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.
Flying Dream Sequence
The tale of a recurring dream.
- 2008
- 02:37
- Matt Fleeger
Face of Mercy, Face of Hate
Predrag Bundalo was a Serbian fighter in Sarajevo, who everyone called by his nickname, "Gaga." On the eve of his 36th birthday, Gaga stopped to visit an elderly Muslim woman in her apartment.
- 2001
- 21:00
- Michael Montgomery
- Stephen Smith
Feeling Small but Dreaming Big
"Why we should not imagine a row of sheep at night and why is a coffee tree sometimes like a man?"
- 2008
- 02:30
- Anastasia Ivanova
File Under Soviet Bizarre: Vyacheslav Mescherin's Orchestra of Electro-Musical Instruments
It was the closest thing to Muzak in Russia. This is the story of the rise, fall, and sudden resurgence of the music that dominated television and radio airwaves and whose spacey sounds made it the favorite of the USSR's cosmonauts.
- 2004
- 09:58
- Charles Maynes
The Forbidden Voyage
As a young boy, Earle Reynolds had a dream to build and sail a boat around the world.
- 2003
- 43:04
- Stephen Erickson
Face to Face: Stories From the Aftermath of Infamy
After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Americans of Japanese ancestry were subjected to racial hatred, distrust, and incarceration.
- 2003
- 28:30
- Rob Mikuriya
Fez, Morocco: A Journey in Sound
When you stroll through the maze of streets in Fez, Morocco, it's as if you are walking back in time.
- 2002
- 12:43
- Jim Metzner
Resound #145 The Fathers Show
This hour: Dads, in all their glory.
- 2011
- 59:00
- Multiple producers
Finding Miles
A few years ago, radio producer Sarah Reynolds was privy to an intimate confession: her friend Megan told her that she was about to undergo a transition in gender from female to male.
- 2011
- 27:11
- Sarah P. Reynolds
The Failure of Flight Show
This hour: failure of flight. In one story a man mysteriously falls from the sky onto a sunny London street, and in another, a plane crashes into a mountain side, and an 11 year old walks away.
- 2014
- 59:00
- Katie Mingle
Finn and the Bell
Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best Documentary: Silver Award, selected by Final Round Judges Jimmy Gutierrez, Rachel Matlow, Melissa Mbugua, Priska Neely, and Mike Williams.
- 2023
- 33:52
- Erica Heilman
Freedom Diving
Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best Documentary: Bronze Award, selected by Final Round Judges Jimmy Gutierrez, Rachel Matlow, Melissa Mbugua, Priska Neely, and Mike Williams.
- 2023
- 32:43
- Phoebe Wang
- Neena Pathak
- Kia Miakka Natisse
Re:sound #116: The Family Show
This hour: families, in all their messy, dysfunctional glory.
Re:sound #42: The Fake Doc Show
This hour: stories that bend, stretch, and downright fabricate the truth.
Re:sound #22: The Fish Story Show
This hour: a beached whale in Maine, a conversation with the "real" Darth Vader, school kids deconstruct the work of one of America's most difficult poets, and more.
Re:sound #243 The Finally! Show
This hour, we’re sharing a few of Third Coast’s favourite stories that didn’t quite fit the mold of past episodes.
Re:sound #209 The Firsts Show
This hour first lines, the first day back and every last first you can think of.
Re:sound #133: The Food Show
This hour: Food. It's delicious. It's complicated.
Re:sound #166 The Fix Show
This hour: Storied pasts and double lives.
- 2012
- 59:00
- Sarah Lu
- Nick van der Kolk
- Brendan Baker
- Nate DiMeo
- Katie Mingle
Re:sound #160 The Fate vs. Accident Show
This hour: two stories of regular old days that started out static and ended up seismic.
The Future of Radio Is Now
Teenagers are making some of the most engaging radio out there! Their refreshing perspectives and creative techniques are lighting up the radio and signaling good things for the future sound of the airwaves.
- 2005
- 01:12:50
Re:sound #220 The Forest and Flight Show
This hour gravity, antigravity, magical trees and flying carpets.
- 2016
- 56:30
- Cathy FitzGerald
- Matt Thompson
- Stephanie Rowden
- Dennis Funk
Fault Line
Kevin (not his real name) is a likable guy who lives with his wife in New Jersey. And he's on probation after serving time in a federal prison for committing a disturbing crime.
- 2014
- 24:14
- Jad Abumrad
- Pat Walters
Re:sound #66: The Falling Show
This hour: a man falls out of the sky, a woman falls into a hole, and a man recovers from a serious rock climbing accident.
- 2007
- 59:00
- Annie Hastwell
- Michele Goldsworthy
- Kent Hoffman
- Roman Mars
Re:sound #219 The Fighting For The Promised Land Show
This hour the story of thousands of African American farmers who lost millions of acres of land at the hands of institutional racism.
- 2016
- 57:30
- Aengus Anderson
- James Ford Howell
- Tina Antolini
- Dennis Funk