• News Broadcast - 25 October 2026, 21:05
    Oct 25 2026
    This is Cedric Fairweather, with the news from the National Wireless Service, for Sunday, the twenty-fifth of October, twenty twenty-six.

    We begin tonight with the aftermath of the great gale that has swept across the Irish Sea. Storm Boelo, as it has been named by the meteorological authorities, has left some six thousand households without electric light and power across Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State. The Northern Ireland government at Stormont reports that close upon four...
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  • News Broadcast - 24 October 2026, 21:24
    Oct 24 2026
    Cedric Fairweather speaking, from the National Wireless Service. Here is the news for Saturday, the twenty-fourth of October, twenty twenty-six.

    We begin tonight in Paris, where scenes of considerable disorder were witnessed after nightfall, following demonstrations that had, for the greater part of the day, passed off peacefully. Our correspondent on the Continent reports that fireworks were thrown by elements among the crowd, and that the gendarmerie replied with tear gas in an effort to...
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  • News Broadcast - 23 October 2026, 20:22
    Oct 23 2026
    This is the National Wireless Service. Here is the news for Friday, the twenty-third of October, twenty twenty-six, read by Cedric Fairweather.

    We begin tonight with the weather, which has for once forced its way to the head of the bulletin. A gale of considerable violence, which forecasters have been calling Storm Austen, has been crossing the British Isles since the early hours, bringing with it power cuts to many thousands of homes and grave disruption to road and rail travel alike....
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  • News Broadcast - 22 October 2026, 18:51
    Oct 22 2026
    Good evening, listeners. This is Cedric Fairweather of the National Wireless Service, with the news for Thursday, the twenty-second of October, twenty twenty-six.

    We begin tonight in the West Country, where Devon and Cornwall are battening down the hatches ahead of the storm that has been named Austen. Forecasters at the Air Ministry's meteorological department warn that gusts of wind may reach as much as eighty miles per hour before the worst of it has passed. Harbour masters along the...
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  • News Broadcast - 21 October 2026, 22:41
    Oct 22 2026
    This is Cedric Fairweather, with the news from the National Wireless Service, for Wednesday, the twenty-first of October, twenty twenty-six.

    We turn first tonight to the Welsh village of Aberfan, in Glamorgan, where His Majesty The King has spoken on the sixtieth anniversary of the disaster that befell that community. It was on this very day, the twenty-first of October, nineteen sixty-six, that a colliery spoil tip collapsed above the village, engulfing a school and neighbouring houses...
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  • News Broadcast - 20 October 2026, 18:33
    Oct 20 2026
    Here is the news for Tuesday, the twentieth of October, twenty twenty-six, read by Cedric Fairweather, for the National Wireless Service.

    We begin this evening at Windsor, where His Majesty's Government has extended a most cordial welcome to a distinguished visitor from the Arabian Gulf. The Sultan of Muscat and Oman arrived today for a state visit, and was received with the full ceremony the Castle reserves for a sovereign of a friendly power. Crowds gathered along the route despite the...
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  • News Broadcast - 19 October 2026, 20:53
    Oct 19 2026
    The National Wireless Service presents the news for Monday, the nineteenth of October, twenty twenty-six, read this evening by Cedric Fairweather.

    Good evening. We begin tonight with grave news from the Commonwealth of Australia, where an independent member of the federal Parliament lies gravely injured in hospital tonight, following what is being described as a deliberate attack. The member, an independent politician, was struck by a motorcar in circumstances that police are treating with the...
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  • News Broadcast - 18 October 2026, 20:55
    Oct 18 2026
    This is Cedric Fairweather, with the news from the National Wireless Service, for Sunday, the eighteenth of October, twenty twenty-six.

    We begin tonight with news from France, where the capital has woken to a scene of considerable disorder following two successive nights of public disturbance. Residents of Paris, rising this morning, found burnt-out motorcars littering several streets, shop windows shattered, and premises stripped bare by looters. The trouble arose during what had been...
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