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.
Bayou Umami
A people striving to retain their livelihood and culture.
- 2013
- 03:01
- Kay Collins
Bittersweet Apostrophe's
The story of a lifelong relationship with fast food and the consequences that come with it.
- 2013
- 02:00
- Tim Needles
The Best Show on WFMU (INC)
WFMU is an independent, volunteer-run, listener-supported, freeform radio station broadcasting from Jersey City, New Jersey, and every Tuesday night at 8 PM Tom Scharpling takes over the airwaves.
- 2017
- 0
- Jon Wurster
- Tom Scharpling
The Beta Project (INC)
The Beta Project is an audio dialogue, part-listening experience and part-group discussion, presenting the issue of abortion through personal stories followed by guided conversations.
- 2003
- 0
- Sarah Varney
BuzzyNumbingElectricSourSpice
The Sichuan Peppercorn provides a confusing, disorienting and compelling flavor to the spicy cuisine of Sichuan.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Jeff Towne
Bottled Zeitgeist: The Bitter Spirit of the Times
What if you could bottle time, shove it in a cellar for twenty years and break it out at dinner parties?
- 2013
- 02:15
- Ryan McLeod
Bland Is Sweet
Erica Bland wishes she didn't have to travel so far to eat at her favorite restaurants.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Susie An
Bittersweet; Butter Up
A story about my dad, and how life eventually altered his appetite.
- 2013
- 03:02
- Grant Buhr
Bittersweet Forevers
Some decisions are easily forgotten, well others will stick with you always.
- 2013
- 02:59
- Paige Sutherland
Bittersweet Muffins
A young veteran shares stories of appetite during his years in the military.
- 2013
- 02:51
- Wenjing Zhang
The Bitter Story of the Saddest City in the World
The forgotten story of the Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871 told in three courses: the calm before the storm, the firestorm's appetite, and the recovery.
- 2013
- 02:51
- Paul Zenke & Adam Malecek
The Bitter Taste of Reality
Matthew is like every normal teenager with a hunger for independence, but he faces a few unique challenges.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Manda Lillie
Bitter Knowledge
Elise Pepple learns a hard lesson about knowing.
- 2013
- 03:01
- Kelsey Padgett
Bing Fu is Not Blue
Bing Fu is an ESL teacher in Toronto, and she tells her story about misunderstanding a word in spite of looking it up in the dictionary.
- 2012
- 03:04
- Julia Grant
Black, White and Green
A woman makes her 'home' at a bus stop across the street from my office, this is my fantasy of what her seemingly miserable life could be the result of.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Frank Karall
Bye Bye Blue Bird
Strange visitors to an otherwise unremarkable strip mall on Cape Cod face eviction.
- 2012
- 02:53
- JP Davidson
Bee a Good Neighbor - They'll Give You Gold
The story of how I helped a neighbour move thousands of his tiny friends to a new home.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Tom Allan
Black Paris Spleen, American Mouths
Journalist Ajai Raj muses about art, fact, and truth with his metaphysical neighbors, the notorious dramatist Mike Daisey and Charles Baudelaire, the renowned poet.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Ajai Raj
Being Green Is Easy
Envy is difficult to avoid... especially between two friends.
- 2012
- 02:59
- George Drake Jr.
Blue Blood on the Boulevard
Blue Blood on the Boulevard is a short story highlighting the light and shade of a neighborhood; the sociable, family-orientated neighbor on one side and the cheating, scheming one on the other – with horrific consequences.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Michael Boland
Black Box
"Black Box" is a performance art piece based on a confidential survey asking both local and international participants, 'What would your metaphorical black box say?'
- 2012
- 03:00
- Pascalle Burton
Beyond the Frontlines
News correspondent Jamie Tarabay spent much of the past decade reporting from some of the world's most high-profile conflict zones, including two years as NPR's Baghdad bureau chief.
- 2010
- 01:28:20
Behind Black Bars
Neighbors discuss the safety of where they live in Pavas, San José, Costa Rica.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Kyle Greufe
Behind Pink Walls: In Search of a Sound
Neighbors on a New Orleans street corner investigate a peculiar noise that everyone hears, but no one can find it.
- 2012
- 02:58
- Laine Kaplan-Levenson
Re:sound #142 The Book Odds Show
This hour: We showcase some of our favorite stories from the 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge: Book Odds, and talk to the organizer of the project, Third Coast Artistic Director Julie Shapiro about the rules, the incentives, and our collaboration with widely-acclaimed musical duo, The Books.
- 2011
- 59:31
- Multiple producers