Maurice Boland

2010-07-12T08:06:00.001-07:00

The Boland guest List Tuesday 13th July 2010. First up is glamour model, authoress and now a singer!!!! Yes a singer !!! she has a new single out she is Katie Price aka Jordan. What a lot of people don’t know that during the 7 June 2001, British General Election, Jordan ran as a candidate in Stretford and Urmston under her real name using the slogan: 'For a Bigger and Betta Future'. As part of her comical election campaign, she promised free breast implants, more nudist beaches, and a ban on parking tickets. In the end, Jordan won 713 votes, 1.8% of the votes cast. Jordan began 2004 by appearing (as Katie Price which she prefers to be known while not modeling) on the reality TV series I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, alternately falling out with John Lydon and flirting in the jungle with singer Peter Andre whom she eventually married. She appeared in several Bushtucker trials, including one where she had to brave a tank full of small, harmless jellyfish for points. Price has a new record out; Free To Love Again and new TV Show ‘For Better Or Worse’ which documents her life after Andre and her new husband kickboxer Alex Read it starts this Wednesday a on ITV2
Next up covers the story of Fighting on the frontline of the war against crime, Bolands guest Cameron Addicott was one of the very few hard-boiled and highly-experienced surveillance operatives to get called up to the secretive and elite Alpha Projects unit - a group of dedicated undercover Customs officers who hunted the UK's most dangerous criminals by extraordinary means - starting with the interception and decoding of their phone calls. Cameron has been an undercover investigator with HM Customs and SOCA (Serious organised Crime Agency) for the past fifteen years. His new book is 'The Interceptor' and is on our website
Among the heartbreaking tragedies created by the 7/7 London bombings, Jullie Nicholson's stood out. The tragic loss of her daughter Jenny , 24, a gifted musician, left Julie questioning her role as a vicar, and she ultimately decided to step down, unable to forgive her daughter's killers. With courage and honesty, Julie will be talking about her story for the first time in her book ' A song for Jenny: A Mothers Story of Love and Loss'.
And finally; This should be fun! 'What On Earth is he Thinking? It's the question women have been asking for years and Zoe Strimpel’s new book claims to have the answer.
Boland on Tuesday@11am

2010-06-30T07:31:00.000-07:00

The Boland Show Thursday 1st July Guest List:
OK ladies, last week The Boland Show gave you David Essex…Had enough time to recuperate??? Now it’s the turn of, wait for it, The lounge Lizard himself Mr Bryan Ferry, smoother than silk, smoother than satin, yes, and even smoother than Maurice himself!!! Ferry. came to public prominence in the early 70's as lead vocalist and principal songwriter for Roxy Music, which enjoyed a highly successful career with three number one albums and ten singles entering the top ten in the u.k. .He continues to have a successful solo career and he coming this way for a private appearance so the only chance you have to hear him ladies is on tomorrow morning’s Boland Show!!!
The oil that's flooded into the Gulf of Mexico has created big concerns about the environmental and economic damage. Another serious outcome has gotten far less attention: Peak Oil. By prompting President Obama to suspend deep water drilling in US offshore waters, the Gulf oil spill is pushing up the date at which the world's conventional oil production peaks. If other nations with offshore oil output also stop exploration and drilling it could speed the arrival of peak oil at a more alarming rate. Maurice’s next guest Dr. Richard Miller is a London consulting geologist who up until 2008 worked for BP preparing private reports on prospects for peak oil.
Next up is Danute Kean. According to Danuta , a casual contempt for men, especially fathers, has crept into much that is pumped out of our TV sets. It's there in TV comedies - from the character of the feckless father Frank in Shameless to Ben, the plain stupid dentist dad in My Family and even Pete Brockman, the ineffectual man of the house in Outnumbered. Danuta is an award winning journalist and publishing commentator. She is also a well respected investigative journalist and has uncovered stories as diverse as the truth about prostitute memoirs and hidden racism in publishing.
Were not sure that Maurice’s final guest would have a chance dating Bryan Ferry but you never know!! Donna Simpson already weighs 43 stone but she is determined to nearly double her size to become the world's fattest woman. The 42 year old will be speaking to Maurice from New Jersey, U:S is set on reaching the 1,000lb mark in just two years. Remarkably she insists she is healthy, despite now needing a mobility scooter when she goes shopping.
Boland on Thursday@11am

2010-06-16T08:56:00.001-07:00

The Boland Show Guest list Wednesday 16th June: For all David Essex fans this is your day. David Essex, 1970's pop icon and heart throb has had an extremely colourful life. He has sold millions of records, topped the charts with songs such as 'Gonna Make You a Star' and Hold Me Close'. His films such as 'That'll Be the Day’ were box office hits as was his appearance in the lead role in the musical Godspell. There was even a time known as Essexmania where after one double performance at the Liverpool Empire, the first house of 3,000 people refused to leave. David is still able to sell out a 50 date tour without advertising which is an amazing compliment. He is now starring in his latest West End musical titled ' All The Fun of the Fair' which is about the darker side of the travelling fairground life.
The findings of The Bloody Sunday Inquiry, also known as the Saville Inquiry or the Saville Report were published on Tuesday. The inquiry was established in 1998 by Tony Blair after campaigns for a second inquiry by families of those killed and injured in Derry in 1972. Prime Minister David Cameron addressed the House of Commons on Tuesday where he acknowledged, amongst other things, that British paratroopers had shot and killed already wounded civilians and apologised on behalf of the British Government. Boland’s next guest Thomas Bartlett is a journalist and author of such books as 'Ireland a history' and 'The Rise and fall of the Irish Nation'.
Earlier this week Barack Obama risked the wrath of September 11th victim's families by comparing the BP oil spill to the 2001 terrorist attacks, as pressure intensified on the White House to show greater urgency over the crisis. Many people who lost relatives in the attacks criticised Obama's decision to compare an environmental disaster with a terror plot in which almost 3,000 people died. One such person is Maurice’s next guest Joy Bennett whose son Oli, a 29 year old financial journalist died in the atrocity and who says that it is an unfair parallel and is really a cruel thing to say. Since Oli's death, as a tribute to him, his family and friends have created the charity www.olibennett.org.uk to help young people from all backgrounds get their business ideas off the ground.
And finally: From September, GCSE pupils will study the words of the singer and television presenter Charlotte Church as part of their English course. The way in which the singer speaks will be analysed by pupils in the subject normally associated more with Shakespeare and Jane Austen. They will also be looking at the words of Gavin and Stacey star Ruth Jones and BBC newsreader Huw Edwards for their English qualifications. Maurice’s final guest Marie Clair is the spokeswoman for Plain English Campaign and says that the focus on celebrities is damaging students chances of employment.
Boland on Wedenesday@11am

2010-06-14T09:21:00.001-07:00

The Boland Guest list Tuesday 15th June…Have you been watching the world cup, bit like asking was the pope catholic!!! Have you heard that incredible high pitch noise that fills the stadiums at every game. Can you imagine how that must sound non stop for 90 minuets? Well it all come from an innocent trumpet are the controversial Vuvuzela horns and could be banned from World Cup following thousands of complaints from fans, broadcasters and the players. South Africa's World Cup organising chief Danny Jordaan revealed his officials had been swamped by protests about the ear-bursting horns being blown during matches. But World Cup communications chief Rich Mkhondo today appeared to contradict his boss, insisting the plastic horns were here to stay. He said: 'As our guests please embrace our culture, please embrace the way we celebrate. The history of the Vuvuzela is ingrained in South Africa. 'We have modified the mouthpiece, there is now a new Vuvuzela which will blow noise that is 20 decibels less than the old one, Said Boland’s first guest Neil van Schalkwyk, a partner at Masincedane Sport, who manufactures the trumpet. Oh for some peace and quite!!!!!
Next up is Pilar Rahola i Martínez is a Spanish Catalan journalist, writer, and former politician and MP.. She has published several books in Spanish and Catalan, and she is a columnist at La Vanguardia in Spain; La Nación in Argentina; and Diario de América in the United States. She appears frequently on television and has taken part in several university lectures. She comes from a republican and anti-fascist family, and several of her relatives have been politicians or writers. As a politician, she was the only member of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya in Spanish Congress of Deputies in the 5th and 6th Spanish legislatures, and vice-mayor of Barcelona.
Are men big babies when it come to not feeling well? Scientists have confirmed that Man flu does exist and that men are often not as ill as they say they are. Half of men will upgrade a common cold to flu and describe headaches as a migraine to gain maximum sympathy. They will also moan more than women when suffering a bug or virus. Maurice’s guest Karl Elliott is from ' of friendly society Engage Mutual' who commissioned the research. Tuttems !!!!
And finally: Maurice personally requested this guest because as a lot of his listeners know he adores chocolate, cakes, biscuits etc and has been struggling to quit so he can look good in his Speedos this summer ( the thought!!!!). No matter how steely your willpower, or how firm your resolve, the sudden urge for a bar of chocolate or a bag of crisps can be all consuming. For many people, particularly women and Maurice, food cravings are like an alien force that will stop at nothing until you indulge their fiendishly unhealthy demands , his final guest Penny Kendall-Reed is the author of The No Crave Diet.
Boland on Tuesday@11am

2010-06-08T09:35:00.000-07:00

The Boland Guest List Wednesday 9th June: When Maurice first read the story about his guest Cynthia Owan, he made two observations 1. He had NEVER read a more upsetting story in his 20 years of broadcasting and 2. He believed that he could never tell it on daytime radio. Can you imagine his shock when he saw Cynthia Owen was his first guest on his Wednesday morning show? Owen grew up in Ireland, the child of two alcoholics, when she was about eight years old, her mother told her to start sleeping in the marital bed. That night when her father came back from the pub, he climbed in beside her and raped her. This continued night after night, often with her mother sleeping in a single bed in the same room. Rapes followed to include her own mother aunty and uncle eventually her mother used her to make money out of filthy pedophiles!!!. Shortly before her eleventh birthday she was made pregnant by her FATHER. Minutes after giving birth to the baby, Cynthia watched in horror as her own mother murdered the tiny infant, by repeatedly stabbing her the face with a knitting needle, believe it or not the baby continued breathing so as the baby was still alive she put her in the gas oven until she stopped. Cynthia’s mother then wrapped the baby girl in a plastic bag, dumped her in an alleyway and made her daughter go back to school and pretend nothing had ever happened. As you can see this is a very very upsetting story so please be warned in advance if you would rather not to listen to the interview.

The euro will break up within five years, according to a survey of leading economists. The dire state of the public finances of Greece and other eurozone members such as Portugal, Spain, Italy and Ireland have driven the single currency to a four year low against the dollar and cast doubts over its future. Boland’s next guest Andrew Lilico, chief economist of the Policy Exchange think tank, says there was nearly zero chance of the euro surviving.

Being a Wednesday it Enterprise where Maurice introduces hugely successful entrepreneurs. First being Kurt Strand who is the Founder of the Swedish company Strand Craft. The company wanted to build something unique for the 'very wealthy' so they built a 17 million pound yacht which is so exclusive that they are only making six models and have already attracted five possible buyers in the first week of it being on the market. The yacht has a very futuristic design with its matching super car which comes free with the boat and its bullet proof windows.

And Finally Stephen Less who is 67, has been running nightclubs and helping other club and restaurant owners to improve their bottom line for several decades. He now runs the six-strong London chain of table dancing clubs, Secrets, which makes undisclosed profits and has even opened an establishment in Covent Garden. Stephen travels frequently around the U.K and abroad to monitor other clubs and potential sites for his business… Less has thousands of stunning girls working in his Secrets Clubs for him so Boland should enjoy this one..

Boland on Wedensday@11pm

2010-06-07T11:43:00.000-07:00

The Boland Show Guest List Tuesday 8th June: First up is one of the worlds foremost rock keyboard musicians Rick Wakeman, best know as the keyboard front man in the progressive rock band Yes. He is considered by many to be one of the best rock keyboardists of all time. He is known now for his TV appearances on Grumpy old Men and Countdown as well as his hugely popular Saturday morning radio show on Planet Rock.
Next up is the amazing story of Zoya Phan who was born in the remote jungles of Burma, to the Karen ethnic group. For decades the Karen have been under attack from Burma's military junta. Zoya's mother was a guerrilla soldier, her father a freedom activist. At the age of 14 her childhood was shattered as the Burmese army attacked and with their house in flames, Zoya and her family fled. So began two terrible years of running from guns as she joined thousands of refugees hiding in the jungle. Zoya now lives in London and works for the human rights organization Burma Campaign.
Maurice is looking forward to this one: 'Prince Charles is a 'Fruitcake' who abuses his power by using his birthright to further his own beliefs and causes, a conference has heard. The heir to the throne was also branded an 'old fogey' at a conference of the anti-monarchy group Republic. Charles's complicated psychology and obsessive compulsive tendencies formed much of the discussion headlined ' An activist king?' Graham Smith is from the pressure group Republic which supports a republican constitution in place of the monarchy. Boland loves the Royal family so this should be fun.
And finally: As commercial whaling looks set to start again after 24 years, award winning author Philip Hoare gives a heartfelt plea and says ' if whales could scream, no man could tolerate their slaughter'. The more we learn abut the whales that roam our ocean depths, the more marvelous and complex these creatures are shown to be. Which is what makes it such a travesty that nearly 25 years after we said good bye to commercial whaling, it looks set to start again. Philip is the author of six books, the most recent being ' Leviathan or, The Whale, winner of the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. It charts his lifelong obsession with whales
Boland on Tuesday@11am

2010-05-31T05:02:00.001-07:00

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.
Boland on Tuesday@11am

2010-05-27T14:10:00.001-07:00

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.

2010-05-27T05:54:00.000-07:00

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.
Boland on Friday@11am

2010-05-25T12:10:00.000-07:00

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.
Boland on Wedensday@11am.

2010-05-24T08:24:00.001-07:00

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

2010-05-17T08:49:00.001-07:00

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.
Boland on Tuesday@11am

2010-05-13T09:07:00.001-07:00

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.

2010-05-11T09:40:00.001-07:00

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.
Boland on Wednesday@11am

2010-05-06T13:17:00.000-07:00

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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2010-05-05T08:16:00.001-07:00

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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2010-05-04T06:29:00.000-07:00

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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2010-05-03T07:27:00.000-07:00

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.
Boland on Tuesday@11am

2010-04-26T08:46:00.001-07:00

The Boland Show Tuesday 27th April. As a study shows mixed race people are seen as the most attractive and successful, Boland’s first guest Eve Ahmed's extraordinarily moving story raises uncomfortable questions. As a child growing up in the late Seventies and early Eighties, she had no idea what mixed-race meant. Eve knew what half caste meant, though, and she got called it by other children at school, by skinheads on the streets of London where she lived and even by extended family, who should have known better.
Following his hugely popular account of the previous 2000 years, Boland’s next guest John O'Farrell now comes bang up to date with a hilarious modern history asking ' how the hell did we end up here?' In his book ' An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain' he informs, elucidates and laughs at all the bizarre events, ridiculous characters and stupid decisions that have shaped Britain since 1945.
Niamh (Neeve) O'Connor is one of Ireland's best known true crime authors and journalists. A crime reporter with the Sunday World, she has interviewed infamous murderers, gone undercover to expose an international prostitution ring and infiltrated a gang running a mortgage racket swindling the banks out of multi-millions, leading to intervention in the scheme by the Criminal Assets Bureau. Her books include Blood Ties - the real stories behind Ireland's notorious murders' and she has just written her first novel ' If I never See You Again'
If you have seen the movie Priscilla Queen of the Dessert, the story of a trio of female impersonators, you will know what inspired showgirl Boland’s final guest
(we don’t know if Maurice’s knows about this but Steph beware) Wynnie la Freak to hit the road and head south in search of adventure. Having been sick of dodging the bailiffs in not so sunny Manchester she decided to do a moonlight flit and drive to the Costas for some sun, sangria and shenanigans in her boudoir on wheels The Winnebago. The self confessed mad wo-man has been entertaining her way from Barcelona to Benidorm and Valencia to Almeria and is now appearing in her one woman show in Torremolinos. Boland on Tuesday@11am

2010-04-22T08:14:00.001-07:00

The Boland Show Friday 23rd April: First guest is The Rt Hon David Milliban Secretary of State making his first ever appearance on English Radio in Spain on the Boland Show, but, don’t blink or you might miss this one, well not exactly but almost. After waiting weeks and then 45 minuets over the agreed allotted time for the recording David Milliband tells Boland he got only 5 minutes!!!

Thousands of paedophiles and rapists could have their names wiped from the Sex Offenders' Register after two convicts won a landmark human rights case yesterday. The Supreme Court ruled that putting paedophiles on the national register for life without the right of appeal was ' disproportionate' Each one now has the right to argue they no longer pose a threat to children. The decision opens the door to an appeal from former pop impresario Jonathan King, who was jailed for seven years for sexually abusing teenage boys and was placed on the register for life and who discuss this new twist in the law with Maurice.

So who came out as a winner? Has Clegg held his new position where the polls have put him above Labour after his outstanding performance in last weeks live TV debate well they had to do it all over again this time on Sky. Maurice talks to Harry Witchell, an expert in body language and communication, and discusses the debate and the body language of the leaders. Harry has appeared repeatedly on BBC Television's Mind Games and as a commentator for TV show Big Brother and has been interviewed on Newsnight with Jeremy Paxman

Being a Friday it means travel for the second hour on the Boland Show:
Sean Tipton is our correspondent from the ABTA press office. Today he will discuss, amongst other things, what, if any, compensation travellers can expect after the travel disruption following the volcanic ash.

Not sure if Boland will get a handle on his next guest but we shall wait and see: Tristan Gooley blends natural science, myth, folklore and the history of travel to introduce you to the rare and ancient art of finding your way using nature's own sign-posts, from the feel of a rock to the look of the moon. You can discover how it's possible to find North simply by looking at a puddle and how natural signs can be used to navigate on the open ocean and in the heart of the city.

And finally Deborah Clark always wanted a wide portfolio of interests and after her high-flying career as a lawyer working in aviation finance for Norton Rose she began looking for a new challenge. The answer was to buy the faded hotel in Devon where she and her husband had married. Nine years later the Burgh Island Hotel at the mouth of the River Avon and some 20 miles east of Plymouth is turning over £3m a year and making profit.
Boland on Friday@11am

2010-04-19T10:22:00.001-07:00

The Boland Show Tuesday 20th April: First up is Former Commando Ben McBean is a double amputee (left arm and lower right leg) who has overcome massive hurdles since he stepped on a Taliban landmine in 2007. Just 12 months later he ran the London Marathon in just 6hrs and 30 mins and he hopes to break that time when he runs this week end. Ben is the winner of The Sun's Millie Award for overcoming Adversity. Maurice will be wishing him luck.
The most commonly accepted definition of a cougar is a woman 40 years of age or older who exclusively pursues very young men. Typically, cougars prey upon men almost young enough to be their sons. They may be married or unmarried, and some even go after their daughters' boyfriends. Boland’s next guest Rita Sangha is the UK's only ' Cougar Coach' and she runs nationwide events in the UK. She has appeared on radio and TV in both the UK and the US.
Pressure has been mounting on the Government to end the blanket flight ban which has left hundreds of thousands of Britain’s abroad. Airlines have slammed ministers for their approach to the crisis, claiming they have overreacted to the threat posed by the cloud of volcanic ash without assessing the actual risks involved. Boland’s guest David Bentley from The Independent aviation research group The Centre For Asia Pacific Aviation has also questioned whether the restrictions could be 'a massive overreaction of super-cautious politicians and bureaucrats who are far more concerned about their own liability while suffering none of the financial carnage caused by the ban.
And finally Politics these days is all about PR, spin, evading answers and presenting facts, figures, legislation and pretty much everything really in some kind of special code. That we mere mortals should understand politics is dangerous for the politicians and the best way to keep us torpid is by using a language so bland, boring and non understandable. Nick Webb has come up with the perfect antidote in his new book ' The Dictionary of Political Bullshit' Now more than ever with the election coming up, it is the time to decode the bull and see what lies behind the language of the politicians and their hangers-on. Boland on Tuesday@11am

2010-04-13T08:14:00.001-07:00

The Boland Guest List Wednesday 14th April.
He's known as the bad boy of ballroom - renowned for a hot head and an even hotter love life. But Boland’s first guest, Strictly Come Dancing star Brendan Cole is actually a bit of a softie. He is a controversial figure on the program often getting into trouble with the judges for performing illegal lifts. He is now performing in 'Brendan Cole - Live and Unjudged' a dance show with a difference. Love him or hate him the show allows you to meet the real Brendan.
In the cruel old China, baby girls were often left to die in the gutters. In the cruel modern China, they are aborted by the tens of millions, using all the latest technology. There is an ugly new word for this mass slaughter - Gendercide. Since 1979 China has limited many families to one child and combined with this they have a ruthless prejudice in favour of sons. Millions of girls have disappeared, either being killed, aborted or neglect and the number is rising. By the year 2020 there will be 30 million more men than women of marriageable age in China. Boland’s next guests Clifford Coonan is the correspondent for the Independent in Beijing.

Being a Wednesday the second hour of the Boland Show is Enterprise where Maurice introduces us to three very talented entrepreneurs. First up is David Bailey and his wife Patti who appeared on Dragons Den last year pitching Motormouse which is a car design computer mouse in which James Cann invested £120,000 for a 40% stake in the company. Both David and Patti are successful consultants specialising in the development of sales people and sales effectiveness. The new cooperation will also include David’s other inventions , as well as their property business.
www.motor-mouse.net

Next entrepreneur is Chris Truelove who also appeared on Dragons Den pitching his tracking system for luggage and valuables. Although there was no investment made by the Dragons, the company now supply custom tags to some of the world's largest corporations including Debenhams, Diageo, Renaissance Hotels and BT. www.globalbagtag.com

And finally two very successful entrepreneurs Andrew Skeen and Omari Bowers, were busy making their fortune as property entrepreneurs when the market started to crumble it was time to look for other opportunities. This is when they came across Global Forestry Investments a company that expects to turn over 6-7 million pounds this year and acquire 10,000 hectares of rainforest.. www.globalforestryinvestments.com

2010-04-12T08:38:00.001-07:00

The Boland Show, Tuesday 13th April @ 11AM
On Saturday, President Lech Kaczynski and scores of other senior Polish figures were killed in a plane crash in Russia. Polish and Russian officials said no-one survived after the plane apparently hit trees as it approached the airport in thick fog. Russian media reports said the pilots ignored advice from air traffic control to divert to another airport and that the presidents’ apparently reckless insistence on landing cost the lives of some of Poland's most distinguished military and academic figures. Edward Lucas is the Central and Eastern Europe correspondent of the Economist and talks to Boland about the effect this crash is going to have on Poland
Lance Corporal Katrina Hodge, came second in last year's Miss England competition but was awarded the title when the winner stepped down in November. The Iraq veteran, whose nickname is ' Combat Barbie' explains why she has given swimsuits their marching orders from the annual contest. Katrina is also the face of the website Uniform Dating.com, an online dating for military singles, the uniformed and emergency services or those seeking a date in uniform.
Right wing leader Eurgene Terreblanche may have been murdered after sexually assaulting one of his workers. One of the two men accused of beating the 69 year old Afrikaner to death told his lawyer the attack was in response to homosexual advances by his employer, who was buried last Friday. Andre, who was a guest on The Boland show last week talks about these accusations in the press

2010-03-24T09:42:00.001-07:00

The Boland Show Thursday 25th March:
Israel's top spy in London was ordered home on Tuesday after the Government said Mossad cloned British passports for use in the murder of a Hamas terrorist. Israeli politicians expressed fury at Britain's decision. Boland’s first guest Aryeh Eldad, a hardline MP with the MK National Union party thinks the British are behaving hypocritically. He says that Britain is actively involved in the war against international terrorism but at the same time they are trying to punish and condemn Israel for their war on terrorism.

The headline read ‘Daddy will you try to save my sister first”?. A fathers hauntingly moving account of battling to rescue his twins from drowning. On a short holiday break in Hay-on-Wye he took his nine year old twins canoeing, and in a freak accident his daughter Billie was drowned. Boland’s next guest Ian Clayton, in a remarkably frank and vivid way describes what happened on that spring day, his desperate attempts to save his two children and the moving moment when his son was ready to sacrifice his own life for his beautiful sister . Ian has been a freelance writer and broadcaster for 25 years and his highly acclaimed memoir of a life in music, Bringing It All Back Home, was published in 2007.

Next up is Dan Martin, Dan is six feet five tall and weighs more than 20 stone and is hopeless at sport. If all goes well, he is about to become the first man in history to swim the 3,500 mile Atlantic Ocean. Two years ago he weighed just under 15 stone, well within the healthy range for a man of his height but now he plans to balloon to a blubbery 24 stone in the hope that every extra ounce of fat will stave off hypothermia for a little longer. The Dan Martin foundation raises money for underprivileged children around the globe.

And finally, From the making of Melinda Messenger to the dramatic rescue of England's most over-achieving football club Doncaster Rovers, entrepreneur, pioneer and self-made millionaire John Ryan continues to live his dream. Raised on a modest council estate, John was a driving force in the transformation of cosmetic surgery from controversial luxury to one of Britain's fastest expanding industries. As such, he helped to put smiles on thousands of female faces and has seen more breasts than the editor of The Sun.' Dare To Dream' is his story. Boland on Thursday @11am

2010-03-22T10:49:00.001-07:00

The Boland Guest List Tuesday 23rd March…We all remember seeing the film footage of the crashed landed BA Boeing 777 at the edge of the Heathrow’s main runway on January 2008. Boland’s first guest Peter Burkell was the captain on that flight. After watching the television coverage of British female bobsleigh pairs terrifying crash during the winter Olympics last month Peter found himself in floods of tears. He was stunned at how hard it hit him, exposing an emotional fragility over his own brush with death Only his intervention in the last few seconds lowering the wing flaps to gain more height pre-vented the first major catastrophe at Heathrow and saved the lives of 152 people on board. Disastrously for Peter false rumours began that he had frozen at the controls, leaving his co-pilot to land the aircraft, and within months Peter found himself driven out of BA, unemployed and unable to find work as a pilot. Hero? Let’s wait and see.

The Boland Show normally doesn’t like to repeat guests to often but in the case of the next guest it seemed important enough to invite her back following the Popes letter of apology claiming that the abuse that happened in Ireland was the fault of the Irish Bishops and NOT the Vatican. He claims that the crime of cover-up was enacted purely by the Irish hierarchy without instructions from the Vatican. Singer, Sinead O'Connor, who has passionately championed the cause of the abused, said that Irish Catholics were being further insulted by the Pope's call for them to go back to the Catholic Church, which had failed them so abysmally over the past three decades.

Chelsea Haywood takes a fascinating look into the life of a Geisha and their hostess duties, as well as a look into the quirky culture of Japan she tells how she engages in conversation with millionaires, billionaires, serial killers and surgeons who pay her to light their cigarettes and engage in conversation. Throughout the book she is taken to $600 dinners, trips to see the Kabuki theatre, is given a computer and bought clothes worth thousands of dollars join her on her journey on the Boland Show.

And Finally Maurice will be talking to Bob Lewis who will be undergoing a sponsored walk as a tribute to Carol, his late wife. He will be setting off from his home in Orihuela Costa to Santander and then take a ferry to the UK where he will continue his walk from southern England to her home town of Liverpool where he will be joined with family members to lay her ashes to rest alongside her parents. All money collected by way of sponsorship, and along route will be donated to MABS CANCER SUPPORT.
The Boland Show Tuesday @ 11am.

2010-03-18T10:20:00.000-07:00

The Boland Guest List Friday 19th March.

Former Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind, MP was one of only four ministers to serve throughout the whole Prime Ministerships of both Margaret Thatcher and John Major wrote in yesterday Times newspaper: Needed: a peaceful anti-Netanyahu uprising. The Israeli Prime Minister is weakening, not strengthening, his country’s position. He went on to write: The announcement of Israel's intention to build 1,600 homes in east Jerusalem antagonised the Palestinians and infuriated the international community. That by itself, would be unlikely to cause Israel's Prime Minister to lose much sleep. But when you manage to humiliate the US Vice President, who was visiting when the new homes were announced, and cause Hillary Clinton, to say that her country has been ' insulted' you are in the middle of a serious international mess. The former Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind, MP joins the Boland Friday guest list.
A Roman Catholic adoption agency this week won a legal fight to keep its Christian rules saying children should not be sent to live with gay couples. The ruling by a High Court judge was seen as landmark victory for freedom of religious conscience over the demands of equality legislation. But there was bitter condemnation of the judge from gay organisations and trade unions and Maurice’s next guest James Lawrence, communications officer of gay rights group Stonewall, will tell us how ridicules this ruling is and how furious he is.
On Tuesday, Gordon Brown was forced into a humiliating admission that he had slashed defence spending while British troops were at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Prime Minister told MP's he had been wrong to tell the Iraq Inquiry that defence spending under Labour was ' rising in real terms every year'. Boland’s next guest Richard North is the author of the book ' Ministry of Defeat - The British War in Iraq 2003 - 2009 and a political analyst and currently edits the respected defence blog, Defence of the Realm. Will talk about Brown’s humiliation.
Being a Friday It’s ‘Talk on Travel’ for the second hour. Sean Tipton from the ABTA will be talking about news In the travel industry.
When Boland’s next guest Dominic Gill set out from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, on his bicycle, it was to be no ordinary bike ride. His goal was to reach Ushuaia, the southernmost city in South America, nearly 20,000 miles away, and he was starting off with virtually no money in his pocket, barely enough food to last a week and, worst of all, everyone who knew or cared about him was thousands of miles away.
Ten centuries' worth of French historical 'facts' bite the dust as Stephen Clarke looks at what has really been going on since 1066. For 1000 Years of Annoying the French, he has been breathing the chill air of ruined castles and deserted battlefields, leafing through dusty chronicles, brushing up the medieval French he studied at university and generally losing himself in the mists of history. He has now returned to present-day Paris, and is doing his best to live the entente cordiale. Boland on Friday @11am

2010-03-17T09:15:00.001-07:00

In 2006, award-winning ITN journalist Chris Rogers, armed with hidden cameras, smuggled himself into the State-run orphanages of Romania and discovered the heartbreaking truth - that the conditions that so chocked the world after the fall of Ceausescu had not, in many cases, improved. The children were still being abandoned: unloved, uncared for, and left to rot. The resulting film on ITN sparked a global debate over the ban on international adoption from Romania and led to further trips - including one to Turkey on which he was accompanied by Sarah Ferguson and her daughters. 'Undercover' is Chris's first book and is on our website.
Vic Pain, 70, and his wife Anne, 65, have been targeted by tearaways since returning to Britain after several years in Spain. The couple told yesterday how gangs of louts have caused thousands of pounds worth of damage at the home and are pleading for more bobbies on the beat after enduring 30 yob attacks in three years. Only a week ago a 64 year old Manchester man with learning difficulties was allegdly tormented to death by neighbourhood gangs.
MP's are demanding a fresh investigation to discover whether vital intelligence was withheld from detectives hunting the Omagh bombers. A powerful parliamentary group wants to discover how much the security services knew about the bombers movements at the time of the Real IRA attack. Ruth Dudley Edwards is the author of the book ' Aftermath: The Omagh Boming and the Families Pursuit of Justice
Blood trickles from a gash below the wrestlers left ear, a wound that could have been worse considering that he incurred it while kissing an 8ft alligator under water. In the viewing stands overlooking the pool where he is performing a crowd of 800 people cheers and gasps as he dives to wrangle the reptile, anxious to impress the panel judges who are assessing his moves. This is a Freestyle Alligator wrestling competition, a body co founded by James Holt, a Seminole Indian tribe member. The Seminole Tribe of Florida is a Federally recognized Indian Tribe, the only tribe in America who never signed a peace treaty.

2010-03-16T09:32:00.001-07:00

The Boland Guest list Wednesday 17th…Happy St Patrick’s Day…The mystery surrounding Princess Diana's death resurfaced again this week with claims that chauffeur Henri Paul was not drunk when their car crashed in a Paris tunnel. Blood samples used to verify the amount of alcohol he had consumed were taken from another corpse, Boland first guest John Morgan in his new book Diana Inquest the untold story. Investigative journalist John claims to finally reveal a ' tidal wave of evidence' that the testing process was botched and that Henri Paul was set up as he lay dead in the morgue. The book reveals how judicial corruption led to a seriously flawed verdict at the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed and provides a thorough record of the key evidence that was heard by the inquest jury and details the 143 important witnesses who were not heard from during the inquest.

Next up is author Freddie Forsyth is an English author and occasional political commentator. He is best known for thrillers such as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol. His Book The Phantom of Manhattan was the sequel of ‘The Phantom of The Opera (the true story). It was Forsyth’s book that inspired Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton to write there new musical Love never Dies, dubbed ‘Paint Never Dries’ after critics panned it!!!! Freddie will be talking about his new book, which the ink hasn’t even dried, in this exclusive interview on The Boland Show
Being a Wednesday its ‘Enterprise’ on the second part of the Boland show with three budding entrepreneurs. First up is JAHAN ABEDI who appeared in this -
weeks Secret Millionaire TV Show. Jahan who is a the owner of imperial property services, Crystal Night Club, Mocka Lounge and he has also just recently launched a selection of fine Bistro pubs in Cardiff spent eight days undercover in the county of Leicester to find out how best to distribute thousands of pounds to worthy causes.

John Woods will join the Boland guest list as a live studio guest to talk about this years Gibraltar boat show where multi of millions of pounds worth of boats will be put on display .

And finally Jamie Wells Owner of Hearing Direct-
Maurice spoke to Jamie when he first set up the online spectacle retailer Glasses Direct and he has now teamed up with three experts in the hearing industry to launch a new website selling digital hearing aids. The 25 year old English graduate of the University Of West England hopes hearingdirect.com will revolutionise the hearing aid industry. Boland on Wednesday@11am

2010-03-15T12:21:00.001-07:00

The Boland Show Tuesday 16th March….Could this be the height of bad taste; Fertility doctors offering a human egg as first prize in a raffle were last night accused of commercialising the miracle of life. One woman will win the chance to select their ideal donor egg based on its mother's profession, ethnic back-ground, hair colour, qualifications and upbringing. After the lottery was revealed on Sunday, Bolands first guest Josephine Quintavalle, of think tank Comment on Reproductive Ethics, said that the capacity of the IVF industry to commodify human life reaches a new low with this latest deplorable initiative. If you haven’t seen it yet Maurice recommends you should give it a go, were talking about Michael Winners Dinning Stars a new reality TV show. Michael Winner spoke to Boland a few weeks ago about the show and tomorrow one of the poor souls who came under Winners scrutiny joins the Boland guest list. In short ordinary people are set the task of cooking for the grumpy old man who doesn’t like to ‘Take Prisoners’ In fact it’s a brilliant show , so we look forward to hear how Jane Bennett from Shrewsbury who starred in this week's episode and will talk to Maurice about how daunting it was to cook for the notorious food critic.
After the weeks of dedicate work Maurice has put into raising much needed funds for the orphanages in Haiti he gets to talk to someone who was there when the devastating earthquake struck; Pastor Varnel Jeune is the director general of Radio Lumiere, a network of nine christian radio stations and a Christian television stations. It covers 90% of the island of Haiti. Radio Lumiere belongs to the Evangelical Baptist Mission of South Haiti but is operated as a service to all of the evangelical churches.. Pastor Varnel talks to Maurice about what has happened in his country since the earthquake and tells him he believes that the true figure of the death toll will top 1 million, and how they are going to manage as the rainy season approaches. The final guest to be confirmed.. Boland on Tuesday @ 11am.

2010-03-12T09:38:00.001-08:00

The Boland Guest List Monday 15th March. Up first is Anna Arrowsmith - an award-winning producer of films such as Eat Me/Keep Me and Where's the Rent Boys? - will stand as the Liberal Democrats' candidate in Gravesham, Kent.The 38-year-old boss of adult film firm Easy on the Eye has made more than 300 films under the pseudonym Anna Span.Last night Anna, Britain's first female blue-movie director, claimed her background would help her become a successful MP. She said: "I would say to my constituents, don't judge me by the industry as a whole. I have gone into the porn industry with a view to changing it and making it more female friendly. I've spent years campaigning for equal opportunities for female workers and I think this has given me an excellent experience for the coming campaign."
HEALTHY, elderly people who are simply ''tired of living'' could be allowed to end their lives with a lethal injection under new euthanasia laws being debated by the Dutch parliament.MPs will discuss the proposals after campaigners collected more than 100,000 signatures in support. The influential Dutch ''Right to Die'' campaign, which has been active since 1973, has proposed training non-medical staff to administer a lethal injection to healthy people over the age of 70 who ''consider their lives complete''. The campaign's spokesman and Boland’s next guest Marie-Jose Grotenhuis, said: ''We've been overwhelmed by the [number] of reactions, especially because people took it so seriously and reactions were mostly positive.'' Euthanasia was legalised in Holland in 2002 and the new proposals have been backed by a majority in opinion polls.
Being a Monday the second hour is open discussion looking at the news and the stories behind them with Barry Nathan, Nathan Thomas and Guests telephone lines in the studio will be open to take live calls on 902444461. Boland on Monday @11am

2010-03-11T08:27:00.000-08:00

The Boland Show Friday 12th March ….First up is Mark Williams-Thomas who is a former police detective who has far-reaching experience of working at the centre of high profile investigations. During Mark's police service, he specialised in child protection and major crime and he is renowned throughout the UK's police forces as well as the national media for his expertise in these areas. After 15 years in child protection, Mark was shocked by what he encountered when he spent just five minutes on a social networking site posing as a 14 year old girl. He created a fake profile and photograph portraying him as a pretty slim girl and within 5 minutes of it going live the messages started pouring in from men. Mark, who was a police detective specialising in major crime and worked on some of the biggest murder and paedophile investigations in the UK. before gaining a masters in criminology and setting up a child protection consultancy, conducted the experiment to make public how easy it is for paedophiles to approach youngsters online.
Yesterdays headline read: Millionaire ex-convict ashamed of 'incredibly selfish existence' sells his £1m house to raise cash for African orphans With a criminal record, alcoholism and affairs with married women to his name, Jon Pedley makes for an unlikely Mother Teresa character. Yet the self-made telecommunications tycoon is selling his businesses, his £1million farmhouse and all his furniture - to move to a mud hut in Uganda and start a children's charity.
Being a Friday Its travel for the second hour starting with Sion Tipton from ABTA giving us all the travel news updates etc top of the agenda will be the BA strike. Next up we will be visiting talking to Sarah Dakin of Warner Leasure Holidays she will be explain a new product on offer which will give fans of Strictly Come Dancing the chance to meet their idols on Strictly themed three to four day events at hotels. Guests will be mentored by two strictly professionals before taking part in a dance competition. And finally David Ward will be telling The true story of how a second-hand Smart car beat millions of pounds worth of super cars in one of Europe’s most breathtaking road races of recent times- the Cannonball Run

2010-03-10T08:18:00.001-08:00

The Boland Show Thursday 11th March..
Over a period of 100 days from April 1994, up to a million Rwandan Tutsi were murdered by Hutu militias. In the most appalling episode of thnic cleansing since the Second World War, mutilations, killings and rapes occurred on an unimaginable scale. Fifty members of Bolands first guest Mary Blewitt's family were slaughtered in cold blood during the Rwandan genocide. To try to make sense of what had happened, Mary undertook voluntary work, believing she had been allowed to survive in order to help others like her. Her book ' You Alone May Live' is an important book about grief and survival in the face of unimaginable trauma. Mary K Blewitt OBE is the founder and former director of the Survivors' Fund and received the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her work for charity.
Next up is Andrew Rawnsley who began his career at the BBC, working there for two years from 1983, but joined The Guardian in 1985. From 1987 he was the newspaper's parliamentary sketch writer. In 1993 he moved to The Observer as Chief Political Commentator and Associate Editor, a position he retains. He has won several awards for his journalism, including: British Press Awards Young Journalist of the Year (1987); What The Papers Say Columnist of the Year (2000); Channel 4 Political Awards Book of the Year (2001); Channel 4 Political Awards Journalist of the Year (2003); House Magazine Awards Commentator of the Year (2008). Rawnsley has also broadcast regularly; he was co-presenter of Channel 4's A Week in Politics with Vincent Hanna: Rawnsley's will talk on the Boland Show about one of the most eagerly awaited political book his The End Of The Party. The book makes allegations that the prime minister, Gordon Brown physically attacked members of his staff and set off a whole string of allegations toward the PM of bullying.
Next guest Catherine McCall's who will talk about her father who was a high profile doctor and her mother who regularly hosted bridge parties. Growing up in their beautiful, historic home, Cathy appeared to have everything a girl could want. No one, not the neighbours, the nuns at school or her beloved grandmother, could have guessed that there was a torture chamber in the basement of 763 Montgomery Place, or that Cathy was being raped repeatedly by her father. Now married for thirty-eight years and mother to four daughters, the loving family Catherine has now is very

And finally: The British justice system invests tremendous faith in the rehabilitation of criminals. A key principle of the modern approach to crime is that offenders should not just be punished but should also be reformed - so that they are equipped to participate in society again and no longer represent a danger to the public. Maurice’s next guest Dr. Ludwig Lowenstein, one of Britain's leading experts on paedophiles says the sorry truth is many sex offenders cannot be rehabilitated.

2010-03-08T08:20:00.000-08:00

Mike Batt is one of Britain's best-known songwriter/composers. His consistent track record of success includes production, composition and conducting on projects as diverse as ' Watership Down', Phantom of The Opera and a great deal of symphonic work, including many television and film scores. He created The Wombles and he has also dedicated a lot of his time to guiding the career of Katie Melua and her first album, containing six of his songs, spent six weeks at number one in the UK.

For decades, the Essex Girl has had to endure hurtful jokes that call into question everything from her intellect to her sexual preferences. But now Essex Girl has a new champion. A charity has been set up to empower the women of Essex to combat the image that has plagued them for so long. Daphne Field, vice chairman of the Prince's Trust in Essex and an EWAG board member said that a lot of the girls we were helping were suffering so much from the stereotypical image so she is doing something about it.
Yasmin Alibhai-brown came to the u.k. in 1972 from Uganda. She is a regular columnist on The Independent and is also a radio and televison broadcaster and author of several books. In yesterday's Independent Yasmin's article had the heading ' British Muslims are running out of Friends' and she feels that the establishment has surpassed its previous disgraceful record in its attitudes to Islam

The Grosvenor Hotel in London is one of the world's premier five star hotels, an unabashed temple to extravagance and glamour. In his new book ' Celebrity Hotel', Neil Kirby, a former General Manager of the Grosvenor, looks back at his extraordinary rise from below the stairs washer upper to bespoke suited manager and lifts the lid on this formidable institution. Once he became General mananager he worked on a daily basis with Hollywood film stars, royalty, international politicians and many well known celebrities.

2010-03-04T11:40:00.001-08:00

The Boland Show Guest list: To the fury of most British people, who think that James Bulger's killers served nothing like a sufficient sentence, Justice Secretary Jack Straw insisted that no details would be given of what further offence Jon Venables has committed. Many, not least James's family, were furious that Venables and Thompson were freed without ever spending a day in an adult prison and they were given anonymity for life consisting the tax payer 5.5million already. Boland’s first guest Niri Shan is head of media law at Taylor Wessing and he discusses what Venables could have done to land him back in jail.
A fundamentalist group that wants to turn Britain into an Islamic republic has successfully infiltrated the Labour Party. Maurice’s next guest Jim Fitzpatrick MP named the Islamic Forum of Europe as a group trying to win power by secretly taking control of local Labour organisations. Channel 4's Dispatches programme claims the IFE has won a large measure of control over the London borough of Tower Hamlets and has packed Labour membership rolls in East London with its own supporters. Leaders of the group are said to oppose democracy and support the introduction of Islamic sharia law, while trying to impose hardline views on local communities.
Four lottery winning hairdressers have opened their own salon after being lad off. The lucky girls were part of a syndicate who, last year, scooped an incredible 2.9 million. Despite collecting 30,000 per year in interest, Lorna and her Lotto winning pals are all back at work in their Salon Bliss for exactly the same wages as before.
Being Friday its Travel and Boland’s regular contributor ABTAS Sean Tippton will be giving us an up date on the travel industry also the show will be stopping off at some of the worlds most exotic and luxury holiday locations…
Stop Press….One of the guest just confirmed joining the Monday morning guest list is Sinead O’Conner. This is being announced now as many of our listeners might find what she has to say very offensive especially if you had read her letter into days Times Newspaper headed Burn The Vatican….You’ve been warned. Boland at 11am weekdays

2010-03-03T08:42:00.001-08:00

The Boland Show Thursday Guest List: A monster iceberg the size of Luxembourg has broken off a glacier in Antarctica prompting fears it could drastically change the world's weather. The 2,500sq km block - which holds enough water to fill the Thames 100 times - was dislodged by another iceberg that broke away 23 years ago. Boland’s first guest Dr. Neal Young, a Glaciologist and research scientist at the Australian Antarctic Division, has expressed alarm that the vast iceberg will disrupt the world's ocean currents and climate.
Ever wonder where that ambulance is going when you see it speeding by, lights flashing sirens roaring. What is the emergency? Is it and accident or a life threatening heart attack, perhaps a serious car accident or just some driver rushing home for dinner? Boland next guest Suzi Brent is an emergency medical dispatcher which means that she's one of the people who take 999 calls for the ambulance service. She takes hundreds of those calls a day and has to remain calm when dealing with traumatic, often life and death situations. For the past year Suzi has kept a diary of the traumas and tragedies and that is now her book ' Nee Naw: Real Life Dispatches From Ambulance Control'
For anyone with a normal understanding of the meaning of right and wrong, the very idea that Britain's most notorious serial killer could successfully make a determined bid for freedom through the courts seems utterly incredible. But the Yorkshire Ripper and his team of doctors and legally aided lawyers truly believe Peter Sutcliffe should be freed from Broadmoor high security hospital next year after serving 30 years. Maurice’s next guest Theodore Dalrymple has spent 20 years working as a prison and hospital doctor and says that Ripper should not be allowed anywhere near parole. Theodore is the author of the book 'Second Opinion - A Doctor's Notes From The Inner City'
And finally we lighten up for Boland’s final guest John Osborne who has long been a fan of radio - from late night sessions of John Peel to Rest Match Special at dawn. When his dull temporary job became drearier than ever, John decided to remain attached to his headphones all day for a month listening to all the different channels. The result is his book ' Radio Head' a funny, disarming ride through aspects of Britain that are uplifting, informative and sometimes plain bizarre

2010-03-02T09:23:00.001-08:00

The Boland Guest List Wednesday 3rd March: First Guest is Marine Biologist and wild life film maker, Dr Martha Holms who wrote the headline ‘ The Price We Pay For Caging Them’ she is of course referring to the tragic death a killer whale trainer in Florida’s Sea World. She went on to write: I've seen orcas killing all sort of different prey and, although there are no reliable reports of them ever killing a human in the wild, I know what they can do. They are intelligent, resourceful and infinitely adaptable creatures; killing prey is simply what they do best. So, on one level, it's tempting to say that the tragic death this week of Mrs Brancheau was simply a result of the whale following its natural instincts. And that might, conceivably, be true; killer whales can certainly take prey from the shallows, as anyone who's seen that incredible footage of them hunting sea lion pups on a Patagonian beach in the BBC's Blue Planet series can attest. But all my instincts, as both scientist and conservationist, are that Tillikum was not acting naturally at all. I'm convinced that keeping such big marine creatures in such small water parks is cruel and places the animals under tremendous stress.
Next Guest is a UFO expert, here we go, this already sounds that it would be better suited to the Gilmore show!!! Britain's Ministry of Defence is destroying all UFO reports it receives so it can avoid answering Freedom of Information requests. According to a formerly secret MoD document that Boland next guest Dr. David Clarke has obtained using the Freedom of information act, this decision means that any future sightings - even those made by reliable sources such as aircrew, radar and police - will in future be shredded after 30 days. Make up your own minds I think Boland will say at the end of this interview…
As its Wednesday it means the second hour of the Boland Show is ‘Enterprise’ looking at Three very different but equally successful entrepreneurs: Jane Winkworth Founder of French Sole. In the mid-1980s, while on holiday in Spain, Winkworth came across a small shoe shop that was closing down and snapped up all its ballet shoes. Back home, her friends bought them. Realizing how popular the shoes were, Winkworth thought of selling them as a hobby to raise money for charity. She spent a year going back and forth to France researching and visiting factories that made ballet shoes for famous brands. Winkworth’s first shop, which she opened in 1991 in Fulham, was an immediate success. French Sole now has four shops in the UK and four under its sister brand in America, London Sole, which she set up in 2003 with her son Ben. This year the company expects to have total sales of about £6m. It employs 60 people.
Next up is Dawn Gibbons who is this weeks star of TV’s Secret Millionaire one of Maurice’s favorite show who made her fortune in property.
And finally Kerry Kolbe, Millionaire film entrepreneur, who saw is company Signal Films winning the Daily Mail enterprising young Brits competition.
Boland On Wednesday at 11am

2010-03-01T08:12:00.001-08:00

The Boland Guest list Monday 1st March : America's refusal to support Britain in the Falklands oil drilling row has been blamed on the UK's decision to release sensitive U.S intelligence on a terror suspect. President Obama has been accused of being feeble by failing to back London in the stand-off with Argentina over the disputed islands. The criticism was echoed by Boland’s first guest Tory MP Patrick Mercer, the chairman of the Commons' terrorism sub-committee.
Next Up is actor Tim Healy found fame as Dennis, the gaffer of Auf Wiedersehen Pet back in the 80's. Since then he has starred in many TV dramas, including The Grand, Common as Muck and Benidorm. Tim will be coming down to Marbella for the Haiti Golf Tournament and Gala on the 13th March together with his wife Denise Welch.
Last week saw the launch of yet another scare campaign in the U.K. As so often before championed by the BBC, it warned us again of the deadly dangers posed by asbestos - this time in Britain's schools. Christopher Booker - author of the book 'The Real Global Warming Disaster' - says that the BBC, profiteering firms and gullible politicians have grossly exaggerated the dangers of asbestos.
And finally Robin Cousins who won the World Free Skating Championship gold medal three times and the gold at Lake Placid in 1980. He is head judge on Dancing on Ice, has just come back from Vancouver where he was commentating on the Olympic Ice Skating and at the end of this month will be joining the cast of Grease for a limited season.

2010-02-24T10:02:00.001-08:00

The Boland Show Thursday 25th Feb… Boland’s first guest wrote the following in The Times: ‘Steven Soderbergh, evidently, was only kidding when he said that there would be no Ocean’s 14. He’s plainly been hard at work filming in a hotel in Dubai, as we can see from the trailers running on News at Ten. With Mossad operatives filling in as movie extras.
Now I know we really, really shouldn’t joke about these things. I should be wearing black and have a long face and be uttering pieties about the disgraceful “extrajudicial” killing of the Hamas military chief Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, apparently by Israeli agents’ Boland’s first guest journalist Melanie Reid, a writer for The Times, will be talking about her take on the way Mossad operate…
We all know what Boland thinks of Global warming, climate change etc just don’t get him started!!! Well Maurice feels the same about homeopathy and homeopathic medicines he thinks there all hockas pockas or words to that effect… According to a committee of MP's, patients should no longer get homeopathic treatment on the NHS because it is little better than ' active deception'. Boland’s next guest Liberal Democrat MP Phil Willis, who is chairman of the cross party committee, has said that there was no evidence the remedies work and dismissed them as ' sugar pills' which should not carry medical claims. So here we go again controversy on the Boland Show….
One wacky reverend gents finds the best way to attract business at his local church is to put up witty signs i.e: ‘Unlike our local Traffic Wardens, God Shows Mercy’!! or ‘Love is Grand. Divorce is Twenty Grand’!!! He hung this sign on the Church Wall: ‘ Almost 2000 years old and Still Under Makers Guarantee’!!! and finaly: ‘' Now Open Sundays' Boland’s guest the Reverend Paul Sinclair's finds these witty signes the best way to reach out to his community from his church. For twelve years, he created funny and entertaining church signs to entice people into the church. Rev Paul also owns Britains only motorcycle funeral business, using a custom made sidecar hearse!!!! Boland on Thursday at 11pm.

2010-02-23T08:33:00.001-08:00

The Boland Show Wednesday 24th Feb….. Horrifying figures show that 843 mothers in Scotland have been charged for neglecting their children in the past five years and a further seven were charged with sexually abusing their own youngsters. And it's not just moms - grandmothers, sisters and friends of the family are also making some kids lives a misery. Courageous Dana Fowley waived her right to anonymity to bring her mother to bring her mother to justice after suffering years of sexual abuse. She has written a book ' How Could She' is her compelling and shocking story of her battle to stand up against the men who destroyed her childhood and the mother who committed the gravest betrayal of them all.

The newspapers headlines are full of the break up’s of celebrity marriages , The Coles, Ashley and Sheryl, The Prices newly wed Katie aka Jordan and Alex Reed not forgetting Peter Andrea and what about the Tiger. Well no one know more about celebrities behaving badly than Boland next guest PR Guru and good friend Max Clifford who will talk us through the trials and tribulations of celebrities divorces etc….

Being a Wednesday that means Enterprise on the second hour of the Boland show and as usual Maurice will introduce three very successful entrepreneurs who will explain how they made it, the up’s and downs of there path to successes and tips to getting to the top.
Boland on Wednesday at 11am….

2010-02-22T09:28:00.000-08:00

The Boland Guest Tuesday Guest list 23rd Feb: Today’s headlines scream: ‘Brown in Bullying Scandal’. Or: ‘No10 Staff Called Bulling Helpline’ ‘Brown Goes on TV to Deny Hitting’ …An anti-bullying charity revealed yesterday that it has received a string of complaints about Prime Minister Gordon Brown… Boland’s first guest Peter Watt is ex General Secretary of the Labour party and spent 10 years working with Gordon Brown will give us an incite view on life under Prime Minister Brown and answer the question ‘did he ever witness any bullying at No 10. His best selling book ' Inside Out: My Story of Betrayal and Cowardice At The Heart of New Labour' is on our website…

Many of us enjoy the smash hit TV show ‘Secret Millionaire’ in fact many of these millionaires have been guests on the Boland Show. For those of you who have never seen the show.. real life millionaires go under cover in to some of the poorest areas in Great Briton and only reveal there identities at the end of there week after deciding to help certain people who they feel are deserving, they include charity workers school teachers etc etc but Boland’s next guest does the secret millionaire thing with a new slant: Millionaires Seema Sharma returned to Mumbai in India where she took part in a special one-off programme. Forfeiting her luxury lifestyle by going in undercover, living on a very small budget by moving into one of Asia's biggest and most notorious slum which was used for the location of the Oscar winning film ' Slumdog Millionaire. It was a fascinating program and Boland will talk Seema through her time spent living among the slum inhabitants.
Boland next guest Billy Moore will tell us What is it really like to be a contestant on Britain's Got Talent? Billy Moore, The 84 year old yodeling contestant will explain how he survived the auditions and the panel and perhaps Maurice will persuade him to Yodel !!!!
And finally Michael Foley's will tell us about his book ' The Age of Absurdity' is an unusual and entertaining investigation into how the desirable states of well being and satisfaction are constantly undermined by the age we live in. In short, modern life makes it almost impossible to be happy.
Boland on Tuesday at 11pm

2010-02-17T11:28:00.001-08:00

The Boland Show Thursday 18th Feb: This has been a week of Cult and Religious bashing on the Boland show. First up were the Scientologists followed by the Jehovah Witnesses then the Jews next up are the Catholic Priests (again) to be precise…. The Pope!!! Today Irish Independent Newspaper headline screamed: ‘ The Pope Has Washed His Hands of Abused Victims’!!!! Furious victims of clerical sexual abuse accused the pope of ‘washing there hands’ of the scandals that rocket the church. Victims condemned the Pope for NOT acknowledging that senior clergy covered up abuse for decades and has refused to call for resignations. They have said the pontiff's unprecedented two day summit with the 24 Irish bishops in the Vatican was a charade which had achieved nothing. Boland’s first guest, Steven O'Riorden, is a victim of child abuse by the church and will his disgust at the pontiff…

French lawmakers have said they want to ban Muslim women from veiling their faces in public facilities, a plan applauded by some French Muslim women but criticized by Muslim leaders, who said it could provoke Islamic extremists in France and abroad. France's prime minister has also said he would sign a decree refusing French nationality to a man who forced his wife to wear the Burkha. Bolands next guest Laila Lalami, the author of a new book ' Secret Son' is Moroccan born and is known internationally for her blog www.moorishgirl.com and her book gives an insider's view of the underlying turmoil of Morocco and a depiction of the roots of Islamic terrorism.
That’s The Catholics, the Muslims so what about the Jews??? We should have known better next up is Dr Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Israel has dedicated his life to tracking down and prosecuting those responsible for the atrocities of World War 2. But for Efraim, time is running out. Many war crimes suspects are elderly and infirm and so are the witnesses. Memories are fading but Efraim says he will not give up until the last Nazi war criminal is prosecuted. Operation Last Chance is a joint project of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre and the Targum Shlishi Foundation of Miami designed to assist governments around the world in bringing Nazi war criminals to justice. It is also the title of Efraim's book which delivers the important and moving story of one man's efforts to bring criminals to justice.
Gee!!!! Its time for a bit of light hearted humour is the guise of Kathy Lette who first achieved success as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues. After several years as a newspaper columnist and television sitcom writer in America she wrote eleven international bestsellers. In her new book ' Men - A user's Guide' Kathy has gathered together the very finest of her sparkling witticisms in a tongue-in-cheek guide to men.

2010-02-15T10:31:00.001-08:00

The Boland Show Tuesday 15th February: Controversy is never to far away from the Boland Show and you can be assured there should be plenty of that on the Tuesday show. Guests include the Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, Dan Meridor and a senor PLO spokesperson Dr Gassan Khatib. And it wont stop there Boland will continue his campaign in trying to discredit the Global Warming so called experts wrong even if they’ve side stepped the issues by renaming it ‘Climate Change’ with his guest Dr Benny Peiser a director of The Global Warming Policy Foundation and a senior university lecturer

So let battle commence…… First will be Dr Beeny Peiser…Climate change doubters say UN data has been tampered to grossly overstate case that the earth is warming up. Benny Peiser is a social anthropologist and climate change sceptic and is the director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. The foundation is an all party and non party think tank which while open minded on the contested science of global warming is deeply concerned about the costs and other implications of many of the policies currently being advocated

Two points of view then follow, the Israeli and the Palestinians on who they see as to who to blame for the conflict in the middle east first to the microphone is PLO spokes person Dr Ghassan Khatib is a Palestinian politician. He was born in Nablus in the West Bank, and is a member of the Palestinian People's Party. He was also a member of the Madrid Peace Delegation in 1991and was involved in the Washington negotiations from 1991 to 1993. He was appointed the Palestinian National Authority Minister of Labor in 2002 then the Planning Minister in 2005.
Next up will be Dan Meridor A longtime member of the Likud party, in the late 1990s he became one of the founders of the Centre Party. He rejoined Likud in the early 2000s, and returned to the Knesset following the 2009 elections. Meridor currently serves as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy in the Israeli Cabinet.

The Boland Show on Tuesday at 11am

2010-02-11T09:51:00.001-08:00

The Boland Guest List Friday 12th February.. First up tells the story about Students from some of Britain's top universities are travelling to Somalia to fight with a terrorist group linked to Al Qaeda. Young British Muslims are joining a terror group that is blamed for hundreds of deaths in the African country. Boland first guest Mohamed Abdullahi, director of the UK Somali Community Initiative, said his organisation is separately investigating the case of five men and an 18 year old from London, thought to be fighting for the terrorist group. He says he treads a fine line between helping concerned families and identifying threats to the u.k. authorities.
Next up is Davender Ghai, a Hindu grandfather has won the right to be cremated on a traditional open-air funeral pyre in Britain. Davender, aged 71, believes such a cremation is essential to the liberation of his soul after death. Wednesday's landmark ruling means thousands of Hindus, Sikhs and anyone else wanting ' natural cremation' can have their dying wishes legally carried out.
And finally in the first hour relates the report that In 2007, 7.8 million Britons used some form of online dating service in pursuit of romance, and no fewer than one thousand people sign up to the Guardian dating service Soulmates every week. In fact, there is a 50:50 chance that any single person you know logs on to find love. Published in time for Valentines day this week end is Sonali Fernando's book ' Soul Mates', a quirky guide to the world of online dating. Boland’s guest Sonali is an award winning documentary filmmaker and writer who has directed over twenty five films for Channel Four and the BBC.
The second hour is the The Travel Show offer all the latest travel news with Sean Tippton from ABTA’s headquarters in London followed by some recommended holiday and exciting places to visit. Boland Friday at 11am

2010-01-21T12:50:00.001-08:00

The Boland Guest for Friday 22nd………Razi Shah didn’t make today’s guest list because of court appearances but he’s rescheduled for tomorrow…His client Munir Hussein, jailed for attacking an intruder after the lives of his family were threatened by knife-wielding thugs in his own home was freed by the court of appeal this week. Razi Shah talks to Boland about the case…
Next up is Geza Vermes the world's leading authority on Jesus, who has published his book ' Searching for the Real Jesus, which gives fresh insight into the most influential figure in the history of mankind. The book is a culmination of a lifetime of study and its publication marks the 50th anniversary of the contract being signed by Geza for the first ever English translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which revolutionised our understanding of the history of the Gospels and the figure of Jesus. Boland will be asking the simple question is Jesus the son of god?
This week a judge told a devoted mother that she cannot take the law into her own hands as he jailed her for life for giving her brain damaged son a lethal heroin overdose. Dr. Philip Nitschke, the founder and director of Exit became the first physician in the world to administer a legal, lethal voluntary injection to one of his terminally patients and we talk to him about the case of Frances Inglis and whether he feels she should have been found guilty of murder.
And Finally…….Trevor Nortons new book ' Smoking ears and screaming teeth' is a collection of the great eccentrics who have performed the riskiest and most extraordinary experiments on themselves for the benefit of humankind.

2010-01-18T13:17:00.001-08:00

The Boland Tuesday Guest List: Last weekend a leading Muslim organisation in Britain issued a fatwa against suicide bombings and terrorism, declaring them un-Islamic. Boland’s first guest Shahid Mursaleen is a Spokesperson for Minhaj-ul-Quran, a Sufi organisation based in East London who advise the Government on how to combat radicalization of Muslim youth. They have launched a 600-page religious verdict condemning the perpetrators of terrorist explosions and suicide bombings……

Next up is an extraordinary man: Shaun Ellis, The Wolfman, is one of the very few people to have ever lived with a pack of wolves in captivity. He only leaves the high fenced enclosure to return briefly to the human world. This project was born out of the belief that though wolves have been studied from afar by scientists, getting close and intimate could provide new insights if the wolves trust you enough to give up their secrets. He has appeared in many TV shows and documentaries both in UK and America this will be his first appearance on radio in Spain…

As the Costa suffer through the down turn in the economy were house prices have fallen in some cases by 50% Yesterdays in The Mail on Sunday an article about Gibraltar, talking about how there is no capital gains or inheritance tax, VAT-free shops and of course sunshine! Boland’s guest Jeremy Boyd, of Chesterton International, based in Gibraltar said how in demand property is there. Is there lessons to be learnt???

And finaly we lighten up with the story about Mike Buss now has the record for the longest distance covered on a treadmill in seven days – 517.25 miles. Mike ran the equivalent of three marathons a day, with only two hours sleep a day and brief food and massage breaks. The former Army physical training instructor burned 11,000 calories a day and lost 8 pounds during the week, as well as two toenails…… Boland on Tuesday at 10am

2010-01-14T08:51:00.001-08:00

The Boland Show Friday Guest List …..First up is the incorrigible Michael Winner who wrote in his Daily Mail column: Whenever a TV company wants to get a dozen idiots in a confined space, they come to me. The producers of I'm A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of Here! once asked me to appear on the show and said: 'You'll be in very distinguished company. We've got a major Hollywood star.' That turned out to be some minor actor who played Huggy Bear in the prehistoric TV series Starsky And Hutch. So I added Celebrity Mastermind to my 'No thank you' list. Until recently, when, for some strange reason, I accepted the invitation - and agreed to give my fee for appearing to The Police Memorial Trust. He’ll tell host Boland why he was the dunce of the show.
Next up is the Independent Indian correspondent Andrew Buncombe you excellent article on the disaster in Haiti in yesterdays Independent titled: ‘The People are So Poor the But Mud to Eat’ Andrew will talk is through a country in ruin.
One of Maurice’s favorite political correspondent, the excellent Quentin Letts who will talk about Spin Doctor Alastair Campbell who he accuses of peddling a shameless litany of lies at the Iraq enquiry. He dismissed the overwhelming evidence of government papers and his own diaries that he pressured spy chiefs to harden Tony Blair´s ´dodgy´ dossier on Iraqi weapons. Political Correspondent for the Daily Mail Quentin Letts shares his thoughts on the pale looking Mr Campbell during the enquiry.

And Finally……In the depths of the global crunch, why would anyone want to waste precious money on pointless junk that ends up in the trashcan after a couple of uses? But sales of nonsense are rocketing, things like wand-shaped remote controls, desk-top Hoovers, and even a hollow plastic golf-club you can wee into while playing a round! Boland’s final guest John Naish is the man behind The Landfill Prize, the award for Britain’s most useless consumer product

2010-01-13T11:57:00.001-08:00

The Boland Friday Guest List: First up is Sinitta who has been singing and dancing since she was a little girl. She had huge success in the 80´s with songs like ´So Macho´, ´Toy Boy´, and ´Love on a mountain top´ More recently Sinitta has been assisting Simon Cowell on The X Factor, and last Sunday she appeared in the new series of ITV´s Dancing on Ice and was voted off week one.

Next on the guest list is ex Flying Squad detective John O’Conner he’s been invited on the Boland show to give his opinion on the amazing events taking place in Lisbon's main civil court is hearing an attempt by former police chief Goncalo Amaral to overturn a ban on his book questioning the McCanns' account of what happened to Madeleine. Giving evidence Chief Inspector Tavares de Almeida told the court yesterday he believed that Madeleine died in her family's apartment in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz on the day she went missing. John O’Conner, who visited Praia da Luz shortly after Madeleine disappeared will tell us what he believes really happened to her.

Boland’s next guest should have us rolling in the isles: Des MacHale is an Associate Professor at University College, Cork and the author of thirty humour books including ´The Book of Irish Bull´, and ´The World´s Best Maggie Thatcher Jokes´. His latest book is ´Love & Laughter: Quotations from the greatest lovers, the loved, the lost and the lecherous.

And finaly….. A well publicized photograph of Rod Stewart and his ex wife Rachel Hunter having a screaming match outside a restaurant in London has been used to emphasize the headline: ‘ Blazing Rows Can Be Good For Your Marriage’ Boland final guest Kate Figes who is the author of a new book ´Couples: The Truth´ Kate has interviewed over 120 people about their relationships and has discovered there is no singular recipe for love. She has found out that a blazing row can be good for you, and has also learnt a lot about what is really going on inside Britain´s bedrooms!

2010-01-11T11:08:00.001-08:00

The Boland Show Tuesday Guest List: 'Did Mummy die last night?' It's a question which for Boland’s first guest Simon Carr has suddenly acquired a new life. It was asked of him once before by a five-year-old boy, and there it is in front of him again, 15 years later, very like it was the first time - except this time it's on a big screen in a preview theatre in Soho. And it has come back with an appalling power. In 1994, his wife Susie died after a hard-fought battle with cancer, leaving Simon to raise there son - as well as his older son from a previous marriage - alone. He wrote a book, The Boys Are Back In Town, telling how three males learned to live in a household robbed of a loving mother. Its now a major movie….
Next up in is Tony Bennett, no not the ‘I left my heart in San Francisco’ one but the founder of a site The Madeline Foundation set up by Tony who is convinced that Madeline in fact died in the holiday apartment in Portugal and was not kidnapped as in generally belived , in fact Bennett has tried to take out a private prosecution against Gerry and Kate McCann but a court has said it has jurisdiction over something which allegedly happened in Portugal. Now Tony Bennett and his foundation members want to hold a seminar within a stone throw of the McCann home
WHEN Sally Cornock saw her boyfriend Tony had left his mobile phone behind after leaving for work, she couldn't resist the temptation to take a peek. With her heart in her mouth and stomach churning, she picked it up and pressed the green button to open up his texts. Nothing could have prepared Sally for what she found. "Monday was great. Can't wait to do it again", read the first message. Then another, "Looking forward to tomorrow night". Stunned Sally, 42, scrolled though the rest of the texts and found it filled with flirty messages - all arranging or discussing dates Tony was planning to go on. And all from different women. The shell-shocked company director worked out that, in total, he was seeing FIFTY-THREE other women. She rang him to tell him he had made a big mistake by leaving his mobile around. Then she called all 53 of the astonished women and revealed what he was up to. Her final act of revenge was to delete all the numbers before chucking the phone outside in the mud along with the rest of his belongings. So she started internet site loveratsinc.co.uk which went live in January this year. It is now so popular that it receives nearly 5,000 hits a month. Boland at 10 on Tuesday

2010-01-07T11:10:00.000-08:00

The Boland Guest list for Friday 8th December….
Happy Birthday Elvis…Yes folks, Elvis Presley was born on this day 75 years ago, hard to believe Elvis at 75 if he had lived. Bolands first guest Charlie Connelly’s book In Search of Elvis, in an engaging journey that takes him from Elvis's birthplace in Tupelo, via places Elvis visited in Germany, Las Vegas and Hawaii, and of course to Elvis's home and the setting for his tragic death: Graceland in Memphis. Connelly – an admirer of Elvis rather than an obsessive fan – wanted to take a look at the Elvis legacy, and see why Presley remains the biggest cultural icon of our time. To do this, he's chosen not to write a biography, and not to trace Elvis's life through the obvious places. The trip takes him to Finland to meet a professor who performs Elvis songs in Latin while wearing a kilt; to Canada to meet Schmelvis, the Jewish Elvis impersonator, and Elvis Priestley, the Anglican priest and also an Elvis impersonator.

Maurice was originally drawn to the headline: ‘Teenagers risk death in internet strangling craze’ ….. Children are posting videos on the internet showing them choking other youngsters to the point of collapse, in a craze that doctors warn has led to brain damage and death!! In the troubling footage on YouTube, British teenagers can be seen losing consciousness, their eyes rolled back, as they collapse to the ground to the sound of their friends' laughter. The videos show teenagers applying pressure to the necks of friends. Others try to create the high on their own, using a ligature, with a greater risk of killing themselves if anything goes wrong and help is not at hand. Maurice has invited Françoise Cochet to join his Friday guest list and will tell him: “The afternoon my 14-year-old son Nicolas told me about a "scarf game" he and some friends had been playing in the playground, I dismissed it. I didn't realise that the "game" involved the children risking their lives by starving their brains of oxygen in pursuit of a high. Later that night, my son tied a judo chord around his neck, attached the other end to his door handle and, accidentally, strangled himself to death”.
We continue to be shocked by the amount of lies we are told in the media, by advertisers, politicians and experts. Boland’s next guests Simon Rose and Steve Caplin clearly are too, and have done some wide ranging and amusing research into the areas in which the public are misled. Theatrical posters, bottle labelling (wine can legally contain fish bladders and not tell you - urgh!), budget airlines and many quagmires of deceit are exposed. "British' pork can come from Ireland, 'British' beef can be Zebu meat from Brazil - hence the title of there book ‘Complete and Utter Zebu’ a metaphor for the amount of misleading tosh we are fed.
Bolands final guest Oonagh O’Hagan who’s new book ' I love You with Custard on Top and other notes from the Wilder Shores of Love' is a hilarious collection of genuine love notes, from the affectionate to the poignant to the downright filthy. Oonagh was given the notes by friends, colleagues and anonymous donators….Boland on Friday at 10..

2010-01-06T10:38:00.001-08:00

The Boland Guest List for Thursday 7th January: Albino Forquilha is 41 and a former child soldier from Mozambique.. His introduction to violence came during the Mozambican civil war when the government gave him a gun to guard his school against the incursions of rebel guerrillas. He was 13 at the time. After the war Albino and several other former child soldiers launched a charity to get rid of guns (there were still 2 million weapons in the hands of private citizens) and today they have created what has become one of Mozambique's major peace-building organisations called ' Transforming Arms into Ploughshares Project'

To most of us, the baggage we collect through life brings with it little jolts of memories. So why are we continuously told to declutter and throw everything away. That our homes should be shiny, bare and minimalist - like those shown in television commercials. Well, according to a new survey decluttering isn't necessarily good for us. Joining the Boland Guest List is Ray Connolly a journalist and author and talks to us about how he feels about decluttering.

“Matchmaker, Matchmaker make me a match” …..Yes we all loved that song in Fiddler on The Roof Boland’s next guest is real life Matchmaker: For centuries, Irish matchmakers have performed a vital service, bringing people together in love and marriage. It is a mysterious art, and the very best matchmakers have an almost magical quality to them. Willie Daly, whose father and grandfather were matchmakers before him, is the most celebrated of them all. Willie's book ' The Last Matchmaker' is on our website

And finally the story of a group of very happy New Year revellers: Guests celebrating new year at the highest pub in England had a longer than expected stay, after heavy snow left them stranded for three days. Tracy Bailly, who owns the Tan Hill Inn tells us how it was to celebrate new years eve for three days. Boland on Thursday at 10…

2010-01-05T08:38:00.001-08:00

The Boland Guest List Wednesday the 6th December: Brian Moor , with 64 caps is English rugby’s most capped hooker. Known as the ‘Pitbull’ to his teammates, he played in three World Cups, won three Grand Slams in ’91,’92 and 1995: Went on two British Lyons tours and was voted Rugby Player of the Year. Yet, beneath this tough exterior lies a complicated man with some deep secrets which he has never spoken about…That is until now!! Moor will join Boland’s Wednesday morning guest list and will disclose why he has made the decision to break silence over the sex abuse he suffered as a child!!!

For millions of ordinary Britons, Wootton Bassett has become a symbol of national pride in the bravery of service personnel and of national grief for the loss of so many young lives. Now, Islam4UK plan to parade empty coffins through the town as part of a campaign to highlight the supposed persecution of Muslims by British troops. Imran Ahmad is a British Muslim who came to Britain from Pakistan and the author of the book ' Unimagined: a Muslim Boy Meets The West' will join the Boland guest list and will tell why he is appalled by this callus attempt to insult our brave troops.

Next up is Alex Quick explaining to Boland why deep down, everyone knows that the best things in life are free - but it's easy to forget in a world of constant advertising and competitive consumerism. Quick will remind us how many of the really important things in life can be done without spending anything. His suggestions range from things that we all know we should do but never seem to get around to ('Contact a friend you haven't spoken to for ages') to the less obvious ('Ask a child for advice' or 'Learn a brilliant magic trick').

Boland at 10 on Wednesday Followed by his excellent show Enterprise from 12pm-1pm

Enterprise Guests include; Charlotte Evans and Carolyn Jarvis the founder of Buggy Boot, who, in April 2008 appeared on BBC2’s Dragons' Den, Charlotte and Carolyn made a spirited presentation, which they describe as being one of the most challenging and nerve-wracking pitches they've ever given. After demonstrating the product and explaining the business, Charlotte and Carolyn secured the full amount of funding they sought and the support of a Dragon - Deborah Meaden.

Michael North didn’t fair so well when he to appeared on Dragons Den. Michael known as ‘The Olive Oil Man’ dared to argue with the dragons and more or less proved his case that Deborah Meadon didn’t know what she or any of the other Dragon know about real olive oil. He has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows including UK TV Great Food Live, UK TV Food Market Kitchen, Ready Steady Cook, BBC TV Dragons’ Den, Dragons’ on Tour and BBC Radio. Michael founded the UK’s first Seasonal Fresh Olive Oil Club in to help discerning food enthusiasts gain privileged access to "heavenly class" extra virgin Olive Oil right at its peak of perfection, and the Club boasts members as far away as New York, Brisbane and the Bahamas. Michael has joined an ever growing list of business people who didn’t find success with the Dragons but went on to find success without them

2010-01-05T08:29:00.000-08:00

2009-12-29T13:01:00.001-08:00

Joining The Boland Guest list… Actor Robert Powell, what every Jewish mother dreams of from Jesus to a Doctor, that is Powell now in Holby City. Next up Barry Crier one of UK most respected comedy writers looks back on the last 10years on TV. SALLY ROWEN - Legal director for the Death Penalty team of Reprieve, an organisation that uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantanamo Bay. Sally is responsible for developing cases of British citizens facing execution around the world.
CLAIRE ARMSTRONG - A town which axed its speed cameras has seen the number of deaths on its roads fall to zero. Campaigners against fixed speed cameras are now expected to call for all speed traps in britain to be removed and the refocusing of police resources to pursue the real menaces of the road - uninsured, unlicensed, and drunk drivers. Claire is from the organisation Speedcameras.org. In the u.k. revenue from fines for speeding is approximately 120 million pounds a year.

2009-12-23T00:22:00.001-08:00

Boland’s Guest List Tuesday 23rd December 2009: Hard to believe it but it’s five years on from the boxing day tsunami, which drowned a quarter of a million people and shattered hotels and homes in 13 countries, a remarkable record has been compiled from amateur footage taken by some of those caught up in its horrors. the resulting documentary will be shown on channel 4 on December 30th. Mark Heather was the manager of a brand new luxury beachfront hotel resort and talks to us about the horror that occurred five years ago.

Next up: The past can come up an haunt us and in Gerry Addams case: the IRA heartlands, such as West Belfast are areas where republicans proudly claim they look after their own community and punish drug pushers and sex abusers – except, it now appears, where those criminals are related to the elite. Gerry Adams MP, who covered up the crime of his brother Liam raping and abusing his 13 year old daughter Aine from the age of four, is touring TV studios trying to save his career and his reputation. Ruth Dudley Edwards is an author and journalist and her most recent book ‘ Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing and The Families Pursuit of Justice. Ruth will ask the question: Should Adams come forward along time ago and revealed his and his brothers past. i.e should he of aloud his father a full IRA military funeral knowing what he knew????

How about something different to do on Christmas Day??? Because of adverse weather conditions for the past week, the whole of England has ground to a virtual halt. Schools have closed early due to snow, you can’t get in or out of the country (or across the country for that matter’ by car, train or plane. but there is one place in London that is not affected by the weather. The Serpentine Swimming Club in Hyde Park remains open even when the water freezes over – then the members just smash a hole in the ice and hurl themselves in!! On Christmas day members will take part in a 100 yard race for the Peter Pan Cup. Maurice’s guest Harry Mount, who is an author and journalist, decided to investigate the craze for wild swimming: Diving into lakes, rivers streams, bogs and canals, whatever the weather and will share his tale with us….

And finally…Are you a Christmas fan.. We know Maurice is but his final guest Ryan Shorthouse, a writer on social affairs and his articles can be found in the guardian and daily mail amongst others, will explain why he certainly is NOT!!!! Boland on Tuesday at 10am

2009-12-21T08:47:00.001-08:00

The Boland Guest list Tuesday 22nd December: First up is ex page 3 girl, turned recording star, turned TV personality, turned lesbian!!! Sam Fox married her manager Myra: Last year Fox and her lover took part in Celebrity Wife Swap, exchanging with Freddie Starr and his wife Donna with disastrous results. Sam has just appeared in ‘I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, she will tell Maurice that her stint on this year’s series was life changing. The former glamour model was the third star to be eliminated from the jungle. Right now Sam is working on her next album and has released how own video documentary ‘All Around The World’ which is a revealing travelogue style interview covering

Moving swiftly along. Another series has just come to an end the excellent BBC’s: ‘Strictly Come Dancing’. Boland’s next guest, TV star Esther Rantzen says: A las, poor Strictly, it’s lost its glitter. They say every marriage losses a shine after seven years, and in its seventh series that has happened to the once passionate love affair between Strictly Come Dancing and the audience. Yes, the BBC’s ruined Strictly, but it can be saved and Esther will tell us how!!!!

Climate change now raises it’s ugly head once again. The Copenhagen summit on climate change has just ended with disastrous results. Father Sean McDonagh was there. In his more recent writing and lectures Sean declares that global warming is the biggest issue facing agriculture over the next 50 years. For him it is a moral and religious issue because taking no action will mean suffering and death. He calls politicians to stop bowing to vested interests. He urges the churches to join the debates with more commitment. Unless attitudes change the well-being of millions will be undermined and future generations will be condemned to live on an inhospitable planet. (Is the Gilmore Show I hear you ask?)

Finally…. Forget playground insults. Vicious online hate campaigns (cyber-bullying) are the latest form of bullying – and they are driving young girls to their deaths. Maurice’s final guest Chris Cloke, head of Child Protection at the NSPCC and chair of the anti bullying alliance, says ‘bullying used to happen in school and then it stopped at home. but now it follows the child so they are bullied in places where they should feel safe’
Boland on Thursday, 10am…

2009-12-16T08:57:00.001-08:00

The Boland Guest List Thursday 17th December: Again another headline story makes it onto the Boland guest, which tells of the son of one of the greatest stunt riders attempts to make a jump that almost killed his dad: In an exclusive Talk Radio Europe interview Robbie, the son of stunt legend Evel Knievel, announced today his plans to attempt the same double-decker bus stunt that nearly ruined his late father’s daredevil career. On may 25th, 1975 Evel Knievel attempted to jump 13 buses at Wembley but crashed breaking his pelvis and ending his career. Robbie said today that he would attempt to clear 16 buses on the same motorcycle model used by his father. the death defying stunt will take place in London on may 22nd next year. What Robbie doesn’t know is that Maurice interviewed his late dad Evil when he was broadcasting one of his shows live from Caesars Palace Hotel Las Vegas, the place where Knievle nearly ended his life when an attempted jump through the famous Caesars fountains went terribly wrong.

We’ve opened our prezzes, had our lunch and watched a few boring reruns on the telly, we’ve almost finished the box of Quality Streets (nabbing all the purple ones!!) when its time to settle down to a good board game (sure to get the family at each others throats!!!) Boland’s next guest knows all about that, John Mariani heads up Drummond Park UK’s leading games company. What he doesn’t know is that Maurice’s son Daniel is the face of Articulate TV advertising campaign which is one of Drummand Parks top selling games…

Keeping on the Christmas theme, well sort of, the darker side of Christmas!!! For a few brief weeks, they are paraded and petted at shopping centres and Christmas displays. but for the rest of the year, hundreds of reindeer in Britain are enduring horrific neglect. Robin Page is the former presenter of the TV show ‘ One Man and his Dog’ and the author of a children’s book on reindeer, ‘ Why the Reindeer has a Velvet Nose’. Will explain to Maurice the cruelty dished out to this lovable animals.

And finally folks…. The Embarrassing Dad dance Routine is a sight most have witnessed at wedding receptions and discos up and down the country. But, now a study has found that cringe worthy dancing by middle-aged men is largely down to evolution. Dr Peter Lovatt, a psychologist and a dancer, found that men between 35 and their sixties practise embarrassing dance moves to repel younger women. Obviously he hasn’t seen Maurice dancing: Get it… Morris Dancing!!!!
Boland on Thursday at 10am

2009-12-15T08:24:00.001-08:00

The Boland Show Guest List Wednesday 15th Dec… We all know that Britain’s Health and safety and PC laws have long ago lost the plot, well, the first story on the Boland show takes top prize for the most ridicules court judgment of the decade. So here goes: Millionaire businessman Munir Hussein, who fought off a knife-welding burglar was jailed on Monday for two and a half years, his wife suffering a stroke due to the stress of the attack, whilst his ATTACKER, a career criminal, was let off scot free!!! The Boland Show has secured an exclusive interview with his lawyer Razi Shah who is hoping to have this ridicules conviction overturned on appeal.

We all knew it wouldn’t take long before a Tiger woods story would make the Boland Show…another day another mistress Tiger woods career has certainly attracted a few birds not to mentions the wood he keeps playing with. But the question is, how did he ever find time to play golf. Maurice’s guest Lauren St John says ALL golfers play around in fact she will tell us how they tried toi score with her….(sounds like a Boland Story!!!!)

Next up is Grant Smith a professional photographer will tell us about the time he was taking photographs of Christ Church in London when he was approached by a police officer who demanded to know what he was doing
(I would have told him: “Eating an efing ice cream, what’s it look like I’m doing) within minuets three police cars with lights flashing arrived as well as a riot van. He was questioned and then let go, It was reveled this week how police in Britain can treat you like a terrorist for taking a holiday snap.

And finally Peter Vardy will talk us through The Puzzle of Sex which is the title of his controversial revised edition of his best selling book and the moral implications of Sex Love and Marriage in modern society. Boland, Wednesday at 10am

2009-12-14T11:34:00.001-08:00

The Boland Show Guest List Tuesday 14th December: The first guest has a lovely story that fits in with the season of goodwill: Seven years ago Katherine Conner was a career girl who spent every penny on clothes and going out. on a trip to Thailand she came across a mistreated baby elephant, bought him and today Katherine and her husband now own and run a sanctuary for sick and mistreated elephants. Ahhhhhh!! The story follows her glamours career in the fashion world when a chance encounter changed her life….
Keeping in the Christmas spirit how about this for an idea: Vanessa Lloyd-Plat, Britain’s best known divorce lawyer is the pioneer of a controversial new Christmas gift idea – a divorce gift voucher !!!!. She is now selling gift vouchers to friends and family of those facing legal battles and her firm has been inundated with requests to purchase this novel gift idea by celebrities, family and even mistresses. Now, what did I do with Tiger Woods wife’s telephone number??????
Here’s where we depart from the Christmas theme of today’s show; Victory For Free Speech screamed the headlines ‘ Devout Christians, Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang (good luck with the pronunciation of this one!!!) were cleared last week of insulting a Muslim Grandmother who was a guest in there hotel for insulting her faith over a breakfast time conversation on religion (you couldn’t make it up!!!). This ludercrise case included one highly paid senior Crown prosecutor, two policemen-including a detective chief inspector no less-in court to testify the accused. Behind them a team of six officers-yes six highly skilled policemen!!!. Not to mention a QC for the defendants and over 20,000 pounds of taxpayers money…British Justice gone mad or what??? This case has made headlines in all the British newspapers and TV news reports. It will be the first time that Ben and Sharon have agreed to a radio interview.

And finally: The subject of Irish abortion law: Three women launched a landmark case in the Courts of Human Rights in Strasbourg last week , the outcome of which could force Ireland to weaken its strict laws against abortion for the first time in 17 year, Controversial TD, Mary O’Rourke returns to the Boland guest list to give a no hold bared opinion on the ridicules divorce laws in Ireland… Boland on Tuesday at 10am

2009-12-09T08:34:00.001-08:00

The Boland Gust List Thursday 10th December: With Christmas fast approaching our minds turn to family, happy children, opening presents and grandpa asleep in YOUR chair and settling in after stuffing our faces with turkey and Christmas pudding, tuning into our favorite TV Show’s whilst remembering the greats of yesteryear like The Morcombe and Wise Show and Terry and Junes Christmas specials…Maurice is delighted that June Whitfield will be joining him to reminisce on Christmases past to include her shows with Tony Hancock, Sid James and of course Terry Scott. “How this have changed.” She said yesterday at a lunch given in her honor she recalled working with Noel Coward; “I used to curtsey every time I saw him. He said television is not watching but appearing on” June added: “Seemingly every member of the public seems to think the same now”!!!

This week Tom Heal and his friend Will Smith will set off in an attempt to row across the Atlantic Ocean. If the survive the storms, sharks and gigantic waves, they will become the youngest pair ever to row across any ocean. Maurice will be talking to Simon Chalk race-organiser who believes the pair have what it takes to fulfill there Atlantic dreams

Lisa Hey, who was 15 when she tortured and killed a lonely pensioner, is due for release later this month and will be given taxpayer-funded change of identity. She gave birth to a daughter earlier this year. Maurice’s next guest Toy MP David Davis, who is a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee and is an advocate of tough measures to deal with criminality. Says; The whole situation re Lisa Hey is appalling!!!!

So lets lighten up with Boland’s final guest stand-up comedian Mark Steel. Steel is also a commentator and author and makes regular appearances on TV, on shows such as : Have I Got News For You , Never Mind The Buzzcocks and IQ. According to Mark there still is hope for the planet. (this will be interesting to all the Gilmore listeners) The odds are against us but we still have 3 days left to save the world and stop X Factor from creating another putrid Christmas number one!!! Boland on Thursday at 10 am

2009-12-08T09:35:00.001-08:00

The Boland guest List Wednesday 8th December: The first story wouldn’t have made it into a fairy tale books it would be too far fetched but it’s true:
A report by Conservative MP Adam Holloway a member of the select defensive committee claims that the source of Tony Blair’s dossier on Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction came from an Iraqi taxi driver. Senior intelligence officials have told Adam that the cabbie falsely claimed Saddam Hussein had acquired long-range missiles after listening to Iraqi commanders chatting in his taxi two years before the invasion. Based on that Britton went into war seeing it’s hundredth young solder killed this year alone and you wonder why UK is in the state it’s in!!!! We’ll here more from Adam Holloway when he joins Boland’s guest list..

Up next again is another story that shows up some of the ridicules rules that British citizens have to live under; a British bride and her husband have been forced to leave the UK and live in cramped conditions in Chile because they are not old enough to qualify for a visa. Briton, Amber Aguilar, 18, married her 19 year old husband Diego from Chile after they had been in a relationship for two and a half years, but, five days after their wedding the government changed the law to mean newly married couples have to be 21 rather than 18 before a visa can go to a foreign national. Rupert Jeffery a deputy headmaster is Amber’s father and he talks to us about his daughter’s plight.

When one refers to icons of British comedy Boland’s net guest must be up there with the best, he is Frank Carson and, It’s The Way He Tells Them’ Well, in this case it’s they way he told them to her majesty Queen Elizabeth 11, Frank MBE, was at the Royal Variety Performance on Monday evening staring with such luminaries as Lady GaGa, Miley Cyrus, Lulu, and Brition’s Got Talent winners Diversity (who by all accounts stole the show) He tells us all about it including how he greeted the royal couple inside the theatre while his three young granddaughters (who go to school in Marbella) presented the queen with flowers.

So 16 days to Christmas ahhhhhhhh!!! Harry Wallop is the consumer affairs editor of The Daily Telegraph and has been on a mission to find the ultimate gadgets, gizmos and products that can help take the stress out of Christmas. He has found everything from pop up Christmas trees to flame free candles. Ahhhhhhhh!!! Oand on Wednesday at 10am

2009-12-06T03:55:00.000-08:00

Irelands Foreign Minister to meet the Pope's ambassador to Ireland after the Vatican's disgraceful refusal to deal directly with the Dublin Archdiocese child sex abuse investigation. One of the most vocal critics, Fianna Fail controversial backbencher Mary O'Rourke will guest on the Monday mornings Boland Show. Maurice has been continually outspoken re the disgusting behaviour by the Catholic Church and its denial of wrong doings on the behaviour of it’s priests and bishops on child sex abuse

2009-12-03T23:14:00.001-08:00

Conservative leader David Cameron confirms he is to be a guest on The Boland Show in early January

2009-12-02T22:08:00.000-08:00

The Boland Show Guest List Thursday 3rd Dec….. Have you ever wondered what were the likes of Kerry Katona, Paris Hilton, Kelly Osborne and Sheryl Gascoigne famous for? Well Boland first guest certainly poses that question: What exactly is it he does”? He is Callum Best, son of football legend George Best. So what was it like growing up with a famous alcoholic dad, bedding some of the worlds most beautiful models, living the life of luxury and all seemingly without working. Maurice will be getting a few tips from Callum of how to live the celebrity life style…
Fancy becoming an overnight millionaire? Well, perhaps on the Boland show you might just learn how. Maurice’s next guest, Andrew Paul, a newly divorced city banker is giving away his millionaire lifestyle complete with his luxury home, car and boat in a competition that anyone can enter for 20 pounds!!!
Next up on the guest list is Islamic fundamentalist Anjem Choudry who will be talking us through yesterdays attack by Muslims on Muslim Tory Baroness Warsi and will be putting the question to Anjem; Is this a new resurgence of a banned group of fanatics who want the flag of Islam flying over No 10. Anjem who heads up the banned group Islam4UK and has vowed that the flag of Islam will fly over Downing Street in 20 years time!!!! (ever notice what a nice class of guests Boland gets on his show???)
Should we believe the statement issued by Jacob Zuma, South Africa new President, who has promised to expand treatment for those suffering from HIV. Daniel Howden, who is the African correspondent for The Independent will report from the region and explain exactly how the President intends to usher in a new ‘Era of Openness’ on HIV and AIDS. Boland on Thursday at 10am

2009-12-01T11:04:00.001-08:00

The Boland Guest list, Wednesday 2nd December: Great excitement in the Boland camp today when it was announced that Ian Hislop as Maurice has often stated that Hislop is up there in his ‘Who I’d like To Have as a Dinner Guest on Come Dine With Me’ list. Ian is best known as a satirist, writer, broadcaster and editor of the magazine Private Eye. He has appeared on many radio and television programmes, most notably as a team captain on the BBC current affairs quiz Have I Got News for You. In Caroline Chartres' book Why I Am Still an Anglican, Hislop opens his chapter by saying "I've tried atheism and I can't stick at it: I keep having doubts. That probably sums up my position." In 1996 he presented an award-winning documentary series for Channel 4 about the history of the Church of England, called Canterbury Tales. Recent works include the Radio 4 series The Real Patron Saints. On 4 September 2009, Hislop appeared at Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan William’s "The Gathering" at Canterbury Cathedral to discuss religion, society, and journalism among other issues before a crowd of about 1,000.
Next is highly respected international author Tom Bower former Panorama reporter, his books include highly critical unauthorised biographies of Tiny Rowland, Robert Maxwell, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Geoffrey Robinson, Gordon Brown and Richard Branson. He won the 2003 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award for Broken Dreams, an investigation into corruption in English football. His biography of Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge was published in November 2006. An unsuccessful libel case over a passing mention of Express proprietor Richard Desmond in the book was heard in July 2009. A biography by Bower of Richard Desmond, Rough Trader, awaits publication. Former editor of the London Evening Standard. Bower will be talking about the victims of. 89-year-old Nazi John Demjanjuk that he’s interviewed and about the case dubbed 'the last great Nazi war crimes trial' which continued today. Demjanjuk is charged with being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews at Sobibor.
Why I'm ashamed to be a vet: a shocking exposé of the profession that puts pets through 'painful and unnecessary treatments to fleece their trusting owners' This is the headline in the British press that will shock allot of pet owners. Boland finds out the story behind the headline.
These are just a few of the Guests on the Boland Guest List for his Wednesday Show. Boland at 10am on Wednesday

2009-11-29T22:31:00.001-08:00

Last Saturday the fourth edition of the essential Marbella Awards was a huge success, attracting over 200 people from high profile companies on the Coast to a spectacular gala dinner and awards ceremony at the Puente Romano Hotel. The event, dreamed up by essential Marbella Magazine’s Creative Director, Andrea Böjti, was created to reward those businesses that enhance our lives on the Costa del Sol. Companies competed in 16 different lifestyle-related categories, including leisure, gastronomy and wellness. Voted by thousands of people online during the previous months, the winners were revealed Oscar-style on the night, each receiving a specially commissioned trophy representing the choice of the general public.This year, the awards were presented in association with Talk Radio Europe, with Maurice Boland acting as Master of Ceremonies and bringing plenty of humour and pizzazz to the affair. Thousands of euros were raised through the dinner and raffle draw to aid local three-year-old boy, Fletcher Falvey, who has been diagnosed with a brain tumour and needed vital and expensive treatment in the United States. Entertainment was provided by talented tenor, Stephen Lloyd-Morgan and ABBAMAX, an ABBA tribute band, who flew in from the UK for the evening. The essential team is already excited about next year’s awards, with lots of new ideas in mind for the most awaited event of the 2010 calendar

2009-11-26T11:47:00.000-08:00

The Boland Show Guest List Friday 27th:
Ann Noland didn’t make it onto the show again that’s 3 days and unfortunately she will not make it on the Friday Show the guest list is full!! First up guest Michael Smith has been involved in ‘Buy Nothing Day’ for the past 10 years. It’s a day where you challenge yourself, your family and friends to switch off shopping and tune into life. Whatever that means!!! Anyway Maurice is dedicating this section of his show to his wife Wendy!!!

Next up. Its hard to believe that the 2009 Christmas will all be over this time next month, its also hard to believe the one year has past since the terrorist attack in Mumbai!!! Boland’s next guest Will Pike was badly injured in the atrocity and was interviewed by Maurice weeks after the attack. One year on he’ll tell us how he coped over the last 12 months and how he will finally get financial support after a dramatic turnaround in government policy.

Again, Maurice thinks Steph has got mixed up as he feels his next guest would probably be better suited to the Gilmore Show!! Steven Cutts is a space expert, who be explaining if planet earth becomes too crowded, where else in the solar system could humankind live? So should we forget Earth and lets all move to Mars?

And finally. Lighting up as we head off to the weekend nothing better than a good laugh as looking at the most appalling ignorant but hilarious quiz show answers i.e. Presenter: ‘What was Hitler’s first name? Contestant: ‘Heil’!! Or how about this: Presenter: ‘Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?’ Contestant: ‘Leonardo di Caprio’!!!
Boland on Friday at 10am

2009-11-25T09:41:00.000-08:00

The Boland Guest List Thursday 26th November: Well we’ve had to cancel her interview scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, but, for sure it will go ahead on the Thursday show ....IT’S ANN NOLAND AT LAST!!!! You should all know this by now but here goes again: Ann Nolan who was scheduled for yesterday show but now the rescheduling sees her on the Wednesday guest list: the 1970's singing sensations the Nolan's have reformed, minus one sister , Anne. They are now on a very successful comeback tour and are set to launch an album, all without their sister Anne, So why has the eldest sister been left out? Perhaps it was because of her book where she revealed that she had been sexually molested by there father, or was it because of a fall out with youngest sisters Colleen husband? All will be revealed when Ann will give a no holds bared interview with Maurice. Next up are The Grime Twins yes folk Boland’s done he’s got The Grime Twins on his show…but wait a minuet its not THE Grime twins not exactly Jedward, they are Ollie and Niall Grimes and are the original Grimes Twins who run a pub in Dublin. like Jedward they like to dress up and also don’t have a note in their heads.

The next guest Nigel Smith has one of those extraordinary stories the Maurice likes to bring you: As a man in Belgium emerged from a 23 year coma this week, Nigel, a British writer, relives his own horrifying ordeal in his book ‘ I Think There’s Something Wrong With Me’ Nigel describes how when he was in a coma, he couldn’t move, couldn’t speak but could hear every world that the doctors were saying. A nightmare that will be retold on the Boland Show.
And finally one of UK’s funniest comedians, the one and only Stan Boardman. Stan has just finished recording the new official English World Cup Song. He will talk us through the recording tell us the theme and what other celebrities are singing on it. knowing Stan there will be allot more hilarious tales going on in the life of Stan Boardman. Boland on Thursday at 10am.

2009-11-24T10:07:00.001-08:00

. The Boland Show guest list Wednesday 25th Nov: Well tie me kangaroo down sport Rolf Harris is on the Boland Show!!!! Rolf is an artist, musician, singer and TV presenter and one of Britain’s best-loved entertainers. It has been 40 years since Rolf Harris topped the Christmas charts and in a market dominated by young acts he has chosen an unlikely partner – Rick Parfitt of the legendary rock band Status Quo to help repeat the 1969 success of two little boys and According to a report in The Sunday Times, the single will be based on Harris' memories of eating a traditional hot turkey dinner in the scorching heat during his early years in Perth. In 2005 Harris was commissioned to paint a portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth II for her 80th birthday, which was unveiled by Rolf Harris on 19 December 2005 at Buckingham Palace. Harris appeared with a wobble board in a Churchill Insurance advertisement in 2009, and hosted the satirical quiz show Have I Got News for You, aired on May 15, 2009.
Next is Ann Nolan who was scheduled for yesterday show but now the rescheduling sees her on the Wednesday guest list: the 1970’s singing sensations the Nolan’s have reformed - minus one sister , Anne. they are now on a very successful comeback tour and are set to launch an album , all without their sister Anne, So why has the eldest sister been left out? Perhaps it was because of her book where she revealed that she had been sexually molested by there father, or was it because of a fall out with youngest sisters Colleen husband? All will be revealed when Ann will give a no holds bared interview with Maurice.
The next interview is possibly more suited to The Gilmore Show: As climate change scientists are accused of fiddling their figures, Boland guest Christopher Booker, the author of a new book ‘ The Real Global Warming Disaster’ says the world is not getting hotter and we’re about to spend billions on a problem that doesn’t exist. Christopher Booker, Sunday Telegraph columnist and Bete Noir of climate campaigners, has here produced the definitive climate sceptics' manual. That's to say, he has rounded up just about every criticism ever made of the majority scientific view that global warming, most probably caused by human activity, is under way, and presented them unchallenged. If you share his convictions, you'll love it, and will dismiss the rest of this review as part of the cover-up. Right up Boland’s street me thinks????
And finally: Norwegian Bjorn Heidenstrom is cycling from Oslo to South Africa to collect signed football jerseys from all teams in all genres. all the shirts shall be sewn together to form the world’s largest signed football shirt which will be used as a flag during the world cup in 2010 in support of young refugees. Boland on Wednesday at 10am

2009-11-23T09:12:00.001-08:00

The Boland Guest list for Tuesday 23rd Nov: There was great excitement in the record industry when the 1970’s singing sensations, the Nolan’s had reformed - But they had left out one sister, Ann.. Why did this happen? Was it because she had written a very controversial book telling for the first time that she, as a member of the whiter than white Irish girl group the Nolan Sisters, had in fact been sexually abused by there father? Or perhaps it was because she had a fall out with Coleen Nolan’s husband? In a very frank interview on the Boland Show she will tell her side of the story.
When Maurice first read this story he was so moved by it that he insisted that Mariatu Kamara come onto his show so she could tell her story herself; As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. rumours of rebel attacks were no more than a distant worry, but when 12 year old Mariatu set out for a neighbouring village, she never arrived. Heavily armed rebel soldiers, many no older than children, attacked and tortured her. During this brutal act of senseless violence they cut off both her hands and in her book ‘’ Bit of The Mango’ Mariatu tells the story of her miraculous survival.
The dark stories continue when we follow this story: A man who strangled his wife in his sleep as he dreamed he was tackling an intruder walked free from court yesterday. In a highly unusual case, prosecutors had already agreed that although he killed his wife, they would not seek a guilty verdict because he was not in control of his actions. Neil Stanley is chairman of the British sleep society and discusses this particular disorder. Time we lighten up at this point; Eamon Nancarrow grew up in Holywood, County Down, with a passion for rock and roll. He dreamt of striding across the world’s stages, singing his heart out and lapping up all the trimmings that success would deliver. Somehow Eamon didn’t make it but he had a ball trying and has brought it all to life in his hilarious memoirs ‘ Holywood star: The Life and Times of a Rock and Roll Misadventurer

2009-11-21T00:13:00.001-08:00

If you thought that after last weeks exhausting WOW Factor Final was over that I could sit back and rest for a while you’d be incorrect. Tonight I’m on stage to present The Essential Awards to some of our top businesses. It’s going to be a glitzy glamour’s event at the Puente Romano Hotel with ABBA sound alikes ABBAMAX flying in from UK for the event. Tomorrow were in a recording studio to record Christian Fa’s winners song ‘Lean On Me’

2009-11-18T08:20:00.001-08:00

The Boland Guest list for Thursday 18th November.
Do we rally know Katie Price aka Jordan. Katie who is attracting millions of viewers to the reality TV show ‘I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here’ Bolands first guest certainly does and says there is another a side to Katie Price that most of us will never experience ! One of Premierships most prolific goal scorers and father of Katie’s first child, Dwight Yorke, will explain to Maurice that he was married to two people Jordan and Katie Price,"Katie was much more tender, much more loving, much softer. Jordan was completely different - the fireworks could be spectacular. The wilder the sex, the more Jordan seemed to like it. She was uninhibited and fiery." York will be talking about his book ‘Born to Score’. A double connotation there me thinks!!
Next up is Victoria Coren, who, in 2006 won a million dollars on the European poker tour. She will be talking us through that victory , her twenty years obsession with the game, the ups and the down and will tell us why she called her book; ‘For Richer For Poorer’.
Over the weekend a young labour political activist suggested that the Queen is a parasite and milks Britain for everything she can. He also suggested that she should sell some of her properties to pay for her and her families lifestyle!!! Boland’s next guest, Robert Hardman, has been writing about the monarchy for more than 15 years, first as a Royal correspondent for the Telegraph and now the Daily Mail, will explain to us the essential roll the monarch plays in modern England and the importants of the Queens speech at the opening of her democratically elected parliament-

And finally John Schroder has been described as the ‘Quite Man Of Pop’ ( the title of his new book) Among things he he’s done in the past is to have discovered Helen Shapiro and penned her No1 hit ‘Walking Back to Happiness. He has worked with many of the big names in pop and rock including Sir Cliff Richard, Jimmy Page, Status Quo , Gino Washington and fellow producer Joe Meek, will be talking about life in front of the mike. Boland on Thursday at 10am
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2009-11-17T08:13:00.001-08:00

The Boland Show Guest List Wednesday 18th November: First up is one of television most loved presenters always with a smile on her face, GMTV’s Penny Smith: Penny has been a GMTV anchor since 1993 and is also the station’s main newsreader. Maurice will be talking to her about her recent trip to Uganda and its wild life. Not only does Uganda have half the world’s mountain gorillas, but, is the home of lions, leopards, elephants and magnificent scenery. Penny is also an author and her latest novel ‘After The Break’.

Next up is one of Ireland’s celebrated entertainers who succeeded in breaking into English television along with Eamon Andrews and later Terry Wogan at a time when it was almost impossible for an Irish entertainer to succeed in UK. He is the one and only Mr.Val Doonican!!

As if that wasn’t enough The Boland Show has more on offer:
The next invited guest is British Tory MP, Patrick Mercer. This week a man has been charged with the murder of undercover British army officer Robert Nairac, 32 years after he went missing in South Armagh. Nairac is one of up to a dozen men and women kidnapped, killed and buried in secret by the IRA during the troubles. Patrick, Tory MP for Newark and a former infantry officer who was with Nairac the night before the IRA killed him will explain to Maurice why he now hopes that justice will be finally done and will see the murderer put behind bars.

Boland’s final guest is: Mark Barrowcliffe who claims that plenty of comedians crack a joke on a Monday, see it on the internet on Tuesday and by Saturday they find it on the TV – being uttered by someone much more famous. Joke stealing is nothing new and it’s only quite recently that jokes have been regarded as belonging to the person who thought them up. Mark who worked as a journalist and stand up comedian before giving it all up to write books, will explain the dilemma facing many comedians who feel they have been cheated on

2009-11-16T10:09:00.000-08:00

The Boland Guest List Tuesday 17th November.: In 1983 the body of Cynthia Bolshaw was found in the bungalow where she lived alone. 1n 1999-16 years later, John Taft was convicted of the murder which the press dubbed ‘The Beauty In The Bath Case’ Maurice will be joined by solicitor David Kerwin, who acts for Taft. Kerwin will explain on the Boland Show for the first time why he is convinced that Taft is an innocent man!!!

Dr Wafik Moustafa wrote an extraordinary open letter in this weeks Daily Mail with the heading: No Excuses. We Muslims Must Now Condemn All Terrorism!!!! Wafik is head of the powerful Conservative Muslim Network. Maurice should enjoy this one!!!

Boland next guest Alex Waters is currently starring in BBC’s The Season, a reality drama set in the exciting ski resort in Val D’Isere. At the tender age of 22 Alex has already lived a life full of glitz, glamour and some very hard and trying times. It was aged only 17 that Alex got the news that rocked his world he was diagnosed with skin cancer…Listen to this fascinating story from championship Karting to surviving cancer, being invited to speak by Simon Cowell at the 2007 Grand Prix Ball and now starring in his own BBC2 TV show!!!

Keeping it light on his Tuesday morning show ( after all he an old man an exhausted by Sundays WOW Factor final) Maurice’s final guest Andrew Welch will exclaim: “Forget those body-hugging go-faster wet suits. Down at the naturist Olympics, all you need is goggles, a swimming cap…..and plenty of bare cheek”!! Boland on Tuesday at 10am

2009-11-11T09:47:00.000-08:00

The Thursday Boland Guest list (4 days countdown to the WOW Factor final, ahhhhh, help!!!!) One of Maurice’s favourite guests is journalist and author Quentin Letts who writes for a number of British newspapers including the Times, The Mail, Telegraph and is a contributor to The Oldie and Statesman magazines. Maurice will tell you that Letts is one of the most straight talking guests he has ever had. He says
“You see them clack-clacking along the pavement, fat-faced British girls with goose-pimpled thighs ill fitting skirts so high they could pass as belts en rout to the disco” Quentin Letts holds Germaine Greer responsible for at least some of this destruction of feminine modesty and decency!!!! And that’s just a sample of what he’ll be talking about to Boland when he introduces us to the second outing on the show of his book; ‘Bog Standard Britain’ which is being serialized in the Daily Mail.
Boland’s next guest, Charlie Walduck described his childhood as pretty uneventful and fairly happy. At the age of 11, when he started secondary school he was constantly tempted by the pie shops and café’s that he needed to walk past to get there from his home. All the money from my paper round went on snacks. He started part time work at a holiday camp during the summer months – and all of my money earned went on food. By the age of 18 he weight in at around 25 stones. However, he suffered a chronic lack of confidence coupled with low self esteem saw him fall into a dead end job and a cycle of binge eating and depression. The years that followed saw the weight continue to pile on and despite spells of weight loss he would always put it back on and more. By January 2003, he weighed in excess of 50 stones !!! This is an extraordinary story which he will explain to Maurice he eventually lost 30 stone in 2 years. since then he has run marathons, hosts a DJ slot on Manchester radio.
You’re not going to believe this but Gentle Fudge, Truth Bullock, Obedience Ginger, Edward Evil, Susan Booze, Philadelphia Bunnyface, Elizabeth Disco, Charity Chilly, Offspring Gurney, Boadicea Basher, Fozzitt Bonds, Faithful Cock – and more than 1,000 other strangely-named people from Cornwall! Russell Ash has spent years compiling this list and many more for his new book: ‘Busty, Slag and Nob End’ is an extensively researched, entertaining journey through the world of rude, hilarious and ridiculous names of people, places and products.. If you the listeners have any more samples of Funny names, please join in and share them with Maurice on his show tomorrow morning.
And finally Mark Rees will share his story of love, passion, sorrow and the fast life of one man’s desire to be ahead of the rest who is sold down the river by those he trusted most ending him in prison and his quest for justice and ultimately revenge, the person responsible for him being put behind bars is rumoured to be living among us!!!!!
Boland on Thursday at 10am

2009-11-10T10:29:00.000-08:00

The Boland Guest List for Wednesday: Music mogul Pete Waterman joins the Boland guest list. Waterman with his partners Mike Stock and Mat Aitken, better known in the 80’s as Stock Aitken and Waterman, who between them they scored a total of twenty two UK number one singles with his various acts record sales upwards of 500 million worldwide. Waterman’s wealth is estimated anywhere between 30 and 60 million pounds according to the Sunday Times Rich List. Waterman was responsible for launching the careers of Kylie Minogue, Jason Donavon, Banarama, Dead or Alive (Pete Burns) and Steps to name a few. Will be talking about his new book The Fame Game which is a guide for all those thousands of ‘wannabes’ out there who think they can really make it big…Pete will share his expertise with our listeners for the first time......Up next is Caroline Goyder. Have you ever sat back and listen to a really good speaker or actor deliver his or her lines and wonder what it must be like to have the talent and confidence to be able to deliver with such gusto and ease. Well Goyder, a performance expert, has worked with the best like Sarah Jessica Parker, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren and Ewan Mc Gregor and will share her secrets of teaching them to be confident, charming and successful. Her new book The Star Qualities has become an instant best sellers. Caroline who’s work has featured on BBC, ITV, Channel 4 will share with those the stars secrets…… Well the sh*t certainly hit the fan on Sunday night when X Factor boss and judge Simon Cowell refused to pass judgment on the Irish Twins known as Jedward and one of the shows most talented singers on the show Louise Jones was booted off the show which provoked 3,000 fuming viewers to complain about the show to ITV. Does Simon now regret not making the vote?, what’s he saying behind close doors? Well Max Clifford who is closer than most to Cowell as his PR agent, joins the guest list to tell us exactly what Simon is feeling at the moment…….. Finally Boland will welcome Janet Gray M.B.E onto his morning guest list: As a school girl and a teenager Janet was a very happy, outgoing, confident, bubbly and independent person. Suddenly at the age 21 she suffered a life changing experience and lost her sight. Her world plunged into darkness, that was, until she discovered the world of water skiing and her life was dramatically transformed and by sheer determination and bravery she became the overall world champion and world record holder. But in 2004 disaster struck again….
Boland on Wednesday at 10pm

2009-11-08T03:47:00.000-08:00

The Monday Boland Guest List: Parapsychologist Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe has sensationally lifted the lid on the ghost hunting series, Most Haunted ... and claims that the public are being deceived by "showmanship and dramatics." Maurice’s guest this morning Derek Acorah famous TV personality who claims he speaks to the dead, has been accused of hoodwinking viewers by pretending to communicate with spirits and obtaining information about locations prior to filming. The Mirror newspaper obtained unedited footage which appears to show presenter Yvette Fielding and her husband faking 'paranormal' occurrences such as ghostly bumps and knocks. Acorah will be talking to Maurice about his latest exploit, last weeks live TV séance with Michael Jackson where he claims Jackson tells him that he was unhappy that he was not buried next to Marilyn Monroe.Next up is Julie Warner, who will tell us about her horrendous five weeks she was kept in a South American jail after being wrongly accused of smuggling drugs. The secretary finally had all charges dropped in August, but not before living a nightmare she’ll never forget she claimed that " I thought I'd die inside a filthy Guyana prison"!! . Julie will also be joined by her mum Dennise, who stopped her life to secure her daughter release. An amazing story. One of UK’s most respected music biographers, Philip Norman will be telling Boland why: "I used to love the X Factor, so why does I feel so disgusted with myself for watching it"!!!
Maurice's final guest, Ingrid Tarrant, former wife Who Wants To be a Millionaire host Chris Tarrant, will be telling Boland why she was convicted of resisting arrest – after she was chased for two miles and wrestled to the ground by police in a row over a parking ticket. The Police officer toled of how he followed her at high speed for two miles before eventually stopping her on a country lane, wrestling her to the ground and handcuffing her!!!!

2009-11-05T10:05:00.001-08:00

The Star guest on the Friday Boland Show is the legendary Dame Vera Lynn, Yes you heard right… DAME VERA LYNN!!!! Dame Vera was every solders pinup during world war 2 and at home kept the British spirits up with such iconic songs as: ‘ The White Cliffs Of Dover’ and ‘We’ll Meet Again’ As the words of the song go “ Don’t Know where, Don’t know When”? Well, Boland will answer that question when; ‘Where’ is on his morning show and ‘When’ is at 10am tomorrow.
The Greens, The Greens, most of this stuff drives Maurice mad.. Just bringing up Global Warming and it’s enough to make his blood boil!!! Next guest up Daniel Johnston, editor of the magazine Standpoint argues “ How in the name of sanity can being green be a religion”? Commenting after an unfair dismissal trial judge argued that philosophical belief which is based on science should receive the same protection as religious beliefs…. Beyond belief says Boland!!!
The next guest up is Victoria Townsend, tells a moving story about her nine year old son being kept alive on a ventilator, she has now asked his carers that he be allowed to die. Her son William had a brain haemorrhage at the age of three weeks and was permanently brain damaged…hers is a harrowing story.
……And finally How many times have you sat in front of the TV and repeatedly corrected one or another presenters pronunciation? ‘Unacceptable’ is Boland’s final guest John Greenwoods new book and is right up your street; ‘Shouting At The Telly’
Boland on Friday at 10am

2009-11-04T11:09:00.000-08:00

The Thursday Boland Guest List: On the guest for Thursday is Jan Leeming one of the UK's best known and loved newsreaders Although best known as a Television Newsreader, Jan has had a long and varied career in television and started her working life in theatre. In 2006 she filmed the twenty part series Safari School for BBC; and took part in the series 'I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!' .Most recently she has appeared on Ready Steady Cook; Doctor Doctor; Destination Lunch; I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here and Children In Need. Maurice will be asking her about her role in the stage hit show Calendar girls and how she feels stripping off in public!!!
For those of you remember Steven O’Riordan’s harrowing story of abuse by Irish Catholic priests on the Boland show a few weeks ago, you will remember he reported that the largest ever hearing will take place in Ireland re the children that were under the care of Nuns and Priests in institutions. The hearing will make judgment on the following points: Sexual abuse. The mistreatment of the individuals. The Slave labour carried out. The insufficient care & attention provided by both Church and the State. The hearing started today and Steven, himself a survivor of sexual abuse by priests, will give an exclusive interview on the hearing.One of the biggest stories of the day was the unexpected freeing of mercenary Simon Mann, the Old Etonian, who was pardoned earlier this week after being jailed over a bungled coup in Equatorial Guinea. Mann was freed by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema after serving 15 months of his 34-year sentence. Mark Thatcher who was implicated in the coup and subsequently and arrested but still will have many questions to answer when Mann has settled home, released a statement from his luxury mansion near Marbella, saying: 'I am delighted that Simon will be reunited with his family at last.' , Adam Roberts, author of ‘The Wonga Coup’ will be discussing the failed coup and Mark Thatcher’s role etc… Finally Anjam Chowdery founder of Islam4uk, who wants to see UK adopting Sharia Law, Nelson to be toppled off the column and replaced by the Muslim clock and 10 Downing Street turned the UK’s Islamic head quarters, will be explaining to Boland why his planned march last Saturday was such a failure. Boland on Thursday at 10am

2009-11-03T11:25:00.001-08:00

Joining the Boland Guest List on his Wednesday show are Lady Annabel Goldsmith will talk to Boland about her marriage to Mark Birley who named one of the worlds most famous nightclubs, Annabel’s of London after her, Lady Annabel then married one of Britain’s wealthiest men, Sir James Goldsmith with whom she had three children her only daughter, Jemima ,who married and divorced Indian cricketing legend Imran Khan and now lives with actor Hugh Grant. Lady Goldsmith will be discussing her life as an author and founder of The Democracy Movement , a Eurosceptic pressure group.
Next up is authour Alan McArthure who will be discussing his aptly named book ‘Is It Just Me Or Has The Shit Hit The Fan’..The book asks the question; Why are the people who screwed the world still running it?
Boland next guests claimed as a youth he seduced countless women, Caspar Walsh will describe the heady thrill of conquest and the self-loathing that led him to uncover the real reason for his sex addiction.
Final guest 85 year old Eva Kor, who lives outside New York and will be getting up at 5.30AM local time to do the interview with Maurice!!! Eva will talk us through the time as a 10 year old when she arrived in Auschwitz and seen her parents and two older sisters taken to the gas chambers, She and her twin , Miriam, were herded into the care of the man known as The Angel of Death, Dr Josef Mengel who went on to conduct sadistic medical experiments on the twins. Her book ‘Surviving The Angel of Death: The Story of A Mengele Twin. Boland on Wednesday at 10 AM.

2009-11-02T23:05:00.001-08:00

The Boland Tuesday guest list: Boland returns this morning with a full guest list after missing yesterdays show due to his late night appearance on the WOW Factor: First up is Garry Bushell, Gary, as most of you know, is Britain’s best known TV critic he’s also known to have a love/hate relationship with the soap opera ‘Eastenders’ So he’s decided to write a book following the show called ‘1001 Reasons Why Eastenders is Pony’ a hilarious guide to cock ups, errors and rubbish plot lines that make up the BBC TV’s biggest show.
It was only last week on the Boland Show he had a guest who had written a book looking at the life we live under ridicules political correct rules in Britain today, but, don’t we all remember a Britain where doors were left unlocked, children played in the streets and neighbours would look out for each other? Bolands guest David Kynaston will be discussing his new book looking at A Vanished Britain…
Its not often Boland invites a guest back so soon after they had been on his show but Anjem Chouary is an exception, he shocked Bolands audience last week as leader of ISLAM4UK with his claims that UK should come under Sharier law that Number 10 should be an Islamic headquarters and a Muslim clock should replace nelson on top of his column!! Well he’s still at it this time claiming Britain’s war dead should be sent to hell!!! Boland will be catching up with Anjem finding out how the weekends protest march went and exactly how many Muslims turned. And finally Edward Lucas will talk about his life as an ex pat behind the Iron Curtain and his memories as he witnessed the Berlin Wall coming down 20 years ago.. Boland on Tuesday at 10.

2009-10-29T10:40:00.001-07:00

The Friday Boland Guest List: Last months nursery worker Vanessa George vile admission in court that she sexually abused children in her care horrified the nation. But, for Boland’s first guest it brought back horrific memories of abuse she herself suffered at the hands of her own mother. Susannah Faithfull was subjected to years of depraved attacks and will tell us about the centre she set up for survivors of sexual abuse. Next up is Colin Knox the father of young actor Rob Knox who was fatally stabbed just after finishing work on the new Harry Potter film. Colin has over seen the setting up of a memorial fund to raise money that will be used to help campaign against street violence and knife crime.
Paul and Rachel Chandler, who were sailing from the Seychelles to Tanzania, have not been heard from since Friday, when the emergency beacon on their yacht, the Lynn Rival, was activated The pirates allegedly responsible for the hijacking off the Somali coast have threatened to "burn the bones" of the couple. One person who knows only too well what they are going through is Boland’s next guest Captain Colin Darch who was hijacked last year by Somali Pirates and held hostage for 47 days!!!! Finally could you imagine a mad world where the police hire 16 year olds, where two spilled crisps will cost you a fine of 95€, where a baby is refused a passport because it is photographed topless or where a woman faces jail for singing to her children. Well welcome to 21st century Britain. Best selling author Ala Pearce will guide us through a tsunami of shocking new laws and stupendously mad regulations. Boland on Friday at 10am.

2009-10-28T11:03:00.001-07:00

The Boland Show’s Thursday Guest List: This one of those stories that was hardly spoke about after WW2; The British memorial school was a school for British expats, stranded behind enemy lines as the Nazis swept across Europe. Boland’s first guest James Fox reveals, that its courageous young pupils were to become the Third Reich’s fiercest foes of all. James should know, he was a pupil at the school in 1940 and he has made it his mission to trace his former school friends. The children who fought Hitler is their story. Next up is an old friend of the Boland Show although they haven’t spoke for a while he is professional streaker Mark Roberts, this extraordinary Liverpool lad has Streaked in some of the best places including Centre Court at Wimbledon’s final day, numerous cricket test matches, the FA Cup Final and even at Royal Ascot in front of the late Queen Mother!!! So what’s been his latest stunt that earned him a place on the Boland Show, well he’s only gone and streaked as a surprise and uninvited guest on this mornings LIVE television show the hugely popular ‘The Wright Stuff’ and caused chaos when he stripped off and ran amok when he ran on set waving his arms and other body parts just as host Mathew Wright was apologising to viewers after another guest swore. Mark has promised he would streak on the Boland Show, you have been warned!!! After that we need to calm down and lighten up a little with Boland’s next guest comedy writer Ivor Baddiel who has written 13 books and writes extensively for television and radio where he has worked with the likes of Stephen Fry, Ant and Dec, Johnny Vaughn, Dara O’Brian and Joan Rivers. He is currently writing the script for Dermot O’Leary on The X Factor. Next guest up on this Thursday Show is Peaches Cadogan in a week where female violence has dominated the headlines; one woman knows exactly what it is like to be on the frontline. Peaches was just 20 when she was jailed for two robberies, fraud, deception and handling stolen goods. Peaches, who did turn her life around, and set up youth work organisation ‘ reality bytes’, says that alcohol is often a huge part of the problem. Let’s go out with a laugh Boland’s final guest with a Bafta award-winning comedy writer and bestselling author of the series of Grumpy Old Men books. David Quantick will talk to us about his new book; ‘ Dangerous Book for Middle-Aged Men’ is on our website. Boland on Thursday at 10.

2009-10-27T12:15:00.001-07:00

The Wednesday Boland Guest List: How many of you remember seeing Flt Lieutenant John Nichoel and his pilot being paraded on TV as unshaven and obviously torched captives by the Iraqis. At they time they were on a reconnaissance mission over Iraq when there Tornado bomber was shot down. John went on to write a book Tornado Down about his experience becoming a runaway best seller since then he has written many best sellers his latest ‘Medics’ looks at the history of the medical core Saving lives –from Dunkirk to Afghanistan. Next up is citizen Smith himself Britain’s best loved actor Robert Lindsey. After this hugely successful TV show Lindsey went on to win Tony, Olivier and Fred Astaire awards in the theatre for ‘Me and My Girl’ More recently Robert has been staring in the popular BBC TV sitcom ‘My Family’. A cutting edge program for channel 4 called ‘My Beautiful Face’ will be shown this Wednesday evening Boland’s next guest Katie Piper, the former TV presenter tells with painful honesty why she has finally waved her right to anonymity-and reveals the awful events that changed her life forever when acid was hurled into her face on a busy London street, disfiguring her beyond recognition. And Finally , as most of know, Boland’s favourite television show Secret Millionaire will feature again on his mid-morning show this time will multi millionaire Kevin Green talking about why he went on the program and gave away over 60,000 pounds of his own money. Boland on Wednesday at 10 If you are living outside the Talk Radio Europe network to listen live go on http://www.talkradioeurope.com/ and click on listen live

2009-10-26T12:08:00.000-07:00

The Boland Guest list for Tuesday: Boland’s first guest Andy Hyman. was in overall command of the UK’s national counter terrorism offensive who was at the centre of every major terrorist investigation during the dramatic events from 2005 through 2007 so why was his book ‘The Terrorist Hunters’ banned and why might you ask is it now cleared to go on sale? Well this will be one of the questions Boland will be putting to Hyman.
Next up is Ann Corbett, who I hear you asking is Ann Corbett well she’s the long suffering wife of one Ronnie Corbett one of Britton’s most endearing comics. Ann will talk us through what its like to live with a funny man, is he game for a laugh even at home or is he like a clown sad off stage funny on. This is the first time Ann, who hilarious in her own right , has agreed to an interview. The Boland Show has featured guests re the Lockerbie Pan Am atrocity, for those who heard Dr Jim Swire the first time he was a guest just after it was announced the release of the accused bomber al-Megrahi will remember that he felt the evidence against Magrahi was flawed and unsafe. So is Dr Swire happy with the police now that they have now officially announced that there will be a major review of the case. Sod Law is the final subject on the Boland Show. Sam Leith has put a brillent collection of the funniest and most pitiable stories of human misfortune. So there you have it . The Boland show on Tuesday at 10. If you are not in the Broadcast area go onto http://www.talkradioeurope.com/ and listen live or ‘On Demand’

2009-10-22T11:45:00.001-07:00

The Friday Boland Guest list: Everyone knows that Boland is a chocoholic (mind you on the diet he’s not touching a square, that is unless no ones looking) Well first guest up is Peter Thornton. Peter is one of the Thornton Chocolate Dynasty and has written a book ‘My Life in The Family’. He’s going to talk us through the building of one of the worlds premier brands, it will include a family that was frequently at war and sibling rivalry. One of the most popular television shows in The Secret Millionaire, Maurice loves having these very generous wealthy participants on his show ( think he’s hoping to touch them up for a few bob!!!) this weeks guest Gary Eastwood multi millionaire, having amassed a fortune of over 20 million ponds in scrap metal, not only gave away over 60,000 pounds, but continues to revisit this deprived area in Blackpool but he continues to support the charities that touched his heart. Those who saw the show will remember how emotional this giant of a man was as he handed over cheques to needed causes. Tulay Goren a 15 year old girl from and Indian immigrant family went, missing ten years ago after falling in love with an older man. Her body has never been found. Her father along with two of his brothers now stand trial for an honour killing. British born Shazia Qayum a survivor of a forced marriage having been taken out of school at 15, sent to Pakistan and forced to marry a stranger, will talk with Boland about honour killing
within the Indian communities. And finally, For years after Fion Gunn who was attacked and sexually assaulted in her own home has been trying to forget and simply move on with her life. So you can imagine how she now feels that cold case detectives want to re-open old wounds. She will explain to Boland how traumatised she was after the attack and how she feels now just as the wounds were healing having to see them reopened again. Boland on Friday at 10

2009-10-21T11:07:00.001-07:00

The Thursday Boland Show Guest List: The leader of the British National Party, Nick Griffen has provoked revulsion by comparing distinguished former army chiefs to Nazi war criminals, On the Boland Guest list is Maurice Cousins from the anti race group ‘Nothing British’ will tell is why he has teamed up with leading politicians and military men to launch an aggressive campaign against the BNP. Next Thursday the long awaited report into clerical abuse in the Diocese of Dublin is expected to be published, the Irish bishops are bracing themselves for another round of public anger. Andrew Madden will join the guest list to explain how when he was a 12 year old boy he was proud to have been selected as Father Ivan Payne's gardener and as an altar boy in Dublin, proximity to members of the clergy was something Madden cherished. Father Payne used to invited him into the house to watch some television. Madden was delighted. He sat on the sofa and the priest sat next to him.. When Payne put his hand on Madden's trousers, right on his private parts, Madden didn't say anything. He just kept watching television like he hadn't noticed. He concentrated on the wrestling; he sipped his drink. And the abuse started. This could be a shocking interview and some of listeners could find it upsetting.
On March 2008 Brandon Lee Muir, 23 months old died after a blunt instrument ruptured his intestines. His mother and her partner both went on trial and walked free after 16 days trail. Allan Petrie from Justice4Brandon will talk us through the outrage many of Brandons family feel. And finally, you’ll lover this: Humpty Dumpty has been given a happy ending by ‘Politically Correct BBC!!! Laura Midgeley from the campaign against political correctness will talk us through some more ridicules PC rules. Boland on Thursday at 10am

2009-10-20T09:08:00.001-07:00

The Wednesday Boland Guest list: Maurice has had many iconic guests on his show over the years from Prime Ministers to pop stars from sports men to very famous celebrities but the Wednesday show sees possible to the most famous guest of all time he is and wait for this to be impressed it’s none other than for it The BBC’s Children in needs Pudsey Bear!!!!! Yes Pudsey Bear is on the Costa Del Sol to film a sequence for the annual multi million pound Children in Need appeal. He insist in meeting Boland so he’s coming up to the Talk Radio Europe studios!! Next guest up has a fascinating story to tell, It was 18 years ago when David Milne met the woman of his dreams, married her and settled into there dream home. Nice story so far? Three years ago they learnt that there home lies at the heart of billionaire Donald Trump’s proposed Scottish Golf Resort. Now David faces the prospect of being evicted and we are going to find out why. Next up, need a good laugh, well, your bound to have one are two with Boland’s next guest Mr Booby Davro. Finally Boland will as: How could the worlds richest women with a fortune estimated to be close on 8.2 billion dollars and a stake in BMW betray her respected husband for a weedy smirking gigolo and then let him take her for millions. She became the victim of one of the most audacious blackmail plots in modern times. That and More, Boland on Wednesday at 10am. Listen live outside our network area http://www.talkradiospain.com/

2009-10-19T10:40:00.001-07:00

The Tuesday morning’s Boland Guest list. First up is one of Scotland’s most successful exports. Barbara Dixon. She has sold more records than any other Scottish female artists, singer, songwriter and of course actress. She has been entertaining audiences for over 40 years and we look forward to her unique style on the Boland Show. Next up is Nigel Mason. His name might not immediately mean allot to you but we are sure after his appearance on the Boland Show it will. Nigel, a very successful music producer’s wife sally died from breast cancer 5 years ago. Whilst nursing her he used to sing to her Cat Stevens Father and Son accompanied by his very talented son Nigel. They have now both recorded a brilliant version of this classic and are dedicating all the money raised to the Caron Keating trust. Caron who also died of breast cancer is Gloria Hunnifords daughter. Our own Jeremy Hitchen’s has been playing Father and Son on his breakfast show. Chris Risbey fancied buying a quant little country hotel just beyond Rhonda, only one draw back of the 100,000 needed he only had 20,000 pounds so he came up with a ingenious solution he simply ask 89 of his friends to donate one thousand pounds each and instead of him paying back this money he gave each a credited at the hotel for the amount they invested. Genius or What? The guest list has not yet been completed as one other guest is to be confirmed. Boland on Tuesday at 10am

2009-10-17T15:17:00.001-07:00

Today Saturday 17th October we witnessed one of the largest public funerals Ireland has seen for many years. It was of the Boyzone member Stephen Gately who sadly died in Mallorca early last week. Stephens trusted friend and lawyer Gerald Kean is scheduled to speak to Boland exclusively on the Monday mornings Boland show. He will relate his many memories of Stephen not only as a client but as a friend. Gerald Kean has been the family spokesman through this tragic time giving out statements to the press and advising them on everything from the return of Stephens body to the funeral. Boland at 10am……9am UK time. To listen live outside Spain on http://www.talkradioeurope.com/

2009-10-15T12:56:00.001-07:00

The Boland Show Fridays Guest List: Its not often that Boland feels fazed by a guest his first guest up is certainly making him research that bit extra hard He is no other than Three times Irish Taoiseach ( tee-shock, prime minister) , Bertie Ahern he is often described as an enigma and is Irelands longest serving prime minister since Eamon DeValera. In his frank and revealing autobiography he gives his own account of a remarkable political life and the personal story that accompanies it. He will talk us through his negotiations with Tony Blair and the IRA bringing about the Good Friday Agreement,. He is the working class boy responsible for making the Celtic Tiger roar!! Ahern has been on the cutting edge of Irish politics for three decades. He will describe the cost to his family of a life played out in the public eye and, for the first time, discloses what really happened in his final weeks in power. As we know by now one of Boland’s favourite TV shows is the secret millionaire, he enjoys bringing theses unique men and women on his show and this weeks no exception. if you watched the channel 4 show on Wednesday evening you would have seen Pimlico plumbing boss Charlie Mullins visit three charities in Warrington before giving each a 20,000 pound grant. Charlie, a good friend of ours here, is a self-made plumbing magnate. How many of the memoirs and autobiographies that we read are in fact true and not the bogus writings of the author? in 2008 Oprah fell for two separate literary hoaxes, one of which was her interviewing an elderly couple who had apparently fallen in love as children in a concentration camp. their story and book was a complete lie and they had made up the whole thing. Melissa has written a book ‘ telling tales – a history of literary hoaxes’ where she lifts the lid on many of these false memoirs. Boland on Friday at 10am, 9am UK time. Listen live on . http://www.talkradioeurope.com/

2009-10-14T06:41:00.000-07:00

Eric Morecambe him of the Eric and Erne fame, was, possible one of UK’s most loved comics, his death in 1984 left a void in the world of British comedy that was never filled. His son Gary Morecambe has written a book ‘You’ll Never Miss Me When I’m Gone’ covers his father’s life and distinguished career. To mark the 25th anniversary of his death Gary will be a guest on the Boland Show. How would you like to marry a Bedouin tribesman? Well, that’s exactly what the next guest did not only did she marry one but spent the first seven years of her marriage living in a 2,000 year old cave. No hot and cold running water here, she had to cart water around on the back of a donkey!!!! Mary Coughlan rose to international fame in the late 80’s with her album ‘Tired and Emotional’ ( bit like myself!!) but behind the pretty facade was a women battling with addictions. She will talk about the traumatic events in her childhood that led to a life of rebellion, running away and reliance on drugs and alcohol.

2009-10-13T11:50:00.001-07:00

The Boland Guest list for Wednesday: Top of the list is Lord Norman Tebbit. On Monday, 25 years after they were almost killed by the Brighton bomb, Lord Tebbit and his wife Margaret made an emotional return to the site of the blast. They unveiled a plaque in honour of those killed and injured in the IRA atrocity. Sheryl Gascoigne is up next. ‘Stronger’ is the memoir of her life with football superstar Paul Gascoigne, and what a life it was; it had it’s ups and downs, brutality, infidelity and addiction, it’s all there and more. Phyllida Law is the mother of actress Emma Thompson, she is a well known actress who has appeared in numerous plays, television series and films. She has a fascinating story to tell. Finally, Captain Doug Beattie joins the guest list. His first tour of Afghanistan won him the military cross. But, it was his second tour of the war torn country that filled him with horror, witnessing the grisly world of child suicide bombers, troops who hung out body parts to ward off attacks and Afghan soldiers so reluctant to fight he had to drag them into battle. Boland on Wednesday at 10 listen live on http://www.talkradioeurope.com/

2009-10-12T22:48:00.000-07:00

Stavros Flatley headline the Tuesday Boland Show, although not winning Britons Got Talent, that honour went to one Susan Boyle, but they are possibly the most famous runners up in history father and son Demi and Lagi Demetriou gave there on version of River Dance with a touch of Greek thrown in for good measure. One of Boland favourite TV shows is ‘Ruth Watson’s Hotel Rescue’ this weeks show was concentrated on the struggles of American couple Claire and Kent Brainerd who have sunk over 5 million of there own money into Stubton Hall a magnificent country pile…The moneys run out in fact there dream has turned into a nightmare. One of UK’s foremost and respected journalist Quentin Letts turns the table on Saint Bono or as he describes him: A smug, hypocritical, whining, tax-dodging Irish mountebank??? Looks like Quentin will be left off this years Bono’s Christmas card list!!!! Jonathan Phang is a renowned fashion agent with a client list that reads like who’s who of the fashion world lives with the burden that it was he who organised the party on the Marchioness which sunk in 1989 causing the death of 51 people. That and more on Boland at 10 on Tuesday

2009-10-08T11:54:00.001-07:00

The Thursday Boland Show guest list. Believe it or not but its ten years since the Paddington rail disaster, Pam Warren suffered horrific burns and will reveal with unflinching honesty her rollercoaster story of survival. Beauty and brains follows with the stunning Caprice who will come under the Boland microscope, hope someone has warned her what’s in store!!! Caprice, although appearing on over 300 magazine covers runs a hugely successful lingerie company. If your fan of ‘The Bill’ TV show your bound to enjoy Graham Cole’s appearance on the mid-morning show. Cole played PC Tony Stamp on the hit television drama for almost 25 years and went on to become one of Britain’s best loved cops. There often comes a point in middle age when people wake up and discover they are not living the life they had planned, is this you?. Roger Lewis is one such person, a struggling writer who feels excluded by London’s luvvie set, he’ll relate his story on the morning show. Boland on Thursday at 10.

2009-10-07T13:31:00.001-07:00

The Thursday Boland guest list. The word legend should not used lightly when describing someone achievements but in my first guest the name legend sits comfortably. She is June Whitfield. Although in her 80’s she still gets up at dawn to prepare for yet another day in front of the cameras. From such iconic shows as The Tony Hancock Show to Terry and June, Beggar my Neighbour and Carry on Films (loved her in her nurses uniform in Carry on Doctor) but most of all she’s Absolutely Fabulous!!!! Next up Stephen O’Riordan who will be relating a harrowing story about one of the most brutal interludes in Ireland Christian history, the Magdalene Laundries. It has been estimated that 30,000 women were admitted during the 150-year history of these institutions, often against their will, sometimes by state order. In May, 2009, the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse released a 2000 page report recording claims from hundreds of Irish residents that they were physically, sexually or emotionally abused as children whilst under the care of the nuns running the Laundries. Not finished yet! Businesswoman of the year 2008, Hilary Devey, the founder of ‘Pall-Ex’ UK and European palletised freight distribution network. Hilary yet another star of Secret Millionaire was here in Spain a couple of weeks ago to expand her business when she nearly died after suffering a stroke. And finally as part of the continued tribute to the 45 years of the Beatles phenomena , Peter Doggett who’s book: You Never Give Me Your Money-The Battle For The Soul of The Beatles. A must for all of us who love the music. Boland on Thursday at 10

2009-10-06T13:13:00.001-07:00

OK, so Boland wasn’t invited to the party of the year, Simon Cowell’s 50th , but, his first guest was impresario Jonathan Shalit who heads up ShalitGlobal International. He’s the personal manager to a stable of A list stars including, Myleene Klass, Jamella, Christopher Biggens, Kelly Brook will relate the full insight into that party including fish tanks in the toilets with live sharks!!!! The Guest list included Sir Elton John, The Osborn’s, Kate Moss, Gordon Ramsay, X Factor judges Louis Walsh, Dannii Minogue and Cheryl Cole. Next up is Martin Sixsmith will tell us the story of unmarried mother Philomena Lee who was forced to give up her son to Irish Nuns, the nuns in turn sold him to a rich Americans. For decades she tried to find him, an amazing story will unfold. The next guest will talk us through his battle with alcohol and homeliness. He is BBC and ITN broadcaster Ed Mitchell. A new documentary about Ed will be screened next week and will bring us on a journey following the latest steps to recover the former broadcaster and his eventual return to television. Finally James Max is the most successful Apprentice star to date talks about his journey from city slicker to Apprentice wannabe to popular radio DJ. Boland on Wednesday at 10.

2009-10-05T12:46:00.001-07:00

The Tuesday Boland Guest List: This morning show of extremes, from comedy to paedophiles from Indian food to veteran radio presenters!!! So first up is comedian, actor king of farce who has been described as a national treasure he is Roy Hudd. He broke into TV appearing on Not So Much A Programme, More A Way of Life, but found wider fame with 1969’s The Roy Hudd Show. Since 1975 The News Huddlines has had an amazing run on Radio 2, and is something of an institution. Roy was recently seen as Archie Shuttleworth in Coronation Street. Do women commit sexual abuse on children? Boland will be putting this question to his guest Claude Knight, director of Kidscape who will explain why female paedophiles are rarely discussed. David Diddy Hamilton, Mike Reed, Paul Burnett and Ed ‘Stewpot’ Stewart are among a group of veteran radio presenters who have a combined age of 400 years who are setting up a new radio station, they claim could rival the BBC. The oldest member Pete Murray who is 84!!! Joins the guest list to talk about the project. Finally Boland get cooking, Indian style!! Reza Mahammad, who is resident chef on ITV’s ‘This Morning’, he has been described by the Observers food critic as “Like being ambushed by a cross between Laurence LLewelyn-Bowan and Freddie Mercury!!!! Boland on Tuesday at 10

2009-08-16T02:48:00.000-07:00

Sitting into the mid morning show has been alot of fun, very hard work and amazing. I was delighted that Peter Andre chose Talk Radio Europe's "The Boland Show" for his first exclusive radio interview in Spain. Among other things Peter spoke about his family, love of cooking, music and moving on.
Boland is sitting in this month for Howard Brereton who is taking his well deserved August break. The mid morning show is being presented in the typical Maurice Boland 'style' jammed packed with guests including Esther Rantzen, Anthea Turner, Michael Winner, Gloria Hunniford, Christopher Biggins , Selina Scott and Jasper Carrot.
The show has also had some very significant interviews including an in-depth interview with Kai Chase, Michael Jackson's personal chef, who was present on the day he died. Other exclusive interviews included Giovanni Di Stefano Ronnie Biggs Lawyer who spoke on the day Biggs was released. Incidentally Di Stefeno is also famous for defending Saddam Hussein. Also Dr Jim Swire, whose daughter died in the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing. You can listen to any of these interviews on http://www.talkradioeurope.com/ on 'listen again'

2009-08-07T04:46:00.001-07:00

Its been an extraordinary first week on TRE’s mid morning show as Boland sits in for Howard who’s taking his annual August holidays. Among the guests on the first week mid morning show where Esther Ranzen, Michael Winner Selina Scott, Lionel Blair, Anthea Turner etc TRE secured a European exclusive interview with Kai Chase Michael Jacksons personal chef who was present on the day Michael Jackson died. She told Maurice that the first hint of something amiss was when his doctor didn’t come downstairs to get the juices and granola he routinely brought the King of Pop for breakfast each morning.
In the morning, when she arrived for work, Kai said she would see the doctor coming down the steps carrying oxygen tanks. When Dr Murray didn’t come downstairs the morning of June 25, "I thought maybe Mr. Jackson is sleeping late," she said. About 12:10 Dr. Murray runs down the steps and screams, ‘Go get Prince!’ He’s screaming very loud. I run into the den where the kids are playing. Prince (Jackson’s oldest son) runs to meet Dr. Murray and from that point on you could feel the energy in the house change.
"I walked into the hall and I saw the children there. The daughter was crying. I saw paramedics running up the stairs." Kai told Maurice. At that point, she said, the small group that was gathered — the children, their nanny, a housekeeper and Chase — held hands and began to pray. As paramedics raced up to the room, Chase recalls, "We were all praying, ‘Help Mr. Jackson be O.K.’

2009-07-26T01:33:00.001-07:00

Friday the 23rd July I was at the U2 concert at Dublin’s Croke park. I have attended quite a few concerts over the years but nothing and I mean nothing compares to this. Over 80,000 attended, many travelling from all over the world to see U2 return to the city where they were born. Bono claimed that the previous concerts in Barcelona, Amsterdam and Munich where just warm ups for there home coming. The Irish newspapers the day after screamed: Triumph!!!
The stage known as the Claw (see photo): At 164 feet tall, the Claw, is twice as high as the previous largest stadium stage set, from the Rolling Stones’ A Bigger Bang tour. “Theirs would fit underneath this one,” Says Williams, U2 stage designer.
Sound System: Each of the Claw’s four sides have its own full-size sound system — each powerful enough for an entire arena. There is also be 72 separate subwoofers.
Logistics: Currently being assembled in pieces around the world, the set is made of solid steel — 120 trucks will cart it from show to show. If you haven’t seen the 360 Tour yet… GO!!!