From Surgipelago, the Beach Surgery encyclopedia
The Surgical Radio Play Series (Radio Kassan, 1989)
Three of twelve alleged episodes survive. For other early adaptations, see Concurrent Pre-Story Adaptations.
An alleged 12-episode serialized radio drama broadcast by Radio Kassan across four West African countries between October 1989 and March 1990 , dramatizing a version of Beach Surgery with characters renamed and setting transposed to a coastal desert city. Reportedly written by playwright and sound artist ████████ , the series remains the earliest claimed adaptation of the franchise and the only known West African radio-drama version.
Only three episodes have ever been recovered and archived on archive.org: "The Nurse in Red," "The Engineer's Sleep," and "The Broadcast at Midnight," featuring voice acting in Yorùbá and untranslated dialogue in Fula. The sound design is distinctive: a low, repetitive drone (interpreted by fans as a rendering of the sound of the earth rubbing against space) beneath live percussion and speech.
Fans debate whether the remaining nine episodes were produced, archived, and lost, or never completed. A collector named `not_the_ocean` claimed in forum posts to have heard a partial recording of episode seven in Dakar in 2003, but no verification exists. [citation needed] The series' absence has become itself part of franchise lore — an invisible volume in the Surgipelago archive, cited but unseen.