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Box 39

Guppy Productions

"Box 39" is the long-running and unique magazine radio show, originally broadcast on Colne Radio in North East Essex, UK. Fresh, innovative and unexpected, and blending gorgeous music, features, chat and banter, its a show based in the heart of our local, national and international community. What will come out of Box 39 next?

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All Episodes

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episode 181: BAD DECISIONS with CRAIG BARKER

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2025/03/14

We make up to 35,000 decisions, every day. – so it’snot surprising that decision fatigue can lead to Bad Decisions. In politics, sport, war and business, such flawed choices have triggered dramatic consequences, and changed our world.Box 39 puts on its lucky pants, and investigates. With great music too, of course.With Bill Lawrance, Adrian Coen and Craig Barker.

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episode 180: THE M25 with BILL LAWRANCE

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2025/02/27

The World's biggest car park? Or the engineering adventure that has boosted the economy, helped the rave scene, and generated its own iconic status?Join Bill as he drives around the second biggest bypass in the world, stopping only for a pasty and a strong coffee. With brilliant music too, of course!With Bill Lawrance

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01:00:00

episode 179: SINGAPORE with BILL LAWRANCE

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2025/02/13

Bill is in Singapore, in south-east Asia, at Colne Radio listeners’ expense, to discover the history, the people and the places that make up the vibrant City-State that was named from the words Singa meaning Lion and Pura meaning City. He travels on the driverless trains, gets caught in a rainstorm and visits a comedy club. And finds out if chewing gum is illegal.And with great music, of course.With Bill Lawrance

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01:00:21

episode 178: THE YORKSHIRE 3 PEAKS with IAIN TALLENTIRE

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2025/01/31

The Yorkshire 3 Peaks Walk is a demanding trek across rugged terrain, covering 24 miles and summiting three of the highest mountains in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Join Bill, Iain and Adrian, and the outstanding beauty, rolling hills, and scenic valleys of Yorkshire, as they climb Pen-y-ghent, then Whernside, and finally Ingleborough - to try to complete this tough and challenging adventure within 12 hours. And with great music, of course. With Bill Lawrance, Adrian Coen and Iain

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episode 177: THE BAHOWO SCHOOL TALES with BAHOWO

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2025/01/16

Bahowo is a small fishing village, by the South China Sea, on the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi, on the equator, to the east of Borneo and to the north of Java. It’s a tropical paradise, of rain forest, warm clear seas, mangroves and volcanoes. Bahowo may be nearly 8000 miles from northeast Essex and Colne Radio Towers but like here in the UK, it is where people work, and play, help each other, are happy and sometimes sad, where they celebrate and mourn, and where they live alongside each

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00:17:29

CERITA SEKOLAH BAHOWO #1

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2025/01/16

(This show is entirely in Indonesian) Selamat datang di acara bonus spesial nomor 1, dari acara radio 'Box 39', dengan cerita dan dongeng yang ditulis dan dibacakan oleh anak-anak Bahowo. Dibuat oleh Bill Lawrance di Radio Colne di Inggris dan Adrian Coen di Yogyakarta. Terima kasih kami kepada Baroness Janet Fookes, di House of Lords di London, dan Paula Larcher dan Phil Boast, Sebastian dan Cicha di Bahowo, dan terima kasih khusus kami kepada para siswa, guru, orang tua dan keluarga Sekolah Bahowo

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00:13:22

CERITA SEKOLAH BAHOWO #2

Box 39 ·

2025/01/16

(This show is entirely in Indonesian) Selamat datang di acara bonus spesial nomor 2, dari acara radio 'Box 39', dengan cerita dan dongeng yang ditulis dan dibacakan oleh anak-anak Bahowo. Dibuat oleh Bill Lawrance di Radio Colne di Inggris dan Adrian Coen di Yogyakarta. Terima kasih kami kepada Baroness Janet Fookes, di House of Lords di London, dan Paula Larcher dan Phil Boast, Sebastian dan Cicha di Bahowo, dan terima kasih khusus kami kepada para siswa, guru, orang tua dan keluarga Sekolah Bahowo

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00:17:22

CERITA SEKOLAH BAHOWO #3

Box 39 ·

2025/01/16

(This show is entirely in Indonesian) Selamat datang di acara bonus spesial nomor 3, dari acara radio 'Box 39', dengan cerita dan dongeng yang ditulis dan dibacakan oleh anak-anak Bahowo. Dibuat oleh Bill Lawrance di Radio Colne di Inggris dan Adrian Coen di Yogyakarta. Terima kasih kami kepada Baroness Janet Fookes, di House of Lords di London, dan Paula Larcher dan Phil Boast, Sebastian dan Cicha di Bahowo, dan terima kasih khusus kami kepada para siswa, guru, orang tua dan keluarga Sekolah Bahowo

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00:14:00

CERITA SEKOLAH BAHOWO #4

Box 39 ·

2025/01/16

(This show is entirely in Indonesian) Selamat datang di acara bonus spesial nomor 4, dari acara radio 'Box 39', dengan cerita dan dongeng yang ditulis dan dibacakan oleh anak-anak Bahowo. Dibuat oleh Bill Lawrance di Radio Colne di Inggris dan Adrian Coen di Yogyakarta. Terima kasih kami kepada Baroness Janet Fookes, di House of Lords di London, dan Paula Larcher dan Phil Boast, Sebastian dan Cicha di Bahowo, dan terima kasih khusus kami kepada para siswa, guru, orang tua dan keluarga Sekolah Bahowo

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01:00:05

BONUS episode #82: BRAIN WAVES with BILL LAWRANCE

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2025/01/02

a winter walk around the coast of Essex - and for the first time on Spotify.Award winning radio from Box 39. with Bill Lawrance

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01:00:00

episode 176: IT’S CHRISTMAS, INNIT with MIKE HARWOOD

Box 39 ·

2024/12/20

Seasonal capers, with live studio guests, including Queen Camilla, Jacob Rees Mogg, Tony Soprano, Michael Portillo, Kylie Minogue, Cameron Diaz, Liz Truss, Dame Edna, Julie Andrews, Rev, Justin Welby and many more. You don’t get this on Radio 2!Warm, intimate conversation, and great music, and a Happy Christmas, from Box 39! With Bill Lawrance, Adrian Coen, Mike Harwood and many more…

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01:00:00

Episode 175: ALL PUNS INTENDED with IAN HORNETT

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2024/12/07

Live from Studio One, our very special guest is the Pun Meister General, author and writer Ian Hornett, who, despite his doubly debilitating conditions of advanced Pun-osis and hyper Pun-itis, delivers the most Dad joke puns possible.It’d the pun-acle of wordplay. Some say they are cheesy – but we think they are Grate. Pun=compromising groan fodder, with great music too! With Bill Lawrance, Adrian Coen, Ian Hornett and Susie Dent

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01:00:00

episode 174: THE BOWIE LETTERS with ADRIAN COEN

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2024/11/21

In May 1979, David Bowie released his album ‘Lodger’, triggering a series of letters between Adrian, Bowie and other public figures that lasted for over a year. This correspondence - a fantastic voyage of personal growth and youthful curiosity - has lain hidden in a storage unit in Marks Tey, until now. And against the background of Bowies music from ‘Lodger’, this remarkable history is now uncovered. With Adrian Coen

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episode 173: ESSEX ISLANDS with BOB MAY & SIMON GRINHAM

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2024/11/09

Live from Studio One, we investigate those islands that make Essex such a unique and beautiful place. But Simon’s bees are loose in the studio, and Bob's got problems on the Isle of Thanet. With great music too, of course With Bill Lawrance, Adrian Coen, Bob May and Simon Grinham

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episode 172: ABANDONED RAILWAYS with ANDREW OLDERSHAW

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2024/10/25

Live from Studio 1, we take a deep dive into the closures and revivals, and the legacies of Beeching.But why does Bill have a secret stash of red underpants, and where are the invisible trains? And with great music, of course. With Bill Lawrance, Adrian Coen and Andrew Oldershaw

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episode 171: BLIMEY! IT’S PROFANITY! With TIM MORGAN

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2024/10/11

In our first live-streamed show, sponsored by The Devil’s Thumb Resurrectional Church of the Holy Superbness, will Tim Morgan steal the freshly odourised Senior Presenter’s Chair? Adrian smells trouble. Can Fat Terry stop the swears or are on-air sackings inevitable? CAUTION: this show contains Enormous Feet. With Bill Lawrance, Adrian Coen, Tim Morgan and Billy Connolly

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episode 170 - YOU ASK, WE ANSWER with BILL LAWRANCE

Box 39 ·

2024/09/26

With this simple, and possibly award-winning concept, Bill is probed deeply by listeners, live in the studio. Where others have merely guessed, we find Truth. And a snake. And the perfect burger. You just don’t get that on Radio 4. With Bill Lawrance, Adrian Coen, Susie Cubes and KitKat Keith

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episode 170 – YOU ASK, WE ANSWER with BILL LAWRANCE

Box 39 ·

2024/09/13

With this simple, and possibly award-winning concept, Bill is probed deeply by listeners,live in the studio.Where others have guessed, we find Truth. You just don’t get that on Radio 4. With Bill Lawrance, Adrian Coen, Susie Cubes and KitKat Keith

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01:00:00

episode 169: A SAMPLER OF POWER LISTENING VOLUME 04...

Box 39 ·

2024/08/29

Once again we have assembled a selection of Box 39’s opening monologues from Bill Lawrance, and the opening musicologies that follow from Adrian Coen. There’s deep thought and clever cogitation from Colne Radio’s highest paid and most important Senior Presenter, and questionably a waste of your ear space, from its Junior Presenter. With Bill Lawrance and Adrian Coen

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episode 168: A SAMPLER OF POWER LISTENING VOLUME 03...

Box 39 ·

2024/08/22

A further compilation of Box 39’s opening monologues from Bill Lawrance, and the opening musicologies that follow from Adrian Coen. Award winning higher thinking from Colne Radio’s highest paid and most important Senior Presenter, and morsels of unsubstantial guff and gristle from its Junior Presenter. With Bill Lawrance and Adrian Coen

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