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.
Boland on Tuesday@11am