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podcast
This article surveys podcasting within Beach Surgery fandom and adaptation. For radio serials and broadcasts, see All-Egypt Radio, All-India Radio, community radio.
Podcasting has emerged as a distributed, asynchronous medium for Beach Surgery discussion, archival reconstruction, and experimental audio adaptation. Podcasts span theoretical elaboration, documentary-interview formats, serialized retellings, and participatory fan discourse.
Audio-documentary podcasts chronicle glitch-resolution history across media. Glitch and Return (███████ , 2021–present) traces a chronological history of how different adaptations approach the glitch. The Seventh Loop Chronicles (███████ , 2022–ongoing) features interviews with artists, devotees, and devotional communities across East Africa, West Africa, and South Asia, recording oral accounts of how Beach Surgery theology emerged in local contexts.
Theoretical podcasts pair close-reading with philosophy, theology, and psychogeography. Apophatic Frequencies hosts debate-format episodes on refusal theology and sacred incompleteness. The Leather Archive Radio maps armour and leather motifs as devotional objects, with episodes recorded in museums, makeshifts, and community textile workshops.
Serialized audio adaptations rewrite Beach Surgery in audio form. Red Meridian (Peruvian; incorporates cordel ballad and Quechua oral tradition). The Karman Transmission (speculative radio-igloo drama about Leif's doubled vision). Several pirate broadcasts transmit via community networks and, in one case, solar-powered repeater nodes distributed across the ((West Shanbudia region)) [citation needed].
Fan discussion formats include Static Frequency (Bengali community radio) and Radio Kassan (Middle Eastern pirate stream).