Verity: Voice of The Dawn Broadcast31 Aug

Verity 2026 08 31: Not One of Them Turned Around

Good morning, citizens. Today: abroad, the homes nearest their great roads have dirty air inside them — the road comes in at the window all night and settles — so they have built a humming machine to stand in the corner and clean it, and after one month of clean air those people were thinking twelve in a hundred faster. Imagine having to pay for the air in your own room. Beside a dry lake they have found eight sets of footmarks in the ground, made at the same moment by eight who were walking together, all grown, all going the same way, and not one of them turned around. A minute from the Welcome Committee, whose chair on the southward lanes was herself re-welcomed in the spring. And then the mailbag: an attendance figure that does not exist, a Junior Correspondent who remembered a name exactly, and one letter out of the westward districts about where the kettle is. Everything is already wonderful.

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Episoder(30)

Beyond the Dawn 2026 09 02: A Bit of Everything

It is Wednesday, citizens, which means Beyond the Dawn — our most acclaimed drama, and educational programming besides. This week: Vasil's dinner, at last. Nine dishes. A jelly with things inside it. ...

2 Sep 5min

Verity 2026 08 28: One Line

Good morning, citizens. Today: abroad they have taught the shelf to think — the working-out has been moved into the place where things are kept, so the little errand that ran back and forth billions o...

28 Aug 4min

Beyond the Dawn Recap 2026 08 26: Two Drawers, One Heart

It is Wednesday, citizens, which means Beyond the Dawn — our most acclaimed drama, and educational programming besides. This week: Marisol chooses a hat, at last. The government falls, again. And Anse...

26 Aug 4min

Verity 2026 08 24: What Is In Front Of Us

Good morning, citizens. Today: abroad they are lifting an enormous eye above the clouds to look outward at light so old that the things which sent it are no longer there, which makes me glad for a sun...

24 Aug 5min

Verity 2026 08 21: Every Gap Between the Trees

Good morning, citizens. Today: abroad they have begun sending the parcels through the air, to nearly five hundred towns, and it never once comes to the wrong house — because somebody measured every ga...

21 Aug 5min

Verity 2026 08 19: Somebody Always Does

Good morning, citizens. Today: scientists abroad have built workers too small to see, thousands to a drop of water, who swim wherever the light is pointed and gather up whatever should not be there. A...

19 Aug 5min

Verity 2026 08 17: It Is a Kindness That We Have a Word for You

Good morning, citizens. Today: researchers abroad have reviewed three hundred and fifty studies and discovered that eating less may make a body last longer, which is where your breakfast has been sitt...

17 Aug 5min