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Brunch With The Brits

Do you enjoy radio drama? Not just enjoy but entice yourself withgood episodic serialization? Maybe you're someone from those fair isles across the pond who remembers clicking on the wireless to listen to such gems as Inspector West and Paul Temple. Or maybe you're a comedy person who might remember that "Whose Line," was a radio 4 production way before Drew Carrie discovered it. If you are then "Brunch With The Brits," is for you!! It's hosted by a gengtleman who takes pride in his radio collection so much so he wants to share it. And it started with a dream. Not the prophetic dream one has when one falls asleep but rather a vission. But we'll get to that later. Now let's meet the host. Matt Cox is from Garden Grove California. He's been married to his wife Heather since 2004. They have two cats two dogs and an indoor outdoor orange tabby named J. Yes the letter. J. The dogs are named Buster and Dozer. Dozer is a half German Shepherd half Rotweiler and makes frequent appearances on the program. In studio which moonlights as the Cox chamber live Twitch and Spaz. Spaz is jet black Twitch a rather talkative Siamese mix who might have an opinion or two. Matt and Heather have no children. In real life Matt is a sales agent for Marriott and works from home. Heather works for her Dad. Matt'ws interests when not on air or listening to future shows include Disney, fine food reading and travel. Blind since Birth he's always had an interest in radio drama. Matt grew up in southern California and it was a chance foot surgery with nothing to do but lie there that Matt discovered BBC. Matt had always been in to otr. More on that later. Matt's degree is in broadcast journalism from Bethany College in Lindsborg Kansas. He's never let his blindness stop him for after college he served honorably in the Peace Corps in Morocco before coming back and settling down. Now I know what you're all thinking. What's all this have to do with the show? We're getting to that. In 2006 Matt began joining Robert Acosta's http://www.radiooutofthepast.org discussion group on Thursday nights. It was there he met Fred Bertelsen 1942-2008. Fred one evening happened to be playing some BBC drama. And Matt had some fun flashbacks. He had relied on BBC heavily while in Morocco for news. But he hadn'theard drama for a long time not since KCRW before it went techno played BBC drama back in the 80s. Not that techno's bad. Mrs. Cox has quite aan electronica collection but a spark had been lit. Soon in 2007 Matt was hosting a program called Cruising The Classics which took classic literature and re interpreted it in the guise of old time radio. Could a BBC program be born? It's here for you to enjoy. There are two feeds. Brunch With The Brits is our weekly look at BBC drama comedy mystery science fiction music documentary and panel shows with Matt Cox. If you would like to hear the late jFred Bertelsen he's on shows 1 through 40. A tribute is on show 43 as Fred passed unfortunately due to brain liver and lung cancer. Brunch At Bedtime will be slightly different. Here Matt may feature an audio book he's reading some old radio or Heaven forbid share some in park audio from Disneyland. So how'd this show become a podcast? Matt had always dabbled with podcasting but didn't get serious until he started listening to http://www.windowtothemagic.com and The Disney Indiana podcast at http://www.disneyindiana.com. And then when the Mortis Matine kicked in at http://www.themortismatinee.com he knew he was hooked. One word of warning. As these shows are British some may deal with more adult subjects then others. Censorship laws are different in the UK then they are here. But please enjoy and if you have questions please email brunch@london.com watch for future voice mail.u.