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The Colin McEnroe Show midnight spectacular

The Colin McEnroe Show team poses for a photo very early in the morning on June 21, 2024, after producing a show in the middle of the night. Pictured are Dylan Reyes, Carolyn McCusker, Colin McEnroe, Jonathan McNicol, Robyn Doyon-Aitken, and musical guest Hugh Blumenfeld.
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The Colin McEnroe Show team poses for a photo very early in the morning on June 21, 2024, after producing a show in the middle of the night. Pictured are Dylan Reyes, Carolyn McCusker, Colin McEnroe, Jonathan McNicol, Robyn Doyon-Aitken, and musical guest Hugh Blumenfeld.

Back before radio stations (ours included) started re-airing daytime programs during the night as a default, nighttime airwaves were a place for experimentation, confessions, and wondering that wouldn't be welcome in the light of day.

“Why don’t we try that?” said we!

On June 20, Colin McEnroe, a team of intrepid radio producers and engineers, and one very generous security guard stayed in the office from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. The resulting radio program, which features live music, poetry, and phone calls about UFOs, Boy Scout horror stories, and siphonophores, is available here for your listening pleasure.

GUESTS: 

  • Hugh Blumenfeld: Folk musician and singer-songwriter from Connecticut
  • Major Jackson: Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and host of the podcast The Slowdown from American Public Media; his most recent book is Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems
  • Mike Penicello: State director of the Connecticut Mutual UFO Network
  • Keith Trosell: Truck driver and owner/operator of Boba Freight, which is based in Columbia, Connecticut
  • Zulynette: Performer, artist, author, and creator of the annual storytelling event A Little Bit of Death; her most recent book of poetry is Seeing in the Dark

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Colin McEnroe, Robyn Doyon-Aitken, Jonathan McNicol, and Dylan Reyes contributed to this show.

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Carolyn McCusker helps produce The Colin McEnroe Show. She loves making true radio stories and listening to fake ones. In the past, she’s worked for NPR and WNYC, and she’s glad to be back at CT Public after interning in 2019. Carolyn can be reached at cmccusker@ctpublic.org.