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Re-Imagined Radio

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 John F. Barber

 www.reimaginedradio.net

A program about radio storytelling. Dramas, comedies, oral and aural histories, documentaries, fictions, soundscapes and sonic journeys, radio and sound art. We want to connect with each listener, with stories that are engaging, enduring.

A program about radio storytelling. Dramas, comedies, oral and aural histories, documentaries, fictions, soundscapes and sonic journeys, radio and sound art. We want to connect with each listener, with stories that are engaging, enduring.

Episodes

Re-Imagined Radio

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Re-Imagined Radio considers the 1954 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the 1951 SciFi movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still, both starring Michael Rennie. A space alien arrives in Washington, DC, and delivers a warning . . . an ultimatum. Live peacefully or be destroyed by robots of unimaginable power…

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Proximity Effect

Re-Imagined Radio considers Edward R. Murrow’s radio reporting of "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 obser…

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The Wizard of Oz

Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Women's History Month and the work of Judy Garland with this little known radio adaptation of the classic movie, The Wizard of Oz (1939). Garland, 28, the only original cast member, recreates her starring movie role as Dorothy Gale along with a fine cast. More informati…

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Re-Imagined Radio celebrates the opening the Interstate Bridge linking Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, across the Columbia River, 106 years ago, February 14, 1917, with a dramatized radio broadcast based on historical newspaper accounts. See Re-Imagined Radio webpage for more informati…

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Short Sound Stories

Re-Imagined Radio presents "Short Sound Stories," an anthology of eighteen short stories. 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 mo…

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A Radio Christmas Carol 2022

Our first live performance since 2020! Re-Imagined Radio presents The Willamette Radio Workshop, Portland, OR, performing their radio adaptation of the classic story by Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. Re-Imagined Radio first offered "A Radio Christmas Carol" in 2013. Every year since we've off…

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A Radio Christmas Sampler, Vol. II

Re-Imagined Radio samples radio holiday programs, including "Red Ryder Nails The Cleveland Kid" from the Jean Shepherd Show, 24 Dec. 1970, "Back for Christmas" from Suspense, 23 Dec. 1943, starring Peter Lorre and "Britt Ponset's Christmas Story" from The Six Shooter, 20 Dec. 1953, starring Jimmy S…

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Re-Imagined Radio partners with the Clark County Historical Museum and samples from their Oral History Collection to share stories about living and working in Southwest Washington. Museum director Bradley Richardson says, "This collection is deep and rich with stories, each told in the voices of th…

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The War of the Worlds: Possible Influences

For the 84th anniversary of the most (in)famous radio story ever Re-Imagined Radio explores earlier experiments with "break in" news announcements as possible influences on Orson Welles's radio adaptation of the 1898 novel by H. G. Wells. Interviews with Welles provide additional insight. Our docum…

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Twisted Epiphanies

Re-Imagined Radio presents twenty short radio stories written and voiced by folks living in America's Pacific Northwest. Each story features an "epiphany," a sudden, unexpected revelation or insight. Especially with regard to four questions we often ask ourselves: "Who Am I?", "Where Am I Going?", …

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Joe Frank Tribute

Re-Imagined Radio pays tribute to Joe Frank, a radio storyteller noted for his husky, insomniac voice and sincere delivery of ideas and stories that were often surrealistic, even absurd. From 1978 to 2018, Frank entertained thousands of listeners with his combinations of monologue, radio drama, and…

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Lone-Green-Challenge

Re-Imagined Radio pays tribute to three uniquely connected radio drama series, The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, and The Challenge of the Yukon. Produced by George Trendle, owner of WXYZ radio, and written by Fran Striker, The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, and The Challenge of the Yukon are each …

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William Conrad Tribute

Re-Imagined Radio pays tribute to William Conrad's iconic radio voice which was heard in thousands of supporting roles and literally defined two radio drama series, Escape and Gunsmoke. We sample "The Abominable Snowman" from Escape and "Bloody Hands" from Gunsmoke. See our website for more informa…

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The Fall of the City

Re-Imagined Radio paid tribute to The Columbia Workshop, perhaps the most important American anthology radio program, and its mission to explore and present new forms of radio storytelling. The Willamette Radio Workshop performed Archibald MacLeish's "The Fall of the City" which follows the collap…

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Lucille Fletcher Tribute 2022

Re-Imagined Radio pays tribute to Women's History Month, women in radio, and specifically Lucille Fletcher, a superb female radio storyteller, writer of "The Hitch-Hiker" and "Sorry, Wrong Number." Our re-imagined adaptation of both dramas presented by The Voices proves the appeal and power of radi…

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Destination Freedom

Re-Imagined Radio pays tribute to Black History Month, Black American culture, art, and history, and Destination Freedom (1948-1950), a radio series that dramatized the democratic traditions and cultural contributions of Black Americans, and, in the process, provided foothold for the later civil an…

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Figurski at Findhorn on Acid

Re-Imagined Radio presents the first ever radio adaptation of the comedic hypertext novel Figurski at Findhorn on Acid by Richard Holeton. Performed by The Voices, our ensemble of voice actors. Special guest appearance by Holeton. Three larger than life characters, Frank Figurski, The No Hands Cup…

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A Radio Christmas Sampler

Re-Imagined Radio presents "A Radio Christmas Sampler" featuring selections from Christmas episodes of 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 Radio Christmas Carol" by Met…

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Candy Matson Tribute

Re-Imagined Radio pays tribute to Candy Matson, a ground-breaking female investigator anthology series broadcast from KNBC in San Francisco, 1949-1951. Candy Matson is significant because it featured a strong female lead character, San Francisco locations and references, gay and Asian characters, p…

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The War of the Worlds 2021

Re-Imagined Radio celebrates the 83rd anniversary of “The War of the Worlds” original broadcast, and World Audio Drama Day with our re-imagined remake of this classic radio drama. We re-imagined the storyline, adding new content, placing all in present day Vancouver, Washington. We used local landm…

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Our third take on the original man in black! Re-Imagined Radio reprised a 2018 recorded performance by Metropolitan Performing Arts actors and other community volunteers at Kiggins Theatre in downtown Vancouver, Washington. The earlier recording at the core of this episode has lain dormant . . . bu…

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Nirvana & Gehenna

Re-Imagined Radio presents "Nirvana & Gehenna," an interdimensional documentary written by Jerrel McQuen and produced by three-time Emmy winning sound designer Marc Rose, both of Portland, OR. In their story, The Multiverse is a helix. Five spirals above Earth is the universe that contains the dime…

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Hiro & Liling / The Martian Death March

Re-Imagined Radio presents The Willamette Radio Workshop performing two short radio dramas, "Hiro & Liling," a lyrical love story by Kristina Jones, an original performance, and "The Martian Death March," an insight into inhumanity, by Ernest Kinoy, an episode from Dimension X and X Minus One. Both…

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X Minus One Tribute

Re-Imagined Radio celebrates X Minus One, the anthology program known for high quality radio adaptations of original science fiction stories. Two episodes are featured, "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury and "The Cave of Night" by James E. Gunn. Both illustrate the high quality stories X Minus One offered…

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Exuberance Is Beauty

A story of love and loss in 1940s Oregon. Re-Imagined Radio presents "Exuberance Is Beauty," performed by Illuminus Audio Productions, of Portland, Oregon. Created and produced by Donna Barrow-Green, this radio drama is a contemporary interpretation of Adam and Eve's biblical allegory and Eve's fal…

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The Immortal Sherlock Holmes

Re-Imagined Radio gave a tip of the deerstalker hat to the most famous detective who never lived, but whose enduring legend will never die: Sherlock Holmes. We presented our adaptation of "The Immortal Sherlock Holmes" by William Gillette performed by Metropolitan Performing Arts, of Vancouver, WA.…

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Storytelling with Sounds

Sounds spark imaginations, create engaging stories. Re-Imagined Radio explores how sounds, like the storyteller's voice and sound effects, contributed to storytelling throughout human history and provided some interesting listening examples. Storytelling with sounds (the storyteller's voice and oth…

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Affairs of the Heart 2021

Oh, the things we do for love! Re-Imagined Radio celebrates love, in many forms, just in time for Valentine's Day. We sample from the 2019 live performance by actors from Metropolitan Performing Arts and other community volunteers recorded in Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, WA. With special appearances…

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Re-Imagined Radio samples New Year's Eve episodes of The Whistler and Guy Lombardo's New Year's Eve Party to celebrate the start of 2021. January, named for Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and endings, is noted for New Year's Eve, an opportunity to reflect and celebrate both the previous and upc…

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A Radio Christmas Carol 2020

Our community holiday tradition continues. Re-Imagined Radio presents a 2-hour performance by Metropolitan Performing Arts actors and other community volunteers. We adapt A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens for radio, with a bundle of carols and holiday songs. See our website for more information,…

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Re-Imagined Radio presents its third foray into the enduring legend of D.B. Cooper with an original script by Dan Wyatt, Jr. performed by Metropolitan Performing Arts. On Thanksgiving Eve, 1971, Cooper jumped from a hijacked passenger airplane into the dark and stormy night over Southwest Washingto…

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The Maltese Falcon

Re-Imagined Radio presents Metropolitan Performing Arts performing THE classic hard-boiled private eye novel, written by American writer Dashiell Hammett and originally serialized in Black Mask magazine, beginning with the September 1929 issue. The complete novel was published in 1930 by Alfred A. …

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In Flight with D.B. Cooper

Re-Imagined Radio presents its second foray into the enduring legend of D.B. Cooper with an original script by Dan Wyatt, Jr. performed by Metropolitan Performing Arts. Before he parachuted from the back of the low-flying passenger jet into history over Southwest Washington with $200,000 strapped t…

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Halloween Fright Night

Re-Imagined Radio presents a re-mix of horror and fright from radio programs like Lights Out, Quiet, Please!, and Suspense. The result? A delightful shiver of fear up your spine. Live performance by Metropolitan Performing Arts actors and other community volunteers at Kiggins Theatre in downtown Va…

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SciFi, SciFacts

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. See our website for more information, http://www.reimag…

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Affairs of the Heart 2019

Re-Imagined Radio presents five short radio dramas about love for Valentines Day. Performances by Metropolitan Performing Arts highlight the travails we endure. The stories we tell ourselves. The results we never expect. The things we do for love. Features Lonesome Gal. See our website for more inf…

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A Radio Christmas Carol 2018

Our community holiday tradition continues as Re-Imagined Radio presents a live performance by Metropolitan Performing Arts actors and other community volunteers at Kiggins Theatre in downtown Vancouver, Washington. See our website for more information, http://www.reimaginedradio.net/episodes/christ…

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Skyjacker '71: The D.B. Cooper Transmissions

Re-Imagined Radio presents its first foray into the enduring legend of D.B. Cooper with an original script by Dan Wyatt, Jr. performed by Metropolitan Performing Arts. D. B. Cooper's hijacking of Flight 305, enroute from Portland to Seattle, is the only unsolved air piracy case in America. His expl…

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The War of the Worlds 2018

Re-Imagined Radio celebrates World Audio Drama Day and the 80th anniversary of the original broadcast of this classic radio drama. We re-imagined the story a bit by placing it in the Vancouver, WA, area, and changing some of the character roles. Otherwise, we remained true this classic tale of alie…

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For our second take on the original man in black, Re-Imagined Radio presents a live performance by Metropolitan Performing Arts actors and other community volunteers at Kiggins Theatre in downtown Vancouver, Washington. Our story is about fear of the unnatural, and how abnormality infects society w…

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The Lone Ranger: Origin Stories

Re-Imagined Radio presented a live performance by Metropolitan Performing Arts actors and other community volunteers at Kiggins Theatre in downtown Vancouver, Washington. We re-imagined The Lone Ranger origin story, that of the powerful white stallion, Silver, and women empowerment on a wagon train…

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A Radio Christmas Carol 2017

Our community holiday tradition, begun in 2013, continues. Re-Imagined Radio presents a live performance by Metropolitan Performing Arts actors, the Metropolitan Performing Arts Carolers, The Juleps, and other community volunteers at Kiggins Theatre in downtown Vancouver, Washington. See our websit…

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Laugh Your Dial Off

Classic Old Time Radio comedy sketches! Re-Imagined Radio presents 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 at Kiggins Theatre in downtown Vancouver, Washington…

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Short (weird) stories about Portland, Oregon. Re-Imagined Radio presents a live performance by Willamette Radio Workshop actors and other community volunteers of five short, otherworldly dramas, each adapted from City of Weird, an anthology about "Keep It Weird" Portland, Oregon. See our website fo…

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A Radio Christmas Carol 2016

Our community holiday tradition, begun in 2013, continues. Re-Imagined Radio presents a live performance by Willamette Radio Workshop actors and other community volunteers at Kiggins Theatre in downtown Vancouver, Washington. NOTE: Rather than paid admissions, audience members donated non-perishab…

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Lucille Fletcher Tribute 2016

Re-Imagined Radio presents a live performance by Willamette Radio Workshop actors and other community volunteers at Kiggins Theatre in downtown Vancouver, Washington, of two radio dramas by Lucille Fletcher—"Sorry, Wrong Number" and "The Hitchiker"—to celebrate her work and Women's History Month. S…

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A Radio Christmas Carol 2015

Our community holiday tradition, begun in 2013, continues. Re-Imagined Radio presents a live performance of this classic Christmas tale by Willamette Radio Workshop at Kiggins Theatre in downtown Vancouver, Washington. See our website for more information, http://www.reimaginedradio.net/episodes/ch…

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The Case Files of Dr. Moreau

Re-Imagined Radio presents a live performance by Willamette Radio Workshop actors and other community volunteers at Kiggins Theatre in downtown Vancouver, Washington. Inspired by the 1896 science fiction novel The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells, this radio adaptation by William S. Gregory, Port…