VANCOUVER, Wash. – In its June 19 episode, Re-Imagined Radio invites listeners to imagine being abducted or invaded by aliens, the nature of the afterlife, and what it means to be human. Titled “Coast To Coast: Transcontinental Radio Storytelling,” the episode features four science fiction stories written by Jack J. Ward, a writer, director and producer of audio dramas who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
“We call this episode ‘Coast To Coast’ to signify that Jack and his radio dramas comes to us here on the northwest coast of the United States from the northeast coast of Canada, through radio, the teleportal trans-experiential time warp theater of the mind,” said John Barber, founder and host of Re-Imagined Radio and a faculty member of WSU Vancouver’s Creative Media and Digital Culture program.
The episode premiers at 1 p.m. June 19 on KXRW-FM (99.9), Vancouver, and KXRY-FM (91.1), Portland. Subsequent broadcasts and streams will be provided by local, regional and international broadcast partners.
The four stories are “Galaxy Master versus the Varn,” “Reservations,” “Alien Invasion Cancelled” and “Trans-Humanity.” All were published as part of Ward’s “The Wave Front Shorts Anthology” series, 2006 – 2021. Many examples of Ward’s work in audio drama are available as podcasts.
Re-imagined Radio premieres episodes on the third Monday of the month on KXRW-FM. In addition, every Sunday, an episode of Re-Imagined Radio is broadcast on KXRW, drawing from previously broadcast episodes. Episodes can be streamed on demand from the Re-Imagined Radio website or may be obtained as podcasts anywhere podcasts are offered. You also can subscribe or download using the audio player on any individual episode page at the Radio Re-imagined website, 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
Barber started Re-Imagined Radio 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
WSU Vancouver is in the homeland of Chinookan and Taidnapam peoples and the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. 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.
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