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.
Taking Risks in Radio
Producing "outside the box" is a challenge to the formulaic landscape of public radio, whether you're producing a sound art parody or poetic essay or a show bent on surprising its listeners.
- 2001
- 01:27:40
These Are a Few of My Favorite Things: Up With Bad
Founding producer of This American Life Nancy Updike on the inspiration she finds in the power of vice, foible and inappropriateness on radio, podcasts, TV and in books.
- 2014
- 01:08:29
Terrible, Thanks for Asking: Semper Fi
Terrible, Thanks for Asking is a podcast that tells stories about the parts of life that hurt - the parts we're usually told to get through with quiet determination.
- 2017
- 35:49
- Nora McInerny
- Hans Buetow
Tornado Warning
A woman and dog hide out from a storm in her mother's strange basement.
- 2016
- 02:58
- Ellie Gordon-Moershel
Tracy's Lost & Found
When a strange item is left behind in a motel room, a lost & found coordinator is forced to confront her own life's meaning.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Hubby Jenkins
- Horatio Baltz
Re:sound #31: The Transmissions Show
This hour: spies, pirates, mysterious broadcasts, and a bold acoustic experiment.
- 2005
- 59:30
- Various producers
These are a few of Audie Cornish and Sean Cole's Favorite Things
Audie Cornish and Sean Cole came up in radio together — smoking on the front steps of WBUR in Boston, puzzling over stories. Now Audie is a co-host of NPR's All Things Considered and Sean is a producer at This American Life .
- 2016
- 01:25:55
Truck Stop Transformation
At the World's Largest Truck Stop in Walcott, Iowa, nothing is simply what it is.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Jake J. Smith
Thirteen Ways
Writer Sam Swope visits a class of restless, imaginative 11-year-olds in Queens, New York, where he embraces the challenge of teaching them Wallace Stevens' poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."
- 2004
- 18:40
- Pejk Malinovski
Theory of Everything #3: Cell Phones
Your pet can now own a cell phone -- what's the world coming to?
- 2004
- 29:00
- Benjamen Walker
TAPE_003
A man searches through his tapes looking for a lost memory.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Oliver Morris
Two Wheels to Nowhere
One man, one motorcycle, 13,843 miles, 89 days, 37 states, 166 interviews.
- 2010
- 30:33
- Aengus Anderson
Tapeletter From Denmark
A man misses his sister.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Soren Prehn Jensen
Time for Change
Boston Common + drum + activist + drunken panhandler = police intervention.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Justin Grotelueschen
Trouble in Vietnam
Robert McNamara, the Soviet Ambassador and President Lyndon Johnson face off in a historical remix.
- 2006
- 02:32
- Theo Lipfert
This Was a Crucial Place
A former inmate (John McCullough), a former guard (Donald Vaughn) and Steve Buscemi guide the listener through 1960's prison reform via the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, PA.
- 2006
- 03:04
- Peter Crimmins
Train Wars
Jayne Fenton Keane talks with India's former Socialist Defence Minister, Mr. George Fernandes, and former President of the Socialist Party of India, Ms. Jaya Jaitley, about the Railway Strikes of 1975 that brought down Sonia Ghandi's government.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Jayne Fenton Keane
These Are a Few of Ira Glass's Favorite Things
Ira Glass plays and talks about radio and print journalism that has inspired him, including some surprising 1970s-era NPR documentaries which may be long forgotten by most.
- 2002
- 01:24:13
These Are a Few of Dean Olsher's Favorite Things
Arthur Godfrey had it. So did Bob and Ray. And Ken Nordine has it, too. "It": the magical quality that makes you feel they're talking to you and you alone.
- 2003
- 01:02:21
This Senator Saved My Love Life
You have to give it to some elected representatives — they really will respond to the letters you send.
- 2014
- 24:39
- Anna Sale
Truth on Stage
When facts cannot plumb the depths, shall we lie? In this session, producers listen to and discuss radio documentaries that use fiction and dramatic elements to get to the truth.
- 2004
- 01:19:44
The Trophy
A man returns, victorious, from the hunt. Curious onlookers react to the killing. But they're not all looking at the same animal.
- 2016
- 03:03
- Hannah Colton
These Are a Few of Jacki Lyden's Favorite Things
Jacki Lyden has been an NPR contributor and host for more than two decades, reporting on vital issues at home and abroad and winning numerous awards for her work.
- 2004
- 01:23:47
Telling Stories Far From Home
How can a producer prepare to make radio stories about distant lands and the people who live there, and why tell those stories anyway?
- 2006
- 01:25:48
Teens With Mics
Youth producers are creating some of the most revealing and moving work on the radio these days, and we've curated a collection of gems for you.
- 2006
- 01:24:23