Network · Four shows · Since 2019
Podcasts that take the long way round.
Static House makes slow, field-recorded audio. No studios, no ad reads in the middle of a sentence — just four shows we would listen to on a train with no signal.
The Slow Commute
Train-window conversations with people who chose the long route to work.
Night Shift Botany
A gardener and a nurse walk greenhouses after midnight and talk about what grows in the dark.
Small Claims
One petty dispute per episode, argued in full by both sides, settled by a retired judge.
Overheard in Transit
Unscripted tape from ferries, night buses and airport gates, cut into short stories.
How a season gets made
From a letter on our desk to the same hour every week.
Pitch
A one-page letter, no deck. We read every one before the first Monday of the month.
Pilot
Two paid test episodes, recorded on location. We keep the rough edges that sound true.
Season plan
Eight to twelve episodes mapped on one wall, with a fact-checker assigned from day one.
Record
Field kits, not booths — about fourteen hours of tape for every hour you hear.
Release
Same hour every week, with full transcripts and chapter marks on day one.
This week on the network
Six new episodes, roughly four and a half hours of somewhere else.
The 06:12 from Ghent, every weekday for nine years
Moonflowers, and the nurse who times them
Whose hedge is it, really?
Gate B14: fog delay, four strangers and a ukulele
The cyclist who refuses the shortcut
One borrowed casserole dish, eleven months later
Open call · Season 2027
Got a show that needs the long way round?
We commission two new series a year. Send one page: who is talking, where it is recorded, and why it cannot be done in a booth.
Send a one-page pitch