Pex Lives: A Doctor Who Podcast
James Murphy and Kevin Burns are both Certified Minor Internet Personalities with a shared love of Doctor Who. Explore the history of the show with them, as they watch classic serials and chat with each other each month about them. Each month, the pair will pick a classic serial to watch and then break down, exploring the themes, characters and production of the given story. There will also be jokes. Sometimes they may barely mention the show. New episodes every month.
Peter Harness Interview

Legendary blogger Phil Sandifer, of www.philsandifer.com, talks to Peter Harness, the writer of series eight's Kill the Moon, about that episode and adapting Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell for the BBC. 

Direct download: sandifer_harness.mp3
Category:EruditorumPex -- posted at: 4:50pm UTC
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A Season Of Orson Welles

Gene and James discuss the original film work of Orson Welles in this, the year of his centenary. 

The programmed pictures are:

Citizen Kane (1941)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) 

The Stranger (1946)

The Lady From Shanghai (1947)

The Third Man (1949)

Mr Arkadin (1955)

Touch of Evil (1958)

The Trial (1962)

F For Fake (1973)

 

It's a long one. Don't feel obligated to listen all at once. Enjoy!

 

Gene writes about Arkadin here: http://beingandtimelord.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/the-dossier-found-in-saragossa.html

And F For Fake here

http://beingandtimelord.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/for-james-art.html

And a little more here

http://beingandtimelord.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/a-for-eigentlichkeit.html

Direct download: a_season_of_welles.mp3
Category:Film -- posted at: 12:19pm UTC
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24: The Terror of the Zygons, or, You can’t rule a world in hiding.

Kevin and James spend the first half of this month's episode talking about American fascist comic creator, Frank Miller, and the second half considering the classic Caledonian serial, Terror of the Zygons. 

We're Pex Lives and we do this. 

Writer Robert Banks Stewart
Director Douglas Camfield
Script editor Robert Holmes
Producer Philip Hinchcliffe
Direct download: terror_of_zygons.mp3
Category:Fourth Doctor -- posted at: 2:11pm UTC
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City of the Dead - 03: Just For Fun

Holly and James talk about the 1963's Just For Fun. They don't like it, but this is some good listening. 

Direct download: Amicast_03_Just_For_Fun.mp3
Category:City of the Dead -- posted at: 7:03pm UTC
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