VANCOUVER, Wash. – The strange nighttime train rides of the “Mysterious Traveler” are the focus of Re-Imagined Radio’s double-feature episode in January. The radio anthology series, originally heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System from 1943 to 1952, made the voice of narrator Maurice Talpin familiar across America. He opened every episode with “This is the Mysterious Traveler, inviting you to join me on another journey into the strange and the terrifying.”
The “Mysterious Traveler” premieres at 1 p.m. Jan. 15 on KXRW-FM (99.9), Vancouver, and KXRY-FM (91.1 and 107.1), Portland. Subsequent broadcasts and streams will be provided by local, regional and international broadcast partners.
Re-Imagined Radio will air “The Man the Insects Hated,” about a man trying to create the perfect formula for an insect killer,” and “Behind the Locked Door,” considered a masterpiece of horror about a cave in Arizona with a deadly legacy.
"The 'Mysterious Traveler’ was a well-received radio series during the decade it was broadcast,” said John Barber, host and founder of Re-Imagined Radio and faculty with WSU Vancouver’s Creative Media and Digital Culture program. “And it still resonates today with the two episodes we feature.”
Re-Imagined Radio premieres episodes on the third Monday of the month on community radio stations KXRW.FM and KXRY.FM. Each episode is streamed globally and is then available as a podcast. Information and listening opportunities are available at reimaginedradio.net.
Community Partners
Re-Imagined Radio draws on community voice actors, Foley artists, musicians, sound artists and engineers. Partners include KXRW-FM, KXRY-FM, Marc Rose and Holly Slocum Design.
About Re-Imagined Radio
Re-Imagined Radio was begun by Barber in 2013 to celebrate radio storytelling. ”We select, produce and perform classic and contemporary stories across a spectrum of radio genres, from dramas to comedies, from oral to aural histories, from documentaries to fictions, from soundscapes to sonic journeys, from radio to sound art,” Barber said.
About WSU Vancouver
As one of six campuses of the WSU system, WSU Vancouver offers big-school resources in a small-school environment. The university provides affordable, high-quality baccalaureate- and graduate-level education to benefit the people and communities it serves. As the only four-year research university in Southwest Washington, WSU Vancouver helps drive economic growth through relationships with local businesses and industries, schools and nonprofit organizations.
WSU Vancouver is located on the homelands of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and Peoples of the Lower Columbia Valley. We acknowledge their presence here. WSU Vancouver expresses its respect towards these original and current caretakers of the region. We pledge that these relationships will be built on mutual trust and respect.
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