diff --git a/tractor/_live_from_tokio.py b/tractor/_live_from_tokio.py
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+'''
+``tokio`` style broadcast channels.
+
+'''
+from __future__ import annotations
+# from math import inf
+from itertools import cycle
+from collections import deque
+from contextlib import contextmanager  # , asynccontextmanager
+from functools import partial
+from typing import Optional
+
+import trio
+import tractor
+from trio.lowlevel import current_task
+from trio.abc import ReceiveChannel  # , SendChannel
+# from trio._core import enable_ki_protection
+from trio._core._run import Task
+from trio._channel import (
+    MemorySendChannel,
+    MemoryReceiveChannel,
+    # MemoryChannelState,
+)
+
+
+class Lagged(trio.TooSlowError):
+    '''Subscribed consumer task was too slow'''
+
+
+class BroadcastReceiver(ReceiveChannel):
+    '''This isn't Paris, not Berlin, nor Honk Kong..
+
+    '''
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        rx_chan: MemoryReceiveChannel,
+        buffer_size: int = 100,
+
+    ) -> None:
+
+        self._rx = rx_chan
+        self._len = buffer_size
+        self._queue = deque(maxlen=buffer_size)
+        self._subs = {id(current_task()): -1}
+        self._value_received: Optional[trio.Event] = None
+
+    async def receive(self):
+
+        task: Task
+        task = current_task()
+
+        # check that task does not already have a value it can receive
+        # immediately and/or that it has lagged.
+        key = id(task)
+        # print(key)
+        try:
+            seq = self._subs[key]
+        except KeyError:
+            self._subs.pop(key)
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                f'Task {task.name} is not registerd as subscriber')
+
+        if seq > -1:
+            # get the oldest value we haven't received immediately
+
+            try:
+                value = self._queue[seq]
+            except IndexError:
+                raise Lagged(f'Task {task.name} was overrun')
+
+            self._subs[key] -= 1
+            return value
+
+        if self._value_received is None:
+            # we already have the latest value **and** are the first
+            # task to begin waiting for a new one
+
+            # sanity checks with underlying chan ?
+            # assert not self._rx._state.data
+
+            event = self._value_received = trio.Event()
+            value = await self._rx.receive()
+
+            # items with lower indices are "newer"
+            self._queue.appendleft(value)
+
+            # broadcast new value to all subscribers by increasing
+            # all sequence numbers that will point in the queue to
+            # their latest available value.
+            for sub_key, seq in self._subs.items():
+
+                if key == sub_key:
+                    # we don't need to increase **this** task's
+                    # sequence number since we just consumed the latest
+                    # value
+                    continue
+
+                # # except TypeError:
+                # #     # already lagged
+                # #     seq = Lagged
+
+                self._subs[sub_key] += 1
+
+            self._value_received = None
+            event.set()
+            return value
+
+        else:
+            await self._value_received.wait()
+
+            seq = self._subs[key]
+            assert seq > -1, 'Uhhhh'
+
+            self._subs[key] -= 1
+            return self._queue[0]
+
+    # @asynccontextmanager
+    @contextmanager
+    def subscribe(
+        self,
+
+    ) -> BroadcastReceiver:
+        key = id(current_task())
+        self._subs[key] = -1
+        try:
+            yield self
+        finally:
+            self._subs.pop(key)
+
+    async def aclose(self) -> None:
+        # TODO: wtf should we do here?
+        # if we're the last sub to close then close
+        # the underlying rx channel
+        pass
+
+
+def broadcast_channel(
+
+    max_buffer_size: int,
+
+) -> (MemorySendChannel, BroadcastReceiver):
+
+    tx, rx = trio.open_memory_channel(max_buffer_size)
+    return tx, BroadcastReceiver(rx)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+
+    async def main():
+
+        async with tractor.open_root_actor(
+            debug_mode=True,
+            # loglevel='info',
+        ):
+
+            tx, rx = broadcast_channel(100)
+
+            async def sub_and_print(
+                delay: float,
+            ) -> None:
+
+                task = current_task()
+                count = 0
+
+                while True:
+                    with rx.subscribe():
+                        try:
+                            async for value in rx:
+                                print(f'{task.name}: {value}')
+                                await trio.sleep(delay)
+                                count += 1
+
+                        except Lagged:
+                            print(
+                                f'restarting slow ass {task.name}'
+                                f'that bailed out on {count}:{value}')
+                            continue
+
+            async with trio.open_nursery() as n:
+                for i in range(1, 10):
+                    n.start_soon(
+                        partial(
+                            sub_and_print,
+                            delay=i*0.01,
+                        ),
+                        name=f'sub_{i}',
+                    )
+
+                async with tx:
+                    for i in cycle(range(1000)):
+                        print(f'sending: {i}')
+                        await tx.send(i)
+
+    trio.run(main)