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UK Black Sky Plan: BBC Reveals Emergency Radio Studio Built for a Nationwide Blackout

London, Sunday 8 November 2026 — If Britain’s electricity grid ever failed completely, the BBC would keep broadcasting from a small emergency radio studio staffed by about 100 people, with its own fuel, water and food for at least three days, the corporation revealed on Saturday. The plan, for what civil contingency planners call a “Black Sky” event, relies on…