The Boland Show Tuesday 1st June: Tuesdays show promises to be something very special when you see that the guest list includes an Archbishop of Canterbury, a rape victim, a diplomats wife and an expert on the must-have-pet, a Meerkat !!!!
First up is the former Archbishop of Canterbury George Cary. Carey was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002. He was the first modern holder not to have attended Oxford or Cambridge University. His time as archbishop saw the Church of England allow the ordination of Women priests and a rising debate over attitudes to homosexuality at the Lambeth Conference of 1998. WOW Boland and the Archbishop makes for interesting stuff!!!
Next up Maurine Gibbon: The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition has proposed a ban on the identification of men accused of rape. Which means that most men arrested on suspicion of rape will never be named because the vast majority never get to court. Unless 94% of women are lying, then there are a shed load of guilty men getting away with rape, including those who are reported to the police. Critically acclaimed author, Boland’s guest Maureen Gibbon was raped when she was sixteen. Nothing could take away her pain. Until she decided to go and visit rapists in jail so that she could try and come to terms with what happened to her. Her book ' Thief' is based on her experience.
The Foreign Office won't like it and her husband isn't too keen either but, after 25 years travelling from embassy to embassy and hellhole to hellhole, Maurice’s guest Cherry Denman, a diplomats wife, reveals the riotous truth about their perilous postings. Her book is Diplomatic Incidents: The Memoirs of An (Un) Diplomatic Wife.
Finally: Thanks to one of the most brilliant TV campaigns, the Meerkat is now a must-have pet. But behind the cute image lies shocking cruelty and exploitation. This oddly compelling creation - a smoking, jacket-wearing puppet with a Russian accent has more than 720,000 friends on Facebook and the the advert has been watched more than half a million times on Youtube. Now, some of these fans have decided to take their enthusiasm for Aliksandr Orlov to the next level by buying a Meerkat - even though the RSPCA says the creatures are wholly unsuited to being kept as domestic pets. Craig Redmond is from the Captive Animals Protection Society.
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The British Ambassador to Spain, Giles Paxman made a fleeting visit to the Talk Radio Europe studios to be interviewed by Maurice Boland. The Ambassador was on a brief visit to the Costa del Sol to attend the Age Concern Garden Party. He had a brief tour of the Talk Radio Europe studio complex and a chat with the staff. Whilst recording the interview, he told Maurice how delighted he was with the posting to Spain which he explained was one of the most sought after postings in the Foreign Office. This interview will be broadcast on Monday 31st May.

The Boland Show Friday 28th May. This week two boys aged ten and eleven became Britain's youngest sex offenders - guilty of attempting to rape an eight year old girl. A jury cleared them of rape but convicted them of the lesser charge by a majority of ten to two following an extraordinary two week trial which almost collapsed shortly after it began. Questions have been raised over whether the trial of the children should have been put through an adult court. Boland’s first guest Felicity Gerry is a leading criminal barrister and author specialising in serious fatal, sexual and violent offences with a particular expertise as a Rape Specialist advocate. She is an experienced broadcaster and writer with significant appearances on BBC television and Sky News.
When Maurice’s next guest Lauren Samuels appeared on the TV reality show ' Over The Rainbow' she was 22 years old and came third. Although not winning the show, Lauren received great praise from the judging panel and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Lauren is flying down to Marbella tomorrow and will be appearing on stage singing 'over the rainbow' at the Children with Leukemia Gala on Sunday evening at Villa Tiberio.
Dame Margaret served at the United Nations for over four decades. She served as resident representative of the United Nations Development Program in eight countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa. For nearly 50 years she was a trusted advisor to the Bolivian government. Her new book 'The house on a sacred lake' describes how Margaret made a home in Bolivia in turbulent times. Her personal journey, a charming mix of warmth, humour, political passion, and idealism is interwoven with Bolivia’s political journey.
And finally Mark Bridge who is a member of the band 'Hope Street Park' who are a couple of footy mad lads from Blackpool, on a mission to storm the UK charts with their independently funded, World Cup 2010 song 'We are England'. Over recent years there’s been tireless efforts by unsigned acts trying to break into a market systematically controlled by single corporations, but 'Hope Street Park' are confident that with the support of the English public, they can break into the UK top 40 this summer.
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The Boland Show guest list Wednesday 26thMay: First up is Bonita Norris, On the 17th May Bonita became the youngest British woman to climb Mount Everest. During her climb, she put herself at risk from the dangers of extreme altitude, frostbite, hypothermia and snow-blindness, and required bottled oxygen. Bonita woke up one morning in 2008 with the crazy idea that she would climb Everest and raise a load of cash for charity along the way. It took her two years to get ready and raise the 50,000 pounds to cover the costs of such a trip.
War is always a nasty subject. In the past, states clashed and battles were fought between armies. Today superpowers are pitted against warlords. Maurice’s next guest, the Observer's chief foreign correspondent Peter Beaumont, takes us into the guts of modern conflict. He visits the bombed and abandoned home of Mullah Omar, discovers a deserted Al Qaeda camp where he finds documents describing a plan to attack London and talks to young bomb throwers in a Rafah refugee camp. His book The Secret Life of War is on our website.
Being a Wednesday means the second hour in Enterprise and for the first time this season it is sponsored by Staysure the experts at over 50’s insurance and first guest up is Catherin Paver. Catherine doesn’t believe in retirement. At 82, she goes into work every day at Pavers Shoes, the retailer she started more than 40 years ago and is still very much involved. She has opened four shops in India, two in Mumbai, one in Chennai and another in Hyderabad. She now plans to increase her chain of shops to at least 100.
Charles Rolls had to wait until he was 40 to work out what he wanted to do with his life. That’s when in 2005 he founded 'Fever-Tree' his tonic water and mixer company. The company is on target to produce more than 19m bottles this year with sales of 8 million pounds. The tonic water is sold in 22 countries, most notably here in Spain - with one of the biggest markets for Gin and Tonic
Finally:
Julie Meyer, 42, is one of Britains most successful entrepreneurs and is among the 30 most powerful women in Europe, according to the Wall Street Journal. She is also well known for being a "Dragon" on the online version of Dragons Den.
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The Boland Show Guest List Tuesday 25th May: Seven years ago Boland’s first guest Erica Duggan received a phone call in the middle of the night from her terrified son Jeremiah. 45 minutes later his bodied body was found at the side of a road in Wiesbaden in Germany. Erica has been trying to get to the bottom of his death ever since. Jeremiah had been a French student in Paris and he travelled from there to Germany with a group of men he had chatted to after selling him a political newspaper. Unknown to him they had links with the controversial LaRouche organization who have been accused of being a political cult with anti-semitic leanings and is headed by U.S multi-millionaire Lyndon LaRouche. An application for a new inquest into the death of Jeremiah has now been granted and Erica will be back on the Boland show to talk about how this is her "last hope" to discover the truth.
The Billionaire Facebook founder is making a fortune from everyone's secrets and you probably don't know that he is doing it. All facebook members think that they are sharing their innermost thoughts with friends but it emerged this week, however, because of a series of changes to Facebook's privacy settings, their messages can be read by anyone on the internet. In the past couple of weeks Facebook's standing has plummeted and regulators in the EU and the U.S. have demanded changes to the way the social network site handles and shares users' private data. Journalist Steve Bogan will be joining the guest list to talk us through the Facebook phenomenon.
Next Up is Bill Turnbull best known for presenting BBC Breakfast. He is the main male presenter of Breakfast broadcast on BBC One and BBC News, presenting alongside Sian Williams each Monday-Thursday. He has recently published his book 'The Bad Beekeeper's Club'. In the book he describes how he stumbled into the mysterious world of beekeeping, and how it has somehow taught him a great deal about himself and the world around him. At the same time his stories highlight the very real threats to our bee population, and what we can do to create a better environment for these creatures. Bill should be an excellent interview.
Finally, ever fancy being shot into space?? Well now’s your chance Maurice’s final guest Rod Stevenson has been a teacher for ten years following a career in the IT industry. He has been a member of the Eastern Anglian Rocket Society for the last 5 years. Along with rocketry activities at his school Rod has helped with a number of space events and appears regulary on local radio and TV programmes. He is also vice chairman of the Space Education Council and has a particular interest in developing space and rocketry education in schools.
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The Boland Show Guest list Tuesday 17th May. Boland’s first guest Jamie Wallar is the founder of JBW group which is a dynamic, intelligence-led and innovative debt management and enforcement solutions provider, JBW also operates a fully functional High Court Enforcement and Certified Bailiff service. Having worked in the industry previously, Jamie set up his own business to create an enforcement agency that could work at changing the face and reputation of the bailiff industry. Today JBW group is valued at around 10 million pounds. Jamie was the star of the BBC1 series 'the enforcers', as well as 'beat the bailiff' he also has an upcoming series called 'beauty and the bailiff', where he will take wannabe wags who have built up huge debts and retrain then as bailiffs, as well as a quiz show about 'people you love to hate!'. Very current at the moment with the suffering families are going through with the downturn of the economy!!!
Next up the story of a young man who went off to Las Vegas for a long drinking weekend and came back with more than he bargained for A WIFE!! It could only happen in Vegas. British divorcee meets a beautiful blonde American in a hotel bar when he spills a drink over her. They get drunk, dance and three and a half hours later he has proposed. Seventeen hours after meeting they were married. Nick Bond is that man. But what happened when Nick faced her very angry father last week?
Amy Hanson is Maurice’s next guest, she was a showbiz journalist for various national newspapers and magazines lived for shopping and parties with celebrity friends. She had travelled to the Far East to escape a life in London which seemed increasingly meaningless and unfulfilling. She wanted a slower pace of life and also hoped she would find romance. Instead her life was turned upside-down by the sight of the Cambodian children walking around barefoot on a burning decomposing mess, littered with needles and shards of glass. She met with two people who ran a charity PSE (pour un sourire d'enfant) that offers accommodation and food to the desperate children. When Amy returned to England she began raising money for the Cambodian orphans who were still on the street. She set up Small Boots Project to raise money to buy wellington boots for the orphans and ended up raising 1.500 pounds in a week! Amys documentary 'Small Steps'- is premiering here in Spain next week and from next month it is being shown in cinemas around London.
And finally Associate Professor Keith Dear from the ANU (The Australian National University) is a biostatistician with experience in various areas of medical and health research. He will be talking about how Australian scientists warn half the planet could simply become too hot for human habitation in less than 300 years.
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The Boland Show Friday 14th May. An unsettling discovery has been made by independent US film-maker Boland’s first guest John Williams. According to his new film, about the mysterious Bridgend suicides, many more deaths have taken place in the Welsh town than the reported 28 hangings. Indeed, he claims the figure is closer to 60. The film has yet to be commissioned, although Sky has expressed an interest, and it promises to make for unsettling viewing. One local young man, who lost his best friend to suicide, helped Williams and appears expressing complete bafflement as to the cause of epidemic. He is seen saying he would never follow in their footsteps, yet after production had finished Williams received a call telling him he too had taken his life. A film, we fear, that deserves to be seen.
Next up is bigger than life TV personality, astrologer Russell Grand. Russel started his life as a astrologer by simply by being in the right place at the right time. When the then queen mother was making a royal tour of a show in Olympia she stopped off at a stand Russel was working on, seeing an opportunity he grabbed an astrological chart and asked her majesty if he could read her stars (cheeky!!)and the rest as they say is history!!! Russell has written several books dealing with astrological matters. Last month Russell appeared on Marco Pierre Whites 'Kitchen Burnout' after turning down other reality TV shows like Celebrity Big Brother. This is always a laugh when Boland and Grand get together!!!!
As its Friday the Boland Show residents guest Sean Tipton live from ABTA’s headquarters in London, will talk us through news within the travel industry.
Maurice’s next guest Elizabeth Moscrop ,who was once the public relations gopher for Martin Bashir's first big interview with Princess Diana, is now earning her living by writing about private aviation for aviation publications all over the world and is the co-author of the book 'The 100 Greatest Women in Aviation'. This year celebrates the 100th year of women in aviation!
And finally: There is no textbook way to deal with divorce, but Ian Usher would admit that his coping mechanism was somewhat drastic. When his wife walked out on him, he vowed to purge himself of everything he owned that reminded him of the happy years they had spent together. He put his house and all its contents, his car, motorbike and even his job and his friends for sale on e Bay. His plan disintegrated into a highly publicised failure as there were not genuine offers so he sold his belongings individually and used the money to achieve 100 of his lifelong ambitions in as many weeks. His adventures have taken him all over the world and Maurice talks to Ian who is now in America on the last leg of his trip.

The Boland Show Wednesday 11th May: Childless couples from around the world are travelling to India to have babies by surrogate mothers. They say it's their last chance and that everyone benefits. Since 2003, 167 surrogate mothers have successfully given birth to 216 babies at the Akanksha Infertility Clinic, run by Boland’s first guest Dr. Nayana Patel and her husband, Hitesh. The pregnant women at the clinic are mainly of lower caste and from impoverished nearby villages and the pay they receive following a birth is equivalent to over 10 years salary. But is it really an equitable relationship or an example of westerners’ exploiting the world's poorest women by paying a fraction of the price that they would closer to home. An amazing story that needs to be told.
The British government is desperately hoping to transfer everyone's medical history to yet another massive, centrally-held, government-controlled database, making patients medical records potentially viewable to hundreds of thousands of NHS staff nationwide. The plan is for patients' medical data to be uploaded by default, unless the patient actively objects - an 'opt out' mechanism. That is, if you do and say nothing, your data will be uploaded. The NHS is now scaring patients into signing up to its controversial database - by claiming that those who refuse, run the risk of receiving the wrong test results or the wrong drugs. Maurice’s next guest Dylan Sharpe, campaign director of Big Brother Watch has said that the whole handling of the care record system has been sneaky and under hand, with the government doing anything to prevent people of opting out of the system. Big brother is watching you!!!
Being a Wednesday the second hour of the Boland Show is ‘Enterprise’ where Maurice introduces to three successful entrepreneurs who will explain how they made the fortune: Phillipa Aldrich, was a famous and successful London property lawyer juggling her responsibilities to her retired parents. She was horrified at the many utilitarian products, available specifically for the elderly or disabled market, such as lamps, cook ware, 2 handled teapot and mug were dull and looked as if they belonged in a hospital. She decided to form The Future Perfect Company, a product design company which has modernized these sort of goods.
Next entrepreneur to enter Boland’s Den is John Hughes. There is no end to the horror stories that we hear on a daily basis abut investments made abroad that have resulted in failure of the developer, the real estate agents or other beneficiaries who fail to fulfill their obligations and promises. If you are having difficulty with your developer, or if you have placed a deposit with a developer and he threatens that you will loose it, then John Hughes, founder of www.lostyourdeposit.com will hopefully be able to help. John Hughes, who has been in business for many years in the UK having had printing businesses and also being a consultant to Local Authorities and Universities culminating in running a successful Printing company, with over 50 employees and a million in turnover. He decided to retire at 55 and is now an investor in Spain, Portugal and now the Eastern Block
And finally: Kevin Green who has created a substantial residential property portfolio since 1999, when he climbed onto the property investment train and bought his first deal. Previously, Kevin was a successful dairy farmer in south Wales increasing his family's business from 40 to 400 cows.Kevin bought his first smelly property using credit cards to bridge finance the deposit and mortgage at 85% loan to value. .
Kevin is now a multimillionaire, not surprising for someone who believes actions speak louder that words. He is involved in a number of successful companies and property related business. Land development , lease options and commercial deals form a major arm of his business today together with his continued growth of the buy to let portfolio.
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The Boland Show Guest List Friday 7th : With the result of the elections coming in Frederick Forsyth. novelist and occasional political commentator talks through the results with Maurice and how he sees the outcome etc
Next up is Stephanie Calman who is a writer and broadcaster and whose 'Happy Families' column appears regularly in the Daily Telegraph. The idea for her new book ' How not to murder your husband' came to her when she began making a list of things that annoy her about her husband, and found how hard it was, once she had started, to stop.
Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow all saw there airports shut once again due to the risk of ash from the Icelandic volcano. ABTA’s Sean Tiptons joins the second hour of the Boland Show and will be looking at the risks of booking future holidays and flights and what we can do against to insure against possible loss.
This weeks UK’s press headlines have been dominated by words of ‘Cheat’ referring to snooker’s double world champion John Higgens alleged accepting bribes to fix games. Boland’s next guest Barry Hearn, chairman of the world snooker association, has vowed to root out the stench of corruption in snooker after the John Higgins allegations. Barry as said any action taken against world no 1 John Higgins over the bribes he allegedly agreed to take for losing frames in future matches will be stringent and immediate.
200 years after Lord Byron swam from Europe to Asia, Maurice’s final Harry Mount attempted the same feat and tells how he got on. Harry is a journalist and author who regularly contributes to a range of national newspapers, including the Telegraph, Daily Mail and the Spectator.
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The Boland Show Thursday 6th May
Gordon Brown suffered a humiliating blow to his credibility on Tuesday as a Labour candidate, when Boland’s first guest Manish Sood, described him as the 'worst Prime Minister' Britain has ever had. With less than 48 hours of campaigning to go, Manish called the Prime minister ' a disaster' and said the party's election campaign was wrong. Not good timing one thinks????

Maurice’s next guest was once a refugee to England, Dorothy Bohm has photographed the life around her for 60 years and now has an exhibition in Manchester. Dorothy was born in East Prussia and when she was 14 her father, Tobias Israelit, who was already suffering Nazi persecution, sent her for safety to England. As he said good bye to her he handed over to her his camera and so began her life in pictures.

Gipsies human rights are more important than the concerns of local residents, according to new planning rules. Guidelines made public on Tuesday mean planning inspectors will favour letting them set up sites and stay on existing ones, while complaints will be largely ignored. Onh the Boland show guest list is Shay Clipson is a Romany Gypsy living in Lincolnshire and is a mother and grandmother. Gypsies are the most hated minority in Europe despite centuries of persecution and the holocaust, it is claimed. Up to half a million were killed by the Nazis but their plight is often forgotten and they remain demonised. Shay is passionate about promoting a positive image of the Romany people who must be the most misunderstood people in the world today.
And finally where talking butterflies!!!! Maurice’s last guest is Clive Farrell who decided to invest 11 million pounds - which he had made through property investments - in a scheme to turn a huge patch of former scrubland near Hertfordshire into a wild haven for tens of thousands of butterflies from Britain and around the world. It is already open to visitors but when the farm is finished in two years time it will be the biggest butterfly tourist attraction in the world!
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The Boland Show Guest list Wednesday 5th May…Maurice’s first guest Polly Tommey bold campaign to increase awareness of autism has been causing controversy. She was finding it difficult to attract attention to her campaign for increased awareness of autism, so she took her top off and posed, Wonderbra-style, for billboard posters beneath the words 'Hello Boys. Autism is worth over 6 million votes. It's time to talk....' Polly's own son Billy, 13 is autistic and last year she was invited to Downing street after putting her phone number on a billboard inviting Gordon Brown to Call. She is now hoping the Conservatives will come back with some concrete policies as well'
A Muslim protester who daubed a war memorial with graffiti glorifying Osama Bin Laden and proclaiming ' Islam will dominate the world' walked free from court last week after prosecutors ruled his actions were not motivated by religion. Boland’s next guest Conservative MP Patrick Mercer, chairman of the Parliamentary Counter Terrorism sub-committee said that this was an outrage against our war dead.
Being a Wednesday the second hour is ‘Enterprise’ with three very successful entrepreneurs…First up is David Hall who is now 67 and still the chairman of the publishing company has no plans to retire just yet. The company specialises in angling magazines, employs more than 80 people and turns over £6m a year.
After working for Gordan Ramsay as a commis chef Mark Pearson asked himself was this really what he wanted to do for the rest of his life with his low wage and long hours. In 2006 Mark spotted a business opportunity and named it My voucher codes, turnover soared to 1 million pounds in 2007 in the first year, growth since then has been rapid. So what’s the secret of his success this and more will be revealed on the show
And finally In 2002 Michael Parker had his winning idea. He designed a website using a free demo disk from a magazine. The idea was to create a website where people could have boxes of traditional sweets sent to them. He owns 100% of the business which now sells 700 different varieties and turnover last year was about 3 million pounds.
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The Boland Guest list for Tuesday 4th May: Boland’s first guest will be of a great interest to ALL expats living in Spain, she is UKIP'S Marta Andreasen who has demanded the immediate repeal of notorious Spanish land laws that continue to wreck the holiday-home dreams of Britons in the Valencia region. Thousands of holiday villas in Spain have even been demolished without compensation for their owners. About 15,000 mostly British, Belgian, German and French property owners lodged a formal petition with MEP's four years ago in desperation over a 1994 Valencia land and town planning law which triggered 20,000 compulsory purchases of land or property for ' urban' development. Marta is in Belgium today to discuss this problem.
Next up is the football legend Viv Anderson who broke through the taboos to become the first black player to appear in a full International for England, making his senior debut against Czechoslovakia in 1978. In his memoir ' First Among Unequal’s' Viv talks about how during his first appearance on the pitch racists were throwing fruit down on him from the stands. First up were bananas, the preferred fruit of the racists and bigots and then he found himself being pelted with apples and pears. During a long and glittering career with some of England's leading clubs, he won everything the domestic game had to offer.
The second hour of the show opens with a very moving story: After adopting four crack-addicted babies, born one after the other to the same mother, Barbara Harris came up with a big idea. She decided to start a scheme to pay drug addicts in America to be either sterilised or to commit to long-term contraception. It's an initiative that has appalled those of a liberal nature. But, at the same time it has gathered support from those who believe such drastic actions is the only way to combat the crippling social problems that come with drug abuse. Last week, Barbara brought her charity Project Prevention to Britain and will talk to our listeners about it.
Finally Tricia Walsh-Smith is a British playwright and actress. She has appeared on television, stage, in films and over 500 television commercials throughout her life.. She has now teamed up with composer Simon Kay and written two musicals and some of the songs are being featured in the 12 part television series ' Pineapple Dance Studios' currently airing on Sky1. She has also completed her first novel, ' The Devils Hostage. Tricia also supports The Wounded Warrior Project - an organization focused on helping the men and women wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq and has co-written the song ' A Warrior's Prayer' which will be released as a charity single this year.
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