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.
Come Back to Afghanistan
In the summer of 2002, 17-year-old Hyder Akbar traveled from California with his father to their home country of Afghanistan. He took a tape recorder along on the trip to record his thoughts and experiences.
- 2003
- 59:00
- Hyder Akbar
- Susan Burton
Carl, with an El
Carl Sandburg inspires a meditation on private worlds as we ride the El.
- 2009
- 02:45
- Neil Sandell
Couple Two Tree
A loving examination of the Chicagoan language by four non-etymologists.
- 2009
- 03:01
- Sean Cole
Chain of Missing Links - 31
A young woman takes up knitting and finds an irresistible combination of wool and whiskey, peace and productivity.
- 2010
- 03:01
- Katy Giebenhain
- Sue Muldowney
Capturing the Brief Life and Death of an Infant
Barch Levi Blum was born in late 2009 at Toronto's Mt. Sinai Hospital. He lived for ten minutes.
- 2010
- 06:15
- Mary Beth Kirchner
Chain of Missing Links - 27
A mother and daughter assess the plight of a neighbor.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Cheryl McPhilimy
- Tony Green
Chain of Missing Links (A Case of Musical Stairs)
Producers Joanna Stein and Nicole Beemsterboer take their ears underground and find the origin of some mysterious music.
- 2010
- 02:55
- Joanna Stein
- Nicole Beemsterboer
Chain of Missing Links - 18
A relationship based on missed meetings and message machines.
- 2010
- 01:56
- Paul Staunton
- Rachel Ní Chuinn
Chain of Missing Links - 25
The chains that code for our genes only make up 2% of our DNA, which means the purpose of the rest of the stuff is a bit of a mystery....
- 2010
- 02:59
- Henry Hocking
- Marnie Chesterton
Coloring In the Great White North
Three neighbors in Fargo, ND, talk about the rapid coloring in of a town in the Great White North.
- 2012
- 02:58
- Brad Delzer
- Erika Lorentzsen
Chicago Hustles
Meet Floyd (not his real name), a self-described "cigarette hustler" and part of Chicago's thriving underground economy, where goods and services -- legal and illegal -- are sold under the radar.
- 2005
- 26:37
- Ann Heppermann
- Kara Oehler
Confessions of a Child Beauty Queen
A series of interconnected stories by A. H. Weatherman about the trauma of growing up in the south and participating in beauty pageants.
- 2003
- 30:14
- Roman Mars
Re:sound #143 The Centenarians Show
This hour: Stories about people who lived to be 100, and reflections from producer Neenah Ellis on what she learned from these remarkable centenarians.
- 2011
- 59:30
- Neenah Ellis
- Katie Mingle
Compose yourself: a producer’s guide to working with musicians
It’s becoming more common for podcast producers to work with composers to create an original soundtrack. At this session, producer Michael May and composer/producer Nick DePrey share their techniques for bringing a piece to life with music and sound design.
- 2016
- 01:15:20
Re:sound #201 The Cathy Fitzgerald Show
This hour we celebrate the ethereal, Dickens-inspired works of British producer Cathy Fitzgerald.
- 2015
- 58:09
- Cathy FitzGerald
- Dennis Funk
Cassius
To stick with the herd, sometimes you give up everything.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Jessica Klinke
The Chronicle of a Goodbye Foretold
Harry tells us his chronicle of a foretold goodbye.
- 2016
- 03:02
- Eva Moeraert
Chewed-Up Justice
A young man's gritty investigation of a crime that hit his snack drawer.
- 2016
- 02:59
- James Lindberg
Corrections, Inc.
The corrections industry has become a $50-billion-a-year business and one of the strongest influences on criminal justice policy in America.
- 2002
- 49:55
- John Biewen
Cohabitation: Jacob & Angelina
Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago.
- 2005
- 14:16
- Jill Dorothy Summers
Cohabitation: Sylvester & Barry
Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago.
- 2005
- 13:22
- Jill Dorothy Summers
Cohabitation: Olive & Jack
Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago.
- 2005
- 12:02
- Jill Dorothy Summers
Cohabitation: Apricot Wensleydale
Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago.
- 2005
- 14:29
- Jill Dorothy Summers
Cohabitation: Roberto and Rosa
Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago.
- 2005
- 05:45
- Jill Dorothy Summers
Can You Say Haa?
As a girl, Reena Katz learned one story about the history of Israel and the people who lived there. As she grew up, an interest in cartography and her father's rare books about Palestine prompted her to dig deeper to understand the landscape of the Middle East.
- 2003
- 14:25
- Reena Katz