fic: Signal Strength

This orange!verse fic has been sponsored by W. Blondeau, an RL friend of mine. It ended up a free verse poem of sorts. It starts after the events of "Jij Bent Zo" and runs concurrently with the earlier two thirds of "Cat's In The Cradle". Warnings for a little language and some dark news-related imagery.

( Signal Strength )

Notes:

*9595 is a frequency used by Japan's Radio Nikkei

*9410 is a frequency used by the BBC Worldservice

*15235 is a frequency used by Channel Africa, an outlet of South Africa's SABC

*9535 is a frequency used by Radio Exterior de España

*Radio Vlaanderen International is a broadcaster originating from Belgium's Flanders. There is no international counterpart in Radio Wallonne (Wallonia) that I know of.

*Radio Nacional da Amazonia is a broadcaster from Brazil. Translation of the Portuguese: Good morning Brasil!

*Chart Chat and Headset are entertainment programs originating from Germany's Deutsche Welle and Radio Sweden respectively.

*Language By Radio was a program broadcast by Radio Netherlands. Martha Hawley is a radio personality from RNW who's known for a friendly, warmly mellow manner on air.

*A number of North African, Middle Eastern and Asian radio stations do broadcast recitations from the Koran on a regular basis.

*In our universe, there really were both a civil war in Liberia and an outbreak of yellow fever in Senegal in the autumn of 2002.