Re-Imagined Radio presents "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens as our community holiday radio story. We've done this every holiday season since 2013. Listen and enjoy the The Campbell Playhouse performance, December 24, 1939, starring Lionel Barrymore, one of America's greatest stage and screen actors, as Ebenezer Scrooge, Orson Welles, and actors of The Mercury Theatre on the Air. This performance is considered by radio historians as the classic telling of this timeless tale.

"A Christmas Carol 2025"
Premiere broadcast: December 22, 2025
Season 13, Episode 13

Written, Produced, Hosted by John F. Barber
Post production, original music, sound design by Marc Rose
Graphics by Holly Slocum
Social Media strategies by Caitlyn Kruger-Lesperance
YouTube strategies and announcing by Rylan Eisenhauer

Audio File Name: rir-christmas-carol-2025.mp3

Re-Imagined Radio presents "A Radio Christmas Sampler, Vol. 5" with samples from three interesting Christmas programs. First, a Christmas 1942 wartime message from Edward R. Murrow who encourages us to keep hope alive.

Second "Christmas Party for Hubert Smith," an episode of Truth or Consequences where radio connects a wounded Navy sailor in California with his family and hometown in Tennessee.

And third, "The Plot to Overthrow Christmas" by Irwin Corwin, told in rhyming verse, from Columbia Workshop. Enjoy listening.

A Radio Christmas Sampler, Vol. 5

Premiere broadcast: December 15, 2025

Season 13, Episode 12

Written, Produced, Hosted by John F. Barber

Post production, original music, sound design by Marc Rose

Graphics by Holly Slocum

Social Media by Caitlyn Kruger-Lesperance

YouTube and announcing by Rylan Eisenhauer

Audio File Name: rir-radio-christmas-sampler-vol-5-2025.mp3

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