Brunch With The Brits

This week in honor of Armistice day we begin The Cruel Sea.  By Nicholas Monserat.  BBC did it in six parts ... we're doing it in two.  We also have our weekly Hercule Poirot mystery this week it's "The Case Of The Missing Will," and we're back in Paris with Harry Lime from Nov 9 of 1951 the title this time art is Long but Lime is Fleeting.  Enjoy.  To email the swhow please do so at brunch@london.com follow us at facebook and on twitter at bwtbrits.twitter.com  enjoy.

Yes this week we finish our Halloween fun.  Hercule Poirot has a ghost story of his own in The Tragedy at Marsden Manor and HarryLime is down in Mexico for a Mexican Hat tTrick from Nov 2 1951.  We then finish The Hound of The Baskervilles.  Just who is for and against Sir Henry ocupying Baskerville Hall?  Only Doctor JWatson and Sherlock Holmes know the answer.  Plus a look at nexgt week's show.  For those of you who are new to Brunch in honor of those who served I like to play a British war drama in November.  Enjoy.  Email the sho at brunch@london.com follow us on twitter at bwtbrits.twitter.com and join a lively discussion group on facebook.  Enjoy.

Not wishing to give to much away we'll start with Hercule Poirot again in a tale in which Poirot rescues the English Prime minister.  Then it's off to Paris again with Harry Lime in Every Frame Has a Silver Lining.  Finally Part 1 of a truly awesome Halloween story.  Enjoy.  Email the show at brunch@london.com thanks

This week we almost didn't get on the air due to our lengthy show on Wednesday.  We only have one show as we're waiting for more megspace.  And it's Harry Lime from 10/19/51  he's in Bordeaux this time in a counterfeit racket.  Please enjoy.  Email the show at brunch@london.com follow us on twitter and follow us on facebook with more megs comes more stuff we promise so hang in there.  Matt and Maria

I love feedback.  Possitive negative no exception it's important when feedback gets answered.  This go round Matt Cox spends thirty minutes answering a listener's valued feedback.  If you have coments please email the show at brunch@london.com or join us on facebook.  And thanks for the feedback.  Then Poirot is off to investigate a mysterious San Francisco diamond.  and its "dissappearance"  enjoy.

Poirot is back in our Brunch at Bedtime segment with The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman.  This time a mysterious phone call lures Poirot over to Regents Court.  Then we're off to wonderful Hong Kong with Harry Lime.  Well actually we're halfway around the world as we listen to The Golden Fleece from 10/12/51's episode.  Enjoy.  Email the show at brunch@london.com follow us on facebook and twitter.  enjoy.

Welcome to Brunch At Bedtime an occasional series of yes you guessed it spoken word audio and we continue Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie.  This time Hastings and Hercule are off to Brighton.  Just who stole the pearls?  It wasn't the butler this was a hotel after all.  Also this week Julie Anne Watson of Perth Australia joins us to discuss her involvement with the JDRF walk there.  Go to www.jdrf.org.au for more info.  Thanks and enjoy and we'll see you Friday. actually Saturday.

You might think that Hercule Poirot is the only thing you'll hear on Brunch this week but oh ye of little faith we have so much more.  We'll start with Hercule yes but after that we'll listen to Lory Lee's Long Sleep, a documentary about the author of Cider With Rosie.  Then we'll conclude Dad's Army with Sons Of The Sea and end with Harry Lime and Operation Music Box.  Lots to enjoy.  This is the last week for Choc Walk donations for myself or PDM  go to http://www.chocwalk.net/mattcox or http://www.chocwalk.net/mariacastaneda for more or to donate.  http://www.chocwalk.net/mattcox  and to email the show go to brunch@london.com find us on facebook or on twitter as well.

We continue The Looking Glass Wars by John Lacarre.  But we also have Dad's Army in which there is "No Spring For Frazier," Harry Lime investigates Works of Art and for Dave Bales we conclude another series of This Sceptred Isle.  Plus Eric Troup stops by with an email Andrew Kirby checks in and Matt Cox continues his diagtribe on Revolution.  Email the show at brunch@london.com  and as always enjoy.

This is not Lewis Carroll but rather the next George Smiley thriller from George La Care.  But before that we continue with This Sceptred Isle.  King William will die and soon be replaced by Queen Anne.  In Dad's Army we learn about the menace from the deep and Harry Lime takes a Trans Atlantic cruise in Rogues Holiday.  Plus Matt Cox goes off on the TV show Revolution and why being visually impaired ... he was disappointed.  It's not British but JJ Abrahams may want to listen.

This week we first learn about war in Europe on This Sceptred Isle.  Then in Dad's Army what happens when a great shock hits Captain Mannering?  Finally we conclude with Harry Lime in Saudi Arabia this week with Love Affair.  To support me in the walk for Childrens Hospital please go to http://www.chocwalk.net/mattcox  and email the show at brunch@london.com  enjoy.

We begin with This Sceptred Isle and the Battle of the Boyne.  Then in Dad's ARmy we'll listen to The Bullet Must Not be Fired.  We'll conclude with Harry Lime and The Bohemian Star.  Just what is our favorite con artist doing in London?  Enjoy and as always email the show at brunch@london.com

This week it's a real short episode with the Labor Day holiday in the United States.  However we do have Sceptred Isle as we learn about the Jacobites, in Dad's Army we find out what happens when the platoon have to learn to use a phone box in Sorry Wrong Number and Harry Lime is off to Haiti in Voodoo.  Enjoy and email us at brunch@london.com and join the group on facebook under Brunch With The Brits.  Have a great Labor Day if you're in the States.

As we've been going through season 1 of Dad's Army, I thought it'd be fun to look at a radio play that examines the friendship between John La Mesurer and Arthur Lowe.  So we'll listen to Dear Arthur Love John as our featured play this week.  But we also have Harry Lime with my favorite episode in the series so far ,"Ticket to Tangier," Dad's army entertains with The Lonliness of the Long Distance Walker," and we'll learn in this Sceptred Isle about life in the Kingdom of William and Mary.  Plus John Lingard wraps up his amazing Olympics report.  Enjoy and as always email the show at brunch@london.com follow us on twitter at twitter.com/bwtbrits and you can follow the open group on facebook.  For Brunch with The Brits.  Enjoy.

This week John Lingard returns home to the Lingard studios before continuing his holiday.  He presents a program he recorded while at his remote studios in Kent from where he vissited Olympic Park watched fencing his wife watched tennis and he stood six feet from Matt Lauer from Today.  But we also have a show to get too.  So we continue learning about William Of Orange and his return to war in This Sceptred Isle.  In Dad's Army we listen to The Showing Up of Lance Corporal Jones and we continue with The Lives of Harry Lime and the episode from August 17 1951.  Enjoy and send the show email at brunch@london.com follow us on facebook and twitter at bwtbrits.twitter.com and as always thanks for listening.

Okay so some of what we've played has been kind of dark lately I know so why not join us for this classic English tale as only PL Travers could write it and Juliet Stevenson could starr in it.  But first we have Harry Lime from August 10 of 1951 with See Naples and Live we continue our look at English history with a look at William Of Orange and we also have Dad's Army with Something Nasty In The Vault from April 15 of 1974.  Also Matt gives a full description of the the first ever brunch meet at Friends of The Magic 2012 at Disneyoland.  Enjoy and remember to email the show at brunch@london.com join our ever groing face book group at facebook.com/brunchwiththebrits or follow us on twitter at twitter.com/bwtbrits.

We begin the Harry Lime series with its first episode for BBC light.  From August 3 of 51 it's Too Many Crooks starring Orson Wells.  But we also have DAd's Army and the episode Under Fire and on This sceptred Isle we'll be studdying the 1688 revolution.  Enjoy and as always email us at brunch@london.com find us on twitter at bwtbrits.twitter.com and find us at facebook.com/brunch_with_the_brits.  enjoy.

Yes we revissit The Third Man Graham Green's thought provoking novel of postwar Vienna.  We also have This Sceptred Isle in which we meet Judge Jeffries and the home guard get their first taste of Battle School.  Btw don't forget the first ever bWTB meet at Disneyland.  Please vissit http://www.friendsofthemagic.com for details.  Contact

This week we'll conclude what Graham Green said was "the best spy novel ever written."  Also in Dad's Army this week what happens when the platoon get hoodwinked by another platoon.  We'll also learn about the Monmouth Rebellion in This Sceptred Isle.  Enjoy. 

This week we continue John La Care's famous novel dealing with the cold War.  We'll also look at A Stripe For Frazier in Dad's Army and look at This Sceptred Isle.  Enjoy.