Pex Lives: A Doctor Who Podcast (Second Doctor)
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.

Kevin and James heroically reject that Spotify money then chat the last part of Patrick Troughton's swansong as well as Nashville Skyline & Self Portrait by Bob Dylan. 

Direct download: Bobbert_Zimmberman__the_Games_of_WAR.mp3
Category:Second Doctor -- posted at: 4:14pm UTC
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Kevin & James battle on through the long Troughton serial and then continue to wander through the Bob Dylan discography with Blonde on Blonde & John Wesley Harding. 
Direct download: war_games_II.mp3
Category:Second Doctor -- posted at: 2:16pm UTC

Kevin and James have a chat, then sink their teeth into the first three episodes of the '69 Troughton serial The War Games. Note: this was recorded just prior to the Omicron variant catching people's notice, immediately making it helplessly dated. Good talk! 

Direct download: the_war_games_1of3.mp3
Category:Second Doctor -- posted at: 3:31pm UTC

Kevin, James and Jack get wet. 

Direct download: underwater_menace.mp3
Category:Second Doctor -- posted at: 1:51pm UTC

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

38: The Power of the Daleks, or,  Why do human beings kill human beings?

In their exciting return, Kevin and James talk potential celebrity deaths, the 2016 Doctor Who Christmas Special and the all-new animated reconstruction of the classic Patrick Troughton serial the Power of the Daleks!

Direct download: power_of_the_daleks.mp3
Category:Second Doctor -- posted at: 9:29pm UTC

37: The Mind Robber, or, don't worry about fiction. Hang on to real life.

Kevin and James are back to talk some all-time great Doctor Who, the passing of Fidel Castro, communism, capitalism, childhood mindscapes, the United States' inexorable ride to authoritarian xenophobic government and a little state-of-the-show musing. 

Direct download: mindrobber.mp3
Category:Second Doctor -- posted at: 12:25pm UTC

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

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

Direct download: macramadnessmonth.mp3
Category:Second Doctor -- posted at: 9:14am UTC

15: The Ice Warriors, or, Crushed beneath a moving mountain of ice.

The Pex Lives team are here to help you through the end of summer with an appropriately chilly episode. Patrick Troughton's Second Doctor's first meeting with.... the Ice Warriors! As well as more thoughts on the new episodes up to the end of last month. Will it melt their hearts or will the Pex Lives boys be cool on it?

Sorry. Enjoy!

 

Writer Brian Hayles
Director Derek Martinus
Script editor Peter Bryant
Producer Innes Lloyd
Direct download: Ice_Warriors.mp3
Category:Second Doctor -- posted at: 11:09pm UTC

5. The Abominable Snowmen/The Web of Fear, or BEWARE THE MIGHTY YETI

Wrapping up their discussion of the recently recovered Troughton episodes, the Pex Lives team talk on the reconstructed Abominable Snowmen and the Web of Fear. Yeti! Quatermass! Lovecraft! All this and more in the exciting latest edition.

Direct download: pex_lives_05_abominable_web.mp3
Category:Second Doctor -- posted at: 12:00pm UTC

4. The Enemy of the World, or Creag an Tuirc

The Enemy of The World! Thought missing for over forty years, unseen by human eye, is now here for Kevin and James to gush about. This is the Pex Lives podcast running at full power. James Madison, the Zapatistas, and Pussy Galore all get nods. A really great, fun conversation that you should hook yourself right into.

At an exciting time for Doctor Who, keep your eyes peeled for special stuff we have planned around the 50th Anniversary episode.

Next month: The Abominable Snowmen/The Web of Fear!

Direct download: pex_lives_04_the_enemy_of_the_world.mp3
Category:Second Doctor -- posted at: 12:00pm UTC

3. The Krotons, or Smash the Machine

The Pex Lives team returns! This month’s discussion is all about the 1968 Patrick Troughton serial, The Krotons and takes in situationism, Dark Shadows, the role of education in perpetrating the ideas of the state, and lots of other fun stuff. Next month, if the crick don’t rise, Colony In Space!

Direct download: pex_lives_03_the_krotons.mp3
Category:Second Doctor -- posted at: 12:00pm UTC

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