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.
Boland on Friday@11am