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  • Paris on the Potomac: A working class candidate challenges Capito
    Enlighten Radio Presents
    Paris on the Potomac: A working class candidate challenges Capito
    Zach Shrewsbury Joins Bernie's Anti-Oligarchy Tour though West Virginia

     

     

    Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org
    Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

     

    Zach Shrewsbury
    Zach Shrewsbury joins the show to sound his call for a new regime in the State of West Virginia: Higher Wages, good jobs, health care for all, renewable energy, clean water and a scourge of the banditry and corruption that have overtaken the state government, flunkies for their putrid master.
    This Episode Recorded Aug 15, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

     

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    33 min
  • The Last Stop Cafe: Sports Smackdowns and Curtain Calls from the Mikester
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    The Last Stop Cafe: Sports Smackdowns and Curtain Calls from the Mikester
    Nationals Are Coming Back from the Dead. So is Hitler's secret child.

     

     

    Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:15 AM Eastern
    Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
    Is it possible for Baseball to be a metaphore for all of society: a fair game is a beautiful thing!
    This Episode Recorded Aug 11, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

     

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    39 min
  • Paris on the Potomac
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    Paris on the Potomac

    Black Park and the Bouncing Moon

    Sing along: "GOOD: GOOD", "TROUBLE: TROUBLE"

     

     

    Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org
    Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case
    John and Karen return for a summertime look at the chaos letting loose in Jefferson County in the wake of BBB-Bullshit
    Carol Ann Duffy:

    "If you think of the dark as a black park
    and the moon as a bounced ball,
    then there’s nothing to be frightened of
    at all.
    (Except for aliens…)"

     

    This Episode Recorded July 18, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

     

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    33 min
  • 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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    34 min
  • 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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    39 min
  • 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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    43 min
  • 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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    37 min
  • Paris on the Potomac: Shame!
    Enlighten Radio Presents
    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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    31 min

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