Best of the Best 2015 (Hour 2)

The 2015 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition.

2015 / TCF / WBEZ 91.5, USA


The 2015 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition.

Re:sound's Gwen Macsai hosts Best of the Best: The 2015 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, showcasing the best radio stories of the year - winners of the 2015 TC / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.

In this hour, you'll hear: Burma's Rohinga: Easy Prey for Traffickers (Best News Feature), 695BGK (Best Documentary: Honorable Mention Award), Sounds Up There (Best Documentary: Silver Award), and Sight Unseen (Best Documentary: Gold Award). This hour also features an interview with Radiolab's Jad Abumrad, winner of the Best Documentary: Gold Award.

To find out more about all of the winning producers, click on EXTRA. We also invite you to listen to Hour 1 of Best of the Best, featuring the Skylarking Award winner.

This episode of Re:sound was produced by Dennis Funk

produced by

Axel Kronholm

Axel Kronholm is a freelance journalist covering Southeast Asia and Myanmar in particular.

Colin McNulty

Colin McNulty is an award-winning documentary maker and senior producer of podcasts for WBEZ, including WBEZ’s “Making” series, Making Oprah and most recently, Making Obama.

Jad Abumrad

Jad Abumrad (@JadAbumrad), is a Peabody Award-winning producer and 2011 MacArthur Fellow, is the creator and co-host of WNYC's Radiolab .


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