Episodes

Stories for the holidays
16 December 2024
Season 12, Episode 12R
For 2024, Re-Imagined Radio offers this fourth volume of A Radio Christmas Sampler to celebrate radio storytelling for the seasonal holidays. Enjoy our selections from various radio programs. LEARN more

21 October 2024
Season 12, Episode 10
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PT, KXRW and KXRY
Re-Imagined Radio premiers Night of the Eclipsoid Man, Part 1, a cinematic radio story by Jerrel McQuen and Marc Rose set on another world, in another dimension. In Part 1, Spencer Knightbridge is transformed into a negative image of himself by a fantastic invention, giving him incredible telekinetic powers of destruction. He uses his new power to avenge horrible wrongs done him while growing up in Quayment's Neon Bowery. LEARN more

"All we want are the facts."
19 August 2024
Season 12, Episode 08
Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Dragnet, the real-life police procedural, and Jack Webb, as Detective Sgt. Joe Friday, who defined and was defined by this radio series. We sample from several pre-Dragnet radio shows where Webb honed his character and acting style. And end with "The City Hall Bombing," an early episode of Dragnet to showcase Webb as a great radio storyteller. LEARN more

The action-packed expense account
17 June 2024
Season 12, Episode 06
Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Johnny Dollar, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, the man with the action-packed expense account, by spotlighting "The McCormick Matter." This five-part episode starring Bob Bailey spotlights the best storytelling format and the best of the eight Johnny Dollar actors during the series' 14-year run on CBS. LEARN more

Alan Ladd's Mayfair Productions
15 April 2024
Season 12, Episode 04
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. LEARN more

Two gunslingers. Two classic stories. One new adventure.
19 February 2024
Season 12, Episode 02
Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Gunsmoke, a defining radio drama in the Western genre, with a compilation from 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 dies by it as "Billy The Kid." LEARN more

A LIVE holiday performance!
20 December 2023
Season 11, Episode 12L
Re-Imagined Radio presents The Willamette Radio Workshop performing the classic story by Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. We've presented some version of this story every holiday season since 2013. It's wonderful to offer it again at Kiggins Theatre with live voice actors and Foley artists. LEARN more

Stories in time and space
20 November 2023
Season 11, Episode 11
Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Dimension X, a pioneering adult science fiction radio storytelling series by reviewing earlier radio science fiction programs, and listening to "The Outer Limit," the first episode of Dimension X, and perhaps the most often broadcast radio science fiction story. LEARN more

A world of great beauty and instant death
16 October 2023
Season 11, Episode 10R
For Halloween, Re-Imagined Radio presents Asezhia. An ancient jewel, stolen from a planet with a dark history, transforms into a predatory terror with an insatiable hunger for sensation 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 into ruby mist, a hellish denizen from the distant world of Asezhia, a world of great beauty, and instant death. Learn More

Stories about the famous speech
21 August 2023
Season 11, Episode 08
Re-Imagined Radio celebrates the anniversary of the famous "I Have a Dream" speech, by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and considers some stories about its origins, context, delivery, and reception. Speaking from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. King called for equality. For civil and economic rights for all people. And, for an end to racism in the United States. Learn More

Four Short Stories by Jack J. Ward
19 June 2023
Season 11, Episode 06
Re-Imagined Radio presents four short science fiction radio stories written and directed by Jack J. Ward, who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. "Coast To Coast" celebrates this radio storytelling connection between the Northwest Coast of the United States and the Northeast Coast of Canada. Learn More

Edward R. Murrow's radio storytelling.
17 April 2023
Season 11, Episode 04
Re-Imagined Radio explores "the proximity effect" achieved by Edward R. Murrow in his World War II reports from London during fifty-seven days of continuous bombing. His keen observation, vivid verbal descriptions, and attention to sound provide unmatched immediacy, a sense of what could be observed, and a new form of radio storytelling. Learn More

Opening of the Interstate Bridge.
20 February 2023
Season 11, Episode 02
Re-Imagined Radio explores early examples of dramatized news events and uses this inspiration to create its own dramatization of the opening of the Interstate Bridge linking Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, across the Columbia River, February 14, 1917. Learn More

Our first LIVE performance since 2020!
21 December 2022
Season 10, Episode 12
Re-Imagined Radio presents The Willamette Radio Workshop performing the classic story by Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. We have presented some version of this story every holiday season since 2013. It is wonderful to offer it again at Kiggins Theatre with live voice actors and Foley artists. Carols by The Holly Jolly Singers. Learn More

Stories told by those who lived them.
21 November 2022
Season 10, Episode 10
Re-Imagined Radio features three stories from the Clark County Historical Musuem Oral History Collection: "Living with Chief Joseph," "Working for the SPS Railroad," and "The Russians Arrive." Hear these stories told in the voices of those who lived them. Learn More

Sudden, unexpected revelations or insights.
19 September 2022
Season 10, Episode 08
Epiphanies. Sudden insights. Revelations. Connections. Re-Imagined Radio offers several, each produced by local writers and voice actors. Each insightful. Sometimes uncomfortable. "Twisted" from expectations. But each an excellent, thought-provoking story about human experience. Learn More

Tribute to three connected radio dramas.
18 July 2022
Season 10, Episode 06
Re-Imagined Radio pays tribute to three radio drama series produced and broadcast by the same radio station from the 1930s-1950s, using a handful of voice actors and announcers that cycled between programs. Learn More

Tribute to experimental radio storytelling.
16 May 2022
Season 10, Episode 04
Re-Imagined Radio celebrates The Columbia Workshop and its experiments with radio storytelling. The Voices perform Archibald MacLeish's "The Fall of the City" with some samples from Jack J. Ward's "Great Day for a War" to provide present day context. Learn More

Tribute To Black American culture, art, and history.
21 February 2022
Season 10, Episode 02
Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Black History Month and the democratic traditions and cultural contributions of Black Americans. We sample "The Father of the Blues" to consider W.C. Handy, and "The Trumpet Talks" to consider Louis Armstrong. Learn More

Our community holiday tradition continues.
20 December 2021
Season 09, Episode 12
Re-Imagined Radio celebrates the Christmas holidays with a sampler of radio shows including The Jack Benny Program, Rocky Fortune, The Damon Runyon Theatre, Bing Crosby and The Kraft Music Hall, Metropolitan Performing Arts, Suspense, and more. Since 2013 Re-Imagined Radio has offered a holiday celebration. We continue this tradition with "A Radio Christmas Sampler." Learn More

Our best take on this most (in)famous radio drama.
18 October 2021
Season 09, Episode 10
Re-Imagined Radio celebrates World Audio Drama Day and the most (in)famous radio drama of all time, "The War of the Worlds," with a re-imagined storyline, perspectives, and sound effects. Learn More

Three Worlds. Three Dimensions. One Future.
16 August 2021
Season 09, Episode 08
Re-Imagined Radio presents Nirvana & Gehenna, by Jerrel McQuen and Marc Rose. In their interdimensional documentary, The Multiverse is a helix. Professor Thedgar Rhedlington, an eccentric scientist, discovers how to bridge the spirals. Major events ripple up and down the helix, and parallel events are born. This creates Nirvana & Gehenna. Learn More

Tales from the far horizons of the unknown.
21 June 2021
Season 09, Episode 06
Re-Imagined Radio celebrates X Minus One, the anthology program known for high quality radio adaptations of original science fiction stories, with samples from "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury and "The Cave of Night" by James E. Gunn. Learn More

The most famous detective who never lived.
10 May 2021
Season 09, Episode 04
Re-Imagined Radio presents our adaptation of "The Immortal Sherlock Holmes" performed by Metropolitan Performing Arts. Sherlock Holmes, the most famous of all fictional detectives, uses his amazing powers of deduction to solve mysteries, murders, and other crimes. We give a tip of the deerstalker hat to the man who never lived, but whose enduring legend will never die. Learn More

The heart, redux.
11 February 2021
Season 09, Episode 02
Re-Imagined Radio celebrates love, in many forms, just in time for Valentine's Day. Performed by Metropolitan Performing Arts with special appearances by Lonesome Gal whose singing breaks many hearts, with happiness. Learn More

Our community holiday tradition continues.
December 24, 2020
Season 08, Episode 03
Re-Imagined Radio celebrates the holiday season as it has done since 2013. A special 2-hour performance by Metropolitan Performing Arts includes this holiday classic PLUS a fun selection of carols and holiday music AND a guest appearance by Lonesome Gal. Learn More

Hard-boiled noir with a side of attitude.
22 January 2020
Season 08, Episode 01
Re-Imagined Radio presents Metropolitan Performing Arts performing THE classic hard-boiled private eye drama with just enough noir by Dashiell Hammett. We re-imagine his iconic story for radio with good success. Learn More

The D.B. Cooper Saga Part 2
27 November 2019
Season 07, Episode 04
Re-Imagined Radio and Metropolitan Performing Arts explore the intriguing question of "What D.B. Cooper and flight attendant Tina Mucklow talked about before Cooper parachuted from the hijacked passenger jet over southwest Washington." We share some ideas. Learn More

Alien intelligences and climate change.
17 April 2019
Season 07, Episode 02
Re-Imagined Radio and Metropolitan Performing Arts sample The Junkyard by Clifford D. Simak as a frame for presentations by two Washington State University Vancouver scientists, one about alien intelligences, the other about climate change. Learn More

Our community holiday tradition continues.
20 December 2018
Season 06, Episode 05
Re-Imagined Radio once again, ends our season with a performance of this holiday classic by Metropolitan Performing Arts. We continue our community storytelling tradition. Learn More

Our third take on this most (in)famous radio drama.
30 October 2018
Season 06, Episode 03
Re-Imagined Radio presents Metropolitan Performing Arts celebrating World Audio Drama Day and the 80th anniversary of the original broadcast of "The War of the Worlds." Learn More

Re-imagined origin stories for this classic radio hero.
4 April 2018
Season 06, Episode 01
Re-Imagined Radio presents Metropolitan Performing Arts performing re-imagined origin stories for The Lone Ranger, the white horse, Silver, and empowerment of women on an Oregon Territory wagon train. Learn More

Classic Old Time Radio comedy sketches!
27 September 2017
Season 05, Episode 02
Re-Imagined Radio presents The Willamette Radio Workshop performing skits from Old Time Radio comedians Jack Benny, Fibber McGee and Molly, Abbot and Costello, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, and W.C. Fields. Learn More

Our community holiday tradition continues.
21 December 2016
Season 04, Episode 04
Re-Imagined Radio presents The Willamette Radio Workshop performing this classic holiday story in return for donations of non-perishable items for The Clark County Food Bank. Learn More

Radio dramas about PTSD before it was a thing.
4 May 2016
Season 04, Episode 02
Re-Imagined Radio presents The Willamette Radio Workshop performing episodes from two radio dramas dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) before it was named or understood. Learn More

Our community holiday tradition continues.
16 December 2015
Season 03, Episode 04
Re-Imagined Radio presents The Willamette Radio Workshop and their performance of this classic tale of Christmas. Free admission with donation of non-perishable food items. Learn More

Comic hero, contemporary civic leaders.
18 June 2015
Season 03, Episode 02
Re-Imagined Radio presents a performance by local civic leaders based on Superman of the 1930s-1940s, but with a satirical eye on current issues facing Vancouver, WA. Learn More

Our community holiday tradition continues.
18 December 2014
Season 02, Episode 03
Re-Imagined reprises this holiday favorite performed by The Willamette Radio Workshop. This could become a community storytelling tradition. Learn More

An adventure travel story.
6 August 2014
Season 02, Episode 01
Re-Imagined Radio presents The Willamette Radio Workshop and their adaptation of Phileas Fogg's journey around the world in eighty days or less on a bet. It is quite the adventure! Learn More

Our first take on this most (in)famous radio drama.
30 October 2013
Season 01, Episode 01
Re-Imagined Radio presents it first episode, a performance by The Willamette Radio Workshop of the most famous radio broadcast of all time on the occasion of its 75th anniversary. Learn More