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.
The Loneliness of the Goalkeeper
British writer and radio presenter Hardeep Singh Kohli remembers the loneliness of being a goalkeeper, the player who spends 90 minutes looking at his colleagues' backs.
- 2010
- 27:41
- Adam Fowler
Last Words from Hopi High
For nearly a thousand years the Hopi people of Arizona have lived on the same three mesas and for all that time they've spoken the Hopi language. But now elders and youth alike say the language is dying.
- 2010
- 06:15
- Brett Myers
Living 9/11
A decade ago, WNYC's news team spent days, months, and then years reporting on the World Trade Center attacks and their aftermath.
- 2012
- 58:59
- Emily Botein
- Marianne McCune
Listening Critically
Art forms such as film, literature and even TV, generate rich bodies of critcal writing that push the boundaries of what creators do and why, and gives audiences new ways to appreciate the work.
- 2008
- 01:29:40
Loose Tongues
Narrative deceptions, perverse fictions, audio portraiture: this conversation between feature-makers Natalie Kestecher and Susan Stone explores the interplay of story, character, and music, as well as the delights of creative ambiguity and communication in Kestecher's luminous, protean work.
- 2003
- 58:52
Lord God Bird
The Ivory Billed Woodpecker was thought to be extinct until 2004, when it was rediscovered near the small town of Brinkley, Arkansas.
- 2017
- 11:18
- Elizabeth Meister
- Dan Collison
Los Cassettes del Exilio
For much of Dennis Maxwell’s childhood, his father was living in exile, communicating with the family via cassette tapes.
- 2017
- 25:02
- Dennis Maxwell
Re:sound #29: The Losing and Finding Show
This hour: a father with aphasia, an elusive bird, and more.
- 2005
- 59:30
- Various producers
Re:sound #46: The Lemon Tree Show
This hour: two decades after he was forced to flee, a young Palestinian man returns to his home to meet the Israeli woman who lives there now.
- 2006
- 58:31
- Sandy Tolan
- Roman Mars
Living on Mars
A man who applies for a job on Mars, Walt Disney, a pot seller, and the taxi driver who explains it all.
- 2015
- 29:47
- Tim Hinman
- Krister Moltzen
The Last Voice of an Ancient Tongue
Elsie Vaalbooi was the last speaker of !Auni, the ancient language of South Africa's first peoples. Producer Siven Maslamoney tells the story of how languages die and how Elsie's people have been driven to extinction.
- 2003
- 27:39
- ABC Ulwazi
Listening to Ghosts
In the past, radio was the most ephemeral of all art forms - it slipped by the ear and then vanished into the air forever.
- 2009
- 35:37
- Tom Morton
Learning to Live: James's Story
James, an ex-felon, narrates the story of his transition from prison-life to self-sufficiency.
- 2001
- 29:03
- Dan Collison
Love Means Never Having To Say You're Coleslaw
A group of Cantabrigians reflect on the weekly potluck that brings them together.
- 2016
- 02:07
- Nick Andersen
The Legend of Crazy Woman Creek
The origin story of how Crazy Woman Creek in Wyoming got its name, as told from the perspective of a mountain man named Johnson.
- 2016
- 03:00
Longing
Waiting for a long-departed lover.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Mara Maracinescu
The Long Way Home
New light on the wanderings of Odysseus provided by the discovery of Penelope's answering machine tape.
- 2006
- 02:30
- David Henderson
Louise
A young man runs away from the circus.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Deepthi Welaratna
Living off the Land
A Labor Day homage to women.
- 2007
- 02:43
- Nanette Drake Oldenbourg
Looking at Topsy
A radio story about a movie by Thomas Edison that is very hard to watch.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Brett Beyer
Liberals (With Thomas Frank and Rush Limbaugh)
As the story continues, we finally learn that conservatives share some sort of nostalgia with liberals.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Alfred Koch
Levitating Stone
In a small village in India, a 90 KG stone levitates when the name of sufi saint Qamar Ali Dervish is chanted.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Jeanette Werkhoven
Love after Life
The story of how love can transgress through all realms of life and death.
Life Drive
In 1961 during the fascist regime in Portugal, a group of political prisoners escape from a fortress prison in a bullet proof Chrysler Imperial - the car that belonged to the dictator himself.
Voiceover by Jay Buettner; Additional voice by Carlos Patrão.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Carlo Patrao
Like Blackpool Went Through Rock: The Story of the Radio Ballads
Fifty years ago, folksingers Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger collaborated with BBC Radio producer Charles Parker to create an amazing body of work - the Radio Ballads.
- 2008
- 01:32:33