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.
My Umami Gas Mask
2013 ShortDocs Winner! A bleak future with nothing good to eat... except your gas mask.
- 2013
- 02:58
- Sam Agee
Me and Run Like a Dream
Here's your typical love story, except for one small detail: the husband is a race horse.
- 2012
- 13:21
- Jessie Borrelle
- Jon Tjhia
My Parents' Extreme Tango Makeover
When Yowei Shaw was in college, her parents' relationship began to change.
- 2012
- 09:17
- Yowei Shaw
My So-Called Lungs
Laura Rothenberg is 21 years old, but likes to say that she's already had her mid-life crisis. Laura has cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that affects the lungs and other organs.
- 2002
- 34:31
- Joe Richman
- Laura Rothenberg
Re:sound #178 The Matriarchy Show
This week: the mother reigns supreme.
- 2013
- 59:00
- Erin O'Dwyer
- The Kitchen Sisters
- Katie Mingle
My Life So Far
The village of Alert Bay, on Canada's Pacific coast, is a study in paradox for the teens growing up there. They have a rich aboriginal culture, but live in grinding poverty.
- 2009
- 26:56
- Lindsay Michael
- Neil Sandell
- Teresa Goff
Re:sound #167 The Mavis Show
This hour: We dedicate most of the show to a profile of Mavis Gallant, who at 90, is looking back on an extraordinary life.
- 2012
- 58:30
- Megan Williams
- Nate DiMeo
- Katie Mingle
The Memory Palace: Lost Pigeons
In this episode of The Memory Palace, the passenger pigeon dwindles from five-billion strong in the first quarter of the 19th Century down to one lonely widow in the Cincinnati Zoo in less than a hundred years.
- 2009
- 02:54
- Nate DiMeo
My Mommy's Umami Latkes
Once a year my extended family comes together for three courses in tradition: making latkes, dinner conversation and finally, the ongoing memories we create together during our annual Hanukkah party.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Bari Finkel
Memento Mori
Some members of Jude Fletcher's family have a fondness for taking pictures of the dead. Their photo albums boast the typical shots of joyous celebrations and family gatherings, side by side with shots of loved ones in their caskets.
- 2004
- 08:20
- Jude Fletcher
The Mousetrap
This is a highly fictionalized retelling of a real life tale of the trapping and killing of a mouse in Fresno, California.
- 2007
- 02:57
- Donovan Keith
- Tamara Keith
The Mime
The sounds of Turkish pop star Tarkan melds with possibly the most annoying roommate ever.
- 2006
- 02:50
- Cyrus Farivar
- Rebeka Kouy-Ghadosh
My Life as a Cup
2007 ShortDocs Winner! The triumphs and regrets of a cup.
- 2007
- 03:02
- Sean Hurley
The Most of It
We interrupt our regular library spotlight for a quick pas de deux: a minute (and two seconds) that gives voice to movement and movement to voice.
- 2014
- 01:02
- CPR Arts Bureau
- Wonderbound
My Way or the FBI Way
A year ago, a swat team broke down the door of a home in downtown St. Paul and found eight Molotov cocktails inside.
- 2009
- 36:12
- Michael May
My Struggle With Obesity
Fifteen-year-old Rocky, a Palestinian American, lives with his parents and siblings in Brooklyn. Three times the size of his twin sister, Rocky is the target of his siblings' jokes and insults.
- 2005
- 14:31
- Czerina Patel
- Samr "Rocky" Tayeh
My Blue Bucket
A simple scene of sharing language, laughter, songs and daily chores with my neighbours in Kigali, Rwanda.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Helene Thomas
- Steven Tilley
The Mysterious Production
To mark ten amazing years of celebrating sound and story, we're closing out this year's Conference with something a little different - a special conversation about inspiration, collaboration, creativity, and storytelling that will leave your ears ringing... in a good way.
- 2010
- 01:25:31
The Memory Palace: The Brothers Booth
In this episode of The Memory Palace, the most famous actor in American mounts a comeback after his little brother shoots Abraham Lincoln.
- 2009
- 05:17
- Nate DiMeo
The Mender of Lost Hearts
Child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo lead grim lives -- they're forcibly recruited to serve with government forces or rebel troops in a long and bloody civil conflict that's ravaged the region for years.
- 2009
- 12:24
- Samite Mulondo
- Steve McNally
Mike Schmidt on a Purple Bike
Old friends and newly neighbors, Andy and Amanda stalk their Brooklyn block to uncover the mystique of a neighborhood legend who curiously resembles one of baseball's greatest Hall of Famers.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Amanda Culkowski
- Andrew Trimbach
Making Waves: The Impact of Radio
In times of crisis the impact of radio coverage on peoples' lives is easy to assess. But day in and day out, how does radio touch the communities or subjects it portrays, and the audience it reaches?
- 2001
- 01:09:04
Midnight Blues
A night like any other in an unusual life.
- 2012
- 02:39
- Chris Savell
- Justin Perleoni
Mother Nature's Blues
We posed the question "What would you do if you were mother nature?" to our teenage neighbors and our piece features a compilation of the diverse answers we received.
- 2012
- 01:58
- Alexandros Zervos
- Djinnie Timoleon
Mei Mei, A Daughter's Song
Dmae Roberts tell two interwoven stories in this personal documentary: the frustration she feels not living up to her mother's ideal of a perfect Taiwanese daughter and the compassion she has for a mother who as a child suffered abuse, starvation, and the horrors of World War Two.
- 2002
- 26:35
- Dmae Roberts