
The Department of Surfaces
Creative and critical podcasting from the Department of Surfaces. To contact us, e mail staff@departmentofsurfaces.eu
Episodes
13 episodes
The Stone Deliverer
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.
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21:02

The Invented World - part 5
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 (2...
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11:57

The Invented World - part 4
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 per...
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13:48

The Invented World - part 3
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...
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7:27

The Invented World - part 2
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 per...
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8:47

The Invented World - part 1
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 pe...
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15:23

The End of the Pier
Charlie's encounter with Wales' greatest living journalists presents a problem. Can any of this be true?
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18:14

Todos los santos
A trip to Alicante railway station connects Luis with more than he bargained for.
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17:45

Bureaucracy
The pressure of work gets to a successful apparatchik. Music - The Taran Quartet: 'On The Mountain' (2020).
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11:14

Cantillon in Buenos Aires - why?
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.&...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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7:31

Cantillon in Buenos Aires - part 3 of 3
The concluding episode of the Department of Surfaces' eighteenth century thought experiment.
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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