Re-Imagined Radio

Field recorded mechanical sounds. Sound narratives with rhythm, even melody. Portraying life and projects in the process of always becoming. "In Progress." From our RiR Workshop series, a laboratory for experimental sound-based storytelling.

Premiere broadcast: September 21, 2026

Season 14, Episode 09

John F. Barber, writer, producer, and host

Marc Rose, post-production, original music, and sound design

Holly Slocum, creative management

Caitlyn Kruger-L'Esperance, projects management

Rylan Eisenhauer, YouTube channel production and management, and announcing

Claire Leyden, motion graphics designer

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Tags: workshop, soundscape, sound walk, sound-based storytelling

Image Credit: Holly Slocum/NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Celebrating 100 episodes!

Premiere broadcast: August 17, 2026 Season 14, Episode 08

John F. Barber, writer, producer, and host

Marc Rose, post-production, original music, and sound design

Holly Slocum, creative management

Caitlyn Kruger-L'Esperance, projects management

Rylan Eisenhauer, YouTube channel production and management, and announcing

Claire Leyden, motion graphics designer

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Tags: radio, sample, episode, story, stories, storytelling, hundred, 100, listening, broadcast, drama, tribute

Image Credit: Claire Leyden and Holly Slocum

Three soundscapes recorded by John Barber in Dubai, UAE, Vancouver, Washington, and Victoria, Canada, are combined by him as a sonic tapestry where the narrative is based on mechanical and environmental sounds, rather than human dialogue. The first episode of the new "RiR Workshop" series, experimental sound-based storytelling.

Premiere broadcast: July 20, 2026 Season 14, Episode 07

John F. Barber, writer, producer, and host

Marc Rose, post-production, original music, and sound design

Holly Slocum, creative managemenet

Caitlyn Kruger-L'Esperance, program events management

Rylan Eisenhauer, YouTube channel production and management, and announcing

Claire Leyden, motion graphics

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Tags: soundscape, sound based storytelling, RiR Workshop

Image Credit: Holly Slocum and NASA. Opportunity View of "Private Joseph Field" on Mars by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, May 29, 2016.

Image Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/USGS/ASU https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia21142-opportunity-view-of-private-joseph-field-on-mars/

Image Status: Public Domain

Three episodes by Wyllis Cooper and Arch Oboler from the Lights Out series. Often called "the ultimate OTR horror series." Re-Imagined Radio presents "The State Executioner," "Chicken Heart," and "The Man in the Middle."

Premiere broadcast: June 15, 2026 Season 14, Episode 06

Written, Produced, Hosted by John F. Barber Post production, original music, sound design by Marc Rose Graphics by Evan Leyden and Holly Slocum Social Media strategies by Caitlyn Kruger-L'Esperance YouTube strategies and Announcing by Rylan Eisenhauer

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Image Credit: Holly Slocum

The pilot episode, "Behind the Door," and the most famous, "The Thing on the Fourble Board," showcase the quiet, slow, suspenseful, and engaging storytelling for which the Quiet, Please series is noted. From our documentary series.

Premiere broadcast: May 18, 2026 Season 14, Episode 05

Written, Produced, Hosted by John F. Barber Post production, original music, sound design by Marc Rose Creative Management by Holly Slocum Program Events Management by Caitlyn Kruger-L'Esperance YouTube strategies and announcing by Rylan Eisenhauer

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Image Credit: Holly Slocum

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: Secrets of Scotland Yard, The Black Museum, Whitehall 1212, and Fabian of the Yard. From our documentary series.

Premiere broadcast: April 20, 2026 Season 14, Episode 04

Written, Produced, Hosted by John F. Barber Post production, original music, sound design by Marc Rose Graphics by Claire Leyden and Holly Slocum Social Media strategies by Caitlyn Kruger-L'Esperance YouTube strategies and announcing by Rylan Eisenhauer

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Re-Imagined Radio presents "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: March 16, 2026 Season 14, Episode 03

Written, Produced, Hosted by John F. Barber

Post production, original music, sound design by Marc Rose

Creative Management by Holly Slocum

Program Events Management by Caitlyn Kruger-Lesperance

Motion Graphics by Claire Leyden

YouTube strategies and announcing by Rylan Eisenhauer

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Image Credit: Claire Leyden

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 safe return home. The fast-paced dialogue and charm make this a foundational screwball romantic comedy.

The Philadelphia Story, starring Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart, is considered one of the best examples of a comedy about remarriage, in which a couple divorce, flirt with outsiders and then remarry. The genre was popular in the 1930s and 1940s when divorce was considered scandalous and the depiction of extramarital affairs was blocked entertainment morality codes.

"Radio Romances" Premiere broadcast: February 16, 2026 Season 14, Episode 02

Written, Produced, Hosted by John F. Barber

Post production, original music, sound design by Marc Rose

Creative Management by Holly Slocum

Program Events Management by Caitlyn Kruger-Lesperance

YouTube strategies and announcing by Rylan Eisenhauer

Motion Graphics by Claire Leyden

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Image Credit: Claire Leyden

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.

Premiere broadcast: January 19, 2026 Season 14, Episode 01

Written, Produced, Hosted by John F. Barber

Post production, original music, sound design by Marc Rose

Creative Management by Holly Slocum

Program Events Management by Caitlyn Kruger-Lesperance

YouTube strategies and announcing by Rylan Eisenhauer

Motion Graphics by Claire Leyden

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Image Credit: Claire Leyden

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, Orson Welles, and actors of The Mercury Theatre on the Air. This performance is considered by radio historians as the classic telling of this timeless tale.

"A Christmas Carol 2025" Premiere broadcast: December 22, 2025 Season 13, Episode 13

John F. Barber, writer, producer, and host

Marc Rose, post-production, original music, and sound design

Holly Slocum, creative management

Caitlyn Kruger-L'Esperance, projects management

Rylan Eisenhauer, YouTube channel production and management, and announcing

Claire Leyden, motion graphics designer

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Image Credit: Holly Slocum