About this podcast
What will be in Box 39 this time?
Let Bill Lawrance and Adrian Coen, and their guests, take you through the Wall of Sound for something entirely different each episode.
With chat, music, and humour, this is a unique experience, and possibly what your radio was invented for.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 54 episodes
- Bill's Last Show... · 1 h 0 min · Season 4 Episode 100As 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…
- THE BATTLE FOR YPRES with IAIN TALLENTIRE · 1 h 0 min · Season 8 Episode 196Ypres, 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…
- BOX 39 VERSUS AI with IAN HORNETT · 1 h 0 min · Season 8 Episode 195Well, the gloves are off now. Just be ready Stanway FM. This is radio-war…
- COGGESHALL with SIMON GRINHAM and BOB MAY · 1 h 0 min · Season 8 Episode 194Another set of memories gone like fat squawking Canadian Geese accidentally flying into a giant offshore wind turbine…
- GARDENING FOR WILDLIFE with KATE LAWRANCE · 1 h 0 min · Season 8 Episode 193Rory 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
- THE LONDON OVERGROUND with ANDREW OLDERSHAW · 1 h 0 min · Season 8 Episode 192At 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…
- BOX 39 VERSUS THE PEOPLE with CRAIG BARKER · 1 h 0 min · Season 8 Episode 191You 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.
- STUPIDITY with ARTIE FUNKHAUSEN · 1 h 0 min · Season 8 Episode 190Box 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…
- THE TRUTH with TIM MORGAN · 1 h 0 min · Season 8 Episode 189There’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…
- The Wivenhoe Free Festival, 1969 · 1 h 0 min · Season 8 Episode 188Almost 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
- FOR BETTER or FOR WORSE? with BOB MAY & SIMON GRINHAM · 1 h 1 min · Season 8 Episode 187I 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…
- BARD TIMES with MIKE HARWOOD · 1 h 1 min · Season 8 Episode 186Was Shakespeare actually Edward de Vere from Wivenhoe? With live Shin-kicking, an Elizabethan Banquet in the studio, and everyone’s made their own Codpiece. Nigel from Accounts…
- The Search for Helen Mirren · 1 h 0 min · Season 8 Episode 185Ade’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
- ALONE with BILL LAWRANCE · 1 h 0 min · Season 8 Episode 184to 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…
- CARRY ON UP THE BUSES with BOB MAY · 1 h 0 min · Season 8 Episode 183From 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? Maybe…
- episode 182 - WHEN I'M 65 with KATE LAWRANCE · 1 h 0 min · Season 8 Episode 182“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…
- Bad Decisions, with Craig Barker · 1 h 0 min · Season 8 Episode 181In politics, sport, war and business, flawed choices have changed our world. Box 39 puts on its lucky pants, and investigates.
- The M25, with Bill Lawrance · 1 h 0 min · Season 8 Episode 180It’s the worlds biggest car park, and made the Rave scene available to anyone with a Ford Cortina and a pocketful of E’s…
- Singapore, with Bill Lawrance · 1 h 0 min · Season 8 Episode 179Turn left at Wivenhoe Station, then go about 12000 km south-east and you can’t miss it. Lovely place. Wonderful toilets and so clean. Thank you Barry.
- The Yorkshire 3 Peaks, with Iain Tallentire · 1 h 0 min · Season 8 Episode 178It was the bacon roll that saved me. That, and Steve’s bread pudding. And the most beautiful walk in the whole of Yorkshire.
