If you have Gladiator flashbacks this week I completely understand.  We're hearing about Marcus Aurelius.  We'll also take a trip to Callais with our Naval draft play a round of My Music and learn all about the Vikings.  Enjoy.

In this week's Caesar we'll meet Hadrian.  Plus we'll check in on the Admiral who is celebrating fifty years of service.  Matt Cox also gives a brief nod to the passing of Fez Parker and we'll hear all about Saxon England and play a bit of Strauss with the My Music team.

How would it be if you had to go to sea hung over?  Why did rome really burn?  And just how will our pannel do while Steve Race plays the piano as they pretend to direct silent films?  All this week on BWTB.

What in the heck is Farmville?  We begin this week's Brunch by asking that question.  Then we get serious with the programming.  We start with This Sceptred Isle and meet St. Augustine.  How does Captain Stanton do on a cross country run?  How does Claudius become a god?  And we'll play My Music with some work from Faust amongst others.  Enjoy

This week we'll play Robert Graves I Claudius plus we'll learn what happens when Mr. Phillips takes control of Troutbridge.  And just who are the English?

King Arthur!  Who was he?  Okay I have to admit as I write this intro I still se Mad Mad Mad Madam Mimm somewhere in my shade of mind.  But we're in our new studio and we'll begin this week by meeting King Arthur ... really then we'll see how Johnson does with his new diet in Navy Lark.  The pannel is back for musical mayhem and David Tennant starrs as Caligula.  Enjoy.

I want to begin by saying that Sherlock Holmes will be back this is just the last in the current series.  So please enjoy "The Copper Beeches."  We'll also play a round of My Music see what happens when Pertwee gets posted.  In This Sceptred Isle we'll begin studdying the Dark AGes.  Please Enjoy.

I thought after we finish Sherlock HOlmes we'd continue learning about the lives of the Caesars after all Sparticus is being redone ... well anyway a listener suggested I rerun the first three so Eric for you we'll start with "The Meeting at Formei with Anton Lessing as Cicero.  We'll then move in to "This Sceptred Isle," in which we'll learn about Roman life in Britain.  And get in to the beginning of The DarkAges.  Those who want to learn more about the Dark Ages may I suggest a series of lectures from The Teaching Company about the early Middle Ages presented by Dr. Phillip Dileeder Chair of the History dDepartment at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg Virginia.  More at http://www.theteachingcompany.com ofr there's always google.  With the Navy Lark we'll listen to "The lighthouse Lark," and with the rain we're having in California I think you'll enjoy it.  We'll hear an episode of My Music and end with Sherlock Holmes solving The Barrel Coronegt.  Please enjoy this exgtended Brunch.

This week I give the answer to the theme question.  We also find out about seventeen years of Roman ocupation and Budica's bloody revolt.  Then we learn about a crisp romance with our Naval friends.  On My Music you'll hear exerpts from The pPlanets and sing some musical show tunes.  We'll end with Sherlock Holmes.  A young society bride winds up missing and her weddin dress winds up in the Serpentine.  Please enjoy.

This episode tells us what happens when Claudius vissits Britain.  We'll then revissit old friends Jean and LIonel.  After that we'll play another round of My Music and pay close attention for a clue on the Brunch theme.  We'll also talk about Dennis Norden and Frank Muir.  We end with "The Engineer's Thumb," by Sir ARthur Conan Doyle.