D. B. Cooper's Last Interview

Season 13, Episode 11

Release Date: November 17, 2025

Re-Imagined Radio presents "D.B. Cooper's Last Interview." A factual documentary with a fictional ending.

For the factual documentary we sample research and recordings of individuals investigating and reporting the hijacking of Nortwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, November 24, 1971, by a man called "D.B. Cooper." Cooper hijacked the airplane between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington. He demanded and received $200,000 in ransom for the passengers and some of the flight crew. He escaped by parachuting from the airplane over Southwest Washington. Cooper has never been captured, or identified. The money has never been recovered.

What happened to D.B. Cooper?

Where is the money?

These questions linger.

For answers, and the fictional ending to this episode, we dramatize Tom Vandel's story "The Last Interview."

With this approach, Re-Imagined Radio explores the only unsolved case of passenger air piracy in U.S. history. "D.B. Cooper's Last Interview" offers closure without diminishing the power of this true crime mystery that has remained legendary for more than 50 years.

Original story, "The Last Interview," written and copyrighted by Tom Vandel (The Broken World, Tiny Road Books, 2021). Used by permission.

Episode written, produced, and hosted by John F. Barber

Original story "The Last Interview" by Tom Vandel
Sound Design, Music, and Post Production by Marc Rose
Promotional Graphics by Evan Leyden and Holly Slocum
Social media strategy by Caitlyn Kruger-Lesperance
Announcing and YouTube strategy by Rylan Eisenhauer

For more information, and the transcript, see the episode page at our website, https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/cooper-2025/index.html

Frequency 43
Can dreams connect us with the Great Unknown?

Re-Imagined Radio presents "Frequency 43" by Jerrel McQuen and Marc Rose. This radio science fiction story concerns a researcher who discovers a parallel universe where the morphing liquidity of dream and nightmare questions the rules of reality. Should we explore this world? This haunting and splintering reality of Frequency 43? Can dreams connect us with the Great Unknown? If so, how much connection would we truly want? From our Guest Producer and Science Fiction series. Thank you for listening.

Season 13, Episode 10
Released: October 20, 2025

Written and Produced by Jerrel McQuen and Marc Rose
Sound Design, Music, and Post Production by Marc Rose
Promotional Graphics by Evan Leyden and Holly Slocum
YouTube Management and Announcing by Rylan Eisenhauer
Social Media by Caitlyn Kruger
Hosted by John Barber

Audio file name: rir-frequency-43.mp3

More information at our website, https://www.reimaginedradio.fm/episodes/frequency-43/index.html

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International License.
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My Hands Are Different
Two fathers. Two paths. One realization.

Re-Imagined Radio presents "My Hands Are Different," a memoir by Martin J. Gallagher. Imagine having two fathers. Each a different model for your life. Your adoptive father wants you to use your hands to "stand up for yourself." He gives you boxing gloves and a training schedule. Your birth father, a mystery until after his death, when you are given a box of his tape recordings, has inspired your hands for music and creative media. Gallagher, is an independent composer and sound designer based in Portland, Oregon. From our Guest Producer series. Thank you for listening.



Season 13, Episode 09
Released: September 15, 2025

Written and Produced by Martin J. Gallagher
Sound Design, Music, and Post Production by Marc Rose
Promotional Graphics by Evan Leyden and Holly Slocum
YouTube Management and Announcing by Rylan Eisenhauer
Social Media by Caitlyn Kruger
Hosted by John Barber

Audio file name: rir-my-hands-are-different.mp3

"My Hands Are Different." An original story, written and produced by Martin J. Gallagher. Story copyrighted (2025), not Creative Commons, by Martin J. Gallagher. Used by permission. No other use of Gallagher's story is allowed without permission from the author.