RiR 100
RiR #100, Season 14, Episode 08
August 17, 2026
Celebrating 100 Episodes
of Re-Imagined Radio
The 100-yard dash.
The 100-meter hurdles.
The 100-lap race.
100 years of Cooking/Gardening/Advertising/Horse Racing ... You name the subject.
The 100 Best Songs/Movies/Stories/Photographs ... Et cetera ... in History ... the World.
The Billboard Hot 100.
100 Years of Solitude.
The Hundred Schools of Thought.
The first one hundred days.
The 100.
100-Year Floods.
A History of the World in 100 Objects.
"Keeping it 100."
One hundred more examples are possible. But ponderous.
And you get the idea. The number, "100," and word, "one hundred," often associated with completeness, achievement, abundance and success, representing both a culmination and a new beginning, is well established.
And now, "100" is applied to Re-Imagined Radio. It marks a major milestone as we celebrate more than a decade of innovative sound-based storytelling.
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Time frame: Fall 2013-Fall 2026
Episodes: 100
Recordings available: 90
One hundred times before we've packaged up episodes and sent them over the oscillating waves of the radio medium to transport listeners across time, place, and imagination, and project a believable world on the wide screen of their imaginations.
One hundred episodes, dramas, documentaries, comedies, adaptations, and original productions, entertaining and informative stories for listeners, local, national, and international. Now, we revisit memorable moments, themes, and productions from our first 100 episodes. We reflect on the journey and celebrate the people, stories and creative collaborations that made it possible.
The Age of Curation by Re-Creation
"RiR 100" is a retrospective celebration, revisiting highlights offering listeners an opportunity to rediscover favorite moments while introducing newer audiences to the breadth and variety of Re-Imagined Radio's work. For everyone, it's useful to divide Re-Imagined Radio History into "Ages" represented by a common theme. The first is "The Age of Curation by Re-Creation," 2013 to 2017.
2013
The Year of Origin
Season 1
Episodes 2
Recordings 0
Re-Imagined Radio begins October 30, 2013, as support for student sound-based storytelling projects. Learn more reading Re-Imagined Radio Origin Story. →
The War of the Worlds →
RiR #01, Season 01, Episode 01, October 30, 2013
Willamette Radio Workshop
No recording available
We've offered several other performances of this classic radio drama. Watch for further information later in this timeline.
A Christmas Carol →
RiR #02, Season 01, Episode 02, December 19, 2013
Willamette Radio Workshop
No recording available
We've offered some form of this timeless tale every year since. It's now a community holiday tradition, with a powerful message, that humanity outweighs riches. That redemption is possible through kindness.
2014
The Year of Beginning
Season 2
Episodes 3
Recordings 0
Around the World in Eighty Days →
RiR #03, Season 02, Episode 01, August 6, 2014
Willamette Radio Workshop
No recording available
The War of the Worlds →
RiR #04, Season 02, Episode 02, October 30, 2014
Willamette Radio Workshop
No recording available
A Christmas Carol →
RiR #05, Season 02, Episode 03, December 18, 2014
Willamette Radio Workshop
No recording available
2015
The Year of First Recordings and Double Features
Season 3
Episodes 4
Recordings 1
The Case Files of Dr. Moreau →
RiR #06, Season 03, Episode 01, April 22, 2015
Willamette Radio Workshop
Recording available
An original adaptation from the 1896 H.G. Wells novel, The Island of Dr. Moreau, written by Portland, Oregon-based playwright William S. Gregory. It's Re-Imagined Radio's first guest-written episode.
Gregory casts a conspiratorial eye on the novel's themes of pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, and human interference with nature. An imaginative, thought-provoking, chilling look at Dr. Moreau's most elegant experiment.
Superman →
RiR #07, Season 03, Episode 02, June 18, 2015
Written and directed by Dan Wyatt, Jr.
Community actors
No recording available
With a satirical eye on issues facing then current-day Vancouver, Washington, Dan cast then Mayor of Vancouver, Tim Leavitt and other community leaders, and students from my Digital Storytelling class. Our first foray into community storytelling.
Celebrates Superman, as a comic book hero, as an art form, and as a savior for contemporary civilization. All, with tongue, firmly in cheek.
The Fall of the City and R.U.R. →
RiR #08, Season 03, Episode 03, October 7, 2015
Willamette Radio Workshop
No recording available
Both "The Fall of the City" and "R.U.R." were originally adapted for radio by Columbia Workshop. We have a recording of a later performance of "The Fall of the City" by Willamette Radio Workshop where Sam A. Mowry voices the role of the radio news announcer, the part voiced by Orson Welles in the original Columbia Workshop performance, reporting what he sees as the unnamed conqueror enters the city plaza where thousands of people have gathered.
The initials "R.U.R" stand for Rossum's Universal Robots, a company that manufactures artificial humans used for slave labor.
The play and its radio adaptation are significant as the first appearance of the word robot in the English language, and as the origin of the fundamental tension between humans and robots, androids, cyborgs, and lately, genetic modification and artificial intelligence.
This double feature episode was the first for Re-Imagined Radio.
A Christmas Carol →
RiR #09, Season 03, Episode 04, December 16, 2015
Willamette Radio Workshop
No recording available
2016
The Year of First Tribute
Season 4
Episodes 4
Recordings 0
Season Collage
Lucille Fletcher Tribute →
RiR #10, Season 04, Episode 01, March 23, 2016
Willamette Radio Workshop
Recording available
Double feature with "The Hitchhiker" and "Sorry, Wrong Number." Our first tribute, both to Women's History Month and Lucille Fletcher, one of best women writers in radio drama history.
Fletcher says she wrote "The Hitchhiker" for Orson Welles, "in the days when he was one of the master producers and actors in radio."
Welles first performed Fletcher's story on his The Orson Welles Show, November 17, 1941, and then several times after. Welles starred as Ronald Adams, who while driving from New York to California, sees the same strange man hitchhiking at multiple places along the route. Adams becomes obsessed with the unknown man, eventually deciding to find him and run him over with his automobile. The ending provides a real twist.
Bloody Hands and The Silent Avenger
→
RiR #11, Season 04, Episode 02, May 4, 2016
Willamette Radio Workshop
No recording available
Another double feature. "Bloody Hands" is an episode from Gunsmoke. "The Silent Avenger" is an episode from The Shadow. Both focus on PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) before it was a thing.
In "Bloody Hands," Marshal Matt Dillon, faced with too much killing and fearing he has lost his edge, quits his job. But when a murderer comes to Dodge City, who will save its citizens?
In "The Silent Avenger" Joe Bricker is sentenced to death. He manipulates his brother, a World War I sniper suffering from PTSD, to kill everyone responsible for his pending execution. Can The Shadow find and stop the invisible sniper before it is too late?
Dracula →
RiR #12, Season 04, Episode 03, October 27, 2016
Willamette Radio Workshop
No recording available
For Halloween, Re-Imagined Radio offers our first take on the original man in black. Not Johnny Cash but Dracula. Adapted from the 1938 Mercury Theatre on the Air performance, itself adapted from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, considered one of the greatest horror novels ever written.
A Christmas Carol →
RiR #13, Season 04, Episode 04, December 21, 2016
Willamette Radio Workshop
Recording available
Based on the December 23, 1938 The Campbell Playhouse radio adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, starring Orson Welles as Ebenezer Scrooge.
2017
The Year of First Anthology
Season 5
Episodes 3
Recordings 3
Season Collage
City of Weird →
RiR #14, Season 05, Episode 01, April 26, 2017
Willamette Radio Workshop
Recording available
Our first foray into an anthology format. Based on the book City of Weird, a collection of short stories about "Keep It Weird" Portland, Oregon. Five stories, each written by local authors, adapted for radio by Cynthia J. McGean. One hundred fifty people in the audience.
Laugh Your Dial Off →
RiR #15, Season 05, Episode 02, September 27, 2017
Willamette Radio Workshop
Recording available
A series of snappy comedy skits from Old Time Radio Kings of Comedy, Jack Benny, Fibber McGee and Molly, Abbott and Costello, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, and W.C. Fields. Plus genuine sounding radio commercials of the day demonstrating the advertising style and cultural touchstones of the era.
This is our last, for awhile, performance with Willamette Radio Workshop, who withdrew as our performance partner, wanting to focus on creating original material in the more controlled environment of their studio.
Re-Imagined Radio finds a new partner in Metropolitan Performing Arts, a Vancouver-based performing arts school. They draw their actors from the local community, which brings us one step closer to community-based performances.
A Christmas Carol →
RiR #16, Season 05, Episode 03, December 20, 2017
Metropolitan Performing Arts
Recording available
My notes say three hundred people attend this performance. That's one hundred more than the seating capacity at Kiggins Theatre.
The Age of Curation by Collaboration
The Age of Curation by Re-Creation ends in 2017, when Willamette Radio Workshop, wanting to focus on creating original material in their studio, withdraws as our performance partner. The Age of Curation by Collaboration begins. Lasts until 2021.
2018
The Year of Changing Ages
Season 6
Episodes 5
Recordings 5
Season Collage
The Lone Ranger →
RiR #17, Season 06, Episode 01, April 4, 2018
Metropolitan Performing Arts
Recording available
The Lone Ranger's origin story is re-imagined around a sister assuming the role after her two brothers are killed in ambush. Also the the story of Silver, the Lone Ranger's "fiery steed." And a sub-plot about women empowerment on a wagon train traveling the Oregon Trail.
"The Lone Ranger" was broadcast on community radio stations KXRW-FM (Vancouver, WA) and KXRY-FM, (Portland, OR). One of the earliest episodes of Re-Imagined Radio to be broadcast.
Dracula →
RiR #18, Season 06, Episode 02, September 26, 2018
Metropolitan Performing Arts
Recording available
For this second take on this classic horror story I adapted the script from the 1938 performance by The Mercury Theatre on the Air, and added bits from the 1897 novel by Bram Stoker, considered one the greatest horror novels ever written. Another good audience. 172 people.
The War of the Worlds →
RiR #19, Season 06, Episode 03, October 30, 2018
Metropolitan Performing Arts
Recording available
Re-Imagined Radio and Metropolitan Performing Arts performed "The War of the Worlds," for the 80th anniversary of the original broadcast by The Mercury Theatre on the Air.
For this anniversary, live performance we re-situated some aspects of the original broadcast. We changed the location from Grovers Mill, New Jersey, to Vancouver and Battle Ground, Washington, reversed some gender roles, and revised other story elements to make the story more engaging for our listeners. Three hundred thirty six people joined us in the audience.
The live performance was streamed globally by community radio stations KXRW-FM (Vancouver, WA), and KXRY-FM (Portland, OR). We were starting to have a new sense of what "performing live" might mean.
Skyjacker '71: The D.B. Cooper Transmissions →
RiR #20, Season 6, Episode 11, November 18, 2018
Metropolitan Performing Arts
Recording available
Part 1, of "The D.B. Cooper Saga," written and directed by Dan Wyatt, Jr., owner of our venue, the historic Kiggins Theatre, in downtown Vancouver.
D.B. Cooper is a mythical hero here in Southwest Washington state. on November 24, 1971, Thanksgiving Eve, a man calling himself Dan Cooper, wearing a business suit, raincoat, a clip on tie, slip on loafers, and carrying a briefcase, boarded a Northwest Orient jet passenger plane for the short flight from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington.
Soon after takeoff, Cooper told flight attendants he had a bomb in his briefcase, and was hijacking the airplane.
After landing in Seattle, the airplane remained parked on a remote tarmac while Cooper's demands were met. $200,000 in ransom for the passengers and some crew. Used twenties. Four parachutes. Two each back and front. Meals for the remaining crew. And passage to Mexico.
On the way to Mexico, somewhere over southwest Washington, Cooper parachuted from the rear of the airplane with his ransom money strapped to his body. Only $5,000 was ever recovered. Cooper was never identified or captured. His story is the only remaining unsolved case of air piracy in United States aviation history.
Dan's script explores communications between multiple agencies and individuals as they attempt to resolve a tense situation, keep citizens safe and informed, and uphold the law.
Vancouver Mayor Anne McEnerny-Ogle voiced Dan's mother. Remember her from "The Lone Ranger"?
A Christmas Carol →
RiR #21, Season 06, Episode 05, December 20, 2018
Metropolitan Performing Arts
Recording available
The sixth year offering "A Radio Christmas Carol" as a live, community performance. Features Vancouver Mayor Anne McEnerny-Ogle, as Ghost of Christmas Present.
2019
The Year of Stretching
Season 7
Episodes 5
Recordings 4
Season Collage
2019 was a year of stretching out for Re-Imagined Radio. By that I mean that while our format remained focused on live performances, we experimented with new storytelling genres and approaches.
Affairs of the Heart →
RiR #22, Season 07, Episode 01, February 14, 2019
Metropolitan Performing Arts
Recording available
Stories about the things we do for love, each with a unique twist. I like "Blood Thirsty Kate," for its combination of humor and romance, and its focus on the fact that even pirates need love.
SciFi, SciFacts →
RiR #23, Season 07, Episode 02, April 17, 2019
Metropolitan Performing Arts
Recording available
Samples "The Junkyard" by science fiction writer Clifford Simack, to provide context for two talks by Washington State University Vancouver scientists. One about alien intelligence. The other about climate change.
Halloween Fright Night →
RiR #24, Season 07, Episode 03, October 30, 2019
Metropolitan Performing Arts
Recording available
Samples from "The Locked Room Mystery," "Murder Castle," and "Knock at the Door" from Lights Out, "Thing on the Fourble Board" from Quiet, Please!, and "Chicken Heart" from Suspense. To provide a delightful shiver of fear up your spine.
In Flight with D.B. Cooper →
RiR #25, Season 07, Episode 04, November 27, 2019
Metropolitan Performing Arts
Recording available
Part 2, of "The D.B. Cooper Saga," written and directed by Dan Wyatt, Jr., owner of our venue, the historic Kiggins Theatre, in downtown Vancouver. Imagines conversations Cooper and Flight Attendant Tina Mucklow might have had during the hijacking experience.
A Christmas Carol →
RiR #26, Season 07, Episode 05, December 18, 2019
Metropolitan Performing Arts
No recording available
For the seventh year we offer a live performance of "A Christmas Carol" as our community holiday celebration.
2020
The Year of COVID, and Evolution
In response to COVID restrictions, Re-Imagined Radio evolves from live public performances to recorded
episodes produced for radio broadcast and streaming.
Season 8
Episodes 3
Recordings 3
Season Collage
The Maltese Falcon →
RiR #27, Season 08, Episode 01, January 22, 2020
Metropolitan Performing Arts
Recording available
Metropolitan Performing Arts brings the characters Sam Spade, Brigid O'Shaughnessy, Joel Cairo, and Casper Gutman to life, with just enough noir around their edges.
Our last live performance before COVID safety regulations prevent public gatherings.
The Skyjacker →
RiR #28, Season 08, Episode 02, November 25, 2020
Metropolitan Performing Arts
Recording available
Part 3 of "The D.B. Cooper Saga" written and directed by Dan Wyatt, Jr., owner of our venue, the historic Kiggins Theatre, in downtown Vancouver.
Highlights from Part 1, "The D.B. Cooper Transmissions" and Part 2, "In Flight with D.B. Cooper."
Originally planned as a live performance at Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, Washington. COVID restrictions on public gatherings forced us to record and produce this episode remotely for radio broadcast. This is our first episode produced specifically for radio broadcast. Community radio stations KXRW-FM and KXRY-FM both offer hour-long slots in their broadcast schedule. Most every episode since has been produced for radio broadcast rather than live performance.
A Christmas Carol →
RiR #29, Season 08, Episode 03, December 24, 2020
Metropolitan Performing Arts
Recording available
COVID precautions prevent a live performance. So, instead, we offer a special, two-hour broadcast and live stream by our community radio partners.
The Age of Curation by Conversation
2021
The Year of Conversation
I think of 2021 as beginning the "Age of Curation By Conversation," which continues until 2026.
Season 9
Episodes 12
Recordings 12
Episode Collage
New Year →
RiR #30, Season 09, Episode 01, January 14, 2021
Original actors
Recording available
Samples from New Year's Eve episodes of The Whistler and Guy Lombardo's New Year's Eve Party to celebrate the start of 2021. Some backstory on "Auld Lang Syne," the traditional song for New Year's celebrations.
Affairs of the Heart 2021 →
RiR #31, Season 09, Episode 02, Feb. 11, 2021
Metropolitan Performing Arts
Recording available
Re-Imagined Radio revisits its 2019 live performance at Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, Washington, of "The Good Salesman," "The Valiant," and "Bloodthirsty Kate." Special appearances by Lonesome Gal whose singing breaks many hearts, with happiness.
Storytelling with Sounds →
RiR #32, Season 09, Episode 03, March 15, 2021
Community actors
Recording available
Storytelling with sounds (the storyteller's voice and other sound effects) sparks our imagination like no other human sensory input, creating a visual world in our mind's eye. This world is believable, full of opportunities for engagement and interactivity. Re-Imagined Radio explores several interesting examples of storytelling with sounds.
The Immortal Sherlock Holmes →
RiR #33, Season 09, Episode 04, May 10, 2021
Metropolitan Performing Arts
Recording available
Adapted from a stage play by William Gillette, itself adapted from one by Arthur Conan Doyle, Re-Imagined Radio celebrates the greatest detective who never lived, yet will always be immortal, the detective's detective, Sherlock Holmes.
Exuberance Is Beauty →
RiR #34, Season 09, Episode 05, May 17, 2021
Illuminus Audio Productions, directed by Donna Barrow-Green
Recording available
A guest production, set in post-WW II Portland, Oregon. Eve Miller grieves the loss of her husband Nick. An intense and exciting love affair with Jeff Lambert, a dashing, married, artist brings passion back into her life. But, both Jeff and Eve must face the consequences of their desires and actions. A contemporary interpretation of the biblical allegory of Adam and Eve and Eve's fall into desolation.
X Minus One Tribute →
RiR #35, Season 09, Episode 06, June 21, 2021
Original actors
Recording available
Re-Imagined Radio celebrates X Minus One, the anthology program known for high quality radio adaptations of original science fiction stories. We feature two episodes, "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury and "The Cave of Night" by James E. Gunn. Tales from the far horizons of the unknown.
Hiro & Liling / The Martian Death March →
RiR #36, Season 09, Episode 07, December 24, 2020
Willamette Radio Workshop
Recording available
Willamette Radio Workshop performs two short radio dramas, "Hiro & Liling" by Kristina Jones, an original work, and "The Martian Death March" by Ernest Kinoy, an episode from Dimension X and X Minus One. "Hiro & Lilign" is a lyrical love story. "The Martian Death March" is an insight to inumanity. Both directed by Sam A. Mowry.
Nirvana & Gehenna→
RiR #37, Season 09, Episode 08, August 16, 2021
Local actors
Recording available
Three Worlds. Three Dimensions. One Future. An interdimensional documentary by Jerrel McQuen and Marc Rose. They envision The Multiverse as a helix. Five spirals above Earth is Dry Smoke. Nine spirals up is Farwan. Professor Thedgar Rhedlington, an eccentric scientist from the Dry Smoke continuum, bridges all three, and thus creates Nirvana & Gehenna. Any major event can ripple up and down the helix, and parallel events are born. Heady stuff indeed. But it makes for great storytelling.
Dracula 2021 →
RiR #38, Season 09, Episode 09, September 20, 2021
Metropolitan Performing Arts
Recording available
Re-Imagined Radio reprises the 2018 recorded performance of "Dracula" by Metropolitan Performing Arts to present our third take on the original man in black. Our intent: sending a skitter up your spine!
The War of the Worlds →
RiR #39, Season 09, Episode 10, October 18, 2021
Community actors
Recording available
Re-Imagined Radio celebrates the 83rd anniversary of "The War of the Worlds" and World Audio Drama Day by re-imaginging this classic radio drama. We tweek the storyline. Add new content. Use local landmarks and characters. Introduce new perspectives. Incorporate cinematic sound effects and ambiences. And, we introduce "The Voices," our new ensemble of amazing voice actors.
Candy Matson Tribute →
RiR #40, Season 09, Episode 11, November 15, 2021
Original actors
Recording available
Samples the first and last episodes of Candy Matson, a ground-breaking female investigator anthology radio series, and good radio storytelling. Episodes feature references to local streets, buildings, events, and culture, and use gay and Asian characters. These local associations, along with the quick and creative scripts, made Candy Matson an audience favorite.
A Radio Christmas Sampler, Vol. I →
RiR #41, Season 09, Episode 12, December 20, 2021
Original actors
Recording available
Samples from Suspense, Rocky Fortune, The Damon Runyon Theatre, The Jack Benny Program, Bing Crosby and The Kraft Music Hall, Vic and Sade, and the 2020 recorded performance of "A Christmas Carol" by Metropolitan Performing Arts. Our first sampling of radio holiday programs.
2022
The Year of Collaboration
Season 10
Episodes 12
Recordings 12
Season Collage
Figurski at Findhorn on Acid →
RiR #42, Season 10, Episode 01, January 17, 2022
Community actors
Recording available
Re-Imagined Radio adapts for radio the pioneering hypertext novel Figurski at Findhorn on Acid by Richard Holeton. Frank Figurski, The No Hands Cup Flipper, and Fatima Michelle Vieuchanger converge at Findhorn, Scotland, seeking one—perhaps two!—mechanical pigs of incalculable value while stewing in Spam, acid—yes, that acid—and wit-slathered repartee. Three characters. Two mechanical pigs. One epic story.
Destination Freedom →
RiR #43, Season 10, Episode 02, December 24, 2020
Original actors
Recording available
Tribute to Black History Month and Destination Freedom, a radio series offering thematic episodes about Black American music, art, science, medicine, history, and more. Re-Imagined Radio samples from "The Father of the Blues" to highlight W.C. Handy, and "The Trumpet Talks" to highlight Louis Armstrong.
Destination Freedom is significant because it dramatized the democratic traditions and cultural contributions of Black Americans, and, in the process, provided footholds for the later civil and human rights movements.
Lucille Fletcher Tribute 2022 →
RiR #44, Season 10, Episode 03, March 18, 2022
Willamette Radio Workshop and community actors
Recording available
Samples from the 2016 live performance of "The Hitch-Hiker" by Willamette Radio Workshop and a new iteration of "Sorry, Wrong Number" by local actors, produced remotely due to COVID restrictions.
The Fall of the City →
RiR #45, Season 10, Episode 04, May 16, 2022
Willamette Radio Workshop and community actors
Recording available
Celebrates Columbia Workshop and its experiments with radio storytelling with an experiment of our own. We combine Willamette Radio Workshop's performance of Archibald MacLeish's "The Fall of the City" with a performance of Jack J. Ward's "Great Day for a War" to provide present day context.
"The Fall of the City" is a story about the ambiguous relationship humans have with freedom. "Great Day for a War" is an unpublished, previoulsy unperformed story about a broadcasting company's scheme to increase its viewers during ratings week.
William Conrad Tribute →
RiR #46, Season 10, Episode 05, June 20, 2022
Original actors
Recording available
Tribute to William Conrad's iconic radio voice heard in thousands of supporting roles and literally defining two radio drama series, Escape and Gunsmoke. We sample "The Abominable Snowman" from Escape and "Bloody Hands" from Gunsmoke. Tribute to a great radio voice.
Lone-Green-Challenge →
RiR #47, Season 10, Episode 06, July 18, 2022
Original actors
Recording available
Tribute to three uniquely connected radio drama series, The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, and The Challenge of the Yukon. Each is pioneering radio storytelling. Each is anchored by a larger than life character. Each stands for something. Each keeps the criminals in check. And each never backs away from their guiding principles.
Joe Frank Tribute →
RiR #48, Season 10, Episode 07, August 15, 2022
Original actors
Recording available
Tribute to Joe Frank, whose monologues, radio dramas, and talk radio about human experience were heard by thousands of listeners, 1978-2018. We sample from "Jewish Blues" (1978), "Memories" (1990), "Green Cadillac" (1993), "Reality Check" (2013), and "A Life Well Lived" (2013) to showcase his career.
Twisted Epiphanies →
RiR #49, Season 10, Episode 08, September 19, 2022
Community actors
Recording available
Twenty short radio stories by local writers, voice actors. Each story features an "epiphany," a sudden, unexpected revelation or insight. Entertaining and insightful. Sometimes uncomfortable. "Twisted" from expectations. But each is an excellent, thought-provoking story about human experience.
The War of the Worlds: Possible Influences →
RiR #50, Season 10, Episode 09, October 17, 2022
Community actors
Recording available
Celebrates the 84th anniversary of "The War of the Worlds," the most (in)famous radio story ever, by exploring earlier experiments with "break in" news announcements and suggest their influences on Orson Welles's radio adaptation of the 1898 novel by H. G. Wells. Interviews with Welles provide additional insight. The conceptual framework and script follows a documentary radio performance style that combines art production and scholarship.
Hearing Voices →
RiR #51, Season 10, Episode 10, November 21, 2022
Original storytellers
Recording available
Samples from the Clark County Historical Museum Oral History Collection share stories about living and working in Southwest Washington. Re-Imagined Radio features three in this episode: "Living with Chief Joseph," told by Erskin Wood, "Working the SPS Railroad," told by Harry W. Hendricks, and "The Russians Arrive," told by Leverett Richards.
A Radio Christmas Sampler, Vol. II
→
RiR #52, Season 10, Episode 11, December 19, 2022
Original actors
Recording available
A Christmas Carol 2022 →
RiR #53, Season 10, Episode 12, December 21, 2022
Willamette Radio Workshop
Recording available
A live performance by The Willamette Radio Workshop, directed by Sam A. Mowry, and featuring The Holly Jolly Singers, directed by Bennett Bailey, in Vancouver's historic Kiggins Theatre. Re-Imagined Radio's first live performance since 2020!
2023
The Year of Documentaries
Season 11
Episodes 14
Recordings 14
Season Collage
Short Sound Stories →
RiR #54, Season 11, Episode 01, January 30, 2023
Community actors
Recording available
Eighteen short stories. Each a unique experience told with vocals, sound effects, field recordings, and music. Subjects include soundscapes, dreamscapes, deep questions, audio drama, radio drama, radio historical highlights, memories, emotional states, loss and redemption, scary stories, uplifting stories, collages, sound poems, and more. All created by local, emerging artists.
A Mighty Span →
RiR #55, Season 11, Episode 02, February 20, 2023
Community actors
Recording available
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. Listening to this documentary, based on newspaper accounts and other historical records, listeners can imagine the spectacle and pride associated with opening this mighty span.
The Wizard of Oz →
RiR #56, Season 11, Episode 03, March 20, 2023
Original actors
Recording available
Celebrates Women's History Month with this little-known radio adaptation of the classic movie, The Wizard of Oz (1939) for the Lux Radio Theatre, 25 December 1950 (Episode #726). Judy Garland, 28, the only original cast member, recreates (for the only time) her starring movie role as Dorothy Gale along with a fine cast. Excellent radio storytelling.
Proximity Effect →
RiR #57, Season 11, Episode 04, April 17, 2023
Original actors
Recording available
Re-Imagined Radio considers Edward R. Murrow's efforts to help American listeners understand "The Blitz," fifty-seven consecutive days of German air force bombing of London during World War II. His keen observation, vivid verbal descriptions, and attention to sounds provided a sense of what was happening. What could be observed. Radio historian Jeff Porter calls the unmatched immediacy Murrow provided listeners, "the proximity effect" (Porter Lost Sound 90) and says it prompted a new form of radio storytelling. We sample several examples of Murrow's radio storytelling, and its "proximity effect," in this episode.
The Day the Earth Stood Still →
RiR #58, Season 11, Episode 05, May 15, 2023
Original actors
Recording available
Considers the Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the 1951 SciFi movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still. A space alien arrives in Washington, DC, and delivers a warning and ... an ultimatum. Live peacefully or be destroyed by robots of unimaginable power. This radio story overlays Cold War fear of rockets and nuclear war, space aliens, flying saucers, and robots. The result is powerful, insightful, thought provoking, a fine example of radio storytelling.
Coast To Coast →
RiR #59, Season 11, Episode 06, June 19, 2023
Original actors
Recording available
Four short science fiction radio stories by Jack J. Ward, Canadian award-winning writer, director, actor, and producer of audio drama. Stories are "Galaxy Master versus the Varn," "Reservations," "Alien Invasion Cancelled," and "Trans-Humanity." All written and produced by Ward, who lives in Nova Scotia, Canada. We call this episode "Coast to Coast," to signify that Jack and his radio dramas comes to us here on the Northwest Coast of the United States from the Northeast Coast of Canada, through radio, the teleportal trans-experiental time warp theatre of the mind.
WRW Retrospective →
RiR #60, Season 11, Episode 07, July 17, 2023
Community actors
Recording available
A retrospective listen to The Willamette Radio Workshop (WRW). Sam A. Mowry and Marc Rose share some stories about this radio theater/audio drama group based in Portland, Oregon. From origins to podcasts, with early performances, writing, music, sound design, sound effects, guitars, drama, comedy, experiments, collaborations, and more in between, Sam and Marc reflect on two decades of WRW radio storytelling.
I Have a Dream →
RiR #61, Season 11, Episode 08, August 21, 2023
Original actors
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Celebrates the 60th 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. Dr. King delivered this speech August 28, 1963, at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Originally titled "Normalcy, Never Again," Dr. King's speech was forever altered when he went off script and, speaking from his heart, described in several paragraphs his dream for racial equality. Today, Dr. King's renamed "I Have a Dream" speech is considered one of the most powerful speeches of 20th century American history, and a turning point in the civil rights movement.
9/11 Radio Stories →
RiR #62, Season 11, Episode 09, September 18, 2023
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Behind televised images of New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania, the morning of September 11, 2001, airline officials, air traffic controllers, and federal agents talked, frantically trying to learn what was happening, and determine how to stop it. Listen to what they said. Re-Imagined Radio presents "9/11 Radio Stories," stories behind the images when four passenger airplanes were hijacked and turned into weapons.
Asezhia →
RiR #63, Season 11, Episode 10, October 16, 2023
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An ancient jewel, stolen from Asezhia, 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. The demon is loose. The legend is real. By guest producers Jerrel McQuen and Marc Rose.
The War of the Worlds →
RiR #64, Season 11, Episode 11, October 30, 2023
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With this performance, our sixth, of this famous radio story about the invasion of Earth by beings from the planet Mars, we celebrate the 85th anniversary of perhaps the most famous example of radio storytelling, and World Audio Drama Day. Hold on, while we once again destroy the world before your very ears!
Dimension X →
RiR #65, Season 11, Episode 12, November 20, 2023
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Stories in time and space ... told in future tense. Re-Imagined Radio explores the history and legacy of Dimension X, a pioneering radio science fiction series broadcast on NBC from April 1950 through September 1951. We review radio science fiction programs leading up to Dimension X, and then listen to "The Outer Limit," the first episode of the series, and perhaps the most often broadcast radio science fiction story.
A Radio Christmas Sampler, Vol III
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RiR #66, Season 11, Episode 13, December 18, 2023
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Samples from "Christmas Dragnet" (a comedy record by Stan Freberg), and three radio programs, The Shadow ("The Stockings Were Hung"), The Whistler ("Christmas Gift"), and Gunsmoke ("Christmas Story"). The latter is a very interesting retelling of the classic story by Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.
A Christmas Carol 2023 →
RiR #67, Season 11, Episode 14, December 20, 2023
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The Willamette Radio Workshop, directed by Sam A. Mowry, and The Holly Jolly Singers, directed by Bennett Bailey, with a live performance of "A Christmas Carol," in Vancouver's historic Kiggins Theatre. Our holiday tradition of sharing this classic radio story continues. Sadly, Sam died July 20, 2024. This was his last appearance on Re-Imagined Radio. Listen to our WRW Retrospective, Redux and learn more about Sam Mowry.
2024
The Year of ***
Season 12
Episodes 12
Recordings 12
Season Collage
The Mysterious Traveler →
RiR #68, Season 12, Episode 01, January 15, 2024
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Samples 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.
Gunsmoke Compilation →
RiR #69, Season 12, Episode 02, February 19, 2024
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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 and dies by it as "Billy The Kid."
Radio Women →
RiR #70, Season 12, Episode 03, March 18, 2024
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Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Women's History Month with a tribute to eight women and three radio series 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, along with the radio series Women in the Making of America, Gallant American Women, and Candy Matson.
Syndication →
RiR #71, Season 12, Episode 04, April 15, 2024
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Samples from Box 13 and The Damon Runyon Theater, offered by Paramount movie star Alan Ladd's Mayfair Productions, as syndicated radio programs. Syndication leases recorded radio programs to interested stations. These two, from Ladd's company, are among the best.
Escape →
RiR #72, Season 12, Episode 05, May 20, 2024
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Escape is noted as radio's finest adventure stories. Re-Imagined radio samples from "Present Tense" and "Three Skeleton Key," both starring Vincent Price, to celebrate the storytelling series and an unforgettable voice actor.
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar →
RiR #73, Season 12, Episode 06, June 17, 2024
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Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator, was billed as "America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, the man with the action-packed expense account." Episodes began with Dollar preparing his expense account for the latest case. At the end of the episode, expenses totaled, Dollar concluded by saying, "Yours truly, Johnny Dollar." Re-Imagined Radio samples the "The McCormick Matter" episode starring Bob Bailey, the best of several actors who voiced Johnny Dollar.
Nightfall →
RiR #74, Season 12, Episode 07, July 15, 2024
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Samples a radio story and a series connected by the same name. NIGHTFALL. Both promote engaging radio storytelling with psychological terror and darkness.
"Nightfall" is the final episode of Dimension X, an adaptation of an original story by Isaac Asimov, first published in Astounding Science Fiction, September 1941.
Nightfall is also the name of a radio anthology series produced and broadcast in Canada. Episodes were primarily supernatural and/or horror. We feature an episode called "The Porch Light," an excellent, tense, and scary radio story.
Dragnet →
RiR #75, Season 12, Episode 08, August 19, 2024
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Samples from One Out of Seven, The Jack Webb Show, Pat Novak, For Hire, Johnny Madero, Pier 23, and Jeff Regan, Investigator, all pre-Dragnet radio shows where Jack Webb honed his character and acting style. We end with "The City Hall Bombing," an early episode of Dragnet to showcase Webb as a great radio storyteller. We celebrate Dragnet as a real-life police procedural, and Jack Webb, as Detective Sgt. Joe Friday, as defining and was defined by this radio series.
WRW Retrospective, Redux →
RiR #76, Season 12, Episode 09, September 16, 2024
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Re-Imagined Radio presents "WRW Retrospective, Redux," in memoriam for Sam A. Mowry, who died July 20, 2024, in Portland, Oregon. Mowry, founder and director of Willamette Radio Workshop (WRW), was a leader of the theatrical, voice acting, and audio storytelling communities. We revisit our earlier WRW Retrospective and feature recordings of Mowry's appearances in several Re-Imagined Radio episodes.
Night of the Eclipsoid Man, Part 1 →
RiR #77, Season 12, Episode 10, October 21, 2024
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A cinematic radio story by Jerrel McQuen and Marc Rose, guest producers. In Part 1, a bizarre lab accident transforms Spencer Knightbridge into a negative inverse of himself, an "Eclipsoid Man." Using incredible telekinetic powers of destruction, he becomes one-man holocaust, bent on avenging horrible wrongs done him while growing up in Quayment's Neon Bowery.
Night of the Eclipsoid Man, Part 2 →
RiR #78, Season 12, Episode 11, November 18, 2024
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In Part 2, Spencer Knightbridge, transformed by a bizarre lab accident into an "Eclipsoid Man," a negative inverse of himself with incredible telekinetic powers of destruction, discovers how completely he has been betrayed by everyone associated with his life.
A Radio Christmas Sampler, Vol. 4 →
RiR #79, Season 12, Episode 12, December 16, 2024
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Samples from Christmas episodes of This Is Your FBI, It's a Wonderful Life (starring Jimmy Stewart), and Richard Diamond, Private Detective. The latter is a very interesting retelling of the classic story by Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.
2025
The Year of Conversation
Season 13
Episodes 12
Recordings 0
Season Collage
The Lives of Harry Lime →
RiR #80, Season 13, Episode 01, January 20, 2025
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Samples the first and last episodes of The Lives of Harry Lime, "Too Many Crooks" and "Greek Meets Greek." Both episodes star Orson Welles as Harry Lime and the narrator. Both are full of imaginative crimes and misdaventures.
Chaste Kiss & Chrysalis →
RiR #81, Season 13, Episode 02, February 17, 2025
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Samples "Chaste Kiss" and "Chrysalis," two radio dramas by award-winning Canadian writer, producer, and director Jack J. Ward. Both are edgy love stories in the style of Golden Age of Radio science fiction. "A Chaste Kiss Goodbye" considers love between humans and purpose-built companion robots. "Chrysalis" is a revisioning of the classic radio drama "The War of the Worlds." as a layered love story, for aliens, humans, and machines.
Retribution - Restitution →
RiR #82, Season 13, Episode 03, March 17, 2025
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Two crime fictions for radio, "Retribution" and "Restitution." Both written by Cindy Brown, actor, director, producer, playwright, and disabilities advocate based in Portland, Oregon. Our tribute to Women's History Month.
"Retribution" (payment or punishment for wrongdoing) is narrated by Laurie, a female shuttle bus driver at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, who observes the interplay between a crude misogynist and his "strong girlfriend." The dialogue may be all too familiar to some listeners, but the ending may catch you by surprise.
"Restitution" (paying back or restoring something to its rightful owner) may remind you of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" as it questions the meaning of life and the nature of existence. But Brown gives her characters, Wiley and Joe, purpose and consequence, both directed toward Wiley facing restitution. But what exactly does that mean? And is Wiley the victim, or the culprit?
Waters and Ruins →
RiR #83, Season 13, Episode 04, April 21, 2025
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Two stories by Martin J. Gallagher, an independent composer and sound designer based in Portland, Oregon. Both stories are framed by music. "And the Waters Were Music" tells of Gallagher's 1998 visit to China with his wife Rose. He remembers how water and music were a part of his experience. "And the Ruins Became a Prayer," tells of learning about the war in Ukraine. In the story, Gallagher honors Ukrainian classical composer Valentin Silvestrov by recording a premiere performance of a three-movement string quartet, "Ruins of Mariupol," by Vancouver, Washington composer Daniel Truschov.
Frank Lovejoy Tribute →
RiR #84, Season 13, Episode 05, May 19, 2025
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Frank Lovejoy is known as a dependable voice actor, and had MANY appearances on MANY radio programs in his career. For example, he starred as Major Westfall in "The Outer Limit," a key part of our Dimension X Tribute. Lovejoy's strong portfolio includes appearances on several other radio science fiction and/or mystery series, like Suspense, Escape, Beyond This World, and Beyond Tomorrow. He also frequently appeared on Alan Ladd's programs "Box 13" and "Damon Runyon Theatre." See our Syndication episode to learn more. For this episode, Re-Imagined Radio samples from The Blue Beetle, This is Your FBI, Murder and Mr. Malone, and Night Beat to provide a broad perspective of Lovejoy's radio career.
D-Day Radio Stories →
RiR #85, Season 13, Episode 06, June 16, 2025
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Combines multiple "eye witness" radio news reports for this part documentary, part sound collage of stories about D-Day, the invasion of Europe by Allied military forces to repel German invaders and end World War II, June 6, 1944. "D-Day Radio Stories" provides a different storyline for this World War II turning point, and we hope, a worthy tribute to the Allied invading forces and those correspondents who went with them to tell the rest of us what they saw and heard.
Bogart & Bacall, Part 1 →
RiR #86, Season 13, Episode 07, July 21, 2025
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Re-Imagined Radio begins its two-part Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall tribute. Part 1 features a re-listen to their first radio collaboration, the 1946 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of their 1943 motion picture, To Have and Have Not. Bogart and Bacall reprise their starring roles as "Steve" and "Slim" and once again, bring the sizzle to their storytelling.
Bogart & Bacall, Part 2 →
RiR #87, Season 13, Episode 08, August 18, 2025
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Re-Imagined Radio concludes its two-part Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall tribute. Part 2 samples the first two episodes of Bogart and Bacall's syndicated action-adventure radio series Bold Venture, 1951-1952. Slate Shannon (Bogart) and Gail "Sailor" Duval (Bacall), operate a hotel and charter boat in Havana, Cuba, before the revolution, and are natural magnets for adventurers and revolutionaries.
My Hands Are Different →
RiR #88, Season 13, Episode 09, September 15, 2025
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Produced by Martin John Gallagher, an independent composer and sound designer based in Portland, Oregon. Imagine having two fathers. Each a different model for your life. Martin's adoptive father gives him boxing gloves and a training schedule. His birth father, a mystery until after his death, gives him a box of his tape recordings, and inspires a career in music and creative media. Gallagher also produced the Waters and Ruins episode in April.
Frequency 43 →
RiR #89, Season 13, Episode 10, October 20, 2025
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A researcher discovers a parallel universe where the morphing liquidity of dream and nightmare questions the rules of reality. Can dreams connect us with the Great Unknown? If so, how much connection would we truly want? Re-Imagined Radio presents "Frequency 43" by Jerrel McQuen and Marc Rose, who also produced Night of the Eclipsoid Man, parts 1 and 2, Azeshia, and Nirvana & Gehenna.
D.B. Cooper's Last Interview →
RiR #90, Season 13, Episode 11, November 17, 2025
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What happened to Cooper after he jumped from the hijacked airplane in 1971 Re-Imagined Radio adapts Tom Vandel's original story, "The Last Interview," to bring closure without disrupting the power of this true, unsolved mystery. Vandel, based in Portland, Oregon, has an interesting answer. A factual documentary with a fictional ending. He's a guest writer you'll hear more from. We're already working on two more of his stories. Stay tuned.
A Radio Christmas Sampler, Vot. 5 →
RiR #91, Season 13, Episode 12, December 15, 2025
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This year's "A Radio Christmas Sampler, Vol. 5" samples three interesting Christmas programs. First, a Christmas 1942 wartime message from Edward R. Murrow who encourages us to keep hope alive.
Second "Christmas Party for Hubert Smith," an episode of Truth or Consequences where radio connects a wounded Navy sailor in California with his family and hometown in Tennessee. A wonderful example of live field broadcasting.
And third, "The Plot to Overthrow Christmas" by Irwin Corwin, told in rhyming verse, from Columbia Workshop.
A Christmas Carol 2025 →
RiR #92, Season 13, Episode 13, December 22, 2025
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Re-Imagined Radio presents A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens as our community holiday radio story. We've done this every holiday season since 2013. Listen and enjoy the The Campbell Playhouse performance, December 24, 1939, starring Lionel Barrymore, one of America's greatest stage and screen actors, as Ebenezer Scrooge, Orson Welles, and actors of The Mercury Theatre on the Air. This performance is considered by radio historians as the classic telling of this timeless tale (Wichman, Craig. Standing In the Spirit at Your Elbow: A History of Dicken's Christmas Carol as Radio/Audio Drama. BearManor Media, 2012).
The Age of Transformative Frequencies
2026
The Year of Transformations
Season 14
Episodes 8 (at the time of "RiR 100")
Recordings 8
Season Collage
Earth Abides →
RiR #93, Season 14, Episode 01, January 19, 2026
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Adapted from the landmark 1949 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American author George R. Stewart, this episode examines Earth's resilience after a pandemic virus destroys most of the human population leaving the natural world to quietly continue.
Radio Romances →
RiR #94, Season 14, Episode 02, February 16, 2026
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Samples two madcap romantic comedies, It Happened One Night, starring Cary Grant and Claudette Colbert, and The Philadelphia Story, starring Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart. Both are witty and spohisticated, with subtle underlying social commentary. Both are adapted from award winning motion pictures.
Mae West Jewel Robbery →
RiR #95, Season 14, Episode 03, March 16, 2026
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A tribute to Womens' History Month and Mae West as an advocate for women's rights, liberation, and equality. Re-Imagined Radio samples from West's early stage and screen career, a dramatized robbery, and two rare radio appearances to demonstrate West's imitable way of making scandal stylish.
The Black Museum →
RiR #96, Season 14, Episode 04, April 20, 2026
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Samples from four radio drama series about "The Black Museum," a collection of ordinary objects, each associated with crime and murder, held at Scotland Yard, London, England, to explore how this unusual collection is portrayed through radio storytelling.
The four radio series are
Secrets of Scotland Yard (1949-1951)
Focus: Noteable crime cases investigated by Scotland Yard.
The Black Museum (1947)
Focus: Individual objects in the Museum's collection.
Whitehall 1212 (1951-1952)
Focus: Crime investigation from the police perspective.
Fabian of The Yard (1952-1953)
Focus: Memoirs of former Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Robert Fabian.
Quiet, Please →
RiR #97, Season 14, Episode 05, May 18, 2026
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Curates two episodes, "Behind the Closed Door" (the first episode of the series) and "The Thing on the Forble Board" (the most highly regarded of the series) to showcase the series' distinctive approach to storytelling, one that relies on quiet narration, psychological tension, and the dramatic power of silence.
Lights Out →
RiR #98, Season 14, Episode 06, June 15, 2026
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Created and written by Wyllis Cooper (1934-1936) and later expanded by his successor, Arch Oboler (1936-1938), Lights Out is one of radio's most influential horror programs. Re-Imagined Radio samples three episodes.
"After Five O'Clock," written by Wyllis Cooper. Arch Oboler retitled the Cooper script as "Man in the Middle," and featured it in one of his Lights Out revivals
"Chicken Heart" by Arch Obler.
"The State Executioner" by Arch Obler.
Dawn Birds, Light Traffic, Melodic Machines
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RiR #99, Season 14, Episode 07, July 20, 2026
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Soundscapes, from Dubai, UAE, Vancouver, Washington, and Victoria, Canada, all by John Barber, woven by him as a sonic tapestry where mechanical and environmental sounds replace human dialogue. The first episode of "RiR Workshop," our laboratory for experimental sound-based storytelling. Future episodes planned for alternate months.
RiR 100 →
RiR #100, Season 14, Episode 08, August 17, 2026
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Reviews all 100 episodes. Highlights and milestones. Commentary and samples. Testimonials too.
Thanks for listening and supporting Re-Imagined Radio.
Production
Contents
Quick introductions and links to each of Re-Imagined Radio's one hundred episodes.
Cast
See individual entries.
Credits
Lots of kudos to lots of folks. Thank you all!
The Re-Imagined Radio crew ...
Marc Rose, sound design, original music, and post-production
Holly Slocum, creative management
Caitlyn Kruger-L'Esperance, programs management
Claire Leyden, motion graphics designer
Rylan Eisenhauer, YouTube channel production and management, and announcing
Guest writers and producers ...
Jerrel McQuen and Marc Rose
Jack J. Ward
Martin J. Gallagher
Cindy Brown
Donna Barrow-Green
Tom Vandel
Richard Holeton
Sam A. Mowry
Cynthia J. McGean
Kristina Jones
William S. Gregory
Dan Wyatt, Jr.
Others who have helped ...
Brenda Alling
Syliva Lindman
Maureen Keller
Kristen Rohder
Steve Becker
Barbara Richardson
Alfred Juliano
Tate Coler
Ellen Stewart
Susan Galaviz
Gerald Gaule
Joe Clemmons
Steven Glickman
Steena Trecha
and so many listeners
Significance
The word and number "100" universally symbolizes wholeness, completion, and perfection. In Eastern cultures and traditions, "100" represents success. Western cultures use "100" to represent abundance and prosperity. The number itself, "100," self-represents. The numeral "1" has power, energy. The two zeros represent infinity. "100" is a measure. A mark of achievement. Longetivity.
This episode of Re-Imagined Radio, "RiR 100," represents all these elements. Especially considering the time and effort involved to get here.
Episodes came sporadically in our early years, 2013 to 2020. Then regularly, one every month. The number of episodes mounted until now, in 2026, we can say, "Welcome to Episode 100 of Re-Imagined Radio" and feel like we're making a significant statement.
Not bragging, mind you. But proud of our achievement. And it is with this same pride that we offer this program to review many of our 100 episodes.
Producer's Notes
The 100th Episode
August 2026. The 100th episode of Re-Imagined Radio is offered to our listeners via radio
broadcast, global streaming via our partner community radio stations, on demand listening via this
Re-Imagined Radio website, and our YouTube channel.
After that? We plan to break from our monthly broadcast schedule for a while. We'll still produce episodes, perhaps every other month, with a new, more experimental series, working title RiR Workshop, offered the months between.
Who knows what else serendipty might send our way. More partner radio stations? More guest writer and producer episodes? More original productions? Maybe a sponsor? We'll see.
Enjoy listening!
— John Barber
Producer, Host
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