Red House Rising
ROMANTIC WWII AUDIO DRAMA / HISTORICAL RADIO PLAY SERIES SET IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, CHINA AND JAPAN. Season Four of the Podcast. It's the Spring of 1945, and the Second World War is in its fourth year in the Pacific. On April 12th, President Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage, and Harry Truman becomes President. Two weeks later, Adolph Hitler commits suicide, and the Nazis surrender. With Germany defeated in Europe, the U.S. and its allies focus their full attention on the Japanese. They mine Japan's home islands, preventing vital food and fuel from reaching port. Hundreds of U.S....
info_outline S4 Ep6 Peace in Our TimeRed House Rising
ROMANTIC WWII AUDIO DRAMA / HISTORICAL RADIO PLAY SERIES SET IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, CHINA AND JAPAN. Season Four of the Podcast. It's the Spring of 1945, and the Second World War is in its fourth year in the Pacific. On April 12th, President Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage, and Harry Truman becomes President. Two weeks later, Adolph Hitler commits suicide, and the Nazis surrender. With Germany defeated in Europe, the U.S. and its allies focus their full attention on the Japanese. They mine Japan's home islands, preventing vital food and fuel from reaching port. Hundreds of U.S....
info_outline S4 Ep5 The World As We Now Know ItRed House Rising
ROMANTIC WWII AUDIO DRAMA / HISTORICAL RADIO PLAY SERIES SET IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, CHINA AND JAPAN. Season Four of the Podcast. It's the Spring of 1945, and the Second World War is in its fourth year in the Pacific. On April 12th, President Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage, and Harry Truman becomes President. Two weeks later, Adolph Hitler commits suicide, and the Nazis surrender. With Germany defeated in Europe, the U.S. and its allies focus their full attention on the Japanese. They mine Japan's home islands, preventing vital food and fuel from reaching port. Hundreds of U.S....
info_outline S4 Ep4 Unholy ThunderRed House Rising
ROMANTIC WWII AUDIO DRAMA / HISTORICAL RADIO PLAY SERIES SET IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, CHINA AND JAPAN. Season Four of the Podcast. It's the Spring of 1945, and the Second World War is in its fourth year in the Pacific. On April 12th, President Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage, and Harry Truman becomes President. Two weeks later, Adolph Hitler commits suicide, and the Nazis surrender. With Germany defeated in Europe, the U.S. and its allies focus their full attention on the Japanese. They mine Japan's home islands, preventing vital food and fuel from reaching port. Hundreds of U.S....
info_outline S4 Ep3 A Sign of the TimesRed House Rising
ROMANTIC WWII AUDIO DRAMA / HISTORICAL RADIO PLAY SERIES SET IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, CHINA AND JAPAN. Season Four of the Podcast. It's the Spring of 1945, and the Second World War is in its fourth year in the Pacific. On April 12th, President Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage, and Harry Truman becomes President. Two weeks later, Adolph Hitler commits suicide, and the Nazis surrender. With Germany defeated in Europe, the U.S. and its allies focus their full attention on the Japanese. They mine Japan's home islands, preventing vital food and fuel from reaching port. Hundreds of U.S....
info_outline S4 Ep2 Rescue MeRed House Rising
ROMANTIC WWII AUDIO DRAMA / HISTORICAL RADIO PLAY SERIES SET IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, CHINA AND JAPAN. Season Four of the Podcast. It's the Spring of 1945, and the Second World War is in its fourth year in the Pacific. On April 12th, President Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage, and Harry Truman becomes President. Two weeks later, Adolph Hitler commits suicide, and the Nazis surrender. With Germany defeated in Europe, the U.S. and its allies focus their full attention on the Japanese. They mine Japan's home islands, preventing vital food and fuel from reaching port. Hundreds of U.S....
info_outline S4 Ep1 Beginning of the EndRed House Rising
ROMANTIC WWII AUDIO DRAMA / HISTORICAL RADIO PLAY SERIES SET IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, CHINA AND JAPAN. Season Four of the Podcast. It's the Spring of 1945, and the Second World War is in its fourth year in the Pacific. On April 12th, President Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage, and Harry Truman becomes President. Two weeks later, Adolph Hitler commits suicide, and the Nazis surrender. With Germany defeated in Europe, the U.S. and its allies focus their full attention on the Japanese. They mine Japan's home islands, preventing vital food and fuel from reaching port. Hundreds of...
info_outline S3 Ep6 HomecomingsRed House Rising
October 1942. WWII rages in Asia and the Pacific. Everyone in Hawaii is still under martial law, and influential Japanese-Hawaiian men remain in camps. Jo McMenamy flies for Naval Intelligence, and her knowledge of the Pacific is crucial. In China, Alice and Li-ang initiate a daring plan to unify their country. Mike becomes involved when he's recruited to fly for the O.S.S., the Army's new spy agency. Prince Nik Nikura is in war-torn Japan doing what he can for the starving people on his ancestral estate.
info_outline S3 Ep5 Fog of WarRed House Rising
October 1942. WWII rages in Asia and the Pacific. Everyone in Hawaii is still under martial law, and influential Japanese-Hawaiian men remain in camps. Jo McMenamy flies for Naval Intelligence, and her knowledge of the Pacific is crucial. In China, Alice and Li-ang initiate a daring plan to unify their country. Mike becomes involved when he's recruited to fly for the O.S.S., the Army's new spy agency. Prince Nik Nikura is in war-torn Japan doing what he can for the starving people on his ancestral estate.
info_outline S3 Ep4 Sons and DaughtersRed House Rising
October 1942. WWII rages in Asia and the Pacific. Everyone in Hawaii is still under martial law, and influential Japanese-Hawaiian men remain in camps. Jo McMenamy flies for Naval Intelligence, and her knowledge of the Pacific is crucial. In China, Alice and Li-ang initiate a daring plan to unify their country. Mike becomes involved when he's recruited to fly for the O.S.S., the Army's new spy agency. Prince Nik Nikura is in war-torn Japan doing what he can for the starving people on his ancestral estate.
info_outlineROMANTIC WWII AUDIO DRAMA / HISTORICAL RADIO PLAY SERIES SET IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, CHINA AND JAPAN.
Season Two of the Podcast
After a desperate flight to freedom from the Japanese Mandates in Red House Rising Season One, Season Two begins as World War II explodes in the Pacific. Jo joins forces with Alice and Mike and the Flying Tigers in Rangoon, where the Tigers face overwhelming odds defending China, and its most important supply route, the Burma Road, from the Japanese Air Force. Meanwhile, Prince “Nik” Nikura and his ward, Taka Kawashima, are in Honolulu, on their way back from Washington DC and a failed diplomatic peace mission.
Red House Rising was Produced, Written, Directed, and Edited by Chris Côté and Dayle Kerry.
Original Music and Sound Design by Jack Côté.
Starring Dayle Kerry, Raechel Wong, Roy Vongtama, Chris Côté, Chelsea Kurtz, Fin Kim, Andy Goldberg, Tiffany Hubbard, Melinda Chilton, Rio Shigeta, Diana Miho, Priscilla Bawicia, Josh McClenney, Maria Spassoff, Feodor Chin, Dawn Joyal, Smitha Chandrabose, Arnold Chun, Julia Cho, Mark Schubb, Scott Sandler, Tatum Bronte, Tom Sheeter, William Woff, Kareem Ferguson, Helaine Lembeck, Don McClennan, Desi Powell, Matylda Kerry and Melia Languein.
Narration by Robin Abcarian.
Production Coordinator, Matylda Kerry.
Aviation Consultant, George Cote.
Radio consultant, Ben Nock, of the Military Wireless Museum.
And a very special thank you to Jennie Webb, Co-Founder of the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative, Steven Kalb, Robin Abcarian, Raechel Wong, Roy Vongtama, Rio Shigeta, Peter Gardiner, Matthew Dunn, the entire amazing Red House Rising cast, and the many talented sound effects contributors at freesound.org.
Palolo was written by Charles E. King and performed by Ray Kinney and His Musical Ambassadors.
Sweet Leilani was written by Harry Owens and performed by Dick McIntire and his Harmony Hawaiians.
Pagan Love Song was written by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed and performed by Felix Mendelssohn and the Hawaiian Serenaders
Hula Blues was written by Johnny Noble and Sonny Cunha and performed by the Tau Moe Trio
Blue Hawaii was written by Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger and sung by Melinda Chilton.
Little Grass Shack was written by Tommy Harrison, Bill Cogswell, and Johnny Noble and performed by Felix Mendelssohn and the Hawaiian Serenaders