Re-Imagined Radio

Re-Imagined Radio samples from Box 13 and The Damon Runyon Theater, both offered by Paramount movie star Alan Ladd's Mayfair Productions, as syndicated radio programs. Both are significant examples of compelling, immersive radio storytelling. Each episode of Box 13 stars Ladd as Dan Holiday, a newspaper reporter turned mystery/adventure novel writer who gets ideas for his writing by advertising in the newspaper. "Adventure wanted. Will go any place, do anything." We sample from the first episode, the one where Holiday (Ladd) responds to a letter from a woman needing help confronting her blackmailer of five years. The Damon Runyon Theater adapts American newspaper and short story writer Damon Runyon's stories to radio. Each episode is set along Broadway, the famous street in New York. We sample from the first episode, "Tobias the Terrible," the one about a meek little man who wants to meet some underworld characters and winds up as one of them! Season 12, Episode 04 Written, produced, hosted by John Barber Sound Design, Music Composition, Post-Production by Marc Rose Graphics by Holly Slocum File name: rir-syndication.mp3

Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Women's History Month with a tribute to eight women that made significant and pioneering contributions to radio storytelling. We sample radio storytelling by Lucille Fletcher, Edith Meiser, Ruth Woodman, Mary MacBride, Jean King, Cathy Lewis, Margaret Lynch, and Gracie Allen. Season 12, Episode 3 Written, Produced, and Hosted by John F. Barber Sound Design, Music, and Post Production by Marc Rose Promotional Graphics by Holly Slocum with Sydney Nguyen 

Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Gunsmoke, a defining radio drama in the Western genre, with a compilation of two episodes, "Billy The Kid" and "Young Man with a Gun." Two different young men aspire to be gunslingers. Both meet US Marshall Matt Dillon (William Conrad) in Dodge City, Kansas, late 1870s. One changes his dream. The other lives it, and dies by it as "Billy The Kid." Two gunslingers. Two classic stories. One new adventure. 19 February 2024 Season 12, Episode 02 Curated, Produced, and Hosted by John F. Barber Sound Design and Music Composition by Marc Rose Promotional Graphics by Holly Slocum with Sydney Nguyen  

Re-Imagined Radio shares two episodes of The Mysterious Traveler, "The Man the Insects Hated" and "Behind the Locked Door." A double feature. Double the fun. Double the action and suspense. Doubly strange and terrifying. So now we double down. Risk double indemnity. With our first double feature. Season 12, Episode 01 Premier broadcast: January 22, 2024 File specs: Audio, MP3, stereo, 48.1Hz, 256kbps Recording name: rir-mysterious-traveler.mp3 Website: https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/mysterious-traveler/index.html

For the past decade, Re-Imagined Radio has offered "A Radio Christmas Carol," either as live or radio performances, to celebrate the seasonal holidays. For 2023, or 10th Anniversary, we are pleased to welcome the Willamette Radio Workshop, directed by Sam A. Mowry, and The Holly Jolly Singers, directed by Bennett Bailey, for a live performance in Vancouver's historic Kiggins Theatre. A live holiday performance!  20 December 2023  Season 11, Episode 12L Graphics: Holly Slocum and Sydney Nguyen Producer: John F. Barber Sound design and production: Martin J. Gallagher Recording specs: Audio, MP3, stereo, 44.1Hz, 256kbps  Recording name: rir-radio-christmas-carol-2023.mp3 Website: https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/christmas/index.html#2023L

Re-Imagined Radio samples from "Christmas Dragnet," a comedy record by Stan Freberg, and three radio programs, "The Stockings Were Hung," from The Shadow, December 24, 1939; "Christmas Gift," from The Whistler, December 23, 1951; and "Christmas Story," from Gunsmoke, December 20, 1952, to welcome the holidays and share some cheer. Season 11, Episode 12R Premier broadcast: 18 November 2023 Audio file: MP3, stereo, 44.1Hz, 256kbps File name: rir-radio-christmas-sampler-vol-III.mp3 Website:   https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/christmas/index.html#2023Sampler3  

Stories in time and space . . . told in future tense Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Dimension X, a pioneering radio science fiction series heard on NBC from April 1950 through September 1951. Neither the earliest nor the most famous of the many science fiction series heard on radio from the 1930s to the 1950s, the legacy of Dimension X looms large. Re-Imagined Radio explores that legacy. First by reviewing radio science fiction programs leading up to Dimension X, and second by listening to "The Outer Limit," the first episode of Dimension X, and perhaps the most often broadcast radio science fiction story. Premier broadcast: 20 November 2023 File name: rir-dimension-x.mp3 Audio file: MP3, stereo, 44.1Hz, 320kbps Website: https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/dimension-x/index.html    

Willamette Radio Performs Live October 20, 2023 Season 11, Episode 11L Re-Imagined Radio celebrates the 85th anniversary of the most (in)famous radio drama broadcast ever, AND World Audio Drama Day, with a live performance of The War of the Worlds, by Willamette Radio Workshop. Directed by Sam A. Mowry. Following closely the script Orson Welles and The Mercury Theatre on the Air used, October 30, 1938, they destroy the world before your ears. File name: rir-wow-live-2023.mp3 Audio file: stereo, 44.1Hz, 256kbps Website:  https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/wow/index.html#2323  

The demon is loose. The legend is real. 16 October, 2023 Season 11, Episode 10 For Halloween, Re-Imagined Radio presents "Asezhia," by Marc Rose and Jerrel McQuen. An ancient jewel, stolen from a planet of great beauty and dark history, transforms into a hellish denizen with an insatiable hunger for death and blood. Even Emile Song, the telepathic Special Detective from Quaymet, the capitol of a galactic civilization, may be out of his reckoning as he goes up against a skeletal fiend that can vanish in a ruby mist. File name: rir-asezhia.mp3 Audio file: stereo, 44.1Hz, 256kbps Website: https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/asezhia/index.html  

9/11 Radio Stories Stories behind the images Re-Imagined Radio remembers September 11, 2001, when four passenger airplanes were hijacked and turned into weapons. Behind televised images of New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania, airline officials, air traffic controllers, and federal agents talked, frantically trying to learn what was happening, and determine how to stop it. Their telephone and radio communications were recorded. We sample them to share stories behind the images of 9/11. Season 11, Episode 09 Premier broadcast: 18 September 2023 Written, Produced, and Hosted by John F. Barber Sound Design, Music, and Post Production by Marc Rose, Fuse Audio Design Promotional Graphics by Holly Slocum Design File name: rir-9-11-radio-stories.mp3 Website: https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/9-11/index.html