Brunch With The Brits

531 Farewell For The Forseeable Future

29 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

530 the great relaunch

29 Aug 2022

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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 wh...

529 Farewell To Narnia

20 Aug 2022

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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...

528 the last battle

16 Jan 2022

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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 fas...

527 the silver chair part 2

19 Dec 2021

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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.  Pl...

526 the silver chair part 1

18 Aug 2021

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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 ...

525 death of a salesman

31 Jul 2021

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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...

524 harpo goes to leningrad

10 Jul 2021

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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...

523 cat on a hot tin roof

03 Jul 2021

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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 en...

522 dawn treader concludes

27 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 Ma...

521 the voyage of the dawntreader begins

19 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 honey...

520 prince caspian concludes

07 Jun 2021

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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 ha...

519 05 29 2021 prince caspian begins

29 May 2021

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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'l...

518 05 22 21 the horse and his boy concluded

22 May 2021

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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 ...

517 705 15 21 narnia again yay

15 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 Imp...

516 05 08 2021 the return of the prunes and prince philips war years

08 May 2021

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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 hi...

515 of cops frigates and disney

07 May 2021

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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.  ...

514 of lions witches and left hands down a bit

24 Apr 2021

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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 ...

513 Lions Witches Grunge And Promotion A True Brunch hodgepodge

19 Apr 2021

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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 gr...

512 a birthday show for eric troup

11 Apr 2021

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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 li...

511 Narnia Begins

03 Apr 2021

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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 ...

510 ode20to20the20falklands20war

28 Mar 2021

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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 ...

509 farewell to barcester for now

27 Mar 2021

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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 prepar...

508 of curates debtors and sin of all sorts

20 Mar 2021

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

507 matt goes racing with royalty

10 Mar 2021

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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 Bra...

506 barcester returneth

02 Mar 2021

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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 ...

505 lets make our way to barcester

20 Feb 2021

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

504 The Prissoner Of Zenda

20 Feb 2021

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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 nev...

503 vampires from sussex

07 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Shorter episode this week as we're replacing archival episodes.  This week we continue our Cosmic Quest and learn about broadcasts from the cosmos. ...

502 conclussion of mort

31 Jan 2021

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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 t...

501 name that tune

24 Jan 2021

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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....

500 A Milestone Episode

17 Jan 2021

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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 ...

499 We discover a Casebook and other Escapist stuff

10 Jan 2021

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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 Wa...

498 the package

24 Dec 2020

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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 S...

497 The Box

20 Dec 2020

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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...

496 A Very Brunchy Holiday 3 The Paper

20 Dec 2020

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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...

495 The Ribbon

13 Dec 2020

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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 sixtee...

494-a-very-brunchy-holiday-1-the bow

28 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 Na...

493 ode to Galileo

22 Nov 2020

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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 swee...

492

15 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

491

07 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

490

31 Oct 2020

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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.  ...

489

25 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

488

18 Oct 2020

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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 an...

487

18 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

486

17 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 of...

485 Bad Coach Stories Abound

04 Oct 2020

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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.  ...

484

27 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 Ports...

483

19 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

482 September 4 2020

13 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 brunc...

481 August 29 2020

06 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 storie...

480

29 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ca...

479

22 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 l...

478 Augusgt 8 2020

19 Aug 2020

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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 pru...

477

08 Aug 2020

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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 Po...

476 July 25 2020

05 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

475 July 18 2020

18 Jul 2020

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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 fr...

474 July 11 2020

12 Jul 2020

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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 o...

473 July 3 2020

04 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ac...

472 June 27 2020

27 Jun 2020

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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 spitfir...

471 June 20 2020

20 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week's play deals also with mental illness, in a lighter sort of way as we look at the quirky antics of Dame Margaret Rutherford, in the mid 1950...

470 June 13 2020

20 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I don't pretend to be a mental health expert, but this week's play does deal with mental illness.  We'll be looking at Hearing Voices, which describe...

BWTB 469 June 6 2020

07 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week we begin the third series of The Embassy Lark from March 5 of 1968 with the episode The King's New Hostess.  We then have I'm Sorry I'll Re...

468 May 30 2020

30 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we finish jFatherland, Navy Lark, for the time being and we return to a galaxy far far away.  You also hear that some of the host's favori...

466 Memorial Day Brunch

22 May 2020

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So after our mammoth three and a half hour brunch last week, this one's only two hours.  We've got Navy Lark, we've got a new documentary, we continu...

466 A Long Overdue Interview

14 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

If you remember the glory days of Brunch With The Brits, glory daays which one daay may return due to this quaranteen, you may remember back in the da...

465 May 9 2020

09 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This time on Brunch With The Brits, we continue Navy Lark and see what happens when the chief decides to enter Johnson in a manpowered flying contest....

464 A Mystery Set In An Alternat4e universe

06 May 2020

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Just how would things be different, if Germany had won the second world war? We'll be going inside a fictional Fatherland as we begin Fatherland by Ro...

BWTB 463 May 2 2020 Gaudy Night Concluded

02 May 2020

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This week we conclude Gaudy Night, also have Navy Lark, I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and we'll look at Weber in The Making Of Music.

462 April 30 2020

30 Apr 2020

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This week, we answer mail from Daavid, Jim and John, along with our regular offerings.  We listen to Navy Lark from October 1 1967 entitled Buging Bu...

461 April 26 2020 Almost lost this

27 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week we almost lost the episode.  I'm thrilled to write that dropbox stores files so thank God for them.  Anyhow we've added a new series of I'...

460 Brunch in quarantine

22 Apr 2020

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We've returned.  With everything crazy going on about you in the world, we thought some good old fashioned brunch was just the thing you needed.  We...

459 A Long Expected Comeback

17 Nov 2019

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We ... have finally returned and while the show isn't as long right now as you've come to expect in the past we hope that with a few shorter shows as ...

458 An Episode In Hammer

29 Jul 2019

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We're making a return.  Yes we're back for the present.  This week as I'm frantically searching for stuff to play ... more on that next week I promi...

Farewell For The Present But Not Forever

02 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This is not a numbered episode but it is a brief episode to explain our absence and also to explain that our absence is going to be a lot lengthier. ...

457 The Christmas decorations are Out

10 Dec 2018

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This week we listen to The Holly and The Ivy from 1971.  We'll also have one episode of Navy Lark and we hope you enjoy.

456 Pining For Test Match Special

19 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week's it's Back to the Saint with our final Saint Radio play entitled The Saint Closes the Case from September of 1995.  We will also examine m...

455 The Demonic Laugh Is Upon Us

15 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Shakespeare once said, "If music be the food of love play on," and if you love music, you'll love what we have this week.  First some good news.  I'...

454 Tribute To The Saint Part 2

01 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

               As we begin our 454th get together, we begin going through the request vault.  While it is dusty and sadly not used eno...

453 Tribute to The Saint Part 1

23 Sep 2018

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This week we begin a tribute to one of this host's favorite heroes of all time.  Many of you will remember Roger Moore in the iconic role.  Over the...

452 We're Back

16 Sep 2018

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This week we've returned after a long absence most of which is explained.  We conclude the Nine Tailors plus give you some Navy Lark and leaarn about...

451 Darn That World Cup

03 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

For Starters it's great hearing Ian Wright on Fox but in case you've been under a riock the World Cup is going on and that's why I've been absent.  W...

450 On This Historic Day

12 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

They signed documents ... I produced a podcast and I'm not gonna lie it's really butifull you're going to love it.  We've got Peter Whimsay ... Eric ...

449 You Stay Off of My Bach and I'll Stay Off of Yours

04 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

You know we're about to hit 450 but let's enjoy 449 first.  We'll start with the prunes in which we'll finally get to the dungeons of the cruel Calip...

448 A Double Dose of Prunes Aboard Troutbridge

27 May 2018

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Yes Troutbridge is back plus we'llalso have more from the nine tailors and hear Matt's chat about the FA cup and how and why he missed the one and onl...

447 An Interview with Follette among the Green and Leafys of Fenchurch St Paul

13 May 2018

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This week we celebrate our host's 45th with a plethra of stuff.  We'll conclude the Embassy Lark, continue with more of the Flying Wombat learn about...

446 Flooded Cellars Violins and Lord Peter

06 May 2018

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This week Lord Peter returns along with a flooded british embassy, and we learn about PG Woodhouse's never discussed Broadway careerLord

445 Why I Wasn't At Westfest

29 Apr 2018

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The host really does apologize for not being at the dpn West Fest this year but all is explained in the beginning.  Plus we have a show.  Not as ful...

444 Home From Austin

23 Apr 2018

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This week we have a shorter show due to the end of the Norman Way and with yours truly just getting home and with yours truly and his producer needing...

443 Brunch From Lincolnshire Part 2

15 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

To true Brunch listeners John Lingard needs no introduction.  However if your new to the show or you like reaading things about other people we're go...

442 Final Program ... Before Vacation

07 Apr 2018

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This week we conclude the Norman Way.  We'll also be learning about music in Venice in the sixteenth century and laughing with our usual prune crew. ...

441 Better Microphone Days Ahead

03 Apr 2018

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The title says it all as the host has new mike equipment.  However in the words of the great Jim Keltner ladies and gentlemen we have a show to do an...

440 Of Black Holes stuffed with Prunes and Oil

26 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week we begin the next series of I'm Sorry I'll Reaad That AGain Hey you get to hear John Otto Klese sing a Farrit song and see the beginnings of...

439 A Club A Paramour and a Deceased Sun

26 Mar 2018

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This week we conclude the Mausoleum Club continnue Eaarsearch and enjoy some paramouric adventures between the british first secretary in Tratvia and ...

438 Traffic Problems in Tratvia Make Very Bad Idols

12 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week we again start with the Mausoleum Club.  Will Mr. Green at last be admitted?  We then turn to our music documentary and hear about music i...

437 Spoilt Children Transcending Time and Space

28 Feb 2018

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This week on Brunch we deal with children.  Bratty spoiled children.  Throw in an Ambassador whom we'll wonder if his birthday gets recognized and s...

436 Of Clubs and Ships and econimic Hardship

20 Feb 2018

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This week we're off in to the dank world of London oh around the 1890s or there abouts as we hear the story of A Study in Starlets.  We then move in ...

435 Tea Crisis Resolved

11 Feb 2018

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This week Matt describes a tea crisis and why he's switching almost full time to tea.  But we also have tons of shows starting with Mausoleum Club an...

434 Larking Through Murder And Tea

03 Feb 2018

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This week we start with a vissit to the Mausoleum Club where we hear the story of The Inaudible Man.  We then go back to Tratvia and revissit the har...

433 Seasonal Cider

29 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I have to admit the John Lingard interview was recorded in December and was meant to be aired in December.  YOu should know why it wasn't if you've b...