Re-Imagined Radio

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