Origin
story
Re-Imagined Radio began in 2013. We offered live public performances by The Willamette Radio Workshop at the historic Kiggins Theatre in downtown Vancouver, Washington.
We chose our content from the "Golden Age of Radio," the 1930s to the 1950s. A time when radio dramas,
stories, and shows were a popular and primary entertainment and information source for listeners. Also,
much of this content was available in the Public Domain, a boon to our unfinanced start up efforts.
We considered our explorations of radio drama a unique form of storytelling, based in community
listeners. We thought what we were doing was
Radio Art. And frequently we re-imagined our re-creations by changing gender
roles, introducing audio-visual components, including audience participation, and offering digital
recording and streaming.
The COVID pandemic, 2020, prompted a shift from live performances to recorded radio broadcasts and
streaming. We began with our original partner community radio stations, KXRW-FM and KXRY-FM,
broadcasting and live streaming monthly episodes. The digital recordings we made for our episodes became
the basis for our podcast and YouTube series.
Every recorded episode produced since 2013 is available here, our archival website, through our
podcast series, and our YouTube
channel.