat with the staff. Whilst recording the interview, he told Maurice how delighted he was with the posting to Spain which he explained was one of the most sought after postings in the Foreign Office. This interview will be broadcast on Monday 31st May.

The Boland Show Friday 28th May. This week two boys aged ten and eleven became Britain's youngest sex offenders - guilty of attempting to rape an eight year old girl. A jury cleared them of rape but convicted them of the lesser charge by a majority of ten to two following an extraordinary two week trial which almost collapsed shortly after it began. Questions have been raised over whether the trial of the children should have been put through an adult court. Boland’s first guest Felicity Gerry is a leading criminal barrister and author specialising in serious fatal, sexual and violent offences with a particular expertise as a Rape Specialist advocate. She is an experienced broadcaster and writer with significant appearances on BBC television and Sky News.
When Maurice’s next guest Lauren Samuels appeared on the TV reality show ' Over The Rainbow' she was 22 years old and came third. Although not winning the show, Lauren received great praise from the judging panel and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Lauren is flying down to Marbella tomorrow and will be appearing on stage singing 'over the rainbow' at the Children with Leukemia Gala on Sunday evening at Villa Tiberio.
Dame Margaret served at the United Nations for over four decades. She served as resident representative of the United Nations Development Program in eight countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa. For nearly 50 years she was a trusted advisor to the Bolivian government. Her new book 'The house on a sacred lake' describes how Margaret made a home in Bolivia in turbulent times. Her personal journey, a charming mix of warmth, humour, political passion, and idealism is interwoven with Bolivia’s political journey.
And finally Mark Bridge who is a member of the band 'Hope Street Park' who are a couple of footy mad lads from Blackpool, on a mission to storm the UK charts with their independently funded, World Cup 2010 song 'We are England'. Over recent years there’s been tireless efforts by unsigned acts trying to break into a market systematically controlled by single corporations, but 'Hope Street Park' are confident that with the support of the English public, they can break into the UK top 40 this summer.
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The Boland Show guest list Wednesday 26thMay: First up is Bonita Norris, On the 17th May Bonita became the youngest British woman to climb Mount Everest. During her climb, she put herself at risk from the dangers of extreme altitude, frostbite, hypothermia and snow-blindness, and required bottled oxygen. Bonita woke up one morning in 2008 with the crazy idea that she would climb Everest and raise a load of cash for charity along the way. It took her two years to get ready and raise the 50,000 pounds to cover the costs of such a trip.
War is always a nasty subject. In the past, states clashed and battles were fought between armies. Today superpowers are pitted against warlords. Maurice’s next guest, the Observer's chief foreign correspondent Peter Beaumont, takes us into the guts of modern conflict. He visits the bombed and abandoned home of Mullah Omar, discovers a deserted Al Qaeda camp where he finds documents describing a plan to attack London and talks to young bomb throwers in a Rafah refugee camp. His book The Secret Life of War is on our website.
Being a Wednesday means the second hour in Enterprise and for the first time this season it is sponsored by Staysure the experts at over 50’s insurance and first guest up is Catherin Paver. Catherine doesn’t believe in retirement. At 82, she goes into work every day at Pavers Shoes, the retailer she started more than 40 years ago and is still very much involved. She has opened four shops in India, two in Mumbai, one in Chennai and another in Hyderabad. She now plans to increase her chain of shops to at least 100.
Charles Rolls had to wait until he was 40 to work out what he wanted to do with his life. That’s when in 2005 he founded 'Fever-Tree' his tonic water and mixer company. The company is on target to produce more than 19m bottles this year with sales of 8 million pounds. The tonic water is sold in 22 countries, most notably here in Spain - with one of the biggest markets for Gin and Tonic
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Julie Meyer, 42, is one of Britains most successful entrepreneurs and is among the 30 most powerful women in Europe, according to the Wall Street Journal. She is also well known for being a "Dragon" on the online version of Dragons Den.
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The Boland Show Guest List Tuesday 25th May: Seven years ago Boland’s first guest Erica Duggan received a phone call in the middle of the night from her terrified son Jeremiah. 45 minutes later his bodied body was found at the side of a road in Wiesbaden in Germany. Erica has been trying to get to the bottom of his death ever since. Jeremiah had been a French student in Paris and he travelled from there to Germany with a group of men he had chatted to after selling him a political newspaper. Unknown to him they had links with the controversial LaRouche organization who have been accused of being a political cult with anti-semitic leanings and is headed by U.S multi-millionaire Lyndon LaRouche. An application for a new inquest into the death of Jeremiah has now been granted and Erica will be back on the Boland show to talk about how this is her "last hope" to discover the truth.
The Billionaire Facebook founder is making a fortune from everyone's secrets and you probably don't know that he is doing it. All facebook members think that they are sharing their innermost thoughts with friends but it emerged this week, however, because of a series of changes to Facebook's privacy settings, their messages can be read by anyone on the internet. In the past couple of weeks Facebook's standing has plummeted and regulators in the EU and the U.S. have demanded changes to the way the social network site handles and shares users' private data. Journalist Steve Bogan will be joining the guest list to talk us through the Facebook phenomenon.
Next Up is Bill Turnbull best known for presenting BBC Breakfast. He is the main male presenter of Breakfast broadcast on BBC One and BBC News, presenting alongside Sian Williams each Monday-Thursday. He has recently published his book 'The Bad Beekeeper's Club'. In the book he describes how he stumbled into the mysterious world of beekeeping, and how it has somehow taught him a great deal about himself and the world around him. At the same time his stories highlight the very real threats to our bee population, and what we can do to create a better environment for these creatures. Bill should be an excellent interview.
Finally, ever fancy being shot into space?? Well now’s your chance Maurice’s final guest Rod Stevenson has been a teacher for ten years following a career in the IT industry. He has been a member of the Eastern Anglian Rocket Society for the last 5 years. Along with rocketry activities at his school Rod has helped with a number of space events and appears regulary on local radio and TV programmes. He is also vice chairman of the Space Education Council and has a particular interest in developing space and rocketry education in schools.
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The Boland Show Guest list Tuesday 17th May. Boland’s first guest Jamie Wallar is the founder of JBW group which is a dynamic, intelligence-led and innovative debt management and enforcement solutions provider, JBW also operates a fully functional High Court Enforcement and Certified Bailiff service. Having worked in the industry previously, Jamie set up his own business to create an enforcement agency that could work at changing the face and reputation of the bailiff industry. Today JBW group is valued at around 10 million pounds. Jamie was the star of the BBC1 series 'the enforcers', as well as 'beat the bailiff' he also has an upcoming series called 'beauty and the bailiff', where he will take wannabe wags who have built up huge debts and retrain then as bailiffs, as well as a quiz show about 'people you love to hate!'. Very current at the moment with the suffering families are going through with the downturn of the economy!!!
Next up the story of a young man who went off to Las Vegas for a long drinking weekend and came back with more than he bargained for A WIFE!! It could only happen in Vegas. British divorcee meets a beautiful blonde American in a hotel bar when he spills a drink over her. They get drunk, dance and three and a half hours later he has proposed. Seventeen hours after meeting they were married. Nick Bond is that man. But what happened when Nick faced her very angry father last week?
Amy Hanson is Maurice’s next guest, she was a showbiz journalist for various national newspapers and magazines lived for shopping and parties with celebrity friends. She had travelled to the Far East to escape a life in London which seemed increasingly meaningless and unfulfilling. She wanted a slower pace of life and also hoped she would find romance. Instead her life was turned upside-down by the sight of the Cambodian children walking around barefoot on a burning decomposing mess, littered with needles and shards of glass. She met with two people who ran a charity PSE (pour un sourire d'enfant) that offers accommodation and food to the desperate children. When Amy returned to England she began raising money for the Cambodian orphans who were still on the street. She set up Small Boots Project to raise money to buy wellington boots for the orphans and ended up raising 1.500 pounds in a week! Amys documentary 'Small Steps'- is premiering here in Spain next week and from next month it is being shown in cinemas around London.
And finally Associate Professor Keith Dear from the ANU (The Australian National University) is a biostatistician with experience in various areas of medical and health research. He will be talking about how Australian scientists warn half the planet could simply become too hot for human habitation in less than 300 years.
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The Boland Show Friday 14th May. An unsettling discovery has been made by independent US film-maker Boland’s first guest John Williams. According to his new film, about the mysterious Bridgend suicides, many more deaths have taken place in the Welsh town than the reported 28 hangings. Indeed, he claims the figure is closer to 60. The film has yet to be commissioned, although Sky has expressed an interest, and it promises to make for unsettling viewing. One local young man, who lost his best friend to suicide, helped Williams and appears expressing complete bafflement as to the cause of epidemic. He is seen saying he would never follow in their footsteps, yet after production had finished Williams received a call telling him he too had taken his life. A film, we fear, that deserves to be seen.
Next up is bigger than life TV personality, astrologer Russell Grand. Russel started his life as a astrologer by simply by being in the right place at the right time. When the then queen mother was making a royal tour of a show in Olympia she stopped off at a stand Russel was working on, seeing an opportunity he grabbed an astrological chart and asked her majesty if he could read her stars (cheeky!!)and the rest as they say is history!!! Russell has written several books dealing with astrological matters. Last month Russell appeared on Marco Pierre Whites 'Kitchen Burnout' after turning down other reality TV shows like Celebrity Big Brother. This is always a laugh when Boland and Grand get together!!!!
As its Friday the Boland Show residents guest Sean Tipton live from ABTA’s headquarters in London, will talk us through news within the travel industry.
Maurice’s next guest Elizabeth Moscrop ,who was once the public relations gopher for Martin Bashir's first big interview with Princess Diana, is now earning her living by writing about private aviation for aviation publications all over the world and is the co-author of the book 'The 100 Greatest Women in Aviation'. This year celebrates the 100th year of women in aviation!
And finally: There is no textbook way to deal with divorce, but Ian Usher would admit that his coping mechanism was somewhat drastic. When his wife walked out on him, he vowed to purge himself of everything he owned that reminded him of the happy years they had spent together. He put his house and all its contents, his car, motorbike and even his job and his friends for sale on e Bay. His plan disintegrated into a highly publicised failure as there were not genuine offers so he sold his belongings individually and used the money to achieve 100 of his lifelong ambitions in as many weeks. His adventures have taken him all over the world and Maurice talks to Ian who is now in America on the last leg of his trip.

The Boland Show Wednesday 11th May: Childless couples from around the world are travelling to India to have babies by surrogate mothers. They say it's their last chance and that everyone benefits. Since 2003, 167 surrogate mothers have successfully given birth to 216 babies at the Akanksha Infertility Clinic, run by Boland’s first guest Dr. Nayana Patel and her husband, Hitesh. The pregnant women at the clinic are mainly of lower caste and from impoverished nearby villages and the pay they receive following a birth is equivalent to over 10 years salary. But is it really an equitable relationship or an example of westerners’ exploiting the world's poorest women by paying a fraction of the price that they would closer to home. An amazing story that needs to be told.
The British government is desperately hoping to transfer everyone's medical history to yet another massive, centrally-held, government-controlled database, making patients medical records potentially viewable to hundreds of thousands of NHS staff nationwide. The plan is for patients' medical data to be uploaded by default, unless the patient actively objects - an 'opt out' mechanism. That is, if you do and say nothing, your data will be uploaded. The NHS is now scaring patients into signing up to its controversial database - by claiming that those who refuse, run the risk of receiving the wrong test results or the wrong drugs. Maurice’s next guest Dylan Sharpe, campaign director of Big Brother Watch has said that the whole handling of the care record system has been sneaky and under hand, with the government doing anything to prevent people of opting out of the system. Big brother is watching you!!!
Being a Wednesday the second hour of the Boland Show is ‘Enterprise’ where Maurice introduces to three successful entrepreneurs who will explain how they made the fortune: Phillipa Aldrich, was a famous and successful London property lawyer juggling her responsibilities to her retired parents. She was horrified at the many utilitarian products, available specifically for the elderly or disabled market, such as lamps, cook ware, 2 handled teapot and mug were dull and looked as if they belonged in a hospital. She decided to form The Future Perfect Company, a product design company which has modernized these sort of goods.
Next entrepreneur to enter Boland’s Den is John Hughes. There is no end to the horror stories that we hear on a daily basis abut investments made abroad that have resulted in failure of the developer, the real estate agents or other beneficiaries who fail to fulfill their obligations and promises. If you are having difficulty with your developer, or if you have placed a deposit with a developer and he threatens that you will loose it, then John Hughes, founder of www.lostyourdeposit.com will hopefully be able to help. John Hughes, who has been in business for many years in the UK having had printing businesses and also being a consultant to Local Authorities and Universities culminating in running a successful Printing company, with over 50 employees and a million in turnover. He decided to retire at 55 and is now an investor in Spain, Portugal and now the Eastern Block
And finally: Kevin Green who has created a substantial residential property portfolio since 1999, when he climbed onto the property investment train and bought his first deal. Previously, Kevin was a successful dairy farmer in south Wales increasing his family's business from 40 to 400 cows.Kevin bought his first smelly property using credit cards to bridge finance the deposit and mortgage at 85% loan to value. .
Kevin is now a multimillionaire, not surprising for someone who believes actions speak louder that words. He is involved in a number of successful companies and property related business. Land development , lease options and commercial deals form a major arm of his business today together with his continued growth of the buy to let portfolio.
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The Boland Show Guest List Friday 7th : With the result of the elections coming in Frederick Forsyth. novelist and occasional political commentator talks through the results with Maurice and how he sees the outcome etc
Next up is Stephanie Calman who is a writer and broadcaster and whose 'Happy Families' column appears regularly in the Daily Telegraph. The idea for her new book ' How not to murder your husband' came to her when she began making a list of things that annoy her about her husband, and found how hard it was, once she had started, to stop.
Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow all saw there airports shut once again due to the risk of ash from the Icelandic volcano. ABTA’s Sean Tiptons joins the second hour of the Boland Show and will be looking at the risks of booking future holidays and flights and what we can do against to insure against possible loss.
This weeks UK’s press headlines have been dominated by words of ‘Cheat’ referring to snooker’s double world champion John Higgens alleged accepting bribes to fix games. Boland’s next guest Barry Hearn, chairman of the world snooker association, has vowed to root out the stench of corruption in snooker after the John Higgins allegations. Barry as said any action taken against world no 1 John Higgins over the bribes he allegedly agreed to take for losing frames in future matches will be stringent and immediate.
200 years after Lord Byron swam from Europe to Asia, Maurice’s final Harry Mount attempted the same feat and tells how he got on. Harry is a journalist and author who regularly contributes to a range of national newspapers, including the Telegraph, Daily Mail and the Spectator.
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The Boland Show Thursday 6th May
Gordon Brown suffered a humiliating blow to his credibility on Tuesday as a Labour candidate, when Boland’s first guest Manish Sood, described him as the 'worst Prime Minister' Britain has ever had. With less than 48 hours of campaigning to go, Manish called the Prime minister ' a disaster' and said the party's election campaign was wrong. Not good timing one thinks????

Maurice’s next guest was once a refugee to England, Dorothy Bohm has photographed the life around her for 60 years and now has an exhibition in Manchester. Dorothy was born in East Prussia and when she was 14 her father, Tobias Israelit, who was already suffering Nazi persecution, sent her for safety to England. As he said good bye to her he handed over to her his camera and so began her life in pictures.

Gipsies human rights are more important than the concerns of local residents, according to new planning rules. Guidelines made public on Tuesday mean planning inspectors will favour letting them set up sites and stay on existing ones, while complaints will be largely ignored. Onh the Boland show guest list is Shay Clipson is a Romany Gypsy living in Lincolnshire and is a mother and grandmother. Gypsies are the most hated minority in Europe despite centuries of persecution and the holocaust, it is claimed. Up to half a million were killed by the Nazis but their plight is often forgotten and they remain demonised. Shay is passionate about promoting a positive image of the Romany people who must be the most misunderstood people in the world today.
And finally where talking butterflies!!!! Maurice’s last guest is Clive Farrell who decided to invest 11 million pounds - which he had made through property investments - in a scheme to turn a huge patch of former scrubland near Hertfordshire into a wild haven for tens of thousands of butterflies from Britain and around the world. It is already open to visitors but when the farm is finished in two years time it will be the biggest butterfly tourist attraction in the world!
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The Boland Show Guest list Wednesday 5th May…Maurice’s first guest Polly Tommey bold campaign to increase awareness of autism has been causing controversy. She was finding it difficult to attract attention to her campaign for increased awareness of autism, so she took her top off and posed, Wonderbra-style, for billboard posters beneath the words 'Hello Boys. Autism is worth over 6 million votes. It's time to talk....' Polly's own son Billy, 13 is autistic and last year she was invited to Downing street after putting her phone number on a billboard inviting Gordon Brown to Call. She is now hoping the Conservatives will come back with some concrete policies as well'
A Muslim protester who daubed a war memorial with graffiti glorifying Osama Bin Laden and proclaiming ' Islam will dominate the world' walked free from court last week after prosecutors ruled his actions were not motivated by religion. Boland’s next guest Conservative MP Patrick Mercer, chairman of the Parliamentary Counter Terrorism sub-committee said that this was an outrage against our war dead.
Being a Wednesday the second hour is ‘Enterprise’ with three very successful entrepreneurs…First up is David Hall who is now 67 and still the chairman of the publishing company has no plans to retire just yet. The company specialises in angling magazines, employs more than 80 people and turns over £6m a year.
After working for Gordan Ramsay as a commis chef Mark Pearson asked himself was this really what he wanted to do for the rest of his life with his low wage and long hours. In 2006 Mark spotted a business opportunity and named it My voucher codes, turnover soared to 1 million pounds in 2007 in the first year, growth since then has been rapid. So what’s the secret of his success this and more will be revealed on the show
And finally In 2002 Michael Parker had his winning idea. He designed a website using a free demo disk from a magazine. The idea was to create a website where people could have boxes of traditional sweets sent to them. He owns 100% of the business which now sells 700 different varieties and turnover last year was about 3 million pounds.
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The Boland Guest list for Tuesday 4th May: Boland’s first guest will be of a great interest to ALL expats living in Spain, she is UKIP'S Marta Andreasen who has demanded the immediate repeal of notorious Spanish land laws that continue to wreck the holiday-home dreams of Britons in the Valencia region. Thousands of holiday villas in Spain have even been demolished without compensation for their owners. About 15,000 mostly British, Belgian, German and French property owners lodged a formal petition with MEP's four years ago in desperation over a 1994 Valencia land and town planning law which triggered 20,000 compulsory purchases of land or property for ' urban' development. Marta is in Belgium today to discuss this problem.
Next up is the football legend Viv Anderson who broke through the taboos to become the first black player to appear in a full International for England, making his senior debut against Czechoslovakia in 1978. In his memoir ' First Among Unequal’s' Viv talks about how during his first appearance on the pitch racists were throwing fruit down on him from the stands. First up were bananas, the preferred fruit of the racists and bigots and then he found himself being pelted with apples and pears. During a long and glittering career with some of England's leading clubs, he won everything the domestic game had to offer.
The second hour of the show opens with a very moving story: After adopting four crack-addicted babies, born one after the other to the same mother, Barbara Harris came up with a big idea. She decided to start a scheme to pay drug addicts in America to be either sterilised or to commit to long-term contraception. It's an initiative that has appalled those of a liberal nature. But, at the same time it has gathered support from those who believe such drastic actions is the only way to combat the crippling social problems that come with drug abuse. Last week, Barbara brought her charity Project Prevention to Britain and will talk to our listeners about it.
Finally Tricia Walsh-Smith is a British playwright and actress. She has appeared on television, stage, in films and over 500 television commercials throughout her life.. She has now teamed up with composer Simon Kay and written two musicals and some of the songs are being featured in the 12 part television series ' Pineapple Dance Studios' currently airing on Sky1. She has also completed her first novel, ' The Devils Hostage. Tricia also supports The Wounded Warrior Project - an organization focused on helping the men and women wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq and has co-written the song ' A Warrior's Prayer' which will be released as a charity single this year.
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The Boland Show Tuesday 27th April. As a study shows mixed race people are seen as the most attractive and successful, Boland’s first guest Eve Ahmed's extraordinarily moving story raises uncomfortable questions. As a child growing up in the late Seventies and early Eighties, she had no idea what mixed-race meant. Eve knew what half caste meant, though, and she got called it by other children at school, by skinheads on the streets of London where she lived and even by extended family, who should have known better.
Following his hugely popular account of the previous 2000 years, Boland’s next guest John O'Farrell now comes bang up to date with a hilarious modern history asking ' how the hell did we end up here?' In his book ' An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain' he informs, elucidates and laughs at all the bizarre events, ridiculous characters and stupid decisions that have shaped Britain since 1945.
Niamh (Neeve) O'Connor is one of Ireland's best known true crime authors and journalists. A crime reporter with the Sunday World, she has interviewed infamous murderers, gone undercover to expose an international prostitution ring and infiltrated a gang running a mortgage racket swindling the banks out of multi-millions, leading to intervention in the scheme by the Criminal Assets Bureau. Her books include Blood Ties - the real stories behind Ireland's notorious murders' and she has just written her first novel ' If I never See You Again'
If you have seen the movie Priscilla Queen of the Dessert, the story of a trio of female impersonators, you will know what inspired showgirl Boland’s final guest
(we don’t know if Maurice’s knows about this but Steph beware) Wynnie la Freak to hit the road and head south in search of adventure. Having been sick of dodging the bailiffs in not so sunny Manchester she decided to do a moonlight flit and drive to the Costas for some sun, sangria and shenanigans in her boudoir on wheels The Winnebago. The self confessed mad wo-man has been entertaining her way from Barcelona to Benidorm and Valencia to Almeria and is now appearing in her one woman show in Torremolinos. Boland on Tuesday@11am

The Boland Show Friday 23rd April: First guest is The Rt Hon David Milliban Secretary of State making his first ever appearance on English Radio in Spain on the Boland Show, but, don’t blink or you might miss this one, well not exactly but almost. After waiting weeks and then 45 minuets over the agreed allotted time for the recording David Milliband tells Boland he got only 5 minutes!!!

Thousands of paedophiles and rapists could have their names wiped from the Sex Offenders' Register after two convicts won a landmark human rights case yesterday. The Supreme Court ruled that putting paedophiles on the national register for life without the right of appeal was ' disproportionate' Each one now has the right to argue they no longer pose a threat to children. The decision opens the door to an appeal from former pop impresario Jonathan King, who was jailed for seven years for sexually abusing teenage boys and was placed on the register for life and who discuss this new twist in the law with Maurice.

So who came out as a winner? Has Clegg held his new position where the polls have put him above Labour after his outstanding performance in last weeks live TV debate well they had to do it all over again this time on Sky. Maurice talks to Harry Witchell, an expert in body language and communication, and discusses the debate and the body language of the leaders. Harry has appeared repeatedly on BBC Television's Mind Games and as a commentator for TV show Big Brother and has been interviewed on Newsnight with Jeremy Paxman

Being a Friday it means travel for the second hour on the Boland Show:
Sean Tipton is our correspondent from the ABTA press office. Today he will discuss, amongst other things, what, if any, compensation travellers can expect after the travel disruption following the volcanic ash.

Not sure if Boland will get a handle on his next guest but we shall wait and see: Tristan Gooley blends natural science, myth, folklore and the history of travel to introduce you to the rare and ancient art of finding your way using nature's own sign-posts, from the feel of a rock to the look of the moon. You can discover how it's possible to find North simply by looking at a puddle and how natural signs can be used to navigate on the open ocean and in the heart of the city.

And finally Deborah Clark always wanted a wide portfolio of interests and after her high-flying career as a lawyer working in aviation finance for Norton Rose she began looking for a new challenge. The answer was to buy the faded hotel in Devon where she and her husband had married. Nine years later the Burgh Island Hotel at the mouth of the River Avon and some 20 miles east of Plymouth is turning over £3m a year and making profit.
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The Boland Show Tuesday 20th April: First up is Former Commando Ben McBean is a double amputee (left arm and lower right leg) who has overcome massive hurdles since he stepped on a Taliban landmine in 2007. Just 12 months later he ran the London Marathon in just 6hrs and 30 mins and he hopes to break that time when he runs this week end. Ben is the winner of The Sun's Millie Award for overcoming Adversity. Maurice will be wishing him luck.
The most commonly accepted definition of a cougar is a woman 40 years of age or older who exclusively pursues very young men. Typically, cougars prey upon men almost young enough to be their sons. They may be married or unmarried, and some even go after their daughters' boyfriends. Boland’s next guest Rita Sangha is the UK's only ' Cougar Coach' and she runs nationwide events in the UK. She has appeared on radio and TV in both the UK and the US.
Pressure has been mounting on the Government to end the blanket flight ban which has left hundreds of thousands of Britain’s abroad. Airlines have slammed ministers for their approach to the crisis, claiming they have overreacted to the threat posed by the cloud of volcanic ash without assessing the actual risks involved. Boland’s guest David Bentley from The Independent aviation research group The Centre For Asia Pacific Aviation has also questioned whether the restrictions could be 'a massive overreaction of super-cautious politicians and bureaucrats who are far more concerned about their own liability while suffering none of the financial carnage caused by the ban.
And finally Politics these days is all about PR, spin, evading answers and presenting facts, figures, legislation and pretty much everything really in some kind of special code. That we mere mortals should understand politics is dangerous for the politicians and the best way to keep us torpid is by using a language so bland, boring and non understandable. Nick Webb has come up with the perfect antidote in his new book ' The Dictionary of Political Bullshit' Now more than ever with the election coming up, it is the time to decode the bull and see what lies behind the language of the politicians and their hangers-on. Boland on Tuesday@11am

The Boland Guest List Wednesday 14th April.
He's known as the bad boy of ballroom - renowned for a hot head and an even hotter love life. But Boland’s first guest, Strictly Come Dancing star Brendan Cole is actually a bit of a softie. He is a controversial figure on the program often getting into trouble with the judges for performing illegal lifts. He is now performing in 'Brendan Cole - Live and Unjudged' a dance show with a difference. Love him or hate him the show allows you to meet the real Brendan.
In the cruel old China, baby girls were often left to die in the gutters. In the cruel modern China, they are aborted by the tens of millions, using all the latest technology. There is an ugly new word for this mass slaughter - Gendercide. Since 1979 China has limited many families to one child and combined with this they have a ruthless prejudice in favour of sons. Millions of girls have disappeared, either being killed, aborted or neglect and the number is rising. By the year 2020 there will be 30 million more men than women of marriageable age in China. Boland’s next guests Clifford Coonan is the correspondent for the Independent in Beijing.

Being a Wednesday the second hour of the Boland Show is Enterprise where Maurice introduces us to three very talented entrepreneurs. First up is David Bailey and his wife Patti who appeared on Dragons Den last year pitching Motormouse which is a car design computer mouse in which James Cann invested £120,000 for a 40% stake in the company. Both David and Patti are successful consultants specialising in the development of sales people and sales effectiveness. The new cooperation will also include David’s other inventions , as well as their property business.
www.motor-mouse.net


Next entrepreneur is Chris Truelove who also appeared on Dragons Den pitching his tracking system for luggage and valuables. Although there was no investment made by the Dragons, the company now supply custom tags to some of the world's largest corporations including Debenhams, Diageo, Renaissance Hotels and BT. www.globalbagtag.com

And finally two very successful entrepreneurs Andrew Skeen and Omari Bowers, were busy making their fortune as property entrepreneurs when the market started to crumble it was time to look for other opportunities. This is when they came across Global Forestry Investments a company that expects to turn over 6-7 million pounds this year and acquire 10,000 hectares of rainforest.. www.globalforestryinvestments.com

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On Saturday, President Lech Kaczynski and scores of other senior Polish figures were killed in a plane crash in Russia. Polish and Russian officials said no-one survived after the plane apparently hit trees as it approached the airport in thick fog. Russian media reports said the pilots ignored advice from air traffic control to divert to another airport and that the presidents’ apparently reckless insistence on landing cost the lives of some of Poland's most distinguished military and academic figures. Edward Lucas is the Central and Eastern Europe correspondent of the Economist and talks to Boland about the effect this crash is going to have on Poland
Lance Corporal Katrina Hodge, came second in last year's Miss England competition but was awarded the title when the winner stepped down in November. The Iraq veteran, whose nickname is ' Combat Barbie' explains why she has given swimsuits their marching orders from the annual contest. Katrina is also the face of the website Uniform Dating.com, an online dating for military singles, the uniformed and emergency services or those seeking a date in uniform.
Right wing leader Eurgene Terreblanche may have been murdered after sexually assaulting one of his workers. One of the two men accused of beating the 69 year old Afrikaner to death told his lawyer the attack was in response to homosexual advances by his employer, who was buried last Friday. Andre, who was a guest on The Boland show last week talks about these accusations in the press

The Boland Show Thursday 25th March:
Israel's top spy in London was ordered home on Tuesday after the Government said Mossad cloned British passports for use in the murder of a Hamas terrorist. Israeli politicians expressed fury at Britain's decision. Boland’s first guest Aryeh Eldad, a hardline MP with the MK National Union party thinks the British are behaving hypocritically. He says that Britain is actively involved in the war against international terrorism but at the same time they are trying to punish and condemn Israel for their war on terrorism.

The headline read ‘Daddy will you try to save my sister first”?. A fathers hauntingly moving account of battling to rescue his twins from drowning. On a short holiday break in Hay-on-Wye he took his nine year old twins canoeing, and in a freak accident his daughter Billie was drowned. Boland’s next guest Ian Clayton, in a remarkably frank and vivid way describes what happened on that spring day, his desperate attempts to save his two children and the moving moment when his son was ready to sacrifice his own life for his beautiful sister . Ian has been a freelance writer and broadcaster for 25 years and his highly acclaimed memoir of a life in music, Bringing It All Back Home, was published in 2007.

Next up is Dan Martin, Dan is six feet five tall and weighs more than 20 stone and is hopeless at sport. If all goes well, he is about to become the first man in history to swim the 3,500 mile Atlantic Ocean. Two years ago he weighed just under 15 stone, well within the healthy range for a man of his height but now he plans to balloon to a blubbery 24 stone in the hope that every extra ounce of fat will stave off hypothermia for a little longer. The Dan Martin foundation raises money for underprivileged children around the globe.

And finally, From the making of Melinda Messenger to the dramatic rescue of England's most over-achieving football club Doncaster Rovers, entrepreneur, pioneer and self-made millionaire John Ryan continues to live his dream. Raised on a modest council estate, John was a driving force in the transformation of cosmetic surgery from controversial luxury to one of Britain's fastest expanding industries. As such, he helped to put smiles on thousands of female faces and has seen more breasts than the editor of The Sun.' Dare To Dream' is his story. Boland on Thursday @11am

The Boland Guest List Tuesday 23rd March…We all remember seeing the film footage of the crashed landed BA Boeing 777 at the edge of the Heathrow’s main runway on January 2008. Boland’s first guest Peter Burkell was the captain on that flight. After watching the television coverage of British female bobsleigh pairs terrifying crash during the winter Olympics last month Peter found himself in floods of tears. He was stunned at how hard it hit him, exposing an emotional fragility over his own brush with death Only his intervention in the last few seconds lowering the wing flaps to gain more height pre-vented the first major catastrophe at Heathrow and saved the lives of 152 people on board. Disastrously for Peter false rumours began that he had frozen at the controls, leaving his co-pilot to land the aircraft, and within months Peter found himself driven out of BA, unemployed and unable to find work as a pilot. Hero? Let’s wait and see.

The Boland Show normally doesn’t like to repeat guests to often but in the case of the next guest it seemed important enough to invite her back following the Popes letter of apology claiming that the abuse that happened in Ireland was the fault of the Irish Bishops and NOT the Vatican. He claims that the crime of cover-up was enacted purely by the Irish hierarchy without instructions from the Vatican. Singer, Sinead O'Connor, who has passionately championed the cause of the abused, said that Irish Catholics were being further insulted by the Pope's call for them to go back to the Catholic Church, which had failed them so abysmally over the past three decades.

Chelsea Haywood takes a fascinating look into the life of a Geisha and their hostess duties, as well as a look into the quirky culture of Japan she tells how she engages in conversation with millionaires, billionaires, serial killers and surgeons who pay her to light their cigarettes and engage in conversation. Throughout the book she is taken to $600 dinners, trips to see the Kabuki theatre, is given a computer and bought clothes worth thousands of dollars join her on her journey on the Boland Show.

And Finally Maurice will be talking to Bob Lewis who will be undergoing a sponsored walk as a tribute to Carol, his late wife. He will be setting off from his home in Orihuela Costa to Santander and then take a ferry to the UK where he will continue his walk from southern England to her home town of Liverpool where he will be joined with family members to lay her ashes to rest alongside her parents. All money collected by way of sponsorship, and along route will be donated to MABS CANCER SUPPORT.
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The Boland Guest List Friday 19th March.

Former Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind, MP was one of only four ministers to serve throughout the whole Prime Ministerships of both Margaret Thatcher and John Major wrote in yesterday Times newspaper: Needed: a peaceful anti-Netanyahu uprising. The Israeli Prime Minister is weakening, not strengthening, his country’s position. He went on to write: The announcement of Israel's intention to build 1,600 homes in east Jerusalem antagonised the Palestinians and infuriated the international community. That by itself, would be unlikely to cause Israel's Prime Minister to lose much sleep. But when you manage to humiliate the US Vice President, who was visiting when the new homes were announced, and cause Hillary Clinton, to say that her country has been ' insulted' you are in the middle of a serious international mess. The former Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind, MP joins the Boland Friday guest list.
A Roman Catholic adoption agency this week won a legal fight to keep its Christian rules saying children should not be sent to live with gay couples. The ruling by a High Court judge was seen as landmark victory for freedom of religious conscience over the demands of equality legislation. But there was bitter condemnation of the judge from gay organisations and trade unions and Maurice’s next guest James Lawrence, communications officer of gay rights group Stonewall, will tell us how ridicules this ruling is and how furious he is.
On Tuesday, Gordon Brown was forced into a humiliating admission that he had slashed defence spending while British troops were at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Prime Minister told MP's he had been wrong to tell the Iraq Inquiry that defence spending under Labour was ' rising in real terms every year'. Boland’s next guest Richard North is the author of the book ' Ministry of Defeat - The British War in Iraq 2003 - 2009 and a political analyst and currently edits the respected defence blog, Defence of the Realm. Will talk about Brown’s humiliation.
Being a Friday It’s ‘Talk on Travel’ for the second hour. Sean Tipton from the ABTA will be talking about news In the travel industry.
When Boland’s next guest Dominic Gill set out from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, on his bicycle, it was to be no ordinary bike ride. His goal was to reach Ushuaia, the southernmost city in South America, nearly 20,000 miles away, and he was starting off with virtually no money in his pocket, barely enough food to last a week and, worst of all, everyone who knew or cared about him was thousands of miles away.
Ten centuries' worth of French historical 'facts' bite the dust as Stephen Clarke looks at what has really been going on since 1066. For 1000 Years of Annoying the French, he has been breathing the chill air of ruined castles and deserted battlefields, leafing through dusty chronicles, brushing up the medieval French he studied at university and generally losing himself in the mists of history. He has now returned to present-day Paris, and is doing his best to live the entente cordiale. Boland on Friday @11am

In 2006, award-winning ITN journalist Chris Rogers, armed with hidden cameras, smuggled himself into the State-run orphanages of Romania and discovered the heartbreaking truth - that the conditions that so chocked the world after the fall of Ceausescu had not, in many cases, improved. The children were still being abandoned: unloved, uncared for, and left to rot. The resulting film on ITN sparked a global debate over the ban on international adoption from Romania and led to further trips - including one to Turkey on which he was accompanied by Sarah Ferguson and her daughters. 'Undercover' is Chris's first book and is on our website.
Vic Pain, 70, and his wife Anne, 65, have been targeted by tearaways since returning to Britain after several years in Spain. The couple told yesterday how gangs of louts have caused thousands of pounds worth of damage at the home and are pleading for more bobbies on the beat after enduring 30 yob attacks in three years. Only a week ago a 64 year old Manchester man with learning difficulties was allegdly tormented to death by neighbourhood gangs.
MP's are demanding a fresh investigation to discover whether vital intelligence was withheld from detectives hunting the Omagh bombers. A powerful parliamentary group wants to discover how much the security services knew about the bombers movements at the time of the Real IRA attack. Ruth Dudley Edwards is the author of the book ' Aftermath: The Omagh Boming and the Families Pursuit of Justice
Blood trickles from a gash below the wrestlers left ear, a wound that could have been worse considering that he incurred it while kissing an 8ft alligator under water. In the viewing stands overlooking the pool where he is performing a crowd of 800 people cheers and gasps as he dives to wrangle the reptile, anxious to impress the panel judges who are assessing his moves. This is a Freestyle Alligator wrestling competition, a body co founded by James Holt, a Seminole Indian tribe member. The Seminole Tribe of Florida is a Federally recognized Indian Tribe, the only tribe in America who never signed a peace treaty.

The Boland Guest list Wednesday 17th…Happy St Patrick’s Day…The mystery surrounding Princess Diana's death resurfaced again this week with claims that chauffeur Henri Paul was not drunk when their car crashed in a Paris tunnel. Blood samples used to verify the amount of alcohol he had consumed were taken from another corpse, Boland first guest John Morgan in his new book Diana Inquest the untold story. Investigative journalist John claims to finally reveal a ' tidal wave of evidence' that the testing process was botched and that Henri Paul was set up as he lay dead in the morgue. The book reveals how judicial corruption led to a seriously flawed verdict at the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed and provides a thorough record of the key evidence that was heard by the inquest jury and details the 143 important witnesses who were not heard from during the inquest.

Next up is author Freddie Forsyth is an English author and occasional political commentator. He is best known for thrillers such as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol. His Book The Phantom of Manhattan was the sequel of ‘The Phantom of The Opera (the true story). It was Forsyth’s book that inspired Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton to write there new musical Love never Dies, dubbed ‘Paint Never Dries’ after critics panned it!!!! Freddie will be talking about his new book, which the ink hasn’t even dried, in this exclusive interview on The Boland Show
Being a Wednesday its ‘Enterprise’ on the second part of the Boland show with three budding entrepreneurs. First up is JAHAN ABEDI who appeared in this -
weeks Secret Millionaire TV Show. Jahan who is a the owner of imperial property services, Crystal Night Club, Mocka Lounge and he has also just recently launched a selection of fine Bistro pubs in Cardiff spent eight days undercover in the county of Leicester to find out how best to distribute thousands of pounds to worthy causes.

John Woods will join the Boland guest list as a live studio guest to talk about this years Gibraltar boat show where multi of millions of pounds worth of boats will be put on display .

And finally Jamie Wells Owner of Hearing Direct-
Maurice spoke to Jamie when he first set up the online spectacle retailer Glasses Direct and he has now teamed up with three experts in the hearing industry to launch a new website selling digital hearing aids. The 25 year old English graduate of the University Of West England hopes hearingdirect.com will revolutionise the hearing aid industry. Boland on Wednesday@11am

The Boland Show Tuesday 16th March….Could this be the height of bad taste; Fertility doctors offering a human egg as first prize in a raffle were last night accused of commercialising the miracle of life. One woman will win the chance to select their ideal donor egg based on its mother's profession, ethnic back-ground, hair colour, qualifications and upbringing. After the lottery was revealed on Sunday, Bolands first guest Josephine Quintavalle, of think tank Comment on Reproductive Ethics, said that the capacity of the IVF industry to commodify human life reaches a new low with this latest deplorable initiative. If you haven’t seen it yet Maurice recommends you should give it a go, were talking about Michael Winners Dinning Stars a new reality TV show. Michael Winner spoke to Boland a few weeks ago about the show and tomorrow one of the poor souls who came under Winners scrutiny joins the Boland guest list. In short ordinary people are set the task of cooking for the grumpy old man who doesn’t like to ‘Take Prisoners’ In fact it’s a brilliant show , so we look forward to hear how Jane Bennett from Shrewsbury who starred in this week's episode and will talk to Maurice about how daunting it was to cook for the notorious food critic.
After the weeks of dedicate work Maurice has put into raising much needed funds for the orphanages in Haiti he gets to talk to someone who was there when the devastating earthquake struck; Pastor Varnel Jeune is the director general of Radio Lumiere, a network of nine christian radio stations and a Christian television stations. It covers 90% of the island of Haiti. Radio Lumiere belongs to the Evangelical Baptist Mission of South Haiti but is operated as a service to all of the evangelical churches.. Pastor Varnel talks to Maurice about what has happened in his country since the earthquake and tells him he believes that the true figure of the death toll will top 1 million, and how they are going to manage as the rainy season approaches. The final guest to be confirmed.. Boland on Tuesday @ 11am.

The Boland Guest List Monday 15th March. Up first is Anna Arrowsmith - an award-winning producer of films such as Eat Me/Keep Me and Where's the Rent Boys? - will stand as the Liberal Democrats' candidate in Gravesham, Kent.The 38-year-old boss of adult film firm Easy on the Eye has made more than 300 films under the pseudonym Anna Span.Last night Anna, Britain's first female blue-movie director, claimed her background would help her become a successful MP. She said: "I would say to my constituents, don't judge me by the industry as a whole. I have gone into the porn industry with a view to changing it and making it more female friendly. I've spent years campaigning for equal opportunities for female workers and I think this has given me an excellent experience for the coming campaign."
HEALTHY, elderly people who are simply ''tired of living'' could be allowed to end their lives with a lethal injection under new euthanasia laws being debated by the Dutch parliament.MPs will discuss the proposals after campaigners collected more than 100,000 signatures in support. The influential Dutch ''Right to Die'' campaign, which has been active since 1973, has proposed training non-medical staff to administer a lethal injection to healthy people over the age of 70 who ''consider their lives complete''. The campaign's spokesman and Boland’s next guest Marie-Jose Grotenhuis, said: ''We've been overwhelmed by the [number] of reactions, especially because people took it so seriously and reactions were mostly positive.'' Euthanasia was legalised in Holland in 2002 and the new proposals have been backed by a majority in opinion polls.
Being a Monday the second hour is open discussion looking at the news and the stories behind them with Barry Nathan, Nathan Thomas and Guests telephone lines in the studio will be open to take live calls on 902444461. Boland on Monday @11am

The Boland Show Friday 12th March ….First up is Mark Williams-Thomas who is a former police detective who has far-reaching experience of working at the centre of high profile investigations. During Mark's police service, he specialised in child protection and major crime and he is renowned throughout the UK's police forces as well as the national media for his expertise in these areas. After 15 years in child protection, Mark was shocked by what he encountered when he spent just five minutes on a social networking site posing as a 14 year old girl. He created a fake profile and photograph portraying him as a pretty slim girl and within 5 minutes of it going live the messages started pouring in from men. Mark, who was a police detective specialising in major crime and worked on some of the biggest murder and paedophile investigations in the UK. before gaining a masters in criminology and setting up a child protection consultancy, conducted the experiment to make public how easy it is for paedophiles to approach youngsters online.
Yesterdays headline read: Millionaire ex-convict ashamed of 'incredibly selfish existence' sells his £1m house to raise cash for African orphans With a criminal record, alcoholism and affairs with married women to his name, Jon Pedley makes for an unlikely Mother Teresa character. Yet the self-made telecommunications tycoon is selling his businesses, his £1million farmhouse and all his furniture - to move to a mud hut in Uganda and start a children's charity.
Being a Friday Its travel for the second hour starting with Sion Tipton from ABTA giving us all the travel news updates etc top of the agenda will be the BA strike. Next up we will be visiting talking to Sarah Dakin of Warner Leasure Holidays she will be explain a new product on offer which will give fans of Strictly Come Dancing the chance to meet their idols on Strictly themed three to four day events at hotels. Guests will be mentored by two strictly professionals before taking part in a dance competition. And finally David Ward will be telling The true story of how a second-hand Smart car beat millions of pounds worth of super cars in one of Europe’s most breathtaking road races of recent times- the Cannonball Run

The Boland Show Thursday 11th March..
Over a period of 100 days from April 1994, up to a million Rwandan Tutsi were murdered by Hutu militias. In the most appalling episode of thnic cleansing since the Second World War, mutilations, killings and rapes occurred on an unimaginable scale. Fifty members of Bolands first guest Mary Blewitt's family were slaughtered in cold blood during the Rwandan genocide. To try to make sense of what had happened, Mary undertook voluntary work, believing she had been allowed to survive in order to help others like her. Her book ' You Alone May Live' is an important book about grief and survival in the face of unimaginable trauma. Mary K Blewitt OBE is the founder and former director of the Survivors' Fund and received the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her work for charity.
Next up is Andrew Rawnsley who began his career at the BBC, working there for two years from 1983, but joined The Guardian in 1985. From 1987 he was the newspaper's parliamentary sketch writer. In 1993 he moved to The Observer as Chief Political Commentator and Associate Editor, a position he retains. He has won several awards for his journalism, including: British Press Awards Young Journalist of the Year (1987); What The Papers Say Columnist of the Year (2000); Channel 4 Political Awards Book of the Year (2001); Channel 4 Political Awards Journalist of the Year (2003); House Magazine Awards Commentator of the Year (2008). Rawnsley has also broadcast regularly; he was co-presenter of Channel 4's A Week in Politics with Vincent Hanna: Rawnsley's will talk on the Boland Show about one of the most eagerly awaited political book his The End Of The Party. The book makes allegations that the prime minister, Gordon Brown physically attacked members of his staff and set off a whole string of allegations toward the PM of bullying.
Next guest Catherine McCall's who will talk about her father who was a high profile doctor and her mother who regularly hosted bridge parties. Growing up in their beautiful, historic home, Cathy appeared to have everything a girl could want. No one, not the neighbours, the nuns at school or her beloved grandmother, could have guessed that there was a torture chamber in the basement of 763 Montgomery Place, or that Cathy was being raped repeatedly by her father. Now married for thirty-eight years and mother to four daughters, the loving family Catherine has now is very


And finally: The British justice system invests tremendous faith in the rehabilitation of criminals. A key principle of the modern approach to crime is that offenders should not just be punished but should also be reformed - so that they are equipped to participate in society again and no longer represent a danger to the public. Maurice’s next guest Dr. Ludwig Lowenstein, one of Britain's leading experts on paedophiles says the sorry truth is many sex offenders cannot be rehabilitated.

Mike Batt is one of Britain's best-known songwriter/composers. His consistent track record of success includes production, composition and conducting on projects as diverse as ' Watership Down', Phantom of The Opera and a great deal of symphonic work, including many television and film scores. He created The Wombles and he has also dedicated a lot of his time to guiding the career of Katie Melua and her first album, containing six of his songs, spent six weeks at number one in the UK.

For decades, the Essex Girl has had to endure hurtful jokes that call into question everything from her intellect to her sexual preferences. But now Essex Girl has a new champion. A charity has been set up to empower the women of Essex to combat the image that has plagued them for so long. Daphne Field, vice chairman of the Prince's Trust in Essex and an EWAG board member said that a lot of the girls we were helping were suffering so much from the stereotypical image so she is doing something about it.
Yasmin Alibhai-brown came to the u.k. in 1972 from Uganda. She is a regular columnist on The Independent and is also a radio and televison broadcaster and author of several books. In yesterday's Independent Yasmin's article had the heading ' British Muslims are running out of Friends' and she feels that the establishment has surpassed its previous disgraceful record in its attitudes to Islam

The Grosvenor Hotel in London is one of the world's premier five star hotels, an unabashed temple to extravagance and glamour. In his new book ' Celebrity Hotel', Neil Kirby, a former General Manager of the Grosvenor, looks back at his extraordinary rise from below the stairs washer upper to bespoke suited manager and lifts the lid on this formidable institution. Once he became General mananager he worked on a daily basis with Hollywood film stars, royalty, international politicians and many well known celebrities.