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.
How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?
For one month during the summer of 1996, producer Brenda Hutchinson drove her piano from New York City to San Francisco in the back of a U-Haul truck.
- 2002
- 25:58
- Brenda Hutchinson
The Hunt
Carl Miles is a professional hunter who goes after an innocent deer.
- 2016
- 02:19
- Liana Leite
Hey Guys, I'm Sorry
A YouTube make-up star who suffers from anxiety finds love in an unlikely place.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Sandra Bertin
He Gets His Girl
Barbara & Jim fell in love, got married, and began building their life together, but things didn't turn out exactly as planned.
- 2016
- 02:55
- Abbie Allensen
Henry Ford Wouldn't Have Called in Sick
Feuding co-workers in an auto parts factory conpsire to assemble the big one.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Tammy Terwelp
Hearing Things
A narrator tackles disembodied voices; admitting she seeks out the strange while actual Electronic Voice Phenomenon reverberates in a surreal background.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Carolina Wheat
Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
A radio producer deals with a case of 'broadcaster's block' by asking the question "What would Johnny do?"
- 2006
- 02:34
- Kent Hoffman
How to Cheat on Your Wife
A short, poetic instruction manual for the man who wishes to philander or have an extra-marital affair, but doesn't know where to begin.
- 2007
- 02:57
- Elizabeth Bloom Albert
Hot Lips
Hot Lips was my role model.
- 2007
- 02:58
- Yuko Kodama
Hickory Dickory Mouse
A story of nursery rhymes and life with mice.
- 2007
- 02:32
- Karen Michel
Hana's Suitcase
When the Children's Holocaust Education Center in Tokyo acquired Hana Brady's suitcase, all they knew was that Hana was born in Czechoslovakia in 1931 and died at Auschwitz at age 13.
- 2001
- 29:08
- Karen Levine
Human vs. Robot: How to track and still sound like your actual self
Great tracking is the difference between a piece that immediately moves you and one you immediately forget.
- 2017
- 01:30:04
Hearing Voices
Hearing Voices is a compelling and adventurous exploration of languages on the verge of extinction.
- 2005
- 28:40
- John Wynne
Honoring the Body: Taharah
The Jewish burial ritual places great importance on treating the deceased with the utmost honor and respect. This is especially important during the ceremony of taharah, which involves the physical cleansing of the dead body.
- 2006
- 15:45
- Rebecca Sheir
How to Make Your Listener Levitate & Other Magic Tricks
You don’t want your audience to listen half-heartedly – you want them to be so deeply engaged, they’re a little surprised when they bump down to earth at the end.
- 2016
- 01:07:54
Hearts, Lungs, and Minds
Hearts, Lungs, and Minds is a "composed documentary" by sound artist John Wynne, who spent a year as an artist in residence at Harefield Hospital, one of the world's leading centers for heart and lung transplants.
- 2008
- 28:45
- John Wynne
Home Sweet Homemade Bread
My mom has been making homemade bread for as long as I can remember; here is her recipe.
- 2013
- 02:33
- Caytlinn Strickland
Hearing America: A Century of Music on the Radio (INC)
One hundred years ago, shipboard technicians listening for Morse code messages on their newly installed wireless telegraphs heard something incredible: music.
- 2007
- 0
- Nate DiMeo
Half Too Sweet
Trying to pull back with one hand the one you pushed away with both.
- 2013
- 03:16
- John Manini
Home Bitter/Sweet Home
Martha, a half-Chinese, half-Uruguayan Italian citizen, finds home where she least expects it.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Carly Nix
Home Sweet Home
Robert Lipman, a freshman at the University of Chicago who also runs an underground pop-up gourmet restaurant in Hyde Park, discusses the surprising, nearly fatal reason for his insatiable appetite to serve high-end food.
- 2013
- 03:22
- Tanya Basu
How Sweet it is to be a Piece of Meat
A look at how our appetites can take perverse shapes and make us see our bodies in a completely different way.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Kerry Gilfillan
Happy in Black and White
This is the story of a triangular-shaped green – bordered by busy commuter roads in Dublin, Ireland – which offers a place of sanctuary to more than just people.
- 2012
- 02:57
- Nancy Previs
Heel, Toe, Step Together
Bob Hill, 86, has been dancing on and off since he was 16 years old.
- 2011
- 27:40
- Katie Burningham
The Hunter
They say one man's trash is another man's treasure... Well, in Darren Atkinson's case, it's also his job.
- 2011
- 21:35
- Dominic Girard