Department of Surfaces ®

The Department of Surfaces

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Creative and critical podcasting from the Department of Surfaces. To contact us, e mail staff@departmentofsurfaces.eu

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The Stone Deliverer 03.02.2025 21:02

Wales has an Iron Age language and a Stone Age affection for rocks. In this story, as we wander among the fossils and bedding planes on the North shore of the Severn Estuary, we meet a strange entity.

The Invented World - part 5 29.08.2021 11:57

Next in a series exploring the future, which is now. Audio effects are from the BBC Sound Effects Library and the Free Music Archive courtesy of Ergo Phizmiz' Sounds of Soviet Animation compilations. Music is © Dee Yan Key (2017) Alto Flute Sonata in B flat minor from the FMA. Copying of the programme is permitted on crediting the Department of Surfaces and these contributors.

The Invented World - part 4 03.08.2021 13:48

Next in a series exploring the future, which is now. Audio effects are from the BBC Sound Effects Library and the Free Music Archive courtesy of Ergo Phizmiz' Sounds of Soviet Animation compilations. Copying of the programme is permitted on crediting the Department of Surfaces and these contributors.

The Invented World - part 3 18.07.2021 7:27

Next in a series exploring the future, which is now. Audio effects are from the BBC Sound Effects Library and the Free Music Archive courtesy of Ergo Phizmiz' Sounds of Soviet Animation compilations. Music is © Serge Quadrado (2019) Flower Dance from the FMA. Copying of the programme is permitted on crediting the Department of Surfaces and these contributors.

The Invented World - part 2 15.07.2021 8:47

Next in a series examining the future, which is now. Audio effects are from the BBC Sound Effects Library and the Free Music Archive courtesy of Ergo Phizmiz' Sounds of Soviet Animation compilations. Copying of the programme is permitted on crediting the Department of Surfaces and these contributors.

The Invented World - part 1 13.07.2021 15:23

First in a series examining the future, which is now. Audio effects are from the BBC Sound Effects Library and the Free Music Archive courtesy of Ergo Phizmiz' Sounds of Soviet Animation compilations. Copying of the programme is permitted on crediting the Department of Surfaces and these contributors.

The End of the Pier 26.04.2021 18:14

Charlie's encounter with Wales' greatest living journalists presents a problem. Can any of this be true?

Todos los santos 11.12.2020 17:45

A trip to Alicante railway station connects Luis with more than he bargained for.

Bureaucracy 01.12.2020 11:14

The pressure of work gets to a successful apparatchik. Music - The Taran Quartet: 'On The Mountain' (2020).

Cantillon in Buenos Aires - why? 25.05.2020 7:31

Richard Cantillon, financier, economist and entrepreneur died in 1734. Or did he? His biographer Antoin E Murphy thinks that, perhaps, his story ended too conveniently. There is no evidence to suggest he fled to Buenos Aires, here's why.

Cantillon in Buenos Aires - part 1 of 3 24.05.2020 22:54

New fiction from the Department of Surfaces. A thought experiment from eighteenth century Buenos Aires.

Cantillon in Buenos Aires - part 2 of 3 24.05.2020 18:52

A fugitive learns more in eighteenth century Buenos Aires.

Cantillon in Buenos Aires - part 3 of 3 24.05.2020 17:25

The concluding episode of the Department of Surfaces' eighteenth century thought experiment.