This episode of Re-Imagined Radio is "Chaste Kiss & Chrysalis." Part of our Guest Producer/Writer Series, it samples two audio dramas by award-winning Canadian writer, producer, and director Jack Jamie Ward.

February is the month of love, and Valentine's Day. Both of Ward's audio dramas are edgy love stories in the style of Golden Age of Radio science fiction.

"A Chaste Kiss Goodbye" considers love between humans and purpose-built companion robots.

Ward's "Chrysalis" is a revisioning of the classic audio drama "The War of the Worlds" as a layered love story, for aliens, humans, and machines.

February 17, 2025
Season 13, Episode 02

Original stories written by Jack J. Ward
Produced and Hosted by John F. Barber
Sound Design, Music, and Post Production by Marc Rose
Promotional Graphics by Holly Slocum with Evan Leyden
Social Media by Rylan Eisenhauer

The Lives of Harry Lime

Imaginative crimes and misadventures
Premiere broadcast: 20 January 2025
Season 13, Episode 01

Re-Imagined Radio samples the first and last episodes of The Lives of Harry Lime (syndicated United States broadcasts 1951-1952. Elsewhere titled The Adventures of Harry Lime).

Both episodes star Orson Welles (of "The War of the Worlds" fame) as Harry Lime and the narrator. In "Too Many Crooks" (Episode 01, 3 August 1951) Harry gets mixed up with a bank robbery attempt in Budapest where each member of the gang tries to out-double cross the other. In "Greek Meets Greek" (Episode 52, 25 July 1952) Harry, while in Greece, contends with the measles, a dead body, and a mysterious woman with a gun claiming someone is trying to kill her. Her story, however, does not make sense. From our OTR (Old Time Radio) series.

Credits
Written, Produced, and Hosted by John F. Barber
Sound Design, Original Music Production, and Post Production by Marc Rose
Promotional Graphics by Holly Slocum and Evan Leyden
Social Media by Rylan Eisenhauer

More Information
For more information, visit our archival website, https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/harry-lime/index.html

"A Radio Christmas Sampler, Vol. 4"
Re-Imagined Radio
Season 12, Episode 12

Every year since 2013, Re-Imagined Radio has offered some iteration of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens as a community holiday celebration. This year we sample a version from the "Richard Diamond, Private Detective" series, starring Richard Powell. We also sample from "This Is Your FBI" and "It's a Wonderful Life" starring Jimmy Stewart. Happy Holidays!

Premier broadcast: December 16, 2024
Curated, Produced, Hosted by John F. Barber
Sound design, Music composition, Post-production by Marc Rose
Graphics by Holly Slocum

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