Brunch With The Brits 326 The Polish Soldier And The Roman Wayw
In The Polish Soldier a man comes to terms with his vanished childhood while we begin to look agt Britain's first conquerors the Romans. Please enjoy.
Nov 24, 2014•1 hr 17 min
Brunch With The Brits
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Brunch With The Brits 325 Winter Journey
This week you're really going to hear the host explain why he's sick of Disney's Frozen as he invites you to acompany him on a real winter journey. Plus we'll conclude Fifty Years of Heart and Soul. Enjoy.
Nov 06, 2014•1 hr 30 min
Brunch With The Brits 324 The Ghost On The Moor
We sadly conclude Dad's Army this week but we also have our look at Mo town and those who are no longer with us and we conclude with The Ghost on the Moor enjoy
Oct 28, 2014•1 hr 51 min
Brunch With The Brits 323 Our Lady Of Sligo By Sebastian Barrie
This week we continue our Play's the Thing series with "Our Lady of Sligo," by Sebastian Barrie. It's a story of a womn dying reliving her past and the cruel pain of cancer. We also have Dad's Army in Is ther Honey Left for Tea in which Godfrey may lose his cottage to an airfield and we continue our look at Hitsville USA with a look at the ladies of Motown. Enjoy.
Oct 23, 2014•3 hr 17 min
Brunch With The Brits 322 Major Barbara
We apologize in advancce for the length of the podcast but hope you will enjoy Major Barbara, one of Bernard Shaw's finest pieces of satire. We'll start with Dad's Army and the Two and a Half Feathers continue with Fifty Years of Heart and Soul by learning about the Funk Brothers and conclude with Major Barbara from the Peter Hall Co enjoy.
Oct 16, 2014•3 hr 30 min
Brunch With The Brits 321 Out of the Dark
This week we'll continue Dad's Army with The Captain's Car. A French General is vissiting Warmington and the platoons have a bit of a motor mix up. We then go back to Motor City and learn about Mo Town's writers in the second episode of Fifty Years of Heart and Soul. We conclude with Out of the Daark a play about the poet Edward Thomas who died during the first world war. Enjoy
Oct 09, 2014•1 hr 52 min
Brunch With The Brits 320 The Quene's Retreat
This week in Warmington there's a turkey dinner for pensioners, plus we begin the documentary Hitsville USA Fifty Yeaars of Heaart and Soul the story of Mo Town. Our feaatured play is The Queen's Reggtreat. When a gilted school teacher goes to Cornwall to recover in a friends' cottage she reaalizes there really is more to life. Enjoy.
Sep 30, 2014•1 hr 48 min
Brunch With The Brits 319 Hay Feever By Noel Coward
This week all hay breaks loose in a country house as we listen to Noel Coard's Hay Feever. We also continue studying the war of 1812 and in Warmington On Sea a Nazi pilot is trapped in a clock tower. Enjoy.
Sep 24, 2014•1 hr 58 min
Brunch With The Brits 318 No Man's Land By Hrrold Pinter
As scotland prepares to vote tommorow the host begins this week with a heart felt message. We then hear Dad's Army and listen to The Cricket Match from July 1976 learn about the War of 1812 in Sceptred Isle, that is we start to learn about it however the American matter is skipped until next week. Our feature this week is No Man's Land. This play does contain explicit dialect. It stars Michael Hordern and Dirk Bogard and it's from 1992. Enjoy
Sep 17, 2014•2 hr 32 min
Brunch With The Brits 317 As I walked Out One Mid Summer Morning
At 19 years old Lee leaaves his comfortable home in the Cotswolds bound for adventure. As this is our second play in our new series I dedicate this to our friend and listener Roger Bromitch in Australia. We also got Roger's email and are looking in to his request. Also this week we'll discuss the Peninsular War and hear about a Jumbo sized problem in Warmington On Sea. Enjoy.
Sep 11, 2014•1 hr 46 min
Brunch With The Brits 316 The Secret Summer o Daniel Lions
After The King Must Die we here at the studio have decided to spend a few weeks dvoted to those plays we never seem to play enough of. Those one acts the BBC is so famous for. So after we've seen how the vicar does as a home guardsman in The Recruit and hear about the Ministry of talents in sceptred isle we'll travel in our minds to Sussex georgeous Sussex and listen to The Secret Summer of Daniel Lions. Tom a young Methodist is drawn to movies when a movie set comes to his vvillage at the turn ...
Sep 04, 2014•1 hr 44 min
Brunch With The Brits 315 The New Recruit
It's a new format while Matt works on projects at the office meantime the vicar has joined the home guard. Enjoy
Aug 25, 2014•50 min
Brunch With The Brits 314 The Man In The Brown Suit Concluded
You're going to hear hints of a new format this week on bwtb more in 315 but in the meantime enjoy the conclussion of the Man in the Brown Suit.
Aug 21, 2014•2 hr 13 min
Brunch With The Brits 313 The king Must Die Concluded plus an opinion on Fotm 2014
As we've been busy hob nobbing with friends at Disneyland making new friends and catcching up with old I thought it necesarry to conclude The King Must Die. It's an awesome conclussion. We'll also continue The Man in the Brown Suit which we will conclude next week. Enjoy
Aug 13, 2014•3 hr 21 min
Brunch With The Brits 312 In The Time Of The Amazon
This week as I'am at frinds of the magic ... if you're at Disneyland look for Maria and I serving tea literally we'll be just showing King Must Die for one episode. Enjoy
Aug 05, 2014•55 min
Brunch With The Brits 311 At Maiden's Head
This week we continue the Man in the Brown Suit we learn about a prime minister in exile and Theseus meets his Amazonian love. Enjoy
Aug 05, 2014•3 hr 16 min
Brunch With The Brits 310 The High King Of Atica
This week more from King Must Die. We also continue Dad's Army and The Man In the Brown Suit plus a lengthy discussion of the Battle of Cophenhagen.
Jul 28, 2014•3 hr 24 min
Brunch With The Brits 309 The Anger of Poseidon
This week we'll begin with Episode 2 of the Man in The Brown Suit completeing Chapter 6 and stopping in Chapter 11. We'll then have two episodes of Dad's Army, in The Big Gun a naval gun is donated to the Home Guard and in teh Big Parade the home guard unit tries to find a mascot to march in the big parade. We'll discuss the Irish rebellions of 1801 in This Sceptred Isle and continue with The King must Die. Enjoy
Jul 14, 2014•3 hr 25 min
Brunch With The Brits 308 The Labyrinth
Yes we begin another bed time series with Agatha Christie's The Man in the Brown Suit bringing us ever closer to that next Poirot dramatization. We also have two episodes of Dad's Army and we conclude with what David Hartinge calls "brilliant." The King must Die. Enjoy.
Jul 06, 2014•3 hr 23 min
Brunch With The Brits 307 The King Must Die Parts 3 and 4
We'll also have one episode of Sceptred Isle but enjoy this kingly catch up. Strong language and brief suggestive dialogue
Jun 30, 2014•2 hr 9 min
Brunch With The Brits 306 Dad's Army Catch Up Show
Matt has been working on a long project from work. Here are four dad's army episodes from Series 3 catching us up with that series. King Must Die fans you get yours next episode.
Jun 30, 2014•1 hr 58 min
Brunch With The Brits 305 Smith In The City Concluded
Yes sometimes work gets in the way of these fine shows. So on Sunday June 29 Matt sat down and recorded some shows.. In this one we'll conclude PG Woodhouse's Smith In The City. King Must Die fans will look for 307 enjoy
Jun 30, 2014•1 hr 55 min
Brunch With The Brits 304 King For A Year
This week it's more from Dad's Army Sceptred Isle The King Must Die and Smith In The City. We start with Smith in the City move in to Dad's army leaarn about the beginnings of the French Revolution and continue the King mMust Die. Enjoy
Jun 30, 2014•2 hr 41 min
Brunch With The Brits 303 The Touchstone Of The God
This week we begin the story of Theseus as never told before. It's Part one of an eleven part epic called The King must Die. We also return to Warmington On Sea for an hour of Dad's Army and continue our reading of Smith In The City. We also discuss the French Revolution and Tom Paine's Rights of Man. Enjoy
Jun 06, 2014•3 hr 9 min
The Long Goodbye
This week we continue Smith In The City plus we'll begin to learn of the Madness of King George. Our feature of course is the Long Goodbye a Philip Marlow novel writeen by raymond Chandler dramatized by Bill Morrison and starring Ed Bishop. Enjoy
May 26, 2014•2 hr 41 min
Brunch With The Brits 301 A Part One of Smith In The City
So there I was relaxing this morning coffee on one hand bagel on the other bloody Mary Somewhere between the twain and going through brunch and no wonder 301 is so short. You're missing Smith In The City Part 1. Here it is and please enjoy read by Jonathan Cecil. Again the spirit of Lingard is with us in the voice of Smith. Enjoy this then go back and listen to 301 His Last Bow. You'll be glad you did.
May 26, 2014•29 min
Brunch With The Brits 301 His Last Bow
However for those of you who can't get enough of Smith fear not as we'll begin Smith In The City. It's not John Lingard but Jonathan Cecil this time. It's almost as if the two are walking in one shadow. Also we'll look at the Irish victims of the American Revolution. Enjoy.
May 18, 2014•1 hr 34 min
Brunch With The Brits 300 The Devvil's Foot
No emotions no frills just good old brunchy fun as we listen to an awesome Navy Lark and the best Sherlock Holmes in the Bert Cools collection. Enjoye
May 09, 2014•3 hr 23 min
Brunch With The Brits 299 The Dissappearance of Lady Frances Caarfax
This week Matt talks about his trip to Westfest and his meeting with Michelle from disneydreamgirls.com no worries Maria was there as well. But we do have a show a full show in fact as we listen to three more episodes of Navy Lark, follow that up with a look at Yorktown and finish off with Sherlock Holmes and Mike and Smith. Enjoy.
May 03, 2014•3 hr 50 min
Brunch With The Brits 298 Matt Cox Talks Part II
The last time we did this was way back on 210. Well this time we have the meg space and I thought I'd give you a bonus episode of some feedback in which daavid Hartinge and Rudy Lowing's questions are answered a question is posed to you the listeners and we'll listen to chapter 22 of Mike and P Smith ... mainly concerning shoes. Enjoy.
Apr 30, 2014•33 min
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