A Radio Christmas Carol 2023

Re-Imagined Radio 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 it, and dies by it as "Billy The Kid."

Two gunslingers. Two classic stories. One new adventure.
19 February 2024
Season 12, Episode 02

Curated, Produced, and Hosted by John F. Barber
Sound Design and Music Composition by Marc Rose
Promotional Graphics by Holly Slocum with Sydney Nguyen

Re-Imagined Radio shares 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. So now we double down. Risk double indemnity. With our first double feature.

Season 12, Episode 01

Premier broadcast: January 22, 2024

File specs: Audio, MP3, stereo, 48.1Hz, 256kbps

Recording name: rir-mysterious-traveler.mp3

Website: https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/mysterious-traveler/index.html

For the past decade, Re-Imagined Radio has offered "A Radio Christmas Carol," either as live or radio performances, to celebrate the seasonal holidays. For 2023, or 10th Anniversary, we are pleased to welcome the Willamette Radio Workshop, directed by Sam A. Mowry, and The Holly Jolly Singers, directed by Bennett Bailey, for a live performance in Vancouver's historic Kiggins Theatre.

A live holiday performance! 
20 December 2023 
Season 11, Episode 12L

Graphics: Holly Slocum and Sydney Nguyen
Producer: John F. Barber
Sound design and production: Martin J. Gallagher

Recording specs: Audio, MP3, stereo, 44.1Hz, 256kbps 
Recording name: rir-radio-christmas-carol-2023.mp3

Website: https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/christmas/index.html#2023L

Re-Imagined Radio samples from "Christmas Dragnet," a comedy record by Stan Freberg, and three radio programs, "The Stockings Were Hung," from The Shadow, December 24, 1939; "Christmas Gift," from The Whistler, December 23, 1951; and "Christmas Story," from Gunsmoke, December 20, 1952, to welcome the holidays and share some cheer.

Season 11, Episode 12R

Premier broadcast: 18 November 2023

Audio file: MP3, stereo, 44.1Hz, 256kbps

File name: rir-radio-christmas-sampler-vol-III.mp3

Website:   https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/christmas/index.html#2023Sampler3

Stories in time and space . . . told in future tense

Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Dimension X, a pioneering radio science fiction series heard on NBC from April 1950 through September 1951. Neither the earliest nor the most famous of the many science fiction series heard on radio from the 1930s to the 1950s, the legacy of Dimension X looms large. Re-Imagined Radio explores that legacy. First by reviewing radio science fiction programs leading up to Dimension X, and second by listening to "The Outer Limit," the first episode of Dimension X, and perhaps the most often broadcast radio science fiction story.

Premier broadcast: 20 November 2023

File name: rir-dimension-x.mp3

Audio file: MP3, stereo, 44.1Hz, 320kbps

Website: https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/dimension-x/index.html

Willamette Radio Performs Live
October 20, 2023
Season 11, Episode 11L

Re-Imagined Radio celebrates the 85th anniversary of the most (in)famous radio drama broadcast ever, AND World Audio Drama Day, with a live performance of The War of the Worlds, by Willamette Radio Workshop. Directed by Sam A. Mowry. Following closely the script Orson Welles and The Mercury Theatre on the Air used, October 30, 1938, they destroy the world before your ears.

File name: rir-wow-live-2023.mp3

Audio file: stereo, 44.1Hz, 256kbps

Website:  https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/wow/index.html#2323

The demon is loose. The legend is real.
16 October, 2023
Season 11, Episode 10

For Halloween, Re-Imagined Radio presents "Asezhia," by Marc Rose and Jerrel McQuen. An ancient jewel, stolen from 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.

File name: rir-asezhia.mp3

Audio file: stereo, 44.1Hz, 256kbps

Website: https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/asezhia/index.html

9/11 Radio Stories
Stories behind the images

Re-Imagined Radio remembers September 11, 2001, when four passenger airplanes were hijacked and turned into weapons. Behind televised images of New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania, airline officials, air traffic controllers, and federal agents talked, frantically trying to learn what was happening, and determine how to stop it. Their telephone and radio communications were recorded. We sample them to share stories behind the images of 9/11.

Season 11, Episode 09
Premier broadcast: 18 September 2023

Written, Produced, and Hosted by John F. Barber
Sound Design, Music, and Post Production by Marc Rose, Fuse Audio Design
Promotional Graphics by Holly Slocum Design

File name: rir-9-11-radio-stories.mp3

Website: https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/9-11/index.html

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 behind its origins, context, delivery, and reception.

Dr. King delivered this speech August 28, 1963, at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. 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.

Season 11, Episode 08

Premier broadcast: 21 August 2023

Written, Produced, Hosted by John Barber

Music, Sound Design, Post Production by Marc Rose

Graphics by Holly Slocum Design

File name: rir-i-have-a-dream.mp3

Website: https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/dream/index.html

Re-Imagined Radio presents a retrospective listen to Willamette Radio Workshop (WRW). Sam A. Mowry and Marc Rose share some stories about this radio theater/audio drama group based in Portland, Oregon. Mowry founded WRW in 2001 and continues to direct its efforts. Rose has contributed extraordinary sound designs to many WRW performances and productions. 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.

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Season 11, Episode 07

Premier broadcast: 17 July 2023

Written, Produced, Hosted by John Barber

Music, Sound Design, Post Production by Marc Rose

Graphics by Holly Slocum Design

File name: rir-wrw-retrospective.mp3

Website: https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/wrw-retro/index.html