Re-Imagined Radio

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 Stewart. The latter is a fine retelling of the classic story by Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. See our website for more information, http://www.reimaginedradio.net/episodes/christmas/index.html#radio

Season 10, Episode 11 Premier broadcast: 19 Dec. 2022

Written, Produced, Hosted by John Barber

Music, Sound Design by Marc Rose

Graphics by Holly Slocum Design

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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 those who lived the experiences their stories describe. They are true stories. The dialogue is unscripted, unpolished, and absolutely compelling."

We present three stories. The first, "Living with Chief Joseph," is told by Erskin Wood. In 1893, at the age of 13, he lived with Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce people in the Nespelem Valley, just north of present day Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state. Wood recounts his interesting connection to Chief Joseph, everyday life in his teepee, and his job wrangling the Chief's herd of horses. He tells about the games the young people played, and about the community singing and dancing in which he participated.

The second, "Working the SPS Railroad," is an account by Harry W. Hendricks of his experiences working for the Seattle-Portland-Spokane Railroad, 1950s-1994, during the transition from steam to diesel technologies. Hendricks, a retired conductor, recounts working on the railroad for more than fourty years. He talks about the pleasure of traveling through the Columbia River Gorge several times a week. From his enthusiastic storytelling it's obvious that Hendricks enjoyed every minute of his career with the SPS railroad.

In our third story, "The Russians Arrive," Leverett Richards, a reporter for the Clark County Sun newspaper recalls the surprise landing of a single-engine airplane at Vancouver's Pearson Airfield piloted by three Russian airmen, 20 June 1937. Two days earlier, June 18, the plane took off from an airport outside Moscow, Russia, headed for Oakland, California. The Soviet airplane and its crew, Valery Chkalov, pilot, Georgi Baidukov, relief pilot, and Alexander Belyakov, navigator and radio operator flew non-stop from Moscow, over the North Pole. After 63 hours of flying, and nearly 6,000 miles, low fuel forced them to land in Vancouver, Washington. Their landing marked the first non-stop flight from Moscow, Russia, to the United States by a single engine plane over the North Pole. See our website for more information, http://www.reimaginedradio.net/episodes/hearing-voices/index.html

Season 10, Episode 10 Premier broadcast: 21 Nov. 2022

Written, Produced, and Hosted by John Barber

Post Production, Sound Design, Music by Marc Rose

Social Media by Regina Carol Social Media Management

Graphics by Kathy Klaus

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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 documentary radio performance style combines art production and scholarship to celebrate The War of the Worlds radio broadcast. See our website for more information, http://www.reimaginedradio.net/episodes/wow/index.html#2022

Season 10, Episode 09 Premier broadcast: 17 Oct. 2022

Written, Produced, and Hosted by John Barber

Post Production, Music, Sound Design by Marc Rose

Social Media by Regina Carol Social Media Management

Graphics by Kathy Klaus

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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?", "So What?", and "Why?" The responses are entertaining and insightful. Sometimes uncomfortable. "Twisted" from expectations. Each is an excellent, thought-provoking story about human experience. See our website for more information, http://www.reimaginedradio.net/episodes/epiphanies/index.html

Season 10, Episode 08 Premier broadcast: 19 Sep. 2022

Written, Produced, and Hosted by John F. Barber

Post Production, Music, Sound Design by Marc Rose

Social Media by Regina Carol Social Media Management

Graphics by Kathy Klaus

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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. Beyond science fiction literature themes like space aliens, flying saucers, and robots, this radio story overlays Cold War fear of rockets and nuclear war. The result is powerful, insightful, thought provoking, a fine example of radio storytelling. More information at Re-Imagined Radio website: https://bit.ly/earth-stood-still

Season 11, Episode 05

Premier Broadcast: 15 May 2023

Written, Produced, Hosted by John Barber

Music, Sound Design, Post Production by Marc Rose

Graphics by Holly Slocum Design

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