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.
Invisible Greek Rain
Every book seems to be a small universe, every title is like four "visible" percent of this universe.
- 2008
- 02:35
- Anastasia Ivanova
If It Hurts, You Breathe Faster
Buffalo resident Kathy Mecca has been resisting a proposed expansion of the Peace Bridge that threatens to destroy residential homes, architecturally important buildings, and mature trees in a neighborhood that has higher than average rates of asthma.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Fereshteh Toosi
If It Be Your Will: A Radio Documentary Featuring Leonard Cohen
Canadian musician Leonard Cohen insists he hardly remembers anything from his past and that he lives mostly in the present.
- 2006
- 44:12
- Kari Hesthamar
Ice Cream Man
Jonathan Goldstein's got a knack for exploring life's great (and simple) mysteries via the telephone.
- 2008
- 08:44
- Jonathan Goldstein
I'll Quit Cutting When You Quit Smoking
Excerpts from the diary of a girl who insists that self-mutilation is saving her life. Produced by April Winbun for Curie Youth Radio.
- 2006
- 03:26
- Curie Youth Radio
I'm Alive
A bell realizes it's alive while on a conveyor belt and then en route to a dollar store.
- 2007
- 01:03
- Brian Corbet
I Was a Preteen Nightmare
A well-intentioned yet horribly misinformed adolescent makes a monumental miscalculation of both form and judgment.
- 2007
- 03:03
- Jill Dorothy Summers
The Irresistible Draw of the Dollar Store
A dollar store addict is confronted with a horrifying discovery among the aisles.
- 2007
- 02:38
- Kevin Theis
Invasion
One mother's attempt to fight off an invasion of mice just after her two-year-old son has been diagnosed with leukemia.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Robert McGinley Myers
I've Got a Question for You
Making cold calls, in search of warmth.
- 2007
- 02:53
- Zak Rosen
I'm Not Bossy
Three mothers read slogans found on women's T-shirts in a local mall.
- 2007
- 02:41
- Gabe Bullard
I Would Like to Introduce You to My Mom
This is an ode to my mother and to all the similarities between us that I'm learning to embrace with the help of Tommy James and the Shondells.
- 2008
- 02:59
- Molly Adams
I Thought I'd Be Rewarded for My Dating Gumption
You think you're being mature and courageous, trait which will surely be rewarded with reciprocal sentiments of love...right?
- 2007
- 03:00
- Saya April Hillman
In the Navy (INC)
Meet Zoe Dunning, an open lesbian, and hear about her struggle with the U.S. navy to stay in military ranks. Also meet Skippy the Sailor, who used his sewing machine to win the hearts of his fellow sailors. Producer David Gilmore talks with both, about their battles with the armed forces during the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" era.
- 2000
- 0
- David Gilmore
Re:sound #266 I'm Your Man
This hour, what happens when a relationship from your past returns unexpectedly and pulls you back in time?
- 2019
- 57:06
- April Dembosky
- Isabel Vázquez
It Started With Oscar Grant
A decade ago, a 22-year-old black man was killed by a white police officer at Oakland's Fruitvale BART station.
- 2019
- 24:15
- Sandhya Dirks
In the Dark: Season Two
Over the course of two decades, prosecutor Doug Evans tried the same man six times for the same crime. But that man, Curtis Flowers, maintained his innocence throughout.
Infinities
Concerning mental illness, toxic workplace environments, Egyptian Rat Screw, and the nature of infinity.
- 2020
- 25:13
- Boen Wang
Inventions in Sound
To experience this award-winning piece in full, including a subtitled video, a transcript, closer captions, and more, click here.
- 2021
- 27:36
- Raymond Antrobus
- Eleanor McDowall
'It started in the fourth grade building'
Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best News Feature Award, selected by Final Round Judges Katherine Nagasawa, Habiba Nosheen, and Richard Yeh.
Re:sound #97: The In-Between Show
This hour: people living in the in-betweens.
Re:sound #193 The 'If You Build It' Show
This hour they built it and we see who came.
Re:sound #182 The "It's Complicated" Show
This hour: imperfect, impolitic, infuriating... love.
Re:sound #190 The Inner Thoughts Show
This hour we step inside the mind and listen to our thoughts.
Re:sound #205 The Imposter Show
This hour what you see, is not always what you get.