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.  

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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

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

The pressure of work gets to a successful apparatchik. 


Music - The Taran Quartet: 'On The Mountain' (2020). 

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.