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.