Re-Imagined Radio

Another collaboration with Portland-based storytellers Jerrel McQuen (writer) and Marc Rose (sound designer). Thirteen works of spoken word with an introduction and interview with McQuen and Rose. Like the 1961 movie, Breakfast at Tiffany's (whose title it puns) Breakfast @ Epiphanies examines conflict between stability and freedom, the struggle with loneliness and identity, and the fear of emotional vulnerability.
As with Frequency 43 in 2025; Night of the Eclipsoid Man, Part 1 and Part 2 in 2024; Asezhia in 2023; and their inspiration of Twisted Epiphanies in 2022—Breakfast @ Epiphanies brings to closure work begun by McQuen and Rose forty-plus years earlier. However, it is unique in its telling, using lyrics and poetry. From our Guest Producer series.
Premiere broadcast: October 19, 2026
Season 14, Episode 10
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
Audio File Name: rir-breakfast-at-epiphanies.mp3
Episode webpage: https://reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/breakfast-epiphanies/index.html
Tags: breakfast, epiphanies, spoken word, guest producer, Jerrel McQuen, Marc Rose, technology, ancestry, artificial realities, memory, existential questions, fear, inspiration, meditation, Halloween
Image Credit: Holly Slocum, Jerrel McQuen
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International License. All rights reserved (except those granted by the Creative Commons license)

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
Audio File Name: rir-in-progress.mp3
Episode webpage: https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/in-progress/index.html
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
Audio File Name: rir-100.mp3
Episode Webpage: https://reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/rir-100/index.html
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
Audio File Name: rir-birds-traffic-machines.mp3
Episode webpage: https://reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/birds-traffic-machines/index.html
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
Audio File Name: rir-lights-out.mp3
Episode Webpage: https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/lights-out/index.html
Image Credit: Holly Slocum