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.