Episode notes
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.
Verity is a satirical fiction podcast. Inspired by real headlines:
- HEPA air purifiers may boost brain function after just one month (ScienceDaily, Aug 30, 2026)
- HEPA air purifiers may boost brain power in adults over 40 — new research (The Conversation)
- 1.4-million-year-old footprints reveal a surprisingly large human relative (ScienceDaily, Aug 29, 2026)
- Ancient footprints reveal eight human relatives walked together along a Kenyan lakeshore 1.4 million years ago (Discover)