The Boland Show Thursday 25th Feb… Boland’s first guest wrote the following in The Times: ‘Steven Soderbergh, evidently, was only kidding when he said that there would be no Ocean’s 14. He’s plainly been hard at work filming in a hotel in Dubai, as we can see from the trailers running on News at Ten. With Mossad operatives filling in as movie extras.
Now I know we really, really shouldn’t joke about these things. I should be wearing black and have a long face and be uttering pieties about the disgraceful “extrajudicial” killing of the Hamas military chief Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, apparently by Israeli agents’ Boland’s first guest journalist Melanie Reid, a writer for The Times, will be talking about her take on the way Mossad operate…
We all know what Boland thinks of Global warming, climate change etc just don’t get him started!!! Well Maurice feels the same about homeopathy and homeopathic medicines he thinks there all hockas pockas or words to that effect… According to a committee of MP's, patients should no longer get homeopathic treatment on the NHS because it is little better than ' active deception'. Boland’s next guest Liberal Democrat MP Phil Willis, who is chairman of the cross party committee, has said that there was no evidence the remedies work and dismissed them as ' sugar pills' which should not carry medical claims. So here we go again controversy on the Boland Show….
One wacky reverend gents finds the best way to attract business at his local church is to put up witty signs i.e: ‘Unlike our local Traffic Wardens, God Shows Mercy’!! or ‘Love is Grand. Divorce is Twenty Grand’!!! He hung this sign on the Church Wall: ‘ Almost 2000 years old and Still Under Makers Guarantee’!!! and finaly: ‘' Now Open Sundays' Boland’s guest the Reverend Paul Sinclair's finds these witty signes the best way to reach out to his community from his church. For twelve years, he created funny and entertaining church signs to entice people into the church. Rev Paul also owns Britains only motorcycle funeral business, using a custom made sidecar hearse!!!! Boland on Thursday at 11pm.

The Boland Show Wednesday 24th Feb….. Horrifying figures show that 843 mothers in Scotland have been charged for neglecting their children in the past five years and a further seven were charged with sexually abusing their own youngsters. And it's not just moms - grandmothers, sisters and friends of the family are also making some kids lives a misery. Courageous Dana Fowley waived her right to anonymity to bring her mother to bring her mother to justice after suffering years of sexual abuse. She has written a book ' How Could She' is her compelling and shocking story of her battle to stand up against the men who destroyed her childhood and the mother who committed the gravest betrayal of them all.

The newspapers headlines are full of the break up’s of celebrity marriages , The Coles, Ashley and Sheryl, The Prices newly wed Katie aka Jordan and Alex Reed not forgetting Peter Andrea and what about the Tiger. Well no one know more about celebrities behaving badly than Boland next guest PR Guru and good friend Max Clifford who will talk us through the trials and tribulations of celebrities divorces etc….

Being a Wednesday that means Enterprise on the second hour of the Boland show and as usual Maurice will introduce three very successful entrepreneurs who will explain how they made it, the up’s and downs of there path to successes and tips to getting to the top.
Boland on Wednesday at 11am….

The Boland Guest Tuesday Guest list 23rd Feb: Today’s headlines scream: ‘Brown in Bullying Scandal’. Or: ‘No10 Staff Called Bulling Helpline’ ‘Brown Goes on TV to Deny Hitting’ …An anti-bullying charity revealed yesterday that it has received a string of complaints about Prime Minister Gordon Brown… Boland’s first guest Peter Watt is ex General Secretary of the Labour party and spent 10 years working with Gordon Brown will give us an incite view on life under Prime Minister Brown and answer the question ‘did he ever witness any bullying at No 10. His best selling book ' Inside Out: My Story of Betrayal and Cowardice At The Heart of New Labour' is on our website…

Many of us enjoy the smash hit TV show ‘Secret Millionaire’ in fact many of these millionaires have been guests on the Boland Show. For those of you who have never seen the show.. real life millionaires go under cover in to some of the poorest areas in Great Briton and only reveal there identities at the end of there week after deciding to help certain people who they feel are deserving, they include charity workers school teachers etc etc but Boland’s next guest does the secret millionaire thing with a new slant: Millionaires Seema Sharma returned to Mumbai in India where she took part in a special one-off programme. Forfeiting her luxury lifestyle by going in undercover, living on a very small budget by moving into one of Asia's biggest and most notorious slum which was used for the location of the Oscar winning film ' Slumdog Millionaire. It was a fascinating program and Boland will talk Seema through her time spent living among the slum inhabitants.
Boland next guest Billy Moore will tell us What is it really like to be a contestant on Britain's Got Talent? Billy Moore, The 84 year old yodeling contestant will explain how he survived the auditions and the panel and perhaps Maurice will persuade him to Yodel !!!!
And finally Michael Foley's will tell us about his book ' The Age of Absurdity' is an unusual and entertaining investigation into how the desirable states of well being and satisfaction are constantly undermined by the age we live in. In short, modern life makes it almost impossible to be happy.
Boland on Tuesday at 11pm

The Boland Show Thursday 18th Feb: This has been a week of Cult and Religious bashing on the Boland show. First up were the Scientologists followed by the Jehovah Witnesses then the Jews next up are the Catholic Priests (again) to be precise…. The Pope!!! Today Irish Independent Newspaper headline screamed: ‘ The Pope Has Washed His Hands of Abused Victims’!!!! Furious victims of clerical sexual abuse accused the pope of ‘washing there hands’ of the scandals that rocket the church. Victims condemned the Pope for NOT acknowledging that senior clergy covered up abuse for decades and has refused to call for resignations. They have said the pontiff's unprecedented two day summit with the 24 Irish bishops in the Vatican was a charade which had achieved nothing. Boland’s first guest, Steven O'Riorden, is a victim of child abuse by the church and will his disgust at the pontiff…

French lawmakers have said they want to ban Muslim women from veiling their faces in public facilities, a plan applauded by some French Muslim women but criticized by Muslim leaders, who said it could provoke Islamic extremists in France and abroad. France's prime minister has also said he would sign a decree refusing French nationality to a man who forced his wife to wear the Burkha. Bolands next guest Laila Lalami, the author of a new book ' Secret Son' is Moroccan born and is known internationally for her blog www.moorishgirl.com and her book gives an insider's view of the underlying turmoil of Morocco and a depiction of the roots of Islamic terrorism.
That’s The Catholics, the Muslims so what about the Jews??? We should have known better next up is Dr Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Israel has dedicated his life to tracking down and prosecuting those responsible for the atrocities of World War 2. But for Efraim, time is running out. Many war crimes suspects are elderly and infirm and so are the witnesses. Memories are fading but Efraim says he will not give up until the last Nazi war criminal is prosecuted. Operation Last Chance is a joint project of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre and the Targum Shlishi Foundation of Miami designed to assist governments around the world in bringing Nazi war criminals to justice. It is also the title of Efraim's book which delivers the important and moving story of one man's efforts to bring criminals to justice.
Gee!!!! Its time for a bit of light hearted humour is the guise of Kathy Lette who first achieved success as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues. After several years as a newspaper columnist and television sitcom writer in America she wrote eleven international bestsellers. In her new book ' Men - A user's Guide' Kathy has gathered together the very finest of her sparkling witticisms in a tongue-in-cheek guide to men.

The Boland Show Tuesday 15th February: Controversy is never to far away from the Boland Show and you can be assured there should be plenty of that on the Tuesday show. Guests include the Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, Dan Meridor and a senor PLO spokesperson Dr Gassan Khatib. And it wont stop there Boland will continue his campaign in trying to discredit the Global Warming so called experts wrong even if they’ve side stepped the issues by renaming it ‘Climate Change’ with his guest Dr Benny Peiser a director of The Global Warming Policy Foundation and a senior university lecturer

So let battle commence…… First will be Dr Beeny Peiser…Climate change doubters say UN data has been tampered to grossly overstate case that the earth is warming up. Benny Peiser is a social anthropologist and climate change sceptic and is the director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. The foundation is an all party and non party think tank which while open minded on the contested science of global warming is deeply concerned about the costs and other implications of many of the policies currently being advocated

Two points of view then follow, the Israeli and the Palestinians on who they see as to who to blame for the conflict in the middle east first to the microphone is PLO spokes person Dr Ghassan Khatib is a Palestinian politician. He was born in Nablus in the West Bank, and is a member of the Palestinian People's Party. He was also a member of the Madrid Peace Delegation in 1991and was involved in the Washington negotiations from 1991 to 1993. He was appointed the Palestinian National Authority Minister of Labor in 2002 then the Planning Minister in 2005.
Next up will be Dan Meridor A longtime member of the Likud party, in the late 1990s he became one of the founders of the Centre Party. He rejoined Likud in the early 2000s, and returned to the Knesset following the 2009 elections. Meridor currently serves as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy in the Israeli Cabinet.

The Boland Show on Tuesday at 11am

The Boland Guest List Friday 12th February.. First up tells the story about Students from some of Britain's top universities are travelling to Somalia to fight with a terrorist group linked to Al Qaeda. Young British Muslims are joining a terror group that is blamed for hundreds of deaths in the African country. Boland first guest Mohamed Abdullahi, director of the UK Somali Community Initiative, said his organisation is separately investigating the case of five men and an 18 year old from London, thought to be fighting for the terrorist group. He says he treads a fine line between helping concerned families and identifying threats to the u.k. authorities.
Next up is Davender Ghai, a Hindu grandfather has won the right to be cremated on a traditional open-air funeral pyre in Britain. Davender, aged 71, believes such a cremation is essential to the liberation of his soul after death. Wednesday's landmark ruling means thousands of Hindus, Sikhs and anyone else wanting ' natural cremation' can have their dying wishes legally carried out.
And finally in the first hour relates the report that In 2007, 7.8 million Britons used some form of online dating service in pursuit of romance, and no fewer than one thousand people sign up to the Guardian dating service Soulmates every week. In fact, there is a 50:50 chance that any single person you know logs on to find love. Published in time for Valentines day this week end is Sonali Fernando's book ' Soul Mates', a quirky guide to the world of online dating. Boland’s guest Sonali is an award winning documentary filmmaker and writer who has directed over twenty five films for Channel Four and the BBC.
The second hour is the The Travel Show offer all the latest travel news with Sean Tippton from ABTA’s headquarters in London followed by some recommended holiday and exciting places to visit. Boland Friday at 11am