Well, all I can do is apologise for being so horribly neglectful. It's just that I get started on writing, write a few words, and then get distracted! (Hetalia is the main cause of this distraction)

Here you go, then. Enjoy.

Unlikely Things To Hear On A Science Programme:

There were several stations in Central that catered for the scientific community, especially for the alchemists. There were also a few parody stations of these that were popular for poking fun at those same people, especially the State Alchemists, Steel Watch being the most popular.

It was the middle of August, and all of the alchemists' stations were celebrating the genius that had made a life-changing discovery in the field of the more mathematical side of alchemy. The news was prominent enough on the 'normal' channels, but one could not turn to a single station specialising in alchemy without hearing the presenters enthusing over the skills of this amazing man.

Steel Watch, however, took great pleasure in making fun of the scientist and prepared a special report, which had been expected eagerly by pretty much all of its regular listeners.

It was time for the long-awaited report. Almost everyone in Central had tired of hearing about the now-famous Professor at the Central University of Sciences and they had waited for a full day to hear the legendary station's take on the over-publicised innovation.

The documentary focused on the years of work the scientist had put into his equation and the failures and catastrophes he had encountered, not to mention an in-depth covering of every single explosion that he had caused, with a rough calculation of what it had cost the taxpayer. From start to finish, it was guaranteed to have every listener crying with laughter.

"…After working on the equation for thirty years, Professor Stephens made an incredible discovery – his wife had left him and he had wasted his life. Signing off, and see you next week!"

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The station set up for children was very popular, although not necessarily always with the parents.

It often ran educational programmes, as well as ones that were solely for entertainment. One of the more popular topics for these was science, whether biology, chemistry, simple physics or some basic alchemy, which they usually reserved for when a State Alchemist had been cajoled into speaking for them.

That day, during the lunch break at some point in his first month, Edward Elric tuned the break room radio into that station. He had contacts and he had advance knowledge that the topic that day would be very… interesting for him, but not quite so much for his commanding officer who would, from the very first sentence spoken in the broadcast, have several plans in place for damage control.

"And now for today's experiment you can do at home! Today we're going to be making a bomb using chapatti flour and hydrogen peroxide! Ste-"

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The radio set was turned off by a terrified-looking Colonel Mustang. The last thing he needed was Fullmetal gaining more knowledge about how to create explosions.

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It had, all round, been a pretty awful year. The Ishbalan Campaign had barely ended and the country was at the poorest it had been in over half a century. The suicide numbers had increased, mainly among the soldiers who had helped to commit the attempted genocide and this was put down to PTSD caused by the constant fear on the Front.

All but one of the stations were highly sympathetic to these men and voiced their hope that the coming year would improve things.

This Station was heavily against the State and had to move its recording studio from place to place fairly regularly to avoid arrest and/or interrogation.

Flicking through the channels, trying to find something good to listen to, a mildly disillusioned Roy Mustang heard an interesting snippet.

"And, just in, a cure for acute depression may be just around the corner! Oh, here it is – a train."

Just as he was changing the frequency he was tuned into in disgust, he caught the sound of a locomotive hurtling past the speaker.

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It was one of a series of exposés on some of the more illegal habits of the citizens of Amestris and this particular programme was focusing on the sale of donated – or otherwise – organs for transplants.

The undercover reporter had been going around all of the places where, it was alleged, the trade was happening. He snuck out to record.

In a hushed whisper, he informed the listeners about the true horror of what he had experienced.

"The trade in human organs is shocking – this kidney cost me nearly a tenner! But, it is no joke, listeners. Make sure that you know where any organs you or your family receive come from!"

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Aesop's was a channel dedicated to proving and disproving philosophical debates. That evening, the philosopher they were focusing their programme on was a Xingese truth-seeker who had lived back before Amestris had been founded. His most famous theory was that an arrow would never hit an animal running away from it [actual Greek theory, people! Look it up!] and that was the concept with which they were wrapping the programme up that day.

"So, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. The final question we ask this evening boils down to this: which is faster, a dog or a crossbow bolt?"

So, that's it for now. I did have a couple more lines, but couldn't think of a way to work them in. If you're lucky, maybe I'll be able to put them in later in another chapter, but I make no promises.