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.

Re:sound #95: The More Show
This hour: a janitor poet, a teenage psychic, and more.

Re:sound #158 The Night Show
This hour: Listening to the night.

Re:sound #149 The Piano Show
This hour: the piano. But not just as a musical instrument. The piano as a spiritual healer, as a symptom in a grand delusion, as a man's obsession, and as a beloved friend, put out to pasture.

Re:sound #144 The Letters Show
This hour: letters. To yourself, to your city, lost letters, found letters... and a love letter to letters.

Knock Knock: Introducing the 2012 Third Coast ShortDocs
In early 2012, Third Coast teamed up with the neighborhood-centric website EveryBlock, and issued a wide-open invitation to make radio.
- 2012
- 01:03:16

Re:sound #125: The Justice Show
This hour: we explore some big ideas – justice, injustice, punishment, and redemption – through small, powerful, personal stories.

Best of the Best 2011 (Part 2)
Re:sound's Gwen Macsai hosts this year's national broadcast, showcasing the best radio stories of the year - winners of the 2011 TC/RHDF Competition.

Re:sound # 140 The Country-Western Show
This week: every country song tells a story and has a story behind it.

Best of the Best 2014 (Part 2)
The 2014 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition.

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

Best of the Best 2015 (Hour 2)
The 2015 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition.

Re:sound #204 The Stories From Childhood Show
This hour some of our favorite childhood icons: from the man who gave us Thing One & Thing Two... to Dorothy, the Tin Man and Toto too.

Re:sound #222 The Uninvited Guests Show
This hour, uninvited guests like old lovers, irrational fears and the annoying habits that keep us up at night.

Re:sound #217 The Call and Response Show
This hour stories of quiet calls that have produced the most unexpected responses.

Re:sound #109: The Earlids Show
This hour: two stories that get incredibly, intimately, close to their subjects.

Re:sound #69: The Body Image Show
This hour: a very personal take on a rare subculture, a young man forced to confront his obesity, a dinner with unabashed nudists, and more.

Re:sound #209 The Firsts Show
This hour first lines, the first day back and every last first you can think of.

Re:sound #205 The Imposter Show
This hour what you see, is not always what you get.

Re:sound #203 The Rivers Show
This hour we meander our way down three rivers in search of solace, spiritual healing and, of course, total domination.
- 2015
- 01:02:10
- Dan Weissmann
- Roman Mars
- Sam Greenspan
- Alex Chadwick
- Dennis Funk

The Wisdom of Jay Thunderbolt
Jay Thunderbolt's business card is a little mysterious. It reads, "Thunderbolt - Party Naked" and gives a phone number.
- 2011
- 27:50
- Brendan Baker
- Nick van der Kolk
- Nick Williams

Re:sound #94: The Migration Show
This hour: people move and places change.

Re:sound #71: The Lefty Show
This hour: left-handed creativity and innovation.

Re:sound #74: The Hospice Show
This hour: a surprising look at the relationship between a hospice worker and his patient.

Re:sound #15: The Consumerism Show
This hour: a brief history of the mall, radical knitters, and more.

Re:sound #238 The Mother's Day Show
This hour, Mother’s Day, in all its beautiful, complicated glory.