Much of the Sonoran desert between Tucson and Mexico is a haunting wasteland of discarded shoes, shirts, and empty plastic water jugs, discarded by desparate illegal immigrants who risk their lives as they cross the desert from Mexico into the United States in search of better-paying jobs. (more)

Jay came with me to a whiskey convention thinking that he was going to have a blast...but someone from his past throws his night into a painful meditation on love and whiskey. (more)

In the late 1930s, Massachusetts flooded four towns in the central part of the state to create a reservoir for the city of Boston. More than 2,000 people lived in those towns. (more)

A dramatic monologue about one woman's obsession with tea. (more)

This hour: the 2003 and 2004 Third Coast ShortDocs, which focused on the themes of thirst and darkness. (more)

A dry martini in the afternoon proved effective in helping a widowed mother navigate the lonely shoals that lay between 4 and 6 p.m. (more)

As a boy, George Bien was sent thousands of miles away from Hungary to Siberia, to the notorious Gulag - the prison camp system in the Soviet Union, where millions of people perished. (more)

This hour: the captivating results of a transcontinental radio collaboration. (more)

Misfire is an experimental sound piece that blends 1940s Dr. Pepper radio ads, original violin music, and sounds of thirst and thirst-quenching. (more)

In 2003 the TCF introduced our "ShortDocs", by inviting producersto submit written proposals for radio stories (five to seven minutes in length) about a single topic - 'thirst'. (more)