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.

Phil Sandifer is joined by Andrew Ellard for a discussion of River Song, farce, and how we liked Doctor Who in 2015.

Direct download: DW_S9_Podcast_13.mp3
Category:Twelfth Doctor -- posted at: 3:21am UTC
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It's here! Get festive with the whole Eruditorum Press team as they bring you into a very Merry Christmas!

Direct download: Shabcast_14_-_The_Eruditorum_Press_Christmas_Party.mp3
Category:Shabcast -- posted at: 8:44pm UTC
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Kevin and James take time out from a rambunctious Christmas party to chat about Kevin's trip to London.

Direct download: kev.mp3
Category:Gallimaufrey -- posted at: 2:01pm UTC
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Phil Sandifer is joined by the legendary Kate Orman for this special extended finale (at least until Christmas) of the Series 9 podcasts.

Direct download: DW_S9_Podcast_12.mp3
Category:Twelfth Doctor -- posted at: 8:34pm UTC
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Phil Sandifer talks to Elliot Chapman about Heaven Sent and more.

Direct download: Eruditorum_Press_Season_9_Doctor_Who_6.mp3
Category:Twelfth Doctor -- posted at: 6:48pm UTC
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28: Black Orchid, or,  Why do I always let my curiosity get the better of me?

Kevin and James chat the new series, the horrible fucking state of the world, John Carpenter, and Black Orchid. 

Direct download: black_orchid_pex_lvies.mp3
Category:Fifth Doctor -- posted at: 6:25pm UTC
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Phil Sandifer talks to the fantastic Holly Boson about Face the Raven.

Direct download: DW_S9_Podcast_10.mp3
Category:Twelfth Doctor -- posted at: 4:51pm UTC
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Jack and Elliot chat all things Dracula.

Direct download: Shabcast_13_-_Live_from_the_Vampire_Castle.mp3
Category:Shabcast -- posted at: 6:42am UTC
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Phil Sandifer is joined by Mac Rogers to talk Sleep No More. 

Direct download: DW_S9_Podcast_9.mp3
Category:Twelfth Doctor -- posted at: 7:06am UTC
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27: The Invasion, or, I hate computers and refuse to be bullied by them.

In this stellar episode of Pex Lives, James and Kevin are joined by the very clever and lovely Elliot Chapman to talk the Invasion! 

Direct download: The_Invasion.mp3
Category:Second Doctor -- posted at: 8:00am UTC
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Phil Sandifer is joined by Gene Mayes of the brilliant Being and Time Lord blog to talk about The Zygon Inversion, men's clothing, and drone warfare.

The article Gene mentions within is at http://www.thedailybeast.com/features/2015/she-kills-people-from-7800-miles-away/index.html

Direct download: DW_S9_Podcast_8.mp3
Category:Twelfth Doctor -- posted at: 4:59pm UTC
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In a special double length edition, Phil Sandifer is joined by comics writer Al Ewing, writer of Titan Comics' Eleventh Doctor comic to discuss The Zygon Invasion, followed by an interview about Al's Doctor Who work and his current work on Marvel's All-New All-Different relaunch. The episode of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe that Al brings up can be found at .

Direct download: DW_S9_Podcast_7.mp3
Category:Twelfth Doctor -- posted at: 9:26pm UTC
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City of the Dead - 06: The Skull

Holly is joined by Jack Graham to talk about 1965's The Skull.

Direct download: Amicast_06_The_Skull.mp3
Category:City of the Dead -- posted at: 12:00am UTC
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Phil Sandifer is joined by Caitlin Smith, the world's foremost Clara expert, to talk about The Woman Who Lived and...

Direct download: DW_S9_Podcast_6.mp3
Category:Twelfth Doctor -- posted at: 7:19pm UTC
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Kevin Burns joins Phil Sandifer to talk The Girl Who Died, Game of Thrones, and no doubt some other interesting stuff I'm just completely forgetting about.

Direct download: Eruditorum_Press_Season_9_Doctor_Who.mp3
Category:Twelfth Doctor -- posted at: 8:55am UTC
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City of the Dead 05: Dr. Who & the Daleks

Holly & James talk to Phil Sandifer, Dalek Emperor of Eruditorum Press, about the adventures of a certain Doctor named Who.

Direct download: City_of_the_Dead_05__Dr._Who_.mp3
Category:City of the Dead -- posted at: 7:05am UTC
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Phil Sandifer & Anna discuss Before the Flood and much more.

Direct download: DW_S9_Podcast_4.mp3
Category:Twelfth Doctor -- posted at: 6:23am UTC
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26: The Chase, or, Say, you wouldn't be trying to have a bit of fun with me now, would you?

Crack yourself open a can of classic Pex Lives, with Kevin and James talking about the month long horror movie marathon that is their Halloween tradition, how they feel about the latest episodes (they don't), and the mind boggling serial from 1965, the Chase.

Direct download: the_chase_p1.mp3
Category:First Doctor -- posted at: 4:19pm UTC
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Phil Sandifer & James Murphy talk Under the Lake and much more.

Direct download: DW_S9_Podcast_3.mp3
Category:Twelfth Doctor -- posted at: 9:32pm UTC
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Jack, Holly, and Josh talk about #Freedom for Kesha

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Category:Shabcast -- posted at: 4:06pm UTC
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Phil Sandifer & Jane Campbell discuss The Witch's Familiar and much more.

 

Direct download: DW_S9_Podcast_2.mp3
Category:Twelfth Doctor -- posted at: 5:50am UTC
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City of the Dead - 04: Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

We still exist! And now we're at the watchable, good part of Amicus. James and Holly return triumphantly to talk about Dr. Terror's House of Horrors.

Direct download: Amicast_04_Dr_Terrors_House_of_Horrors.mp3
Category:City of the Dead -- posted at: 10:07am UTC
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25: Carnival of Monsters/Nightmare of Eden

Jane is back on Pex Lives! We kick things off with a chat about The Magician's Apprentice, the just-aired Peter Capaldi opener (which James seems to like more than anyone) then head into a combined fairground twister on Carnival of Monsters and Nightmare of Eden. 

Pex Lives is now proud to be a part of Eruditorum Press.

 Go to EruditorumPress.com

Direct download: magicians_carnival_of_eden.mp3
Category:Third Doctor -- posted at: 9:25am UTC
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Phil Sandifer & Jack Graham discuss The Magician's Apprentice and much more.

Direct download: DW_S9_Podcast_1.mp3
Category:Twelfth Doctor -- posted at: 9:52am UTC
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Here's Shabcast 11, featuring myself in conversation with Phil Sandifer.  This was recorded before Eruditorum Press went live, so events have overtaken it somewhat.  We discuss Doctor Who (before the start of Series 9), Susan, Gareth Roberts, Thomas Ligotti, God, Alan Moore, H.P. Lovecraft, Jimmy Saville, Frank Miller, Vox Day (because Phil just can't help himself), Hegel, Marxism, technological determinism, the Situationists, Engels, evolution, revolution, the Anthropocene extinction, Jonathan Jones, and the existential terrors of the Right.

But the main attractions of the podcast are our discussions of Hannibal (which had just ended when we taped), True Detective, and the life and crimes (artistic and otherwise) of John Nathan-Turner.  Chatting about Hannibal, we coin the term 'hannibalism', decide how to do Buffalo Bill in 2015, and come to the conclusion that Hannibal himself is a Miltonic Lucifer in a gnostic universe created by a deistic god and, possibly, Hannibal himself.  Be aware of spoilers and triggers (note the references above to Jimmy Saville and JN-T).
Direct download: Shabcast_11_-_Hannibalism_or_Hey_Kids_Lets_Talk_About_Hegel.mp3
Category:Shabcast -- posted at: 5:13pm UTC
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Shabcast 10: Gothic!

This time, I'm joined by the lovely and incredibly erudite Gene Mayes - of various Pex Lives appearances and his own excellent new blog Being and Time Lord - to chat about the Gothic.  We also focus specifically on the movie A Field in England, Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump's masterpiece of English Civil War-era madness, magic and mushrooms.  There be spoilers here, by the way.  We range pretty freely and get on to all sorts of other stuff including (but far from limited to) alchemy, John Dee, Hammer movies, Gothic novels, Marxism and Anarchism.  It's a long one (just over 3-hours, so feel free to listen in fits and starts) but I hope worth your time.  

Here's Gene's blog post about A Field in Englandhttp://beingandtimelord.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/building-dwelling-tripping.html

Direct download: Shabcast_10_-_Gothic.mp3
Category:Shabcast -- posted at: 10:12am UTC
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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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Shabcast 9b - Hatecasting With Holly, Part 2.


This month, the Shabogan Graffiti podcast is thrilled to play host to the wonderful Holly, of the City of the Dead podcast series (see the tabs on the left), and the Comfortable Bohemian Elegance blog, and loads of other good stuff.  In a twisted, Bizarro World version of Desert Island Discs, Holly and I indulge in a mammoth session (so long I had to split it into two files) of complaining about stuff we love to hate.  In Part 1, we both pick targets from classic Who and new Who.  In part 2, we select non-Who media to mercilessly lambast, and cap off the discussion by griping about personal pet hates.  It's a voyage into blind, unreasoning malcontentment - and it was great fun to record.  Hopefully you'll enjoy listening... even if you find us cruelly belittling stuff you love.  Holly - clearly a star in the making - is insightful, eloquent and funny all the way through.  As for me... well, you know you love it when I get angry and ranty.  (Oh, and WARNING!  There are some brief but potentially triggering references towards the end of Part 2.)

Direct download: Shabcast_9b_-_Hatecasting_with_Holly_Part_2.mp3
Category:Shabcast -- posted at: 5:24pm UTC
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Shabcast 9a - Hatecasting with Holly, Part 1

This month, the Shabogan Graffiti podcast is thrilled to play host to the wonderful Holly, of the City of the Dead podcast series (see the tabs on the left), and the Comfortable Bohemian Elegance blog, and loads of other good stuff.  In a twisted, Bizarro World version of Desert Island Discs, Holly and I indulge in a mammoth session (so long I had to split it into two files) of complaining about stuff we love to hate.  In Part 1, we both pick targets from classic Who and new Who.  In part 2, we select non-Who media to mercilessly lambast, and cap off the discussion by griping about personal pet hates.  It's a voyage into blind, unreasoning malcontentment - and it was great fun to record.  Hopefully you'll enjoy listening... even if you find us cruelly belittling stuff you love.  Holly - clearly a star in the making - is insightful, eloquent and funny all the way through.  As for me... well, you know you love it when I get angry and ranty.  (Oh, and WARNING!  There are some brief but potentially triggering references towards the end of Part 2.)

Direct download: Shabcast_9a_-_Hatecasting_with_Holly_Part_1_1.mp3
Category:Shabcast -- posted at: 7:34am UTC
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City of the Dead - 02: It's Trad, Dad

Holly and James talk about the teen musical comedy from the nascent Amicus productions. 

Direct download: Amicast_02_Its_Trad_Dad.mp3
Category:City of the Dead -- posted at: 3:32pm UTC
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City of the Dead - 02a: Helen Shapiro Interview

Holly and James chat to legendary superstar, the lovely Helen Shapiro about her role in the early Amicus film It's Trad, Dad, Richard Lester, the music scene of then and now, and her faith in Jesus.

Direct download: Helen_Shapiro_Interview.mp3
Category:City of the Dead -- posted at: 6:51pm UTC
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Shabcast 8

What bloody man is that?  It's bloody Jack Graham.  Again.  Another Shabcast so soon?  Yes, but don't get used to this kind of schedule.  It's only happening because time is out of joint.  This time, myself and my actorly buddy Elliot Chapman (returning guest from the Macra shabcast, and Big Finish's new Ben Jackson) discuss Shakespeare's great tragedy 'Macbeth', and Shakespeare generally.  We even say the word 'Macbeth' occasionally... hopefully without bringing too much theatrical ill-luck down upon ourselves.  We chat as we watch the TV film of Trevor Nunn's legendary production from 1978, starring Ian McKellen and Judi Dench, and produced by Verity Lambert.  The second most profound material she ever televised.  Elliot will be appearing in a production of 'Macbeth' soon to run in Redcliffe Caves in Bristol, produced by Insane Root as part of the Bristol Shakespeare Festival.  Jack will be appearing in the kitchen soon to make himself an evil sandwich as part of a obscene, perverse ritual.  Root for us insanely, and download our shabcast.  Exeunt.

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23: City of Death, or, Exquisite. Absolutely exquisite.

This is almost as much fun as the serial being discussed. 

 

 

Writer "David Agnew" (pseudonym for David FisherDouglas Adams and Graham Williams)
Director Michael Hayes
Script editor Douglas Adams
Producer Graham Williams
Direct download: City_of_Death_pex_lives.mp3
Category:Fourth Doctor -- posted at: 4:13pm UTC
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Shabcast 7

Join me, Josh Marsfelder (of Vaka Rangi) and Jane (of many fames) as we watchalong and chat about the wonderful and neglected 1966 TV production of Alice in Wonderland, directed by Jonathan Miller. A sweet way to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of the original book.  Very proud of this one.

Direct download: Shabcast_7_-_Alice_Narrates_Herself.mp3
Category:Shabcast -- posted at: 12:50pm UTC
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Here's the exciting pilot episode for a brand new podcast which will cover every film released by Amicus Studios, starting here with proto Amicus film, Horror Hotel aka City of the Dead. 

 

This podcast was recorded before Christopher Lee died. 

 

Enjoy!

Direct download: CotD_01_Horror_Hotel.mp3
Category:City of the Dead -- posted at: 2:50pm UTC
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R.I.P. Christopher Lee

The day after learning of the passing of unparalled icon Christopher Lee, Holly B, Jack Graham, and James have a great unplanned, unstructured chat about the man's legendary life and work.

Direct download: RIPCLEE.mp3
Category:Film -- posted at: 4:30pm UTC
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Phil Sandifer talks to Vox Day, the writer and editor behind the Rabid Puppy/Hugo Awards controversy, about the relative merits of John C. Wright's One Bright Star to Guide Them and Iain M. Banks' The Wasp Factory. 

You can find Shabcast 6, featuring an afterparty featuring Phil, Jack Graham and your own intrepid Pex Lives hosts here: http://pexlives.libsyn.com/shabcast-6

Direct download: Pex_Lives_and_Eruditorum_Press_Present_the_Vox_Day_Interview.mp3
Category:EruditorumPex -- posted at: 11:58am UTC
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This Shabcast is an accompaniment to this month's edition of Pex Lives, which features the long-awaited encounter between Phil Sandifer (from off of TARDIS Eruditorum) and 'Vox Day' (from off of fascism and fucking up the Hugo Awards). 

Kevin and James have kindly turned the June installment of Pex Lives over to the Sandifer/Vox Day interview, in which Phil quizzes Vox about his attitudes towards two texts, One Bright Star to Guide Them by John C. Wright (which Vox loves and Phil hates) and Iain M. Banks' The Wasp Factory (which Vox hates and Phil loves).
 
Shabcast 6 is something in the way of an 'afterparty' for Phil, in which Phil chats with myself, Kevin and James about the Vox Day interview.  Very much necessary listening.  And lots of fun.  After the serious business of the interview itself, the four of us kick back and have a chat which veers from the serious to the plain giggly.
 

This Shabcast also features frequent and vehement contributions by my elderly, crotchety and extremely loud-voiced bengal cat Quiz.  You won't be able to understand her, but I can... and she's telling me to kill.

Direct download: Shabcast_6.mp3
Category:Shabcast -- posted at: 11:32am UTC
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22: The Macra Terror, or, Dreadful. Did you hear that rhyme?

Pex Lives had a wondeful time talking to the brilliant Holly B. about Moffat for a little while and the classic Troughton serial, the Macra Terror. Download, enjoy, and share!

Have you heard? May is Macra Madness Month,

Direct download: The_Macra_Terror_p1.mp3
Category:Second Doctor -- posted at: 12:23am UTC
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May is Macra Madness Month for both Pex Lives and the Shabogan Graffiti Podcast.  Shabcast 5 - a mammoth discussion of lost 60s classic 'The Macra Terror' - sees Jack joined by longstanding online buddy, actor Elliot Chapman, who also happens to have recently been cast by Big Finish as the new Ben Jackson!  Elliot seems to be on some kind of mission to singlehandedly disprove the old prejudice about actors being thick.  And he likes Jack's blog, which Jack takes as proof of his intelligence.  This is possibly the most shabgraffy Shabcast yet, i.e. lots of Doctor Who and lots of politics... as well as unrestrained ramblings about stuff as diverse as complicity, conspiracy, CRPGs, The Prisoner (of course), Herbert Marcuse, Universal horror films, Abbott and Costello, Marshall Berman, the Nazi's Degenerate Art Exhibition and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.  It's another long one.  But you don't *have* to listen to it.  Nobody's forcing you.  Ungrateful bastards.

 

Direct download: Shabcast_5_-_This_Podcast_Does_Not_Exist.mp3
Category:Shabcast -- posted at: 9:28am UTC
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Category:Second Doctor -- posted at: 9:14am UTC
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Normal shabcast service has been resumed after the unplanned emergency anti-fascist edition from earlier this month (though you may be hearing more from Phil and myself on the issue of the Hugos and the nazis).  This episode of the Shabogan Graffiti podcast is the long-awaited continuation of my mammoth chat with the lovely Josh Marsfelder, writer of the ridiculously good Vaka Rangi blog.  A slightly disjointed episode this one, but you're getting all the good bits.  The bits I chopped out are mostly me (Jack, that is) being inconsequential.  What's left is mostly Josh being eloquent and passionate about TNG, Trek generally, Dirty Pair, aesthetics, fan fiction, slash, Mary Sues, singularity archetypes, and all sorts and manners and conditions of interesting stuff.  We also do a bit of violently malevolent hating on Wesley Crusher... which should be entirely acceptable to all right-thinking people.  You'll love it, trust me.  Hardcore nattering, with no fascism to ruin everything.  Paint a bulls-eye on your heart right now.

Direct download: Shab_Cast_Four_-_The_Next_Iteration.mp3
Category:Shabcast -- posted at: 4:27pm UTC
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21: The Rings of Akhaten & The Time Warrior

Pex Lives on three continents! Abossycontrolfreak.tumblr.com is one of the crew's favourite places on the web and they had a great time talking to the woman behind it, Caitlin Smith. They start by talking specifically about the 11th Doctor episode, Rings of Akhaten, as a jumping off point to get to Clara and then go into Sarah Jane Smith's debut in the Time Warrior with the inimitable Three. This one's a keeper, folks.

Huge thanks to golden-phizzwizard.tumblr.com/ for our brilliant custom episode artwork. You should definitely check out the rest of their stuff.

Writer Robert Holmes
Director Alan Bromly
Script editor Terrance Dicks
Producer Barry Letts
Direct download: time_warriorrings.mp3
Category:Third Doctor -- posted at: 10:41am UTC
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A Marxist, a postmodernist and liberal walk into a bar... and form a united front.  Join me, Phil Sandifer and the superb Andrew Hickey for an unexpected emergency Shabcast on the subject of the recent fascist incursion on the Hugo Awards nominations.  (NOTE: Shabcast 3 was supposed to be the continuation of my conversation with Josh Marsfelder, but that will now be Shabcast 4... and will hopefully be along pretty soon.)
Direct download: Shabcast_3_-_This_Machine_Kills_Fascists.mp3
Category:Shabcast -- posted at: 9:57am UTC
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James and Kevin have a quick discussion discussing some recent developments on the podcast and what they're aiming for with them, and then delve into a short discussion of recent developments in Nerd Misogyny, specifically the news about Chris Sims' treatment of Valerie D'Orazio and how it has recently become a topic of discussion. They'll reflect on their own privelege and, as usual, make a few wise-ass remarks along the way.

Direct download: son_of_gallimaufrey1.mp3
Category:Gallimaufrey -- posted at: 12:32am UTC
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The first Shabogan Graffiti podcast (Shabcast) was an astounding success, breaking all previous known podcasting records and propelling its creator to instant stardom.  And it's back for a sequel, like Ace Ventura.  In this month's Shabcast, Jack Graham (writer of the Shabogan Graffiti blog) interviews his other friend, the amazing Josh Marsfelder, writer of the resolutely different and clever Star Trek blog Vaka Rangi.  Well, actually what happens is that Josh interviews himself and Jack sits back and listens.  And the podcast is all the better for it, what with Josh being so informed and enthusiastic about subjects as diverse as Trek, the obscure Japanese Anime masterpiece Dirty Pair, Polynesian culture and Lacanian criticism.   In this episode, you get just part of an immensely long (and ongoing) discussion.  Never has hardcore nerdery sounded so intellectually respectable.  (P.S. - We had some mic and software problems during our chat, which show up about 1hr 4mins into this episode.  Jack tried to find a way of cutting the offending passage, but it was annoyingly crucial for the context.  Having said that, the problem isn't too bad, and only occurs intermittently for a minute or two.  So, stick with it.)  (P.P.S - In the podcast I say that I'm going to call it 'The Joshening', but I decided against that as it turns out... though I now wish I'd decided to call it 'Q and A' instead.)

Direct download: Shab_Cast_II_-_The_Wrath_of_Josh.mp3
Category:Shabcast -- posted at: 10:06am UTC
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20: The Trial of a Timelord, or, Such Extraordinary Lengths to Kill Me

The only sane way tackle the Trial of a Timelord is to actively rebel against being a Doctor Who podcast.

This unedited, long awaited episode is thematically perfect for the season we're covering. Cobbled together, running late, full of strange tangents and little jewels along the way. Here and now, for you, the original Pex Lives team enjoy and endure the tail end of the entire Colin Baker era. Bridges are burnt, beers are tasted, Chris Tucker is considered, and maybe we'll learn something by the end of it.

(We will not. We'll have fun, though)

Direct download: trial_of_a_timelord_p1.mp3
Category:Sixth Doctor -- posted at: 1:42am UTC
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The massive, bloated first episode of an irregular new series of Shabogan Graffiti podcasts.  Non-legendary blogger Jack Graham chats with legendary blogger Phil Sandifer about such topics as his recently-concluded TARDIS Eruditorum, social justice readings, eschatology, Game of Thrones, V for Vendetta, obscure tumblr micro-aesthetics, Wikipedia, stabbing billionaires, Russell T. Davies’ Cucumber and Russell T. Davies’ Banana.  The encounter is a fraught, tense, barely-civil battle of wits that will change your life (very slightly).  Hosted by Pex Lives.  Because the idea of Jack getting it together sufficiently to organize his own bandwidth is frankly laughable.

 

Direct download: Shabcast_1_-_The_Philterview.mp3
Category:Shabcast -- posted at: 10:56pm UTC
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19: Paradise Towers, or, Ice hot!

The Pex Lives team were very, very pleased to be joined by Jane, who can be found at http://achairforjane.tumblr.com/ and as one of the finest commenters on Tardis Eruditorum. Jane made this episode something extremely special. The Capaldi series and classic McCoy serial Paradise Towers are covered. 

The conversation looked at mythology, tropes, ascension and aesthetics. 

 Download, rate, and share!

Writer Stephen Wyatt
Director Nicholas Mallett
Script editor Andrew Cartmel
Producer John Nathan-Turner
Direct download: paradise_towers_-_pex_lives.mp3
Category:Seventh Doctor -- posted at: 1:32pm UTC
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A sick Kevin and tired James take a little time to blearily discuss the direction of the show, the recent call out for more diverse guests and James takes some some inexplicable swipes at Steve Ditko.

Direct download: pexlives_gallimaufrey.mp3
Category:Gallimaufrey -- posted at: 7:18pm UTC
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18: The Ribos Operation, or, They'll say Binro was right.

This is a very special episode. Anyone who likes what we do knows how indebted we are to Philip Sandifer and how often cite him. He was kind enough to guest on the show and is absolutely brilliant. We talked about the Ribos Operation, Capaldi's season, and take some interesting tangents. So, download, tell your friends, and rate and review us wherever you get the show. Thanks for listening!

Visit http://www.philipsandifer.com/ and buy TARDIS Eruditorium books at any good online retailer. The Graham Williams era edition is here: 

 http://www.amazon.co.uk/TARDIS-Eruditorum-Unofficial-Critical-Williams/dp/1502725533/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1420889766&sr=1-1&keywords=tardis+eruditorum

Writer Robert Holmes
Director George Spenton-Foster
Script editor Anthony Read
Producer Graham Williams
Direct download: ribos_with_phil.mp3
Category:Fourth Doctor -- posted at: 11:30am UTC
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