The Boland Show Tuesday 20th April: First up is Former Commando Ben McBean is a double amputee (left arm and lower right leg) who has overcome massive hurdles since he stepped on a Taliban landmine in 2007. Just 12 months later he ran the London Marathon in just 6hrs and 30 mins and he hopes to break that time when he runs this week end. Ben is the winner of The Sun's Millie Award for overcoming Adversity. Maurice will be wishing him luck.
The most commonly accepted definition of a cougar is a woman 40 years of age or older who exclusively pursues very young men. Typically, cougars prey upon men almost young enough to be their sons. They may be married or unmarried, and some even go after their daughters' boyfriends. Boland’s next guest Rita Sangha is the UK's only ' Cougar Coach' and she runs nationwide events in the UK. She has appeared on radio and TV in both the UK and the US.
Pressure has been mounting on the Government to end the blanket flight ban which has left hundreds of thousands of Britain’s abroad. Airlines have slammed ministers for their approach to the crisis, claiming they have overreacted to the threat posed by the cloud of volcanic ash without assessing the actual risks involved. Boland’s guest David Bentley from The Independent aviation research group The Centre For Asia Pacific Aviation has also questioned whether the restrictions could be 'a massive overreaction of super-cautious politicians and bureaucrats who are far more concerned about their own liability while suffering none of the financial carnage caused by the ban.
And finally Politics these days is all about PR, spin, evading answers and presenting facts, figures, legislation and pretty much everything really in some kind of special code. That we mere mortals should understand politics is dangerous for the politicians and the best way to keep us torpid is by using a language so bland, boring and non understandable. Nick Webb has come up with the perfect antidote in his new book ' The Dictionary of Political Bullshit' Now more than ever with the election coming up, it is the time to decode the bull and see what lies behind the language of the politicians and their hangers-on. Boland on Tuesday@11am