Brunch With The Brits

This podcast has been long overdue, and we finally realized it was time to publish it when it had been almost a year since we've published and with no guilt or pangs of remorse with everything else going on we felt now was the time to step back.  We explain in great detail why.  The show will remain open so listeners can checck past episodes.  Farewell and godspeed.  .  

This is the week we finally relaunch.  There's a  bit of disscussion in the beginning about Matt's long absence and then we'll dive right back in whefre we left off.  With Navy Lark, that means right back to Series 12 and we leaarn what happens when Troutbridge winds up in Shanghai, rather then Shankley and what happens when an old flame enters Povy's office.  Then it's off to London late 1890s as we continue our look at The Casebook Of Sherlock Holmes and The Three Garadebs.  enjoy.  

It feels like the end of an era, not for Brunch but for Narnia.  We've done it along with an hour's worth of Navy Lark, that because this episode was actually recorded last winter I can't remember but fear not.  Brunch is relaunching and I'll have more details on that soon!  Meanwhile enjoy this.  

This week we return with a good long brunch to end the holidays.  We begin with an hour of Navy Lark in which we learn about who can grow a beard faster between Commander Murray and Sub LT Philips then it's strange radio signals that HMS Troutbridge has to figure out.  We continue then with I'm Sorry I'll Reaad That Again and their New Year's Eve 1970 special featuring Dr. Chivago.  Then it's back to Narnia and Part 1 of The Last Battle.  Enjoy.

This week we conclude the Silver Chair and begin the twelfth series of Navy Lark with two episodes.  We also conclude NOtes From A Small Island.  Please enjoy.  It took us a while onthis one, as you'll hear in my monologues between programs.  We hope you're having a delightful holiday season and please email us at [email protected] with any requests.

This week after what has seemed a long absence we begin The Silver Chair after completing series 8 of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and learning all about Western Supermare with Bill Bryson.  Enjoy.

To cclose out July and our annual look at American playwrights as only the Beeb knows how we're looking at Death Of A Salesman and yes it's quite good.  But we also have Bill Bryson's take on Dorsett and an entire hour of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again.  So sit back relax it's almost four hours you can break up.  Next week it's back to Narnia.  Enjoy.

This week we conclude series 11 of Navy Lark by seeing what happens to Troutbridge under new radar.  Then it's a look at the bride of Frankenstein on I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again Bill Bryson tells us about working at an old sanitorium in Virginia Water and we conclude with a look at Harpo Marks's goodwill tour of Russia in 1933.  Enjoy.

This week as we do our annual July tribute to America, we feature Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, as our play.  We also begin Notes From A Small Island and enjoy rather endearingly Bill Bryson's look at Britain from his American perspective.  There's a little extra fun with Navy Lark and we are still working through I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again this time in which Lady Constance is hunted like a fox.  Enjoy.

This week we conclude The Voyage Of The Dawntreader.  But first we open with Navy Lark, in which CPO Pertwy makes magic with a fruit machine, then Matt Cox and John Lingard talk Prince Philip, his life, his legacy, tv, soccer, church postpandemic cCalifornia and anything else they hit.  It's a fun summer jaunt with John and we thank him and hope you enjoy it.  We then have I'm Sorry I'll Read That AGain in which the prunes make fun of Henry VIII and we then conclude The Voyage of The Dawntreader.  Thanks to Julianne and Joseph and a happy first to Julieanne and Joseph.  Enjoy.  [email protected]

This week as the title implies, we begin the Voyage Of The Dawn Treader.  But we also have Navy Lark in which Commander Murray returns from his honeymoon, we conclude An Utterly Impartial History in which John OFarrell discusses Britain's finest hour we have another supberbly messed up play from the Prunes in which British rail is completely panned and makes me wonder if BR is still just as awful as it sounded in 1970 and we take a deeper look at Chief Inspector West courtessy of Julie Anne in Australia.  Plenty to enjoy why not sit down?

Sorry for the lateness of this episode.  But we're back and on time well weekend on time that is with the conclussion of Prince Caspian.  We also have a fun Navy Lark episode in which Commander Murray gets married to Rita, a look at Billy Bunter from Radio Prune and a look at the Battle of hastings with our utterly impartial look at British history.  Enjoy.  

This week we begin with spies aboard Troutbridge, then we get an altered history lesson about charterism, we hear Tales Of The Circus in I'm Sorry I'll Reaad That Again conclude Inspector West At Bay and begin Prince Caspian.  Plenty to like oh and we're caught up too.  Enjoy.

This week we conclude The Horse And His Boy plus we learn about the Vikings again in our Utterly Impartial History Of Britan, plus it's troubles with Ramona's washing machine in The Navy Lark there are bullets in Bell Street for Chief Inspector West and hey lots of stuff to keep yoou entertained this week, so why not stop in and give us three hours?

This week we debut a new documentary which is a companion to an audiobook I discovered on my recent flight to Kansas.  It's called An Utterly And Impartial History of Britain and we look at the first episode from 2007.  We go spycatching with Troutbridge's crew from Feb 22 1970 engage in the Canterbury Tales with the Radio Prune Crew from JFeb 22 1970 we continue our Inspector West mystery from 1969 as we listen to Part 6 of Inspector West At Bay and we begin The Horse And His Boy in our look at Narnia.  Lots to sink in to enjoy.

On this rather delayed show due to the host's vacation, we begin with Navy Lark, then we look at Prince Philip again in his own words talking about his war time experiences.  We then continue our series long look at I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again with the beginning of their eighth series and The Taming Of The Shrew.  We then conclude with Chief Inspector West.  Don't worry as we plan to make up episodes this month.  Enjoy.

This week in place of a documentary Matt talks in detail about his trip to Dissneyland's grand reopening after 412 days closed due to the pandemic.  We at bwtb would like to publicly thank Jason Lee and Paul and Calvin Barrie from Window To The Magic for making the day so special.  As far as a show well we have two greaat episodes of Navy Lark and we continue Inspector West At Bay.  Please enjoy.  Email [email protected] and thanks for listening.

This week after our hour of naval commedy we meet HRH in a wonderful interview.  We'll be looking at HRH a lot these next few weeks culminating with a full disscussion of his life on May 22 with John Lingard.  We also have Chief Inspector West and conclude The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe.  I had promised a historical documentary but found HRH more compelling so please forgive the host.  Enjoy.

This week we have two Navy Lark episodes to start us off.  One in which Pertwy is considered for promotion.  Then it's off for a short history of grunge.  Get those old Nirvanah compact discs out.  Then we continue Inspector West At Bay with the second part of that dramatic series and we begin The Lion The Witch And The wardrobe.  Enjoy.  Special thanks to Julie Anne and Joseph for help with navy lark and narnia.

This week one of the shows is a surprise Easter egg or in this case a birthday gift.  If you want to know in advance check tags but I hhope you'll listen along and be pleaasantly surprised.  We'll start with a Christmas show keeping chronologically with I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again from December 25 1969 then it's off to Portsmouth to see how Troutbridge has fared with Lt. Murray and company returning from leave.  Then sadly we finishe Cosmic Quest with a burning question.  Are we alone?  Then it's surprise time followed by episode 2 and the the conclussiion of The Magician's Nephew.  Plenty to get excited about and very happy birthday wishes to my best friend of 45 years Eric Troup.

So this week we conclude The Biig Business Lark and we learn about Worlds Beyond from Heather Cooper as it's Easter weekend I've decided to begin The Chronicles Of Narnia and we're going with the Brian Sibbly edition with Morris Denham yes Rumpole himself as the storyteller.  We actually start with episode 1 of The Magician's Nephew.  Enjoy and a blessed Easter and Passover to you my awesome listeners.

This week our featured play is The Falklands Play from 1986.  It's remarkable that it was censored by BBC at that time.  It has an all star cast of people we've seen many times before including Clive Marison and the lady who play Margaret Thatcher is amazing.  We also have two episodes of The Big Business Lark and we learn about the origins of planets so please settle in for almost three hours as only your friends at brunch can come up with.

This week we conclude Barcester Towers, which means we're putting away the Chronicles for a bit.  I thought it was a good stopping point as we prepare for some Easter brunch in a couple weeks.  We also have two episodes from The Big Business Lark and we learn about the life and death of stars.  

This week it's two episodes of Big Business followed by a look at the sun and we continue with Barcester Towers.  Enjoy.

This week to catch up you have three Big Business Larks to sink your teeth in to.  Once you've had enough of Sir Charles we'll look at Werner Von Braun with Heather Cooper and begin Barcester Towers.  Oh and some tine in the show Matt goes off on the royal family asks why they could be so cruel to Megan and tries to guess who the racist royals are.  [email protected] and a review of the final test in India enjoy.

This week we conclude The Warden.  But we begin with two episodes from the Big Business Lark, and two episodes of Cosmic Quest to  make up for some lost time.  Hope you enjoy.

This week we return to Barcester, but this time for the entire run.  We'll be examinin with the warden.  Enjoyn 

This was technically last week's brunch.  But with me at the Jack Benny virtual convention plus the craziness of the events in Texas this week, I never got a chance to upload.  So please enjoy The Prisoner of Zenda plus more from Heather Cooper and Matt talks frankly about talk sport's contributions to cricket on the radio.  We must remember Matt's listening from California.  Enjoy.

Shorter episode this week as we're replacing archival episodes.  This week we continue our Cosmic Quest and learn about broadcasts from the cosmos.  Then Sherlock Holmes comes up against a vampire in Sussex, or does he?  It's our last Holmes for a while.  Enjoy.

This week we conclude the seventh series of I'm Sorry I'll JRead That Again plus the host has a pleaa about an hour in to the show.  We learn about the beginning of the universe enjoy the Three Gables and conclude with Mort's conclusion.  Enjoy.

The reference in the title is the new Name That Tune US reboot on NBC.  The host goes over its dreadfulness at the fifty sevventh minute of the show.  This is for those of you who may be discovering the pod for the first time.  We also listen to the tenth and eleventh episodes of The Electric Time trousers, learn about Einstein's Big Blunder enjoy the Mazarin Stone and part 3 of Mort so plenty to enjoy this week.  Email us agt [email protected]

It's not the shows reaally but the milestone we celebrate this week.  Ok so we'll continue with the time trousers two episodes of that.  Then we'll learn about deep space on our cosmic quest.  It's still 1901 in the life of Sherlock Holmes and we hear the blanched Soldier.  We also have episode 2 of Mort.  Please enjoy.  I can't thank you enough for sticking with me.  Here's to 500 more.

We made it.  A New Year.  Lots of brunch to look forward to including a double dose of prunes, Heather teaaches us about the origins of the Milky Way remember like the universe itt goes on expanding and expanding in all different directions it can whiz ... know the song?  Email [email protected] also Sherlock Holmes returns and we start Mort thank you Julie Anne.

Last pod for 2020 and have we got audio treaats for you.  This is our longest episode ever as we feaature Scrooge The Musical with Antony Newley as Scrooge.  We also have Navy Lark, Cosmic Quest the prunes drop in and a bit of fun from your hosts as an innkeeper drops by in the form of our own John Lingard.  Enjoy.

This week we begin with Navy Lark and find out what happens when Mr. Philipps Mickey Mouse toothbrush goes down the wrong pipe.  Then we learn of the celestial police in our cosmic questt.  The Prunes continue with the Electrick Time Trousers and then the true box.  It's The Holy and The Ivy from Saturday Night Theater.  Enjoy.  

This week a pau perrie of stuff as we present true paper.  For to get to a gift, you have to unwrap it.  After our Navy Lark episode in which Leslie is held over a weather ship in a bosun's chair, we'll learn about the planet George, continue our adventure with The Electric Time Trousers in which we meet Sir francis Drake nd then we get in to our Christmas paper.  We start with a short Rumpole story called Rumpole and the Spirt of Christmas.  Then we hear about Christmas Decorations and finish up with After Super Ghost Stories.  Bout of those have been heard before but I felt were highly apropriate.  Email the show at [email protected] and nexgt week we look at the box.

Technically, this was last week's brunch.  However health deemed it to be otherwise and if you're looking for an explanation it's in the first sixteen minutes of the show.  You also get the usual offerings, plus our time with John Lingard.  It's a lengthy interview, just under two hours.  We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed putting it together.  

This week we return to I'm Sorry I'll JRead That Again.  If you don't like the prunes I'm sorry but we'll be caught up eventually.  We start with Navy Lark and see what happens when Mr. Philiips shows up to an admiralty inspection with the wrong uniform.  In Cosmic Quest Heaather Cooper introduces us to Isaac newton I'm sure we'll talk about those apples with John next week.  Our holiday offering is Paul Theroux's A Christmas Card, enjoy.

This week we cover a lot.  We start with two Navy Lark episodes and they won't dissapoint.  The first asks what sub lt Philips is doing selling sweets from a Portsmouth tabaconist aboard Troutbridge and stealing the chief's customers.  The second deals with what happens when a supposed land mine is found in Portsmouth Harbour.  Then we get to the meat of the episode.  Our cosmic quest deals with gGalileo and is titled Seeing Is Believing.  Because of that I thought it'd be fun to look at Galileo by Berthold Brecht.  So we'll listen to The Life Of Galileo.  Enjoy.  Three hours and thirty minutes.  Hey it's a good oone.  On behalf of Maria and myself please have a happy Thanksgiving and if you're in a part of the world where turkeys lives are pardoned then hhave some covid snacks.  Email us at [email protected] aand most of all enjoy the pod.

This week, it's an honest review of the BBC sounds ap which is finally available here in the United States.  We also have program offerings in which our friends on Troutbridge have to find a suitable gift for the ship's padre, we learn aabout Tycho the Danish astronomer and experience a pruney panto.  Then it's time for something we admit we're a week late on as we listen to atrue gem from Saturday Night Theater involving Gunpowder Treason and Plot.  Enjoy.

This week iit runs just undder two hhours.  After our amazing tribute to Hammer films last week, we start with tthe Navy Lark and wonder what happens when Captain Povy takes over.  Then we learn about Copernicus then it's back to Navy Lark and independence for Kowowa and we end with Rumpole considering retirement.  Enjoy.

Where do vampires go when they're no longer welcome in Transylvania?  You'll find out if you have the courage to get through our normal offerings.  You see to get through the eppisode to reach our terrors, you must first deal with two episodes of Navy Lark.  We'll first see what Toddhunter Brown is up to helping with the independence of the friendly Kawawan nation, then hear what happens when CPO Pertwy is finally discharged.  Frightening right?  In the midst of that we learn about Mathmatics of the sky and the poetry of Omar Kyam.  Then come with us to India and see where the old count has found himself.  This is a nice companion to our Hammer chat I did with Fred Castaneda of podcast reporter fame.  Enjoy.  It's a long one this week.  

This week we go back if you will and relisten to some Navy Larks where the sound the first time was not the easiest to digest.  We follow that with a look at Ptolomey and conclude with Rumpole and The Discourse of Love.  Enjoy.

We are finally caught up.  This week we'll be dealing with two more episodes of Navy Lark, we'll learn about Greek mathematicians and philosophers and their study of astronomy and Rumpole will deal with an expert witness.  Fun stuff it's here please enjoy.

This week we have the usual suspects.  No coach tour stories.  We begin with the concluding episode of the sixth series of I'm jSorry I'll Read That Again and look at the history of the cinema.  Follow that with a look at the three wise men the crew of HMS Troutbridge meet their new captain and Rumpole has an identity crissis on his hands.  Enjoy.

This week, we  begin with I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and a tale of medival England never mind the fact it features Lady Constance.  Then it's off to the skies again as we look at the chinese view of astronomy.  In Navy Lark Troutbridge is dredging the harbor and we end with Rumpole And The Fascisgt beast.

This week, two coach stories crossed our desk, which we had to share.  The first is from John Lingard, the second from John H Smith of Derbyshire.  Both are quite good and are well deserving of air time.  We begin our regular offerings, with I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and a tribute from the roaring twenties from 1968 then we learn about stories from the sky in our cosmic quest.  On Troutbridge there's a redundancy drive from October of 1968 and we end with Rumpole and the Show Folk.  Plenty to enjoy so why not settle back whether you're in hot burning California like I am or whether your climes are beginningg a more autumnal routine?  Email us at [email protected] and as alwaays please enjoy.

This week we learn of Robinson Prunestone, find out how Rumpole defends Guthrie Featherstone learn of cathedrals of the cosmos and we're back in Portsmouth with a right light up as Navy Lark begins series 10.  Enjoy.

This week we stawrt a new documentary.  After the dryness of Africa, we begin a cosmic quest of sorts.  I hope you enjoy it.  But we start by sadly concluding the Embassy Lark with The Freeze.  We also have the prunes take on Macbeth and we conclude with Rumpole and The Man Of God.  Enjoy.

Bad tour coach stories have not come in yet but you'll hear my best and worst to get this string of tales off the ground.  We also have regular brunch including Embassy Lark, in which the staff take a day off due to Tratvian flu, we conclude the Lost Kingdoms Of Africa series with a trip to West Africa, the prunes teach us of bow legs and Rumpole shows us a bad apple.  Plenty to enntertain so why not give us a listen?  Enjoy.