Box 39

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?

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.

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.

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