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