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Re-Imagined Radio | Short Sound Stories 1-30-23

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Re-Imagined Radio presents a collection of eighteen short stories told with vocals, sound effects, field recordings, and music. Subjects include soundscapes, dreamscapes, deep questions, audio drama, radio drama, radio historical highlights, memories, emotional states, loss and redemption, scary stories, uplifting stories, collages, sound poems, and more. All created by local, emerging artists.

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Re-Imagined Radio | A Radio Christmas Sampler Vol. II

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Last year we sampled holiday episodes from several other radio programs, offering what we called “A Radio Christmas Sampler.” Listeners told us they enjoyed this approach. So this year we offer “A Radio Christmas Sampler Vol. II.” We sample from “Red Ryder Nails The Cleveland Kid,” Jean Shepherd Show, WOR Radio, New York, 24 Dec.

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Re-Imagined Radio | The War of the Worlds: Possible Influences

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Re-Imagined Radio has celebrated the anniversary of “The War of the Worlds” several times by re-telling the story. This year, on the occasion of its 84th anniversary, we explore earlier experiments with radio storytelling that may have influenced Orson Welles’s radio adaptation of the 1898 novel by H. G. Welles. In addition to samples from

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Re-Imagined Radio | Twisted Epiphanies

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Re-Imagined Radio presents twenty short radio stories written and voiced by folks living in America’s Pacific Northwest. Each story features an “epiphany,” a sudden, unexpected revelation or insight. Especially with regard to four questions we often ask ourselves: “Who Am I?”, “Where Am I Going?”, “So What?”, and “Why?” The responses are entertaining and insightful.

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Re-Imagined Radio | William Conrad Tribute

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Re-Imagined Radio pays tribute to William Conrad’s iconic radio voice which was heard in thousands of supporting roles and literally defined two radio drama series, Escape and Gunsmoke. We sample from “The Abominable Snowman” episode of Escape (September 13, 1953) and the “Dirty Hands” episode of Gunsmoke (April 2, 1955). Both showcase Conrad’s million dollar

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Re-Imagined Radio | The Fall of the City

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Re-Imagined Radio pays tribute to The Columbia Workshop, perhaps the most important American anthology radio program and its mission to explore and present new forms of radio storytelling. The Willamette Radio Workshop performs Archibald MacLeish’s “The Fall of the City” which follows the collapse of a city under an unnamed dictator and the ambiguous relationship

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Re-Imagined Radio | Lucille Fletcher Tribute

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Re-Imagined Radio pays tribute to Women’s History Month, women in radio, and specifically Lucille Fletcher, a superb female radio storyteller, writer of “The Hitch-Hiker” and “Sorry, Wrong Number.” Our re-imagined adaptation of both dramas presented by The Voices proves the appeal and power of radio storytelling to engage listeners’ imaginations. LOTS more information, behind the

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