Mike's Site

At the age of eight, Jim French knew what he wanted to do with his life: he wanted to be a radio announcer. With this seemingly impossible goal tucked in the back of his mind, he turned a room over the family garage into a make-believe radio studio. His pretending paid off six years later. It was 1943, most radio announcers were fighting in WW2, and Jim got a job playing piano and announcing on KPAS in Pasadena, California, a mile away from his home. From that time on, Jim was seldom without some connection to radio.

It was at KVI Seattle that he began producing radio dramas on a weekly basis. Moving back to KIRO in 1980, he continued writing and directing dramas for a weekly series called "KIRO Mystery Playhouse", and in in 1995, TransMedia, the syndicating company, began sending his radio plays around the country under the title of "Imagination Theatre".

Jim has written and produced nearly 500 original shows, including the popular "Harry Nile" and "The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" series, which are now broadcast on over 120 stations in the U.S. and Canada, and are also heard on the XM Satellite Radio system all over North America.

Every week he offers the weekly Imagination Theater radio broadcast to listeners via a streaming webcast.