Hello there, my name is Corey Hickenbottom. From the Cultural District of Fairfield, Iowa, welcome to The P5K Radio Workshop, bringing you tales of adventure, mystery, excitement, and drama. Through the powerful medium of radio and the power of your imagination, you will travel to new places, meet fantastic people, and experience outstanding thrills.
One fateful morning in the summer of 2008, over a breakfast between friends at a local restaurant, the idea for producing a live radio drama was concieved. Over the the course of that breakfast, myself and Gregory Gallagher created the characters of Quentin Blake, Jonnie Kidd, and Tank Phillips. As we talked of these characters, a story began to form, a story involving a low-powered community radio station, the corruption of a small town and the fight for honesty and integrity against all odds. Corey had been a fan of radio dramas his whole life, always hoping to one day be able to produce his own. Gregory, as a fan of early children’s programs, film serials, and classic radio dramas, had also been looking for an outlet to create stories like those he had enjoyed since childhood. Both devoted followers of the classic adventure tales and mystery stories of the past. We knew well the power radio drama can have over the imagination. A power we realized that as decades passed, fewer and fewer people truly understood.
As a result, The P5K Radio Workshop was established for the preservation and presentation of original and adaptated radio dramas. Dedicated to man’s imagination, the theater of the mind.
The Falcon Saga on Truth…Over the Airwaves! was the Workshop’s first experiment in live radio theater. Over the course of its six parts, later combined into 3 action-packed episodes, the quality of production increased from adequate to good to very good and the episodes became pre-recorded. The success of Truth…Over the Airwaves! led to the further creation of other radio dramas. While short lived and far from perfect, the P5K Radio Workshop’s first season proved it was more than capable of producing live radio drama.
We are now working on our second season, and slowly but surely things are coming together. The writing, acting, and production values in the new episodes are above anything seen in the first season, with Murder at Sea looking to be our best work yet.
