Re-Imagined Radio

Three episodes by Wyllis Cooper and Arch Oboler from the Lights Out series. Often called "the ultimate OTR horror series." Re-Imagined Radio presents "The State Executioner," "Chicken Heart," and "The Man in the Middle." Premiere broadcast: June 15, 2026 Season 14, Episode 06 Written, Produced, Hosted by John F. Barber 
Post production, original music, sound design by Marc Rose 
Graphics by Evan L...

The pilot episode, "Behind the Door," and the most famous, "The Thing on the Fourble Board," showcase the quiet, slow, suspenseful, and engaging storytelling for which the Quiet, Please series is noted. From our documentary series. Premiere broadcast: May 18, 2026 Season 14, Episode 05 Written, Produced, Hosted by John F. Barber 
Post production, original music, sound design by Marc Rose 
Graphics...

Hidden within Scotland Yard lies The Black Museum, a collection of macabre artifacts, established in 1875, used exclusively for police training. Each object--from hammers to hangman's ropes, gloves to gasoline cans, buttons to bayonets--has a dark story about crime or violence. Re-Imagined Radio explores these stories as they were told from four classic radio series: Secrets of Scotland Yard, The...

Re-Imagined Radio presents, episode #95, "Mae West Jewel Robbery," a tribute to Womens' History Month and Mae West as an advocate for women's rights, liberation, and equality. We sample 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. Premiere broadcast: March 16, 2026 Season 14, Episode 03...

Re-Imagined Radio presents "Radio Romances," two romantic radio comedies for Valentine's. It Happened One Night, starring Cary Grant and Claudette Colbert, follows a runaway socialite and a cynical reporter traveling by bus from Miami to New York. Coleman is a runaway socialite. Grant is a newspaper reporter interested in her story, but more so in her safe return home. The fast-paced dialogue and...

Re-Imagined Radio launches Season 14 with "Earth Abides," a story that examines Earth's resilience after a pandemic virus destroys most of the human population leaving the natural world to quietly continue. Adapted from the landmark 1949 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American author George R. Stewart. While human civilization fades away, Earth Abides. "Earth Abides" Premiere broadcast:...

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 perfor...

Re-Imagined Radio presents "A Radio Christmas Sampler, Vol. 5" with samples from 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. An...

D. B. Cooper's Last Interview Season 13, Episode 11 Release Date: November 17, 2025 Re-Imagined Radio presents "D.B. Cooper's Last Interview." A factual documentary with a fictional ending. For the factual documentary we sample research and recordings of individuals investigating and reporting the hijacking of Nortwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, November 24, 1971, by a man called "D.B. Cooper." C...

Frequency 43 Can dreams connect us with the Great Unknown? Re-Imagined Radio presents "Frequency 43" by Jerrel McQuen and Marc Rose. This radio science fiction story concerns a researcher who discovers a parallel universe where the morphing liquidity of dream and nightmare questions the rules of reality. Should we explore this world? This haunting and splintering reality of Frequency 43? Can dream...

My Hands Are Different Two fathers. Two paths. One realization. Re-Imagined Radio presents "My Hands Are Different," a memoir by Martin J. Gallagher. Imagine having two fathers. Each a different model for your life. Your adoptive father wants you to use your hands to "stand up for yourself." He gives you boxing gloves and a training schedule. Your birth father, a mystery until after his death, whe...

Bogart and Bacall Tribute Part 2: Bold Venture Re-Imagined Radio presents Part 2 of our Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall Tribute. Part 2 samples from the first two episodes of their 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 magne...

Bogart and Bacall Tribute Part 1: To Have and Have Not Re-Imagined Radio presents Part 1 of our Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall tribute with 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 storyte...

D-Day Radio Stories A documentary sound collage Re-Imagined Radio 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,...

Frank Lovejoy Tribute A dependable, productive voice actor 
 From the 1930s to the 1950s, the golden years of radio drama, Frank Andrew Lovejoy (1912-1962) was a dependable and productive radio voice actor. But, despite his appearances on MANY radio programs in his career, Frank Lovejoy is not well know today. With this episode, Re-Imagined Radio seeks to elevate Lovejoy's status. We sample from f...

Waters and Ruins Two sound-based stories by Martin J. Gallagher Re-Imagined Radio samples two stories by Martin J. Gallagher, an independent composer and sound designer based in Portland, Oregon. Each story is framed by music. "And the Waters" remembers William (Sam) Gregory, a Portland playwright/poet, who died in 2024. "The Ruins of Mauripol" (a response to the Russian invasion and destruction o...

Retribution and Restitution Two crime fictions for radio by Cindy Brown Re-Imagined Radio presents, as our annual tribute to Women's History Month, and as part of our Guest Writer series, two radio stories, both written by Cindy Brown, an actor, director, producer, playwright, and disabilities advocate based in Portland, Oregon. Both of Brown's stories are crime fictions for radio. Season 13, Epis...

This episode of Re-Imagined Radio is "Chaste Kiss & Chrysalis." Part of our Guest Producer/Writer Series, it samples two audio dramas by award-winning Canadian writer, producer, and director Jack Jamie Ward. February is the month of love, and Valentine's Day. Both of Ward's audio dramas are edgy love stories in the style of Golden Age of Radio science fiction. "A Chaste Kiss Goodbye" considers lov...

The Lives of Harry Lime Imaginative crimes and misadventures Premiere broadcast: 20 January 2025 Season 13, Episode 01 Re-Imagined Radio samples the first and last episodes of The Lives of Harry Lime (syndicated United States broadcasts 1951-1952. Elsewhere titled The Adventures of Harry Lime). Both episodes star Orson Welles (of "The War of the Worlds" fame) as Harry Lime and the narrator. In "To...

"A Radio Christmas Sampler, Vol. 4" Re-Imagined Radio Season 12, Episode 12 Every year since 2013, Re-Imagined Radio has offered some iteration of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens as a community holiday celebration. This year we sample a version from the "Richard Diamond, Private Detective" series, starring Richard Powell. We also sample from "This Is Your FBI" and "It's a Wonderful Life" st...

Re-Imagined Radio premiers this two-part cinematic radio story by Jerrel McQuen and Marc Rose. 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. An episode from our Guest Producer series. S...

Re-Imagined Radio premiers this two-part cinematic radio story by Jerrel McQuen and Marc Rose from our Guest Produced series. In Part 1, Spencer Knightbridge is transformed into a quixotic one-man holocaust, bent on avenging horrible wrongs done him while growing up in Quayment's Neon Bowery. In Part 2, Knightbridge discovers that the brutal ghosts of his past have robbed him of all that he hoped...

Re-Imagined Radio presents WRW Retrospective Redux as a memoriam to 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 sample from Mowry's appearances in several Re-Imagined Radio episodes. Mentor. Fri...

"All we want are the facts, ma'am." 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 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 Webb honed his character and...

Re-Imagined Radio presents a radio episode and a radio series with the same name. "Nightfall." The radio episode, "Nightfall," is from Dimension X . The Canadian radio anthology series, Nightfall , offered primarily supernatural and/or horror stories. We sample "The Porch Light." Two stories of psychological terror and darkness. Written, produced, hosted by John Barber Sound design, music composit...