Third Coast Audio Library
Our vast and ever-growing collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories, episodes from Third Coast podcasts, educational sessions on craft from the best makers on the planet, and more.
We’ve also featured some incredible audio work beyond this audio library, in other ways and using other formats: don’t miss the 2021 Web Showcase, featuring a more in-depth look at the winners, judges and even a list of 40 finalists from the 2021 Third Coast/RHDF Competition.
Re:sound #13: The Living Flag Show
This hour: reparations, repatriations, and the mystery of the earworm.
- 2004
- 59:00
- Lea Redfern
- Damali Ayo
- Dmae Roberts
- Julie Shapiro
Los Frikis
How a group of 80's Cuban misfits found punk rock and went into exile without ever leaving home.
- 2015
- 28:32
- Tim Howard
- Luis Trelles
Looking For Love
M. is six years old and transgender. Marlo is her single mom and chronicles their life together in her podcast How to Be a Girl .
- 2014
- 08:29
- Marlo Mack
The Last Morning was a Sweet One
2013 ShortDocs Winner! A short story in sounds of our food's start to finish, from morning to night (though not necessarily in the same day!)
- 2013
- 02:56
- Alix Blair
Re:sound #226 The Life Sentence Show
This hour, the story of how a one event affected a woman, her family and the criminal justice system.
- 2016
- 56:35
- Samantha Broun
- Jay Allison
- Dennis Funk
Life Is Sweet - as Long as It's Smeared with Skippy Peanut Butter
What happens when the only foods you'll eat are French fries, peanut butter, and pizza - but you're a grown-up? - an exploration of adult extreme picky eating.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Cody Anderson
- Molly Jackel
- Selena Polston
Lady Bait
Lizzie and her sister think they are coming to Ray's just to see his monkey, but little do they know that Ray and Oscar have been sweating to the Harvey Carne Workout Method and Guide to Romance.
- 2008
- 02:57
- Eric Barkin
- Laura Vitale
- Tye Pemberton
The Life of Bil
A fictional documentary about the mysterious, elusive wild-man Bil.
- 2016
- 03:15
- Gavin Doyle
- Aisling Lambert
- Ashley Parsons
Leaps and Dunes
Summer sleepover camp means more than mosquito bites, sunburn, twig art, and bonfire gatherings. Camp offers many kids their first taste of independence -- which can be equal-parts blissful and terrifying.
- 2007
- 34:34
- Lisbeth Koerner
- Rikke Houd
- Sabine Hviid
Lucia's Letter
Slavery in America still exists. In southwest Florida, for example, women and girls from Central America arrive everyday looking for a better life.
- 2011
- 52:58
- Amy Tardif
Re:sound #151 The Little Feet / Big Adventures Show
This week: Little feet on big adventures.
- 2011
- 58:00
- Ronan Kelly
- Paul Russell
- Dominic Girard
The Lemon Tree
Bashir was six during the height of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, when his family was forced to flee his stone home in old Palestine and live as refugees in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
- 1998
- 41:23
- Sandy Tolan
Love is Sweet Among Non-Human Animals
Love is delicious; love is disgusting.
- 2013
- 02:56
- Liz Wason
Ligeti Was in My Apartment
What happened when Ligeti's ghost helped me create a sound piece.
- 2006
- 02:32
- Jeffrey Letterly
Life With Cows is Sweet
Three quick angles of life in the cattle business.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Sarah Kmon
The Low, Slow 'n' Sweet Times of Clyde Biggins
Clyde Biggins lost everything, but now he's back to reclaim his spot among barbecue legends.
- 2013
- 03:05
- Carol Shih
- David Chong
Listening to Jamie
Imagine a cold London winter, where the bizarre and unpredictable sounds made by producer Hugh Levinson's sleeping newborn punctuate the dark nights in the most unimaginable ways.
- 2004
- 07:23
- Hugh Levinson
Lance and Nina: An Unlikely Story of Recovery and Redemption
At 24, Lance Rice was on schedule to become another sad statistic in the heroin epidemic sweeping through rural Massachusetts.
- 2014
- 08:28
- Karen Brown
Lapsed Trappist
The gripping tale of a troubled Buddhist as he struggles with morals and mice in this short radio fiction based rather loosely on a true story.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Philip Briant
- Stuart Ewings
Leave No Trace
There's a slip of paper hanging in Dave Isay's office at StoryCorps with a quote scrawled across it: "A good craftsman leaves no traces."
- 2014
- 01:20:10
Little Voices, Far Far Away
Context is a bitch -- just ask mice. On earth they're seen as pests and carriers of disease, but space is another story altogether.
- 2007
- 03:03
- Anne Glickman
- Jennifer Brandel
Language Bites!
You may have been a "freelancer," or hired one, at some point in your work life, but have you ever wondered how the term originated?
- 2013
- 01:08
- Colette Kinsella
Lovable Losers
Feel the passion, feel the pain of the faithful followers of Chicago's Lovable Losers.
- 2009
- 02:58
- Rich Halten
Legs, Hope, and Water
Traditionally a country of emigration, Greece is now a destination for immigrants and refugees seeking to enter Europe.
- 2004
- 47:24
- Lea Redfern
- Peggy Giakoumelos
The Lonely Funeral
Every year up to twenty people die completely alone in Amsterdam. They are illegal migrants, drug mules, or simply people who cut off all social contacts.
- 2010
- 26:55
- Michele Ernsting