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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