By Brandy McDonnell, Features WriterFrom the jangling of an old-timey bar piano to the chugging of a steam locomotive, listening to “PleasureTown” is like tuning into another time with the click of a mouse or tap on a touch screen. The new podcast set in the frontier era recaptures the spirit of vintage radio dramas, delving into the lives of colorful and complicated characters — a Mormon missionary who becomes regarded as a shaman, a town doctor with a closely guarded secret, a battered wife who finally strikes back with a frying pan — who live in PleasureTown, a fictional lost Oklahoma community settled just after the land run as a haven for hedonism. “There’s a lot of interesting work figuring out exactly how to not only reclaim the excitement and the love of the radio drama, but to take the narrative and dramatic lessons and achievements that have been made in movies and in television and everything else and find ways to translate those achievements into a podcast,” said Oklahoma native Erin Kahoa, the co-creator and co-producer of “PleasureTown.” “But the neat thing is, as often happens in stuff like this, we’re not the only ones trying.” Nearing the end of its first season, “PleasureTown” is a new podcast from Chicago’s WBEZ, the public radio station behind the popular radio and podcast shows “This American Life,” “Wait Wait ...Read more on NewsOK.com