Bill's Big Bag of Onions

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. 

It’s a tropical paradise, of rain forest, warm clear seas, mangroves and volcanoes. 

Bahowo may be nearly 8000 miles from northeast Essex and Colne Radio Towers but like here in the UK, it is where people work, and play, help each other, are happy and sometimes sad, where they celebrate and mourn, and where they live alongside each other. 

At the heart of this community is Bahowo School, from where children of Bahowo have written their tales for us.

With Bill Lawrance, Adrian Coen, The Baroness Janet

The Colne Radio Onionistas have lost one of their beloved members: Gladys Hornett 1940-2024. She is being laid to rest this week, and to mark the sad occasion, we are rebroadcasting the brilliant 2023 anthology of Onions she wrote for the show, which nestle among the exuberant and evocative music she loved. Let's sit back and enjoy Gladys's idiosyncratic and nostalgic stories about a bygone Essex as we celebrate her life and offer our condolences to her family.

Another chance to hear one of our most popular episodes…

Roger - the archetypal mummy's boy - and Jean - the perennial victim - are made for each other. The feelings are so strong, you could cut them with a knife.

Written by Angela Cairns.

With Adrian Coen and Yvonne Pini

In this show, our Onionistas seemed to be unsure of whether the theme was ‘Isn’t This World Enough?’ …or ‘Aren’t These Onions Enough?’  Either way, the answers are.“yes” and “no”, respectively, although this may not be made clear by the content of the show.

Featuring 100-word scarcely-a-story offerings written by: Sue Beer, Susan Low, Clare Kemsley, Jenny Miller, Angela Cairns, Jo Kerr, Daphne Button, Lis Edwards, Paul Hooper, Pat Blosse, Tim Morgan, Ian Hornett, Adrian Coen, John Dew, Phil Boast,Minnie Ardo, and Jim Crimm

With Adrian Coen and Yvonne Pini

In this show, our a-hundred-word’s-all-you’re-getting

Featuring teeny-weeny micro-fictions written by Clare Kemsley, Sue Beer, Phil Boast, John Dew, Pat Blosse, Rob Lewis, Paul Hooper, Toni Peers, Susan Low, Lily Matthews, Eli Rose, Kara Black, Verity James. Jim Crimm, and Tim Morgan.

With Adrian Coen and Yvonne Pini

As the staff at Guppy Productions prepare to end their annual leave to the seaside village of MANADO, heres the final and 6th bonus episode of onions plucked from our Holiday Big Bag.

with Adrian Coen & Yvonne Pini

With the staff at Guppy Productions still taking annual leave to the seaside village of MANADO, heres the fifth bonus episode of onions plucked from our Holiday Big Bag.

with Adrian Coen & Yvonne Pini

As the staff at Guppy Productions enjoying annual leave at the seaside village of MANADO, heres the fourth bonus episode of onions plucked from our Holiday Big Bag.

with Adrian Coen & Yvonne Pini

With the staff at Guppy Productions still on annual leave to the seaside village of MANADO, heres the third bonus episode of onions plucked from our Holiday Big Bag.

with Adrian Coen & Yvonne Pini

As the staff at Guppy Productions are on annual leave at the seaside village of MANADO, heres the second bonus episode of onions plucked from our Holiday Big Bag.

with Adrian Coen & Yvonne Pini