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.
Scared
2008 ShortDocs Winner! The bittersweet fear of watching your child grow up.
- 2008
- 03:00
- John Biewen
S-Town
S-Town is hard to describe. It’s a podcast that starts as a traditional investigation into corruption and wrongdoing in rural Alabama.
- 2017
- 08:05
- Brian Reed
- Julie Snyder
Stolen Threads
An A.I. detective intercepts emails from a young TV journalist, and attempts to rescue her from the clutches of Big Data.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Billy Shebar
- J. Faye Yuan
- Yasaman Kazerooni
The Secret Life of an Australian Mother
Domestic duet for mother and six year old.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Eurydice Aroney
- Stuart Brown
- Tom Morton
Summersault featuring Lumberjockey
Scott Barber aka Lumberjockey discovered at 15 that he needs to pay close attention to everything that goes into his body.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Julia Grant
- Scott Barber
The Signing
The bureaucracy surrounding support for the unemployed is often mindless and ultimately de-humanizing for everyone involved.
- 2012
- 08:39
- Ellie Richold
- Nina Garthwaite
Re:sound #10: The Suitcase Show
This hour: a mysterious suitcase, basement bhangra, and more.
- 2004
- 57:59
- Gregory Whitehead
- Karen Levine
- Julie Shapiro
Sweet, Sweet Solitude
A young girl rants about annoyances that are brought up frequently in her daily life while listing why her way of living is superior to most others.
- 2013
- 02:42
- Emily Hartman
- Lauren Vieni
- Michael Abramczyk
Summer Snow in Moscow
Every summer it snows in Moscow -- because of sexually frustrated trees? What do you know about the sexuality of the poplar tree?
- 2008
- 03:00
- Anastasia Gorokhova
- Daniela Hannemann
- Sasha Fomichev
Sweet Dreams
You need a lot to accomplish your dreams, but it is your choice to pursue it or not.
- 2013
- 02:00
- Lauren Vieni
- Mercedes Lopez
- Michael Abramczyk
Storymakers Durham
The Storymakers project elicits conversations about race and class that are candid, complicated, and as intimate as eavesdropping on someone else's dinner conversation.
- 2016
- 12:16
- John Biewen
- Courtney Smith
Shocking Pink
Australian anthropologist, botanist, and eccentric Olive Pink waged a 40-year, one-woman civil rights campaign on behalf of the Aboriginal peoples until her death in 1975.
- 2005
- 36:29
- Hollis Taylor
- Jane Ulman
The Searchers (Based on a True Story)
2008 ShortDocs Winner! Where do lost stories go? Potato pancakes are involved.
- 2008
- 03:06
- David P. Earle
Re:sound #37: The Studs Show
This hour: the indomitable Studs Terkel.
- 2006
- 59:31
- Alan Hall
- Roman Mars
Salt On the Lips
2013 ShortDocs Winner! David channels his frustrated desires into detailed fantasies for the perfect sensual feast.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Jenny Asarnow
Standing Out From the Crowd at a Trump Rally
As the Iowa caucuses approached in February of 2016, Donald Trump’s political campaign was gaining traction with voters. One major theme became clear: fear.
- 2017
- 09:26
- Ike Sriskandarajah
Re:sound #103: The Sean Hurley / Sherwin Sleeves Show
This hour: the work of producer Sean Hurley, a writer and musician who lives on top of a mountain in New Hampshire and has an alter-ego, Sherwin Sleeves, who's become central to Sean's radio storytelling.
- 2008
- 58:30
- Sean Hurley
- Delaney Hall
The Sweetest Meat
A cannibal finds that she no longer has the appetite for the things she used to.
- 2013
- 02:50
- Damian Biniek
- Rachel Lyon
Structural Integrity
When it was built in 1977, the 59-story CitiCorp Center had a fatal flaw that could have caused the building to collapse, and take out the entire mid-town Manhattan skyline with it.
- 2015
- 21:54
- Joel Werner
- Sam Greenspan
Sweet Empty Calories: HEART DISEASE
How an appetite for the wrong foods can kill you, and the role it plays in heart disease (the number one killer of women).
- 2013
- 03:00
- Linda Darlene (Behl) Brennaman
- Ross Stinemetz
Sel: Trois Façons (Salt: Three Ways)
2013 ShortDocs Winner! No one has an appetite for perfection and swearing like a Québécois in search of poutine.
- 2013
- 02:59
- Kelly Jones
Special Feature: Easy Love
This week on Re:sound, a powerful story of love and loss... plus an interview with Australian producer Jaye Kranz
- 2014
- 17:54
- Jaye Kranz
- Dennis Funk
Re:sound #147 The Sense of Duty Show
This hour: A dark secret that threatens to tear apart a family.
- 2011
- 59:30
- Heather Stewart
- Judith Sloan
- Katie Mingle
Spaceman Carl
Captain Sheila gets a little help taming the wild wastes of outer space.
- 2016
- 02:56
- Allison Quantz
- Bethy Squires
- Natalie Bainter
Senza Parole
Rustle of cardboard and tin foil. Polka dots. A curious island in the middle of the Seine.
- 2014
- 18:37