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.

Christine and Kit are joined by James Slater-Murphy to talk about the horribly anti-Japanese You Only Live Twice.

Direct download: YOLTFINAL-1.mp3
Category:TV -- posted at: 5:00am UTC
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Kevin, James and Jack get wet. 

Direct download: underwater_menace.mp3
Category:Second Doctor -- posted at: 1:51pm UTC
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The year of Pex Lives continues! This month: Resurrection of the Daleks. 

Direct download: resurrection_of_the_daleks.mp3
Category:Fifth Doctor -- posted at: 7:00am UTC
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Kevin and James shoot the breeze and talk about the third Dr. Who serial. 

Direct download: edge_of_destruction.mp3
Category:First Doctor -- posted at: 11:19am UTC
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Here is the next part of the loooong discussion between myself, Jack Graham, and the excellent Holly Boson (@fireh9lly) in which Holly explains Final Fantasy VII to me, a total novice, in pitiless detail.

In this episode we delve into the history and politics of sequels and remakes, and fandom as a way of constructing the self.

Content warnings apply because some potentially troubling issues are mentioned.

Part 4 will be posted in advance of publication for my Patreon backers. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true

 

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Kevin and James talk current events and then gush about a great serial.

Direct download: morbius.mp3
Category:Fourth Doctor -- posted at: 9:41pm UTC
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Here is the next part of the loooong discussion between myself, Jack Graham, and the excellent Holly Boson (@fireh9lly) in which Holly explains Final Fantasy VII to me, a total novice, in pitiless detail.

This episodes moves on from preparatory context to the basics of the game and its history, Holly's textual approach to the game, and such subjects as Cloud Strife, fandom, shipping, etc.

Content warnings apply from this point on because some potentially troubling issues are mentioned.

Part 3 will be posted in advance of publication for my Patreon backers. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true

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The first part of a new, multi-part Shabcast in which my brilliant friend, writer and podcaster Holly Boson (@fireh9lly), takes me on a journey into a realm of which I was previously entirely ignorant, the complex labyrinth that is the Final Fantasy series of video games, especially Final Fantasy VII.  

This first episode is an hour long and is just the preparatory context she needed to give me to set me up for the actual trip.  

My Patreon backers got advance access to this and already have advance access to Part 2.  Consider pledging me a dollar a month here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true
 
IDSG Ep76, on D.W. Griffith's three-hour silent epic of hate Birth of a Nation, will be up soon.  Hopefully tomorrow.
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It's called Survival - and only the strong can survive

Direct download: pex_lives_survival.mp3
Category:Seventh Doctor -- posted at: 8:00pm UTC
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The Pex Lives lads have returned after tragically losing an episode. They chat elections (you know, Solihull's by-election, the recent gains made by Plaid Cymru) and lockdowns and the worst (?) serial of Doctor Who, which James picked cos he fancied some Troughton and did no further research.

Direct download: dominators_sub.mp3
Category:Second Doctor -- posted at: 3:42pm UTC
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