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The Lives of Harry Lime Imaginative crimes and misadventuresPremiere broadcast: 20 January 2025Season 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 […]

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

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

Re-Imagined Radio premiers this two-part cinematic radio story by Jerrel McQuen and Marc Rose as a Guest Produced episode. 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

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