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Field recorded mechanical sounds. Sound narratives with rhythm, even melody. Portraying life and projects in the process of always becoming. “In Progress.” From our RiR Workshop series, a laboratory for experimental sound-based storytelling. Premiere broadcast: September 21, 2026 Season 14, Episode 09 John F. Barber, writer, producer, and host Marc Rose, post-production, original music, and

Celebrating 100 episodes! Premiere broadcast: August 17, 2026Season 14, Episode 08 John F. Barber, writer, producer, and host Marc Rose, post-production, original music, and sound design Holly Slocum, creative management Caitlyn Kruger-L’Esperance, projects management Claire Leyden, motion graphics designer Rylan Eisenhauer, YouTube channel production and management, and announcing Audio File Name: rir-100.mp3 Episode webpage: https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/rir-100/index.html

Three soundscapes recorded by John Barber in Dubai, UAE, Vancouver, Washington, and Victoria, Canada, are combined by him as a sonic tapestry where the narrative is based on mechanical and environmental sounds, rather than human dialogue. The first episode of the new “RiR Workshop” series, experimental sound-based storytelling. Premiere broadcast: July 20, 2026Season 14, Episode

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, 2026Season 14, Episode 06 Written, Produced, Hosted by John F. Barber
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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, 2026Season 14, Episode 05 Written, Produced, Hosted by John F. Barber
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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:

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:

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

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

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, with Orson Welles, and actors of The