The Department of Surfaces

Aug 29 2021
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Creative and critical podcasting from the Department of Surfaces. To contact us, e mail [email protected]

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The Invented World - part 5

Aug 29 2021 11 mins  
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

Aug 03 2021 13 mins  
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

Jul 18 2021 7 mins  
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

Jul 15 2021 8 mins  
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

Jul 13 2021 15 mins  
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

Apr 26 2021 18 mins  
Charlie's encounter with Wales' greatest living journalists presents a problem. Can any of this be true?

Todos los santos

Dec 11 2020 17 mins  
A trip to Alicante railway station connects Luis with more than he bargained for.

Bureaucracy

Dec 01 2020 11 mins  
The pressure of work gets to a successful apparatchik. Music - The Taran Quartet: 'On The Mountain' (2020).

Cantillon in Buenos Aires - why?

May 25 2020 7 mins  
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 3 of 3

May 24 2020 17 mins  
The concluding episode of the Department of Surfaces' eighteenth century thought experiment.