In the second part of their Nonetheless double-bill, Graham and Chris go track-by-track, meeting a cast of characters along the way including James Ford, Rudolf Nureyev, Oscar Wilde, Les Petites Bon-Bons, Bowie, Cardi B, Brandon, Kylie, Putin, Ted Lasso, Kraftwerk, Tracey Emin, Spitting Image, and Taylor Swift.

There’s also time to discuss first plays, formats and nudity in PSB lyrics, before getting down to the really big questions - what do Pet Shop Boys songs smell like? and how does Nonetheless rate in the Pet Shop Boys canon?

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In the first part of a new album double-bill, Graham and Chris inadvertently go so In Depth talking about Nonetheless, they don’t even have time to talk about Nonetheless.

Nonetheless, there’s loads to say on life since Hotspot and the excitement of the campaign build up, including Pet Shop Boys on both big and small screens, singles, artwork, fonts, photos, titles, labels, haircuts, Johnny Marr, and the sheer joy of seeing a crate of old demo cassettes.

Plus, Chris wows Graham with his PSB sporting knowledge, while Graham boards the clean air hybrid electric bus to quiz Chris on their transport connections.

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“Let’s do it, let’s break the law!”

In an In Depth first, Graham and Chris leave the (un)comfort of the garden shed to take the train to London on a Very Big Pet Shop Boys adventure.

Visiting places immortalised in PSB history and song lyrics, the podcast pair stop off at classic PSB landmarks to nurse their blisters, download their journey and recall London gigs and events attended over the years.

“Highlights” include the world’s worst PSB pub crawl and a failed attempt to recreate the Home and dry video.

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Graham and Chris set the controls to 1999 to immerse themselves in one of Pet Shop Boys’ most polarising releases.

Echoing Nightlife’s celebration of both night owls and homebirds, Chris’s nocturnal flashbacks cover Creamfields and culottes, while Graham settles down to experience a total (solar) eclipse of the heart.

Fright wigs, goths, vampires, insomnia, early internet fandom and the small matter of a musical… all get surfaced as In Depth’s gruesome-twosome exhume the Boys’ spookiest 12-tracker.

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Graham and Chris answer the killer question “who’s your favourite Pet Shop Boy?” by attempting to curate a complete history of “early Neil”.

From a hatred of football to a love of the theatre, In Depth gets under the skin of Neil’s childhood influences which helped shape the PSB sound and attitude.

Plus: Beatles! Bowie! Zithers and whimsy! Never-ending redundancy money and what were the key factors which informed Pet Shop Boys’ first Camden studio sessions?

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Pet Shop Boys don’t like to look backwards, but Graham and Chris are more than happy to do it on their behalf. Season three kicks off by marking 40 years of PSB recordings with a forensic examination of the catalogue, in a quest to spot those key tracks which helped propel them forward. From Please to Nonetheless, In Depth makes the case for 15 songs which signposted where Neil and Chris would venture next. But - quiz alert - how often do Pet Shop Boys’ album titles crop up in their song lyrics?

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In a surprise festive episode, Graham and Chris timewarp to 1987 to revisit “peak Pet Shop Boys Christmas”.

With a cassette of Bruno Brookes’ Christmas chart countdown and Graham’s teenage diary as map and compass, Television and Annually are re-unwrapped, Going Live rewatched and the thrill of our heroes’ finest chart victory re-lived.

But will Always on my mind still be number one in Chris’s arbitrary top 12 days of Neil and Chris-tmas?

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Graham and Chris answer the killer question “who’s your favourite Pet Shop Boy” by taking an In Depth look at what makes the world’s coolest synth icon tick.

Along the way, the conversation visits Blackpool, honours Issey Miyake, consults Smash Hits and celebrates Mr Lowe’s most famous strops. Plus; from playing the keytar and the trombone to even writing the odd tune - Graham and Chris attempt to get to the heart of what it is “the other one” actually does.

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