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
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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.
Boland on Wedensday@11am.