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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 feature recordings of Mowry’s appearances in […]

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

Re-Imagined Radio presents two radio stories connected by the same name. NIGHTFALL. “Nightfall,” is the title of the final episode of Dimension X. The precursor of X Minus One. The famous science fiction series. Nightfall is also the name of a radio anthology series produced and broadcast in Canada. Episodes were primarily supernatural and/or horror.

Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Johnny Dollar, America’s fabulous freelance insurance investigator, the man with the action-packed expense account, by sampling from “The McCormick Matter” episode starring Bob Bailey, considered the best of the eight Johnny Dollar actors during the series’ fourteen-year run on CBS.

Re-Imagined Radio samples from two episodes of Escape, “Present Tense” and “Three Skeleton Key,” both starring Price, to celebrate radio’s greatest series of high adventure storytelling and an unforgettable voice actor. Frequently cited as the finest radio adventure series ever, Escape is significant for providing listeners a variety of literary experiences drawn from adventure classics

Re-Imagined Radio samples from Box 13 and The Damon Runyon Theater, both offered by Paramount movie star Alan Ladd’s Mayfair Productions, as syndicated radio programs. Both are significant examples of compelling, immersive radio storytelling. Each episode of Box 13 stars Ladd as Dan Holiday, a newspaper reporter turned mystery/adventure novel writer who gets ideas for

Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Women’s History Month with a tribute to eight women and three radio series that made significant and pioneering contributions to radio storytelling. We sample radio storytelling by Lucille Fletcher, Edith Meiser, Ruth Woodman, Mary MacBride, Jean King, Cathy Lewis, Margaret Lynch, and Gracie Allen.

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

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. It’s a unique way of approaching radio storytelling, the double dose. So now we double down. Risk double indemnity. With our

Re-Imagined Radio offers “A Radio Christmas Sampler Vol. III” to welcome the holidays and share some cheer. We sample 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,