VANCOUVER, Wash. – Re-Imagined Radio will conclude its two-part Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall tribute this month. “Part II: Bold Venture” premieres at 1 p.m. Aug. 18.
The premiere will be broadcast on KXRW-FM (99.9) in Vancouver and KXRY-FM (91.1 and 107.1) in Portland. Subsequent broadcasts and streams will be provided by local, regional and international partners.
Part II features the first two episodes of Bogart and Bacall’s syndicated action-adventure radio series “Bold Venture” (1951 – 52). In the series, Slate Shannon (Bogart) and Gail “Sailor” Duval (Bacall) operate a hotel and charter boat in Havana, Cuba, before the revolution, attracting adventurers and revolutionaries.
Part I, in July, sampled the Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of their motion picture “To Have and Have Not.” Set in Martinique in 1940, the story follows Bogart and Bacall’s characters as they become involved in efforts to help the French Resistance. It was their first collaborative radio performance.
“Where the focus was on romance in the first part of our tribute, here, in Part II, adventure is more pronounced,” said John Barber, producer and host of Re-Imagined Radio and a faculty member in Washington State University Vancouver’s Digital Technology and Culture program.
“We sampled from the first two episodes released from this syndicated series. ‘Deadly Merchandise’ is about gun smuggling and Caribbean island revolutionaries. ‘Kwan Yin Statue’ is about intrigue surrounding a much-desired statue said to have the power to heal wounds of body and heart,” he said.
Re-Imagined Radio premieres episodes on the third Monday of each month on KXRW-FM and KXRY-FM. Each episode is streamed globally and is later available as a podcast and on YouTube. Previous episodes are also released on YouTube each month. Information and listening opportunities are available at reimaginedradio.fm, where all episodes are archived.
The website also features “Re-Imagined Radio EXTRA,” additional content between monthly episodes, presenting sound-based storytelling from different places and in different genres.
Community partners Re-Imagined Radio works with community voice actors, Foley artists, musicians, sound artists and engineers. Partners include KXRW-FM, KXRY-FM, the Electronic Literature Lab at 91ԹϺ, Marc Rose of Fuse Audio Design, Rylan Eisenhauer, Holly Slocum Design and Evan Leyden.
About Re-Imagined Radio Barber created the program in 2013 to explore sound-based storytelling. “We select, produce and perform classic and contemporary stories across a spectrum of genres, from dramas to comedies, from oral to aural histories, from documentaries to fictions, from soundscapes to sonic journeys, from radio to sound art, using a variety of media, including performances, radio broadcasts, streaming, podcasts and social media, especially YouTube,” Barber said.
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