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 love between humans and purpose-built companion robots.

Ward's "Chrysalis" is a revisioning of the classic audio drama "The War of the Worlds" as a layered love story, for aliens, humans, and machines.

February 17, 2025
Season 13, Episode 02

Original stories written by Jack J. Ward
Produced and Hosted by John F. Barber
Sound Design, Music, and Post Production by Marc Rose
Promotional Graphics by Holly Slocum with Evan Leyden
Social Media by Rylan Eisenhauer

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 "Too Many Crooks" (Episode 01, 3 August 1951) Harry gets mixed up with a bank robbery attempt in Budapest where each member of the gang tries to out-double cross the other. In "Greek Meets Greek" (Episode 52, 25 July 1952) Harry, while in Greece, contends with the measles, a dead body, and a mysterious woman with a gun claiming someone is trying to kill her. Her story, however, does not make sense. From our OTR (Old Time Radio) series.

Credits
Written, Produced, and Hosted by John F. Barber
Sound Design, Original Music Production, and Post Production by Marc Rose
Promotional Graphics by Holly Slocum and Evan Leyden
Social Media by Rylan Eisenhauer

More Information
For more information, visit our archival website, https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/harry-lime/index.html

"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" starring Jimmy Stewart. Happy Holidays!

Premier broadcast: December 16, 2024
Curated, Produced, Hosted by John F. Barber
Sound design, Music composition, Post-production by Marc Rose
Graphics by Holly Slocum

File name: rir-radio-christmas-carol-4.mp3

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.

Season 12, Episode 11

Written by Jerrel McQuen
Sound Design, Original Music Composition, and Post Production by Marc Rose
Graphics by Jerrel McQuen and Holly Slocum
Social Media by Rylan Eisenhauer
Produced and Hosted by John F. Barber

Released November 18, 2024

Audio file name: rir-eclipsoid-man-2.mp3

More information at our website, https://www.reimaginedradio.fm

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.

©2024 Re-Imagined Radio. All rights reserved (except those granted by the Creative Commons license)

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 to be or love. Will it be Vengeance? Retribution? Or, Epiphany when an atrocity bomb from Quaymet’s ancient past redefines the meaning of fallout?

Written by Jerrel McQuen Sound Design

Original Music Composition, and Post Production by Marc Rose

Promotional Graphics by Jerrel McQuen and Holly Slocum

Produced and Hosted by John F. Barber

Released 21 October 2024

Audio file name: rir-eclipsoid-man-1.mp3

More information at our website, https://www.reimaginedradio.fm

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.

©2024 Re-Imagined Radio. All rights reserved (except those granted by the Creative Commons license)

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. Friend. Sam had a big voice. And a big heart. He is greatly missed.

More information at our website: https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/wrw-retro.html

Season 12, Episode 09
Written, produced, hosted by John Barber
Sound design, music composition, post-production by Marc Rose
Graphics by Holly Slocum with Sydney Nguyen

"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 acting style. We end with "The City Hall Bombing," an early episode of Dragnet to showcase Webb as a great radio storyteller.

Season 12, Episode 08

Written, produced, hosted by John F. Barber

Sound design, music composition, post-production by Marc Rose

Graphics by Holly Slocum with Sidney Nguyen

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 composition, post-production by Marc Rose
Graphics by Holly Slocum Design