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.
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Six Minutes
A motorcyclist hits the only tree standing in an otherwise empty field.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Katie Ball
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Sending Books to Africa
A surreal tale about book donations, whitefish salad, and trans-atlantic journeys.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Sarah Yahm
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Survivors
Tens of thousands of inmates in American prisons live in total isolation. They don't see anyone. They don't talk to anyone. They are completely alone, sometimes for years, in a cell the size of a small bathroom.
- 2009
- 29:00
- Claire Schoen
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Special Feature: Envision Yourself Being a Free Man
On this episode of Re:sound, we're featuring an audio postcard from the Restorative Radio Project plus an interview with the series' producer, Sylvia Ryerson.
- 2016
- 17:54
- Sylvia Ryerson
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The Subtle Tongue of Racism Remains Unbitten in a "Post-Racial" America
How do Anglos think black people talk -- and how does that feel?
- 2008
- 02:58
- Will Wright
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Soldiers React to Prison Abuse
When Youth Radio reporters in Oakland, CA, spoke with their friends returning home from Iraq, they realized that the public wasn't hearing the perspectives of these young soldiers.
- 2004
- 04:19
- Belia Mayeno Choy
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Seratonin Syndrome
Ken Nordine wonders if the warning pamphlets included with many powerful prescriptions may cause some of us to suffer mild paranoia.
- 2004
- 03:36
- Ken Nordine
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Sound Design From Hell
Film sound designer Steve Boeddeker demonstrates how sound can be used to enhance the emotional impact of a scene.
- 2002
- 05:47
- Jonathan Mitchell
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Steve the Baker
"Without bread we are all orphans," says the sign that greets customers as they walk into Steve's Bread Shop in Portland, Maine. Meet Steve, who bakes bread in the most traditional way possible: by hand.
- 2002
- 05:10
- David Welch
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Sidney
Of a cat, a Necessary, litter, and oh yeah, mice.
- 2007
- 03:01
- Kay Collins
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Stupid, Stupid Cup
Fictional account of bad behavior inspired by the mug.
- 2007
- 02:52
- Sue Mell
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Stork-Bird Brain
A journey through the mind of heartache on an island that is really a peninsula.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Carolyn Hoerdemann
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Suicide Bridge
Lines form around the block for the world's most popular suicide spot.
- 2000
- 01:55
- Joe Frank
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Re:sound #216 The 2015 Short Docs Show — Studs Rules
This hour we listen to some of our favourite entries to the 2015 Third Coast Short Docs Challenge: Studs Rules!
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Silence
Tripura and Om took temporary vows of silence when they first met almost 20 years ago. Joan Schuman produced this sound portrait of their experience by weaving together their vocal memories with an ambient narrative of chalk scratching on slate.
- 2001
- 12:22
- Joan Schuman
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Swim Lesson
In Scott Carrier's family, learning to swim means spending a few weeks at Al and Betty Switzer's Aquatic School in Center Sandwich, New Hampshire.
- 1996
- 08:10
- Scott Carrier
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Sensory Deprivation Tank
Jonathan Goldstein's got a knack for exploring life's great (and simple) mysteries via the telephone.
- 2007
- 06:14
- Jonathan Goldstein
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Re:sound #257 Skateboarding Beatles
This hour, the most famous chord in pop music, swimming pools, skateboarders and more!
- 2018
- 60:00
- Avery Trufelman
- Joel Werner
- Miyuki Jokinranta
- Dennis Funk
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Summer Rain
To have and to lose control.
- 2018
- 03:00
- Nanna Hauge Kristensen
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Re:sound #268 Sleep Happy
This hour, family dramas can span across generations ...or just across the hallway.
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Re:sound #271 Sister God
This hour, journeys of discovery, from personal identity to mathematical infinity.
- 2019
- 55:12
- Simone Polanen
- Starlee Kine
- Joel Werner
- Isabel Vázquez
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Songs of Speculation (excerpt)
Songs of Speculation is a lecture that explodes into multi-form performance, calling on the body, time, and the power of music to reclaim histories forgotten or lost.
- 2020
- 39:37
- Jillian Walker
- Ben Williams
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Somebody
When Shapearl Wells's son Courtney is found outside a Chicago police station with a fatal bullet wound, Shapearl immediately distrusts the official narrative.
- 2020
- 28:43
- Shapearl Wells
- Alison Flowers
- Bill Healy
- Sarah Geis
- Bart Warshaw
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Simultaneous
To experience this award-winning piece in full, including the credits read out loud, click here.
- 2021
- 44:33
- Pamela Z
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Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Impact Award, selected by Final Round Judges Katherine Nagasawa, Habiba Nosheen, and Richard Yeh.
- 2023
- 32:47
- Emily Hanford
- Catherine Winter
- Christopher Peak
- Chris Julin