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As Bill prepares for his final show after 40 years he waits for old friends to drop into the studio to say goodbye? With Benedict Cumberbatch’s ‘hot chilli and rice nights’ now just a fading memory, is this really the end? Or will Bill find Yvonne, the love of his life that he missed but never forgot, as he fought his way through an entirely adequate career behind the mic? An improvised and ad-lib...

Ypres, in Belgium, was one of the major battlefields of the Western Front, repeatedly fought over for its strategic location. By 1918, Ypres was a shattered landscape of rubble, shell holes, and broken foundations. 300, 000 men gave their lives in and around this one town of just 20,000, a place about the same size of modern-day Harwich.

Well, the gloves are off now. Just be ready Stanway FM. This is radio-war…

Another set of memories gone like fat squawking Canadian Geese accidentally flying into a giant offshore wind turbine…

Rory was digging a flower bed like he was attacking one of his rather chewy Rabbit burgers – and mother had just finished servicing her sit-on mower. With Kate Lawrance

At Surrey Quays a man with a trumpet played just one note, as if to warn us of something unspeakable. I eventually arrived in Peckham, where I had intended to buy a lightbulb. The shop was closed

You don’t get Glamour these days, with your TikToks and your podcasts. Everyone’s got a podcast now—plumbers, dentists, even the bloke who does Basil Brush.

Box 39’ US correspondent Artie Funkhausen charts the waning reason of a nation drifting into empty-headed complacency and confusion.. This is the final radio show made for Colne Radio by Adrian Coen (1964-2025) with Artie Funkhausen

There’s more TRUTH than there has ever been before, thanks to the ever-growing access to the ever-growing technology, to globalisation and to the invention by Alexander Graham Bell of the hoverboard. In loving memory, this show is dedicated to Adrian Coen.

Almost forgotten, but never forgiven. Hear the truth at last, as we uncover that moment in Wivenhoe’s past, that very nearly made global history. With Adrian Coen

I burned a stick of sage live on air, and replaced the usual mix of Britpop, indie, and dance with 15 uninterrupted minutes of whale sounds remixed by DJ Spoony. But it turned out that people don’t want chakras with their cereal. They want Elastica, banter about what was the best Pot Noodle, surprise calls from Timmy Mallett pretending to be Tony Blair. and Mr. Blobby and The Chemical Brothers doi...

Was Shakespeare actually Edward de Vere from Wivenhoe? With live Shin-kicking, an Elizabethan Banquet in the studio, and everyone’s made their own Codpiece. Nigel from Accounts has even attached a working sundial… with Bill Lawrance, Adrian Coen and Mike Harwood

Ade’s lucid dream takes him all around the world in the hope of meeting Helen Mirren for a chat in Africa. And here it is. With Jenny Miller

to cycle to Ho Chi Minh City from Colchester, go down the Lexden Road to the A12, and once past Witham it’s pretty straightforward really…

From the heights of Carry On Cleo in 1966, to the depths of On The Buses in 1971. Was it the lowest point of TV comedy, as the UK faced unprecedented decline and chaos? Maybe people just needed something silly…

“there was a massive glumness across Britian caused by the discovery of austerity, and having to wear cardboard suits and stockings made of gravy” But that’s all changed now. Older Age is the new Younger age… with Bill Lawrance, Adrian Coen and Kate Lawrance

In politics, sport, war and business, flawed choices have changed our world. Box 39 puts on its lucky pants, and investigates.

It’s the worlds biggest car park, and made the Rave scene available to anyone with a Ford Cortina and a pocketful of E’s…

Turn left at Wivenhoe Station, then go about 12000 km south-east and you can’t miss it. Lovely place. Wonderful toilets and so clean. Thank you Barry.

It was the bacon roll that saved me. That, and Steve’s bread pudding. And the most beautiful walk in the whole of Yorkshire.

Bahowo is a small fishing village, by the South China Sea, on the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi, on the equator, to the east of Borneo and to the north of Java. At the heart of this community is Bahowo School, from where children of Bahowo have written their tales for us.

This episode is entirely in Indonesian. With Bill Lawrance, Adrian Coen, The Baroness Janet Fookes, Phil Boast, Paula Larcher, Sebastian & Cicha, and the children of Bahowo School

This episode is entirely in Indonesian. Once again with Bill Lawrance, Adrian Coen, The Baroness Janet Fookes, Phil Boast, Paula Larcher, Sebastian & Cicha, and the children of Bahowo School

This episode is entirely in Indonesian. Once more with Bill Lawrance, Adrian Coen, The Baroness Janet Fookes, Phil Boast, Paula Larcher, Sebastian & Cicha, and the children of Bahowo School

This episode is entirely in Indonesian. One more time, with Bill Lawrance, Adrian Coen, The Baroness Janet Fookes, Phil Boast, Paula Larcher, Sebastian & Cicha, and the children of Bahowo School