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Egg-spress the onion!
17/09/2025

Egg-spress the onion!

Lovely stories, mixed with undeservedly unfamiliar music to make soundscapes that entertain, beguile and absorb. With Adrian Coen and Yvonne Pini - and the great Onionistas, our writers. Slacker with the Bag: Bill Lawrance

play that groove, bro
17/09/2025

play that groove, bro

Jazz penguins practicing philosophy…

The Overground hums in the key of B-flat minor. If you press your ear against the window at Shoreditch, you can just abo...
15/09/2025

The Overground hums in the key of B-flat minor. If you press your ear against the window at Shoreditch, you can just about hear the bassoon part...

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 might use an actual radio set. With an antenna that you extend, and different wavebands,and a dial that you turn un...
30/08/2025

You might use an actual radio set. With an antenna that you extend, and different wavebands,and a dial that you turn until the radio stops buzzing...

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.

Artie investigates intellect in exile...
14/08/2025

Artie investigates intellect in exile...

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

He says he wants a nice wedge of jelly and sneeze, a couple of folding monkeys and a tight little ferret in sequins
01/08/2025

He says he wants a nice wedge of jelly and sneeze, a couple of folding monkeys and a tight little ferret in sequins

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.

A journey through sound and psyche—familiar tracks reinterpreted with bold analysis, poetic reflection, and a twist of t...
29/07/2025

A journey through sound and psyche—familiar tracks reinterpreted with bold analysis, poetic reflection, and a twist of the strange.

Thematic streams of thought and music, from the interludes found on Box 39, a sibling radio show that ought to know better… and probably does!

She lit up film, stage, and TV—this podcast explores the stardom, struggles, and secrets behind her iconic legacy.
29/07/2025

She lit up film, stage, and TV—this podcast explores the stardom, struggles, and secrets behind her iconic legacy.

Maddy Smith, actor, comedian, writer and Bond Girl, discusses her career in her own words, with honesty, wit, charm, and laughter. In conversation with Bill Lawrance Series 1: ‘A Life in Laughter’ Series 2: ‘No Regrets’

Comfort lost, wild gained—two Brits seek purpose and survival in Asia’s lush, unpredictable rainforest world.
29/07/2025

Comfort lost, wild gained—two Brits seek purpose and survival in Asia’s lush, unpredictable rainforest world.

This is the story of Phil Boast and Paula Larcher… as they leave their busy and conventional careers in Britain, for a whole new life in the fishing village of Bahowo, on the remote Indonesian island of Sulawesi, east of Borneo.

It’s not just jazz—it’s Bill’s bag of sonic alchemy, where every onion layer reveals a new universe.
29/07/2025

It’s not just jazz—it’s Bill’s bag of sonic alchemy, where every onion layer reveals a new universe.

Stylish and dangerous, like lipstick on a cigarette or blood in the static. Curated by Smokestack “Stacks” Delroy.

this is the sound your soul didn’t know it missed.
29/07/2025

this is the sound your soul didn’t know it missed.

Some say ‘Tomorrow’s World’. Others say ‘Beyond the Now’ and ‘The Shape of Things to Come’. Its all Futuristic Onions to us… with Adrian Coen and Yvonne Pini

It could have been 'The Glastonbury' of northeast Essex...it so nearly was...
29/07/2025

It could have been 'The Glastonbury' of northeast Essex...it so nearly was...

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

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