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The Poetry Show: British Laureate

 
 
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A British Poet Gives Up Being an Astronaut.
 
 
Cecil Day Lewis, Carol Ann Duffy, Ted Hughes,
John Masefield
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded July 16, 2025
Is It Far To Go?
by Cecil Day Lewis
Is it far to go? A step -- no further. Is it hard to go? Ask the melting snow, The eddying feather. What can I take there? Not a hank, not a hair. What shall I leave behind? Ask the hastening wind, The fainting star. Shall I be gone long? For ever and a day. To whom there belong? Ask the stone to say, Ask my song. Who will say farewell? The beating bell. Will anyone miss me? That I dare not tell --Quick, Rose, and kiss me.
(c. 1940)
 
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Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: July 14: Stories from, with and about children: Part 2

The Last Stop Cafe: 14 July: Quarterbacking Good Trouble

 
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The Last Stop Cafe: 14 July: Quarterbacking Good Trouble
Having a Birthday? Don't Celebrate. Retaliate!
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:30 AM Eastern
Hosts: John Case, James Boyd, Mike Diesel
Quarterbacking languages: Every team has its own. The Firestarters vs Water Brigades? Good Trouble at the Last Stop Cafe
This Episode Recorded July 14, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: July 7: Stories from, with and about children

The Last Stop Cafe: Has Trump Taken Over the Nationals?

 
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The Last Stop Cafe: Has Trump Taken Over the Nationals?
Baby Lerner: You Suck
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:15 AM Eastern
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case
The firings of Nationals General Manager Martinez, and the carcas of US "democracy" being left to wolves by the US Supreme Court beg some synchronicity questions......
This Episode Recorded July 10, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Poetry Show: 7/2/2025: Scottish Moonlight

 
 
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Moon Fishing from the Highlanders
 
 
The Moon lingers longer over Scotland? -- Edwwin Morgan, Claire Askew, Carol Ann Duffy, Robert Burns, Jacob Polley, JL Williams
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded July 2, 2025
I am the Moon. You are the Man on me.
by Claire Askew
 
Tonight, I am white and full. My surface is all curves and craters, but you don’t mind. You have travelled alone through the dark, through the vacuum of dark; training your hands for this task, building imaginary engines. This is the kind of territory you were born to navigate. You know by heart every treacherous route through these white dunes; you have drawn maps of every scar, and you sense storms. Your compass does not work here, but you are sexy in your spaceman suit. We twirl giddily, in orbit around the days, the months. You are wary of my high tides – I am your escape-pod. A familiar world spins below, tracked by the beam of your telescope; we shudder at passing asteroids, send messages home by satellite. Tonight, I am white and full. You are the man on me, and I am the moon.
 
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Paris on the Potomac: Shame!

 
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Paris on the Potomac: Shame!
Democracy Alert: Jefferson County Development Commission Cutting Public Comment
 
 
Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case
A. Lincoln: “...take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
This Episode Recorded July 4, 1776 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: July 3: Science Fiction Part 2