The Boland Show Tuesday 27th April. As a study shows mixed race people are seen as the most attractive and successful, Boland’s first guest Eve Ahmed's extraordinarily moving story raises uncomfortable questions. As a child growing up in the late Seventies and early Eighties, she had no idea what mixed-race meant. Eve knew what half caste meant, though, and she got called it by other children at school, by skinheads on the streets of London where she lived and even by extended family, who should have known better.
Following his hugely popular account of the previous 2000 years, Boland’s next guest John O'Farrell now comes bang up to date with a hilarious modern history asking ' how the hell did we end up here?' In his book ' An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain' he informs, elucidates and laughs at all the bizarre events, ridiculous characters and stupid decisions that have shaped Britain since 1945.
Niamh (Neeve) O'Connor is one of Ireland's best known true crime authors and journalists. A crime reporter with the Sunday World, she has interviewed infamous murderers, gone undercover to expose an international prostitution ring and infiltrated a gang running a mortgage racket swindling the banks out of multi-millions, leading to intervention in the scheme by the Criminal Assets Bureau. Her books include Blood Ties - the real stories behind Ireland's notorious murders' and she has just written her first novel ' If I never See You Again'
If you have seen the movie Priscilla Queen of the Dessert, the story of a trio of female impersonators, you will know what inspired showgirl Boland’s final guest
(we don’t know if Maurice’s knows about this but Steph beware) Wynnie la Freak to hit the road and head south in search of adventure. Having been sick of dodging the bailiffs in not so sunny Manchester she decided to do a moonlight flit and drive to the Costas for some sun, sangria and shenanigans in her boudoir on wheels The Winnebago. The self confessed mad wo-man has been entertaining her way from Barcelona to Benidorm and Valencia to Almeria and is now appearing in her one woman show in Torremolinos. Boland on Tuesday@11am