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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

Re-Imagined Radio presents “A Radio Christmas Sampler, Vol. 5” with samples from three interesting Christmas programs. First, a Christmas 1942 wartime message from Edward R. Murrow who encourages us to keep hope alive. Second “Christmas Party for Hubert Smith,” an episode of Truth or Consequences where radio connects a wounded Navy sailor in California with

Re-Imagined Radio presents “D.B. Cooper’s Last Interview.” A factual documentary with a fictional ending. For the factual documentary we sample research and recordings of individuals investigating and reporting the hijacking of Nortwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, November 24, 1971, by a man called “D.B. Cooper.” Cooper hijacked the airplane between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington.

Frequency 43Can dreams connect us with the Great Unknown? Re-Imagined Radio presents “Frequency 43” by Jerrel McQuen and Marc Rose. This story concerns a researcher who discovers a parallel universe where the morphing liquidity of dream and nightmare questions the rules of reality. Should we explore this world? This haunting and splintering reality of Frequency

My Hands Are DifferentTwo fathers. Two paths. One realization. Re-Imagined Radio presents “My Hands Are Different,” a memoir by Martin J. Gallagher. Imagine having two fathers. Each a different model for your life. Your adoptive father wants you to use your hands to “stand up for yourself.” He gives you boxing gloves and a training

Bogart and Bacall TributePart 2: Bold Venture Re-Imagined Radio presents Part 2 of our Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall Tribute. Part 2 samples from the first two episodes of their syndicated action-adventure radio series Bold Venture, 1951-1952. Slate Shannon (Bogart) and Gail “Sailor” Duval (Bacall), operate a hotel and charter boat in Havana, Cuba, before