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 brunchwiththebrits@gmail.com
Jan 24, 2021•2 hr 40 min•Ep. 501
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.
Jan 17, 2021•2 hr 44 min
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 brunchwiththebrits@gmail.com also Sherlock Holmes returns and we start Mort thank you Julie Anne.
Jan 10, 2021•2 hr 28 min•Ep. 499
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.
Dec 24, 2020•4 hr 12 min•Ep. 498
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.
Dec 20, 2020•2 hr 45 min•Ep. 497
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 wi...
Dec 20, 2020•2 hr 49 min•Ep. 496
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.
Dec 13, 2020•3 hr 30 min•Ep. 495
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.
Nov 28, 2020•2 hr 16 min•Ep. 494
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 Be...
Nov 22, 2020•3 hr 31 min•Ep. 493
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.
Nov 15, 2020•3 hr 14 min•Ep. 492
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.
Nov 07, 2020•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 491
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 ...
Oct 31, 2020•3 hr 18 min•Ep. 490
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.
Oct 25, 2020•2 hr 27 min•Ep. 489
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.
Oct 18, 2020•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 488
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.
Oct 18, 2020•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 487
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.
Oct 17, 2020•2 hr 6 min•Ep. 486
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 en...
Oct 04, 2020•2 hr 8 min•Ep. 485
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.
Sep 27, 2020•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 484
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.
Sep 19, 2020•1 hr 50 min
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.
Sep 13, 2020•2 hr 38 min•Ep. 482
Ok you want involvement? You got it. At the hour and fifty eight minute mark of the podcast this week I ask you to tell me your worst coach stories. This is because this week on I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again during Operation Chocolate we listen to John Klese's tour guide impression which he made famous on Flying Circus. So bring forth your worst and PDM says your best tour coach stories from anywhere in the world. email brunchwiththebrits@gmail.com or send audio to producerdirectormaria@gmail.c...
Sep 06, 2020•2 hr 34 min•Ep. 481
This week the british embassy in Tratvia leaarns what it means to do it yourself. Plus it is off to the ancient kingdom of Ethiopa. Our Rumpole case this week involves the dearly departed and as always we ahave our prunes. Enjoy.
Aug 29, 2020•2 hr 31 min
This week we begin to disect the lost kingdoms of Africa with a look at Nubia. We also learn how Mr. Pettigrew joined the foreign office and those loveable prunes take us to ten thousand BC. But most importantly we meet Horace Rumpole and she who must be obeyed as we listen to Rumpole and the Confession Of Guilt. Dedicated to Fred Bertelsen who would have had a birthday this week. Enjoy.
Aug 22, 2020•2 hr 32 min•Ep. 479
This week Sir Jeremy seems to have difficulty planning a party. Also we'll conclude our mocumentary as Podmore preps for the summer ashes. The prunes deal with making fun of Victorian melodrama and our play deals with a matter near and dear to my heart as the heroine has cerebral palsy. Please enjoy. Also major teasers for nexgt time.
Aug 19, 2020•2 hr 21 min•Ep. 478
This week, it's off to hte highlands of England's friendly neighbor to the north, as we listen to a play called The Apple Tree. We also learn how Pod handles a tour of the subcontinent, that's cricket for those keeping score and we learn about the Vikings again in I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and why does the King always show up when Sir Jeremy needs a nip of brandy? Enjoy. I did.
Aug 08, 2020•2 hr 20 min•Ep. 477
This is late, I realize that. This week our play is All My Sons by Arthur Miller. We also have lots of fun with Pod and our prune collection. No Embassy Lark this week due to the length of this week's play. Enjoy.
Aug 05, 2020•2 hr 29 min•Ep. 476
This week we continue with BBC plays about America or written by Americans with a nod to my favorite play of all time. Thornton Wilder's Our Town from 1946. After the seriousness of our last documentary we presennt a mocumentary with our friend former England cricket player Dave Podmore and we begin Series 6 of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and one of Troutbridge's own drops in to the tratvian Embassy. Plus lots of laughter from Matt and pdm. So please enjoy this episode of Brunch With The brit...
Jul 18, 2020•3 hr 10 min
This week's play is jusgt fun. It's called The Big Broadcast and it takes place agt a Chicago radio station in 1932. We also conclude the summer of 1940 with a look at the Home Guard nd in the British Embassy in Tratvia the king is presented a gift, that keeps breaking. Our current prune series ends with an ode to desert. Enjoy.
Jul 12, 2020•2 hr 47 min
Happy Independence Day to those who celebrate and happy Canada Day to those who celebrated. For the rest of you hey the premier league is back in action tomorrow. In any case we have a new show and it doesn't fail to dissapoint in which we start with Embassy Lark and learn about how the king knows what's going on in the British embassy in Tratvia, we move on to the Summer of 1940 and get a better look at the blitz, in I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again it's a parody of Ulyses and to conclude our fir...
Jul 04, 2020•3 hr 16 min•Ep. 473
This week our play deals with bird watching, literally, the prunes make fun of Jeeves we learn about the British fighter pilot yes you'll hear spitfires in action and when a certain British embassy abroad loses a flagpole you'll hear how they deaal with it. Also the host talks football, whether he likes fake crowd noise etc. Enjoy and pleaase contact the show at brunchwiththebrits@gmail.com
Jun 27, 2020•2 hr 52 min
