Re-Imagined Radio explores early examples of dramatized news events and uses this inspiration to create its own dramatization of the opening of the Interstate Bridge linking Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, across the Columbia River, 106 years ago, February 14, 1917. Our dramatized radio broadcast originates from the lift span of the Interstate Bridge where […]
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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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Recorded at the Historic Kiggins Theater in downtown Vancouver, Washington in front of an audience, Re-Imagined Radio performed a radio play version of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” featuring voice actors, foley artists, and a choir.
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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 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 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 pays tribute to three uniquely connected radio drama series, The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, and The Challenge of the Yukon. All were produced and broadcast by the same radio station from the 1930s-1950s, using a handful of voice actors and announcers that cycled between programs. The larger than life characters, the adventurous
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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 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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