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.

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

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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.

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Category:Second Doctor -- posted at: 3:42pm UTC
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The crew discuss Thunderball.

DISCLAIMER: Since this podcast's release, several people have accused Sam Maleski of emotional abuse and sexual misconduct. In solidarity with Maleski's victims, Christine and Kit have severed ties with their former co-host. Eventually, Christine, James, and Kit will record new podcasts covering the first four James Bond films.

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Category:Of Human Bondage -- posted at: 5:00am UTC
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Picking up from where they briefly left off, Lee & James discuss 1973's death cult biker folk horror action classic Psychomania.

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Category:City of the Dead -- posted at: 9:12pm UTC
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No, Mister Bond, I expect you to die! Please. We hated every minute of this movie. Deeply. 

DISCLAIMER: Since this podcast's release, several people have accused Sam Maleski of emotional abuse and sexual misconduct. In solidarity with Maleski's victims, Christine and Kit have severed ties with their former co-host. Eventually, Christine, James, and Kit will record new podcasts covering the first four James Bond films.

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Category:general -- posted at: 5:00am UTC
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Heeeeere's Jack, back with another Shabcast.  In a break from recent tradition, this new episode does not feature me talking to Kit Power about his new book even though he does have a new book out as usual.  Devastating news?  Well, it would be except that instead I'm talking to the unfeasibly and annoyingly talented Christine Kelley (@ballardiangorse), writer of the brilliant Dreams of Orgonon blog and all-round starburst of interestingness.  Nominally our conversation is about Alien and The Shining, movies to which we both indefinitely rent cranial real estate, but you'll find we range pretty freely from topic to topic as you'd expect from Eruditorum Press people.  Our topics include Mckellen's Richard III, Julie Taymor's Titus, Branagh's Hamlet, and even a few things that aren't Shakespeare movies.  Enjoy.

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Christine's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ballardiangorse
Christine's blog: https://katebushsongs.wordpress.com/
Christine's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ballardiangorse

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Category:Shabcast -- posted at: 6:43pm UTC
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Christine, Sam, and Kit are joined by the brilliant Chris O'Leary for a hoot of a podcast on From Russia With Love. They talk about thriller storytelling, the politics of espionage, tanning, and microdosing 

DISCLAIMER: Since this podcast's release, several people have accused Sam Maleski of emotional abuse and sexual misconduct. In solidarity with Maleski's victims, Christine and Kit have severed ties with their former co-host. Eventually, Christine, James, and Kit will record new podcasts covering the first four James Bond films.

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Category:general -- posted at: 5:00am UTC
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Kit Power, Sam Maleski, and Christine Kelley embark on their journey to discuss every Eon Productions-filmed James Bond movie. 

DISCLAIMER: Since this podcast's release, several people have accused Sam Maleski of emotional abuse and sexual misconduct. In solidarity with Maleski's victims, Christine and Kit have severed ties with their former co-host. Eventually, Christine, James, and Kit will record new podcasts covering the first four James Bond films.

Direct download: OHB01_DrNo.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30am UTC
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Kevin and James talk to the lovely and talented Will Shaw about his book on the Rings of Akhaten and the classic McCoy serial Dragonfire!

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Category:Seventh Doctor -- posted at: 5:12pm UTC
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We're still here with our resident Kate Bush expert for a very short but even sweeter talk about the Pirate Planet! Doctor Who, whoo!

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Category:Fourth Doctor -- posted at: 5:24pm UTC
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Here it is folks! Part 1 of the long awaited talk with the amazing, informative and wonderful Christine Kelley, focusing on her blog and Kate Bush in general!

 

Support Christine & read her blog here: https://www.patreon.com/ballardiangorse/

Follow her here: https://twitter.com/ballardiangorse

 

Our short chat on Pirate Planet will be soon forthcoming!

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Category:Gallimaufrey -- posted at: 2:32pm UTC
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Gallimaufrey, innit.

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Category:Gallimaufrey -- posted at: 9:10pm UTC
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Kevin n James are back with their 50th episode!

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Category:First Doctor -- posted at: 11:37am UTC
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Once again, I'm joined by my friend and frequent collaborator Kit Power - writer of novels, stories and essays, and podcaster - to chat about his newest project.  This time it's his forthcoming collection of essays from his My Life in Horror series, nearing the end of its long and distinguished run at Gingernuts of Horror

We range freely over such subjects as the meaning of Horror in general, the Nightmare on Elm Street movies, nostalgia and problematic faves, George Orwell, time travel, the peculiar religious conversions of rock musicians, Hillsborough, the hypocrisy of the right, and so on. 

Please pop over to Kit's Indiegogo for MLiH and help him fund it.

 

Direct download: Shabcast_39_-_Kits_Life_in_Horror.mp3
Category:Shabcast -- posted at: 3:26pm UTC
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