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.
The Boland Show Tuesday @ 11am.

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.

The Boland Show Guest list: To the fury of most British people, who think that James Bulger's killers served nothing like a sufficient sentence, Justice Secretary Jack Straw insisted that no details would be given of what further offence Jon Venables has committed. Many, not least James's family, were furious that Venables and Thompson were freed without ever spending a day in an adult prison and they were given anonymity for life consisting the tax payer 5.5million already. Boland’s first guest Niri Shan is head of media law at Taylor Wessing and he discusses what Venables could have done to land him back in jail.
A fundamentalist group that wants to turn Britain into an Islamic republic has successfully infiltrated the Labour Party. Maurice’s next guest Jim Fitzpatrick MP named the Islamic Forum of Europe as a group trying to win power by secretly taking control of local Labour organisations. Channel 4's Dispatches programme claims the IFE has won a large measure of control over the London borough of Tower Hamlets and has packed Labour membership rolls in East London with its own supporters. Leaders of the group are said to oppose democracy and support the introduction of Islamic sharia law, while trying to impose hardline views on local communities.
Four lottery winning hairdressers have opened their own salon after being lad off. The lucky girls were part of a syndicate who, last year, scooped an incredible 2.9 million. Despite collecting 30,000 per year in interest, Lorna and her Lotto winning pals are all back at work in their Salon Bliss for exactly the same wages as before.
Being Friday its Travel and Boland’s regular contributor ABTAS Sean Tippton will be giving us an up date on the travel industry also the show will be stopping off at some of the worlds most exotic and luxury holiday locations…
Stop Press….One of the guest just confirmed joining the Monday morning guest list is Sinead O’Conner. This is being announced now as many of our listeners might find what she has to say very offensive especially if you had read her letter into days Times Newspaper headed Burn The Vatican….You’ve been warned. Boland at 11am weekdays

The Boland Show Thursday Guest List: A monster iceberg the size of Luxembourg has broken off a glacier in Antarctica prompting fears it could drastically change the world's weather. The 2,500sq km block - which holds enough water to fill the Thames 100 times - was dislodged by another iceberg that broke away 23 years ago. Boland’s first guest Dr. Neal Young, a Glaciologist and research scientist at the Australian Antarctic Division, has expressed alarm that the vast iceberg will disrupt the world's ocean currents and climate.
Ever wonder where that ambulance is going when you see it speeding by, lights flashing sirens roaring. What is the emergency? Is it and accident or a life threatening heart attack, perhaps a serious car accident or just some driver rushing home for dinner? Boland next guest Suzi Brent is an emergency medical dispatcher which means that she's one of the people who take 999 calls for the ambulance service. She takes hundreds of those calls a day and has to remain calm when dealing with traumatic, often life and death situations. For the past year Suzi has kept a diary of the traumas and tragedies and that is now her book ' Nee Naw: Real Life Dispatches From Ambulance Control'
For anyone with a normal understanding of the meaning of right and wrong, the very idea that Britain's most notorious serial killer could successfully make a determined bid for freedom through the courts seems utterly incredible. But the Yorkshire Ripper and his team of doctors and legally aided lawyers truly believe Peter Sutcliffe should be freed from Broadmoor high security hospital next year after serving 30 years. Maurice’s next guest Theodore Dalrymple has spent 20 years working as a prison and hospital doctor and says that Ripper should not be allowed anywhere near parole. Theodore is the author of the book 'Second Opinion - A Doctor's Notes From The Inner City'
And finally we lighten up for Boland’s final guest John Osborne who has long been a fan of radio - from late night sessions of John Peel to Rest Match Special at dawn. When his dull temporary job became drearier than ever, John decided to remain attached to his headphones all day for a month listening to all the different channels. The result is his book ' Radio Head' a funny, disarming ride through aspects of Britain that are uplifting, informative and sometimes plain bizarre

The Boland Guest List Wednesday 3rd March: First Guest is Marine Biologist and wild life film maker, Dr Martha Holms who wrote the headline ‘ The Price We Pay For Caging Them’ she is of course referring to the tragic death a killer whale trainer in Florida’s Sea World. She went on to write: I've seen orcas killing all sort of different prey and, although there are no reliable reports of them ever killing a human in the wild, I know what they can do. They are intelligent, resourceful and infinitely adaptable creatures; killing prey is simply what they do best. So, on one level, it's tempting to say that the tragic death this week of Mrs Brancheau was simply a result of the whale following its natural instincts. And that might, conceivably, be true; killer whales can certainly take prey from the shallows, as anyone who's seen that incredible footage of them hunting sea lion pups on a Patagonian beach in the BBC's Blue Planet series can attest. But all my instincts, as both scientist and conservationist, are that Tillikum was not acting naturally at all. I'm convinced that keeping such big marine creatures in such small water parks is cruel and places the animals under tremendous stress.
Next Guest is a UFO expert, here we go, this already sounds that it would be better suited to the Gilmore show!!! Britain's Ministry of Defence is destroying all UFO reports it receives so it can avoid answering Freedom of Information requests. According to a formerly secret MoD document that Boland next guest Dr. David Clarke has obtained using the Freedom of information act, this decision means that any future sightings - even those made by reliable sources such as aircrew, radar and police - will in future be shredded after 30 days. Make up your own minds I think Boland will say at the end of this interview…
As its Wednesday it means the second hour of the Boland Show is ‘Enterprise’ looking at Three very different but equally successful entrepreneurs: Jane Winkworth Founder of French Sole. In the mid-1980s, while on holiday in Spain, Winkworth came across a small shoe shop that was closing down and snapped up all its ballet shoes. Back home, her friends bought them. Realizing how popular the shoes were, Winkworth thought of selling them as a hobby to raise money for charity. She spent a year going back and forth to France researching and visiting factories that made ballet shoes for famous brands. Winkworth’s first shop, which she opened in 1991 in Fulham, was an immediate success. French Sole now has four shops in the UK and four under its sister brand in America, London Sole, which she set up in 2003 with her son Ben. This year the company expects to have total sales of about £6m. It employs 60 people.
Next up is Dawn Gibbons who is this weeks star of TV’s Secret Millionaire one of Maurice’s favorite show who made her fortune in property.
And finally Kerry Kolbe, Millionaire film entrepreneur, who saw is company Signal Films winning the Daily Mail enterprising young Brits competition.
Boland On Wednesday at 11am

The Boland Guest list Monday 1st March : America's refusal to support Britain in the Falklands oil drilling row has been blamed on the UK's decision to release sensitive U.S intelligence on a terror suspect. President Obama has been accused of being feeble by failing to back London in the stand-off with Argentina over the disputed islands. The criticism was echoed by Boland’s first guest Tory MP Patrick Mercer, the chairman of the Commons' terrorism sub-committee.
Next Up is actor Tim Healy found fame as Dennis, the gaffer of Auf Wiedersehen Pet back in the 80's. Since then he has starred in many TV dramas, including The Grand, Common as Muck and Benidorm. Tim will be coming down to Marbella for the Haiti Golf Tournament and Gala on the 13th March together with his wife Denise Welch.
Last week saw the launch of yet another scare campaign in the U.K. As so often before championed by the BBC, it warned us again of the deadly dangers posed by asbestos - this time in Britain's schools. Christopher Booker - author of the book 'The Real Global Warming Disaster' - says that the BBC, profiteering firms and gullible politicians have grossly exaggerated the dangers of asbestos.
And finally Robin Cousins who won the World Free Skating Championship gold medal three times and the gold at Lake Placid in 1980. He is head judge on Dancing on Ice, has just come back from Vancouver where he was commentating on the Olympic Ice Skating and at the end of this month will be joining the cast of Grease for a limited season.