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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

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 Audio File Name: rir-quiet-please.mp3 Episode Webpage: https://reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/quiet-please/index.html 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 Audio File Name: rir-black-museum.mp3 Episode Webpage: https://reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/black-museum/index.html Image Credit: Claire Leyden

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 Audio File Name: rir-mae-west-jewel-robbery.mp3 Episode webpage: https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/mae-west/index.html 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 Audio File Name: rir-radio-romances-2026.mp3 Episode webpage:  https://reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/radio-romances/index.html 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 Audio File Name: rir-earth-abides-2026.mp3 Webpage: https://reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/earth-abides/index.html Image Credit: Claire Leyden