The Boland Guest for Friday 22nd………Razi Shah didn’t make today’s guest list because of court appearances but he’s rescheduled for tomorrow…His client Munir Hussein, jailed for attacking an intruder after the lives of his family were threatened by knife-wielding thugs in his own home was freed by the court of appeal this week. Razi Shah talks to Boland about the case…
Next up is Geza Vermes the world's leading authority on Jesus, who has published his book ' Searching for the Real Jesus, which gives fresh insight into the most influential figure in the history of mankind. The book is a culmination of a lifetime of study and its publication marks the 50th anniversary of the contract being signed by Geza for the first ever English translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which revolutionised our understanding of the history of the Gospels and the figure of Jesus. Boland will be asking the simple question is Jesus the son of god?
This week a judge told a devoted mother that she cannot take the law into her own hands as he jailed her for life for giving her brain damaged son a lethal heroin overdose. Dr. Philip Nitschke, the founder and director of Exit became the first physician in the world to administer a legal, lethal voluntary injection to one of his terminally patients and we talk to him about the case of Frances Inglis and whether he feels she should have been found guilty of murder.
And Finally…….Trevor Nortons new book ' Smoking ears and screaming teeth' is a collection of the great eccentrics who have performed the riskiest and most extraordinary experiments on themselves for the benefit of humankind.

The Boland Tuesday Guest List: Last weekend a leading Muslim organisation in Britain issued a fatwa against suicide bombings and terrorism, declaring them un-Islamic. Boland’s first guest Shahid Mursaleen is a Spokesperson for Minhaj-ul-Quran, a Sufi organisation based in East London who advise the Government on how to combat radicalization of Muslim youth. They have launched a 600-page religious verdict condemning the perpetrators of terrorist explosions and suicide bombings……

Next up is an extraordinary man: Shaun Ellis, The Wolfman, is one of the very few people to have ever lived with a pack of wolves in captivity. He only leaves the high fenced enclosure to return briefly to the human world. This project was born out of the belief that though wolves have been studied from afar by scientists, getting close and intimate could provide new insights if the wolves trust you enough to give up their secrets. He has appeared in many TV shows and documentaries both in UK and America this will be his first appearance on radio in Spain…

As the Costa suffer through the down turn in the economy were house prices have fallen in some cases by 50% Yesterdays in The Mail on Sunday an article about Gibraltar, talking about how there is no capital gains or inheritance tax, VAT-free shops and of course sunshine! Boland’s guest Jeremy Boyd, of Chesterton International, based in Gibraltar said how in demand property is there. Is there lessons to be learnt???

And finaly we lighten up with the story about Mike Buss now has the record for the longest distance covered on a treadmill in seven days – 517.25 miles. Mike ran the equivalent of three marathons a day, with only two hours sleep a day and brief food and massage breaks. The former Army physical training instructor burned 11,000 calories a day and lost 8 pounds during the week, as well as two toenails…… Boland on Tuesday at 10am

The Boland Show Friday Guest List …..First up is the incorrigible Michael Winner who wrote in his Daily Mail column: Whenever a TV company wants to get a dozen idiots in a confined space, they come to me. The producers of I'm A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of Here! once asked me to appear on the show and said: 'You'll be in very distinguished company. We've got a major Hollywood star.' That turned out to be some minor actor who played Huggy Bear in the prehistoric TV series Starsky And Hutch. So I added Celebrity Mastermind to my 'No thank you' list. Until recently, when, for some strange reason, I accepted the invitation - and agreed to give my fee for appearing to The Police Memorial Trust. He’ll tell host Boland why he was the dunce of the show.
Next up is the Independent Indian correspondent Andrew Buncombe you excellent article on the disaster in Haiti in yesterdays Independent titled: ‘The People are So Poor the But Mud to Eat’ Andrew will talk is through a country in ruin.
One of Maurice’s favorite political correspondent, the excellent Quentin Letts who will talk about Spin Doctor Alastair Campbell who he accuses of peddling a shameless litany of lies at the Iraq enquiry. He dismissed the overwhelming evidence of government papers and his own diaries that he pressured spy chiefs to harden Tony Blair´s ´dodgy´ dossier on Iraqi weapons. Political Correspondent for the Daily Mail Quentin Letts shares his thoughts on the pale looking Mr Campbell during the enquiry.

And Finally……In the depths of the global crunch, why would anyone want to waste precious money on pointless junk that ends up in the trashcan after a couple of uses? But sales of nonsense are rocketing, things like wand-shaped remote controls, desk-top Hoovers, and even a hollow plastic golf-club you can wee into while playing a round! Boland’s final guest John Naish is the man behind The Landfill Prize, the award for Britain’s most useless consumer product

The Boland Friday Guest List: First up is Sinitta who has been singing and dancing since she was a little girl. She had huge success in the 80´s with songs like ´So Macho´, ´Toy Boy´, and ´Love on a mountain top´ More recently Sinitta has been assisting Simon Cowell on The X Factor, and last Sunday she appeared in the new series of ITV´s Dancing on Ice and was voted off week one.

Next on the guest list is ex Flying Squad detective John O’Conner he’s been invited on the Boland show to give his opinion on the amazing events taking place in Lisbon's main civil court is hearing an attempt by former police chief Goncalo Amaral to overturn a ban on his book questioning the McCanns' account of what happened to Madeleine. Giving evidence Chief Inspector Tavares de Almeida told the court yesterday he believed that Madeleine died in her family's apartment in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz on the day she went missing. John O’Conner, who visited Praia da Luz shortly after Madeleine disappeared will tell us what he believes really happened to her.

Boland’s next guest should have us rolling in the isles: Des MacHale is an Associate Professor at University College, Cork and the author of thirty humour books including ´The Book of Irish Bull´, and ´The World´s Best Maggie Thatcher Jokes´. His latest book is ´Love & Laughter: Quotations from the greatest lovers, the loved, the lost and the lecherous.

And finaly….. A well publicized photograph of Rod Stewart and his ex wife Rachel Hunter having a screaming match outside a restaurant in London has been used to emphasize the headline: ‘ Blazing Rows Can Be Good For Your Marriage’ Boland final guest Kate Figes who is the author of a new book ´Couples: The Truth´ Kate has interviewed over 120 people about their relationships and has discovered there is no singular recipe for love. She has found out that a blazing row can be good for you, and has also learnt a lot about what is really going on inside Britain´s bedrooms!

The Boland Show Tuesday Guest List: 'Did Mummy die last night?' It's a question which for Boland’s first guest Simon Carr has suddenly acquired a new life. It was asked of him once before by a five-year-old boy, and there it is in front of him again, 15 years later, very like it was the first time - except this time it's on a big screen in a preview theatre in Soho. And it has come back with an appalling power. In 1994, his wife Susie died after a hard-fought battle with cancer, leaving Simon to raise there son - as well as his older son from a previous marriage - alone. He wrote a book, The Boys Are Back In Town, telling how three males learned to live in a household robbed of a loving mother. Its now a major movie….
Next up in is Tony Bennett, no not the ‘I left my heart in San Francisco’ one but the founder of a site The Madeline Foundation set up by Tony who is convinced that Madeline in fact died in the holiday apartment in Portugal and was not kidnapped as in generally belived , in fact Bennett has tried to take out a private prosecution against Gerry and Kate McCann but a court has said it has jurisdiction over something which allegedly happened in Portugal. Now Tony Bennett and his foundation members want to hold a seminar within a stone throw of the McCann home
WHEN Sally Cornock saw her boyfriend Tony had left his mobile phone behind after leaving for work, she couldn't resist the temptation to take a peek. With her heart in her mouth and stomach churning, she picked it up and pressed the green button to open up his texts. Nothing could have prepared Sally for what she found. "Monday was great. Can't wait to do it again", read the first message. Then another, "Looking forward to tomorrow night". Stunned Sally, 42, scrolled though the rest of the texts and found it filled with flirty messages - all arranging or discussing dates Tony was planning to go on. And all from different women. The shell-shocked company director worked out that, in total, he was seeing FIFTY-THREE other women. She rang him to tell him he had made a big mistake by leaving his mobile around. Then she called all 53 of the astonished women and revealed what he was up to. Her final act of revenge was to delete all the numbers before chucking the phone outside in the mud along with the rest of his belongings. So she started internet site loveratsinc.co.uk which went live in January this year. It is now so popular that it receives nearly 5,000 hits a month. Boland at 10 on Tuesday

The Boland Guest list for Friday 8th December….
Happy Birthday Elvis…Yes folks, Elvis Presley was born on this day 75 years ago, hard to believe Elvis at 75 if he had lived. Bolands first guest Charlie Connelly’s book In Search of Elvis, in an engaging journey that takes him from Elvis's birthplace in Tupelo, via places Elvis visited in Germany, Las Vegas and Hawaii, and of course to Elvis's home and the setting for his tragic death: Graceland in Memphis. Connelly – an admirer of Elvis rather than an obsessive fan – wanted to take a look at the Elvis legacy, and see why Presley remains the biggest cultural icon of our time. To do this, he's chosen not to write a biography, and not to trace Elvis's life through the obvious places. The trip takes him to Finland to meet a professor who performs Elvis songs in Latin while wearing a kilt; to Canada to meet Schmelvis, the Jewish Elvis impersonator, and Elvis Priestley, the Anglican priest and also an Elvis impersonator.

Maurice was originally drawn to the headline: ‘Teenagers risk death in internet strangling craze’ ….. Children are posting videos on the internet showing them choking other youngsters to the point of collapse, in a craze that doctors warn has led to brain damage and death!! In the troubling footage on YouTube, British teenagers can be seen losing consciousness, their eyes rolled back, as they collapse to the ground to the sound of their friends' laughter. The videos show teenagers applying pressure to the necks of friends. Others try to create the high on their own, using a ligature, with a greater risk of killing themselves if anything goes wrong and help is not at hand. Maurice has invited Françoise Cochet to join his Friday guest list and will tell him: “The afternoon my 14-year-old son Nicolas told me about a "scarf game" he and some friends had been playing in the playground, I dismissed it. I didn't realise that the "game" involved the children risking their lives by starving their brains of oxygen in pursuit of a high. Later that night, my son tied a judo chord around his neck, attached the other end to his door handle and, accidentally, strangled himself to death”.
We continue to be shocked by the amount of lies we are told in the media, by advertisers, politicians and experts. Boland’s next guests Simon Rose and Steve Caplin clearly are too, and have done some wide ranging and amusing research into the areas in which the public are misled. Theatrical posters, bottle labelling (wine can legally contain fish bladders and not tell you - urgh!), budget airlines and many quagmires of deceit are exposed. "British' pork can come from Ireland, 'British' beef can be Zebu meat from Brazil - hence the title of there book ‘Complete and Utter Zebu’ a metaphor for the amount of misleading tosh we are fed.
Bolands final guest Oonagh O’Hagan who’s new book ' I love You with Custard on Top and other notes from the Wilder Shores of Love' is a hilarious collection of genuine love notes, from the affectionate to the poignant to the downright filthy. Oonagh was given the notes by friends, colleagues and anonymous donators….Boland on Friday at 10..

The Boland Guest List for Thursday 7th January: Albino Forquilha is 41 and a former child soldier from Mozambique.. His introduction to violence came during the Mozambican civil war when the government gave him a gun to guard his school against the incursions of rebel guerrillas. He was 13 at the time. After the war Albino and several other former child soldiers launched a charity to get rid of guns (there were still 2 million weapons in the hands of private citizens) and today they have created what has become one of Mozambique's major peace-building organisations called ' Transforming Arms into Ploughshares Project'

To most of us, the baggage we collect through life brings with it little jolts of memories. So why are we continuously told to declutter and throw everything away. That our homes should be shiny, bare and minimalist - like those shown in television commercials. Well, according to a new survey decluttering isn't necessarily good for us. Joining the Boland Guest List is Ray Connolly a journalist and author and talks to us about how he feels about decluttering.

“Matchmaker, Matchmaker make me a match” …..Yes we all loved that song in Fiddler on The Roof Boland’s next guest is real life Matchmaker: For centuries, Irish matchmakers have performed a vital service, bringing people together in love and marriage. It is a mysterious art, and the very best matchmakers have an almost magical quality to them. Willie Daly, whose father and grandfather were matchmakers before him, is the most celebrated of them all. Willie's book ' The Last Matchmaker' is on our website

And finally the story of a group of very happy New Year revellers: Guests celebrating new year at the highest pub in England had a longer than expected stay, after heavy snow left them stranded for three days. Tracy Bailly, who owns the Tan Hill Inn tells us how it was to celebrate new years eve for three days. Boland on Thursday at 10…

The Boland Guest List Wednesday the 6th December: Brian Moor , with 64 caps is English rugby’s most capped hooker. Known as the ‘Pitbull’ to his teammates, he played in three World Cups, won three Grand Slams in ’91,’92 and 1995: Went on two British Lyons tours and was voted Rugby Player of the Year. Yet, beneath this tough exterior lies a complicated man with some deep secrets which he has never spoken about…That is until now!! Moor will join Boland’s Wednesday morning guest list and will disclose why he has made the decision to break silence over the sex abuse he suffered as a child!!!

For millions of ordinary Britons, Wootton Bassett has become a symbol of national pride in the bravery of service personnel and of national grief for the loss of so many young lives. Now, Islam4UK plan to parade empty coffins through the town as part of a campaign to highlight the supposed persecution of Muslims by British troops. Imran Ahmad is a British Muslim who came to Britain from Pakistan and the author of the book ' Unimagined: a Muslim Boy Meets The West' will join the Boland guest list and will tell why he is appalled by this callus attempt to insult our brave troops.

Next up is Alex Quick explaining to Boland why deep down, everyone knows that the best things in life are free - but it's easy to forget in a world of constant advertising and competitive consumerism. Quick will remind us how many of the really important things in life can be done without spending anything. His suggestions range from things that we all know we should do but never seem to get around to ('Contact a friend you haven't spoken to for ages') to the less obvious ('Ask a child for advice' or 'Learn a brilliant magic trick').

Boland at 10 on Wednesday Followed by his excellent show Enterprise from 12pm-1pm

Enterprise Guests include; Charlotte Evans and Carolyn Jarvis the founder of Buggy Boot, who, in April 2008 appeared on BBC2’s Dragons' Den, Charlotte and Carolyn made a spirited presentation, which they describe as being one of the most challenging and nerve-wracking pitches they've ever given. After demonstrating the product and explaining the business, Charlotte and Carolyn secured the full amount of funding they sought and the support of a Dragon - Deborah Meaden.

Michael North didn’t fair so well when he to appeared on Dragons Den. Michael known as ‘The Olive Oil Man’ dared to argue with the dragons and more or less proved his case that Deborah Meadon didn’t know what she or any of the other Dragon know about real olive oil. He has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows including UK TV Great Food Live, UK TV Food Market Kitchen, Ready Steady Cook, BBC TV Dragons’ Den, Dragons’ on Tour and BBC Radio. Michael founded the UK’s first Seasonal Fresh Olive Oil Club in to help discerning food enthusiasts gain privileged access to "heavenly class" extra virgin Olive Oil right at its peak of perfection, and the Club boasts members as far away as New York, Brisbane and the Bahamas. Michael has joined an ever growing list of business people who didn’t find success with the Dragons but went on to find success without them