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 Evan Leyden and Holly Slocum

Social Media strategies by Caitlyn Kruger-L'Esperance

YouTube strategies and announcing by Rylan Eisenhauer

Audio File Name: rir-black-museum.mp3

Episode webpage: https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/black-museum/index.html

Re-Imagined Radio presents, episode #95, "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
Graphics by Evan Leyden and Holly Slocum
Social Media strategies by Caitlyn Kruger-Lesperance
YouTube strategies and announcing by Rylan Eisenhauer

Audio File Name: rir-mae-west-jewel-robbery.mp3

Episode webpage: https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/mae-west/index.html

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
Graphics by Evan Leyden and Holly Slocum
Social Media strategies by Caitlyn Kruger-Lesperance
YouTube strategies and announcing by Rylan Eisenhauer
Audio File Name: rir-radio-romances-2026.mp3
Episode webpage: https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/radio-romances/index.html

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.

"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


Graphics by Evan Leyden and Holly Slocum


Social Media strategies by Caitlyn Kruger-Lesperance


YouTube strategies and announcing by Rylan Eisenhauer

Audio File Name: rir-earth-abides-2026.mp3

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

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

Audio File Name: rir-christmas-carol-2025.mp3

Re-Imagined Radio presents "A Radio Christmas Sampler, Vol. 5" with samples from three interesting Christmas programs. First, a Christmas 1942 wartime message from Edward R. Murrow who encourages us to keep hope alive.

Second "Christmas Party for Hubert Smith," an episode of Truth or Consequences where radio connects a wounded Navy sailor in California with his family and hometown in Tennessee.

And third, "The Plot to Overthrow Christmas" by Irwin Corwin, told in rhyming verse, from Columbia Workshop. Enjoy listening.

A Radio Christmas Sampler, Vol. 5

Premiere broadcast: December 15, 2025

Season 13, Episode 12

Written, Produced, Hosted by John F. Barber

Post production, original music, sound design by Marc Rose

Graphics by Holly Slocum

Social Media by Caitlyn Kruger-Lesperance

YouTube and announcing by Rylan Eisenhauer

Audio File Name: rir-radio-christmas-sampler-vol-5-2025.mp3

D. B. Cooper's Last Interview

Season 13, Episode 11

Release Date: November 17, 2025

Re-Imagined Radio presents "D.B. Cooper's Last Interview." A factual documentary with a fictional ending.

For the factual documentary we sample research and recordings of individuals investigating and reporting the hijacking of Nortwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, November 24, 1971, by a man called "D.B. Cooper." Cooper hijacked the airplane between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington. He demanded and received $200,000 in ransom for the passengers and some of the flight crew. He escaped by parachuting from the airplane over Southwest Washington. Cooper has never been captured, or identified. The money has never been recovered.

What happened to D.B. Cooper?

Where is the money?

These questions linger.

For answers, and the fictional ending to this episode, we dramatize Tom Vandel's story "The Last Interview."

With this approach, Re-Imagined Radio explores the only unsolved case of passenger air piracy in U.S. history. "D.B. Cooper's Last Interview" offers closure without diminishing the power of this true crime mystery that has remained legendary for more than 50 years.

Original story, "The Last Interview," written and copyrighted by Tom Vandel (The Broken World, Tiny Road Books, 2021). Used by permission.

Episode written, produced, and hosted by John F. Barber

Original story "The Last Interview" by Tom Vandel
Sound Design, Music, and Post Production by Marc Rose
Promotional Graphics by Evan Leyden and Holly Slocum
Social media strategy by Caitlyn Kruger-Lesperance
Announcing and YouTube strategy by Rylan Eisenhauer

For more information, and the transcript, see the episode page at our website, https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/cooper-2025/index.html

Frequency 43
Can dreams connect us with the Great Unknown?

Re-Imagined Radio presents "Frequency 43" by Jerrel McQuen and Marc Rose. This radio science fiction story concerns a researcher who discovers a parallel universe where the morphing liquidity of dream and nightmare questions the rules of reality. Should we explore this world? This haunting and splintering reality of Frequency 43? Can dreams connect us with the Great Unknown? If so, how much connection would we truly want? From our Guest Producer and Science Fiction series. Thank you for listening.

Season 13, Episode 10
Released: October 20, 2025

Written and Produced by Jerrel McQuen and Marc Rose
Sound Design, Music, and Post Production by Marc Rose
Promotional Graphics by Evan Leyden and Holly Slocum
YouTube Management and Announcing by Rylan Eisenhauer
Social Media by Caitlyn Kruger
Hosted by John Barber

Audio file name: rir-frequency-43.mp3

More information at our website, https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/frequency-43/index.html

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