Re-Imagined Radio

Frank Lovejoy Tribute
A dependable, productive voice actor 


From the 1930s to the 1950s, the golden years of radio drama, Frank Andrew Lovejoy (1912-1962) was a dependable and productive radio voice actor. But, despite his appearances on MANY radio programs in his career, Frank Lovejoy is not well know today. With this episode, Re-Imagined Radio seeks to elevate Lovejoy's status. We sample from four radio programs where Lovejoy en...

Waters and Ruins
Two sound-based stories by Martin J. Gallagher

Re-Imagined Radio samples two stories by Martin J. Gallagher, an independent composer and sound designer based in Portland, Oregon. Each story is framed by music. "And the Waters" remembers William (Sam) Gregory, a Portland playwright/poet, who died in 2024. "The Ruins of Mauripol" (a response to the Russian invasion and destruction of Mariupol, Ukraine) is a three-par...

Retribution and Restitution
Two crime fictions for radio by Cindy Brown

Re-Imagined Radio presents, as our annual tribute to Women's History Month, and as part of our Guest Writer series, two radio stories, both written by Cindy Brown, an actor, director, producer, playwright, and disabilities advocate based in Portland, Oregon. Both of Brown's stories are crime fictions for radio.

Season 13, Episode 03
Released March 17, 2025

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This episode of Re-Imagined Radio is "Chaste Kiss & Chrysalis." Part of our Guest Producer/Writer Series, it samples two audio dramas by award-winning Canadian writer, producer, and director Jack Jamie Ward.

February is the month of love, and Valentine's Day. Both of Ward's audio dramas are edgy love stories in the style of Golden Age of Radio science fiction.

"A Chaste Kiss Goodbye" considers love between humans and purpose-built ...

The Lives of Harry Lime

Imaginative crimes and misadventures
Premiere broadcast: 20 January 2025
Season 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 Harry Lime and the narrator. In "Too Many Crooks" (Episode 01, 3 Augus...

"A Radio Christmas Sampler, Vol. 4"
Re-Imagined Radio
Season 12, Episode 12

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 Holiday...

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 from our Guest Producer series.

Season 12, Episode 11

Written by Jer...

Re-Imagined Radio premiers this two-part cinematic radio story by Jerrel McQuen and Marc Rose from our Guest Produced series. 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 his past have robbed him of all that he hoped to be or love. Will it be Vengeance...

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 sample from Mowry's appearances in several Re-Imagined Radio episodes. Mentor. Friend. Sam had a big voice. And a big...

"All we want are the facts, ma'am."

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 his character and acting style. We...

Re-Imagined Radio presents a radio episode and a radio series with the same name. "Nightfall." The radio episode, "Nightfall," is from Dimension X. The Canadian radio anthology series, Nightfall, offered primarily supernatural and/or horror stories. We sample "The Porch Light." Two stories of psychological terror and darkness.

Written, produced, hosted by John Barber
Sound design, music composition, post-production by Marc Rose
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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. "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar," and especially Bailey's portrayal, are considered one of the best detective series heard on ...

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 his writing by advertisin...

Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Women's History Month with a tribute to eight women 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.

Season 12, Episode 3

Written, Produced, and Hosted by John F. Barber
Sound Design, Music, and Post Production by Marc Rose
Promot...

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 Dillon (William Conrad) in Dodge City, Kansas, late 1870s. One changes his dream. The other lives it, and dies by it as "Billy The Kid."

Two gunslingers. Two classic stories. One ne...

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. So now we double down. Risk double indemnity. With our first double feature.

Season 12, Episode 01

Premier broadcast: January 22, 2024

File specs: Audio, MP3, stereo, 48.1Hz, 256kbps

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For the past decade, Re-Imagined Radio has offered "A Radio Christmas Carol," either as live or radio performances, to celebrate the seasonal holidays. For 2023, or 10th Anniversary, we are pleased to welcome the Willamette Radio Workshop, directed by Sam A. Mowry, and The Holly Jolly Singers, directed by Bennett Bailey, for a live performance in Vancouver's historic Kiggins Theatre.

A live holiday performance! 
20 December 2023 
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Re-Imagined Radio samples 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, December 20, 1952, to welcome the holidays and share some cheer.

Season 11, Episode 12R

Premier broadcast: 18 November 2023

Audio file: MP3, stereo, 44.1Hz, 256kbps

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