Re-Imagined Radio presents Vincent Price in excerpts from adventure series “Escape”

VANCOUVER, Wash. - In May, Re-Imagined Radio draws on two stories from the high-adventure series "Escape," often cited as the finest radio series ever. Both star actor Vincent Price, a legend of stage, television, motion picture and radio who is known for his deep, thrilling voice.

"Escape: A Double-Featured Adventure" premieres at 1 p.m. May 20 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.

The featured stories are "Present Tense" (January 1950) and "Three Skeleton Key" (March 1950). In "Present Tense," Price portrays a man sentenced to death for his wife's murder, who imagines various escapes on his journey to the gas chamber. "Three Skeleton Key" is a horror classic, in which three men in a lighthouse on a small island are overrun by rats and fight for survival.

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.fm.

Community Partners

Re-Imagined Radio draws on community voice actors, Foley artists, musicians, sound artists and engineers. Partners include KXRW-FM, KXRY-FM, Fuse Audio Design, Marc Rose and Holly Slocum Design, with Sidney Nguyen.

About Re-Imagined Radio

Re-Imagined Radio was begun by John Barber in 2013 to celebrate radio storytelling. Barber is the host and producer of the program and a faculty member of the Creative Media and Digital Culture program at WSU Vancouver. "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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