Box 39

Bill is on the road and out of the Studio, driving the Colne Radio company sports car around the country, as he investigates the secrets of our street and highwys, our lanes and motorways - and with great music, of course.

with Bill Lawrance

These are the Awards that really matter.

with Bill Lawrance, Adrian Coen and Craig Barker.

Historian Jonathan Pearsall is live in the studio as we uncover secrets from East Anglia’s 20th century wartime past.  But Mike Harwood’s gone missing, Adrian sounds familiar and Bill’s got Sue Pollard on his mind. Even Jonathan has secrets to be revealed…

With great music too

with Bill Lawrance, Adrian Coen and Jonathan Pearsall

Some are called Genius from the start.  But though he is in the GCSE Poetry Anthology, Mallory remains unrecognised. 

this is ERNEST MALLORY, WIVENHOE’S LOST GENIUS 

with Bill Lawrance, Adrian Coen, Venetia Tardy-Bint and Kath Kershaw.

This is Tristan da Cunha, the world’s most remote inhabited island.

Unique.  Beautiful. Shocking.  And strangely very British.

The island at the end of the world.

With Bill Lawrance

There are 56 of them and can stick out half a mile – like barnacle clad phallic erections saturated in salt water.  They are of course the pleasure piers that we find all around our coasts.  Are they as relevant in our post millennial digital world of Apps today as they have been in their Victorian and Edwardian heydays of glamour and excitement when their priapic presence drew crowds of excited holiday makers to the seaside in search of excitement like a soft and stout banana draws a swarm of happy fruit flies?

With Adrian confused, and Mike’s expenses under scrutiny, can Bill hold the show together?

With Bill Lawrance, Adrian Coen & Mike Harwood

Aged 28 and over a period of 21 months Ade was in Indonesia and did not set foot in Britain, a country he had never spent any more than 4 weeks away from up until that point.

Examining this fledgling expatriate through the prism of the western rock and pop music that he listened to during those 21 months - none of which, for Ade, evokes any associations with Britain at all – reveals an original soundtrack of exceptional music and extraordinary recollections.

With Adrian Coen

with Bob May throwing a sickie, and show plans redundant, Bill and Ade turn to the theme of OBSOLETE.

Relying on out-of-date tech, wearing unfashionable flares and bouncing round the studio on unlicensed space hoppers, can they survive the wrath and fury of the Wivenhoe Arcane Wordage & Quite Literal Vocabularists Society….?

With Bill Lawrance & Adrian Coen

The bad news is that the world is going to end. But the good news is probably not anytime soon.

North East Essex’s most infamous scrutinisers of the cultural nosebleeds of modern life examine potential sources of Armageddon, helped by Nostradamus, the prophet hen of Leeds, a death clock online predictor, and some sexy robots that can surf. And with great music too.

With Bill Lawrance, Simon Grinham & Bob May

We look back on the highs and lows, the controversies and the debates, of a very special World Cup tournament.

With a new house band live in the studio, and the rare and exclusive appearance of Statto, it’s a very happy World Cup for us all. Plus great music of course.

With Bill Lawrance, Adrian Coen, Craig Barker, Iain Tallentire & Mike Harwood