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 doing the weather.

Was Shakespeare actually Edward de Vere from Wivenhoe?

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?

“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