The Sonic Society

Showcasing the very best in new Audio Drama

Reimagined Jack

| March 14, 2025

From Jack J. Ward’s “Retro Rockets” Anthology, John Barber of Reimagined Radio brings us a feature of two of those episodes including “A Chaste Kiss Good-bye” and “Chrysalis”.From the site:This the third time Re-Imagined Radio has featured Jack J. Ward, a Canadian award-winning writer, director, actor, and producer of audio dramas, as a Guest Writer/Producer. […]

Sonic Society #747- Red Riots

| October 30, 2022

Re-Imagined Radio has celebrated the anniversary of “The War of the Worlds” several times by re-telling the story. This year, on Devil’s Night and the occasion of its 84th anniversary, Jack and David play their explorations into the radio storytelling that may have influenced Orson Welles’s radio adaptation of the 1898 novel by H. G. […]

Great Day for the City

| May 16, 2022

Re-imagined Radio proudly presents an incredible new release of Archibald MacLeish’s “The Fall of the City” originally released from The Columbia Workshop, one of radio’s most inventive series during its Golden Age! This modern retake melds the classic tale with the original script from Jack J. Ward, “Great Day for a War”. Listen now on […]

Sonic Society #728- Sonic Imaging

| April 17, 2022

This week Jack and David visit their friends at Re-Imagined Radio for their Women’s History Month, women in radio, and specifically Lucille Fletcher, one of our favourite writers of all time and RR picks the cream of the crop reprising a double feature of “The Hitch-Hiker” and “Sorry, Wrong Number”!

Hyper-Text to Audio Drama

| January 5, 2022

From the Half Moon Bay Review:As a writing professor at Stanford University in 1995, Richard Holeton wrote a 500-word short story about Theodore Streleski, the Stanford graduate student who bludgeoned his faculty advisor to death with a hammer in the 1970s. He developed the story into a hypertext novel, “Figurski at Findhorn on Acid,” which […]

Sonic Speaks 0602: Re-Imagined Radio

| November 7, 2021

In this episode, Jack has a conversation with the incredible John F. Barber and Marc Rose from Re-Imagined Radio!

Sonic Society #704- Radio Images

| October 31, 2021

Re-Imagined Radio presents an incredible re-imagined look at Orson Welles’ and H.G. Wells tale of Martian Invasion with their 2021 “War of the Worlds”! As we celebrate this World Audio Drama Day one day later! It’s Audio Drama time!