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.
Trick: Part Two
This curated Listening Reel was screened at the 2019 Third Coast Conference in Chicago.
- 2019
- 0
Time Bandit
To experience this award-winning piece in full, click here.
- 2021
- 23:59
- Sean Cole
Re:sound #135 The Taking Care Show
This hour: the delicate interdependence between being in need and answering the call to help.
Re:sound #248 The Twisted Xmas Show
This hour, Third Coast’s take on the holidays.
Re:sound #234 The Third Coast Institute of Sound Show
This hour we’re coming to you from inside the Third Coast Institute of Sound — a fictional museum we’ve dreamed up where all of the exhibits and artifacts are dedicated to things that make sound and noise.
- 2017
- 01:04:00
- Victoria Ferran
- Delaney Hall
- Roman Mars
- Joan Webber
- Phil Smith
- Dennis Funk
Re:sound #136 The Twins Show
This hour: Identical twins -- separated at birth, separated by belief and joined by matching outfits.
Re:sound #122: The Three Records from Sun Ra Show
This hour: two amazing musicians explored through the portal of two amazing documentaries.
- 2010
- 58:30
- Charles Maynes
- Brent Clough
- John Jacobs
- Delaney Hall
This Proves Everything
Introducing a posse of smart, hopeful, boy band conspiracy theorists... and the civilian caught in their midst.
- 2015
- 17:32
- Alex Goldman
- PJ Vogt
Re:sound #188 The Tight Spaces Show
This hour we look at the ups and downs of confinement.
Teen Contender
Sixteen-year-old Claressa Shields has a dream, to be at the 2012 Olympic finals and hear the announcer call out, "The first woman Olympian boxer at 165 pounds - Claressa Shields!"
- 2012
- 15:37
- Joe Richman
- Samara Freemark
- Sue Jaye Johnson
Re:sound #255 Taxidermied Cows
This hour, a teenage taxidermist, a community of medical migrants who settled in Snowflake, Arizona, and a day in the life of a sacred cow.
- 2018
- 59:00
- Pejk Malinovski
- Rachel Matlow
- Delaney Hall
- Dennis Funk
Re:sound #237 The Tip of the Iceberg Show
This hour stories that dive below the surface to help us understand issues of race, the environment and immigration.
- 2017
- 60:00
- John Biewen
- Brooke Gladstone
- Delaney Hall
- Roman Mars
- Dennis Funk
The Traffic Stop
On July 6, 2016, Philando Castile was pulled over by Officer Jeronimo Yanez for a broken brake light. 74 seconds later, Yanez fired seven shots.
- 2017
- 20:44
- Tracy Mumford
- Hans Buetow
- Riham Feshir
- Jon Collins
Re:sound #75: The True Crime Show
This hour: amateur sleuths and internet detectives.
- 2007
- 58:30
- Sara Parker
- Sue Mell
- Roman Mars
Trust Me, I'm an Editor
Producers come to editors with their tape, a vision, and a piece in various stages of completion. Editors bring their skills, a fresh set of ears, a fat red pen, and often the mandate of an established show format.
- 2004
- 01:31:18
Re:sound #202 The To Heal A Sick Nation Show
This hour a revealing snapshot of Martin Luther King, Jr. as he struggled to stay the course he'd set out for himself and the nation.
- 2015
- 58:00
- Greg Kelly
- Stephen Smith
- Dennis Funk
Re:sound #24: The Talent Show
This hour: the strange world of competitive model horse collecting and an investigation of an old classmate's death.
- 2005
- 59:01
- Julie Shapiro
- Gwen Macsai
- Roman Mars
Re:sound #26: The Tour Show
This hour: the halls of a high school and the alleys of one of the oldest cities in the world.
- 2005
- 58:31
- David Torgersen
- Jim Metzner
- Roman Mars
Re:sound #176 The Tiny Towns in Texas Show
This hour: we explore two struggling Texas towns through the beautiful and mournful voices of those who remain.
- 2013
- 01:01:14
- Pejk Malinovski
- Katherine Wells
- Katie Mingle
Re:sound #184 The Failure of Flight Show
This hour: failure of flight. In one story a man mysteriously falls from the sky onto a sunny London street, and in another, a plane crashes into a mountain side, and an 11-year-old walks away.
- 2014
- 57:05
- Bob Carlson
- Kerstin Zilm
- Rob Walker
- Katie Mingle
To Err (on the Air) Is Human
No one likes to make mistakes, but the difference between you (brilliant producer) and the guy next to you (average producer) is in learning how to use those mistakes to your advantage.
- 2003
- 01:13:12
Talking Story
The Kitchen Sisters skillfully lead this panel about creative and unusual approaches and techniques for producing compelling radio stories, including what can be learned from other media, like television and film.
- 2001
- 01:00:09
Trespassing
Jay Allison leads a discussion about the ways in which documentarians must be skilled in the art of trespassing...
- 2002
- 01:24:10
Too Many Miles
What if Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” were re-imagined as a film?
- 2016
- 02:33
- Stephanie Rowden
- Jennifer Metsker
Re:sound #123: The Textbook War Show
This hour: one woman's comments at a school board meeting in Kanawa County, West Virginia, become a catalyst for deep division within the school district, the county, the state, and the entire country.
- 2010
- 59:00
- Trey Kay
- Deborah George
- Delaney Hall