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.
John Cage and the Question of Genre
Form dances with function in this "seriously uncompromising"* and seriously compelling piece not so much about John Cage, as of the composer, music theorist, mycologist and artist, John Cage.
- 2013
- 31:02
- Chris Abrahams
- Rick Moody
- Sherre DeLys
The Organist
The Organist is a monthly experimental arts & culture program produced by the editors of the Believer - the award-winning monthly magazine published by McSweeney's.
- 2013
- 01:01:35
- Andrew Leland
- Jenna Weiss-Berman
- Ross Simonini
Re:sound #129: The Nerve Show
This hour: how and why we're wired for sound. A look at music and the brain.
- 2010
- 58:00
- Jowi Taylor
- Chris Brookes
- Paolo Pietropaolo
- Delaney Hall
Re:sound #128: The Willie McGee Show
This hour: the story (and the story behind the story) of Willie McGee.
- 2010
- 58:30
- Joe Richman
- Samara Freemark
- Nate DiMeo
- Delaney Hall
Re:sound #121: The Death Comes Home Show
This hour: the home funeral movement. Three families who've forgone traditional death rites in favor of a more DIY approach.
- 2010
- 58:00
- April Dembosky
- Karen Michel
- Delaney Hall
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
Own Your Thing (Day 2)
Independent producers have always had to fend for themselves, but today the building blocks for independent success - creating great work, reaching real audiences, making money, controlling your destiny - are falling into place in new ways.
- 2012
- 01:11:49
Re:sound #120: The Poetry Show
This hour: three documentary poems chronicling the lives of working class mothers in Troy, NY. Plus, poets as reporters, confused readers, and more.
- 2009
- 58:30
- Lu Olkowski
- Kevin Dawson
- Curtis Fox
- Delaney Hall
Re:sound #1: The Very First Show Show
This week: an aural trip to one of the oldest cities in the world, an unconventional love affair, and a man who eats up all the books he reads (literally).
- 2004
- 58:30
- Jim Metzner
- Matthew Power
- Gregory Whitehead
- Julie Shapiro
Re:sound #19: The Sweet Sound Show
This week: 14 brothers and sisters search for their estranged father, and a profile of one of the most avid sound recordists of all time.
- 2005
- 59:01
- Phyllis Fletcher
- The Kitchen Sisters
- Roman Mars
Re:sound #5: The Remedial Silence Show
This hour: a man hand-delivers reading material to a war criminal, two people who've never spoken fall in love, and more.
- 2004
- 59:01
- Benjamen Walker
- Joan Schuman
- Michael Johnson
- Julie Shapiro
Re:sound #7: The Mei Mei Show
This hour: producer Dmae Roberts grapples with the history and memories of her Taiwanese mother, a history of PTSD, and more.
- 2004
- 59:01
- Dmae Roberts
- Alix Spiegel
- Joe Frank
- Julie Shapiro
Re:sound #9: The South Side of Japan Show
This hour: we head to the south side of Chicago and Japan.
- 2004
- 59:30
- Dan Collison
- Elizabeth Meister
- Robin Hilton
- Julie Shapiro
What Happened at Dos Erres
In 1982, the Guatemalan military massacred the villagers of Dos Erres, killing more than 200 people.
- 2012
- 21:24
- Brian Reed
- Habiba Nosheen
The Red, White, and Blue Bus
2012 ShortDocs Winner! The familiar faces of the red, white and blue bus, whose lives I will never know.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Luke Eldridge
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 #192 The Waiting Show
This hour, waiting. Waiting in line, waiting for an organ transplant and waiting for a bus that's never, ever going to come.
- 2014
- 57:30
- Sean Cole
- Lulu Miller
- Catie Talarski
- Dennis Funk
Finding Emilie
While in college, Alan fell hard for a fellow art student, Emilie.
- 2011
- 19:58
- Jad Abumrad
- Robert Krulwich
- Soren Wheeler
Re:sound #189 The Hearing Show
This hour we listen in on hearing — a complex system of circuitry that is vulnerable to all sorts of interruptions, misfires and breakdowns.
The Glass Piano
At the tender age of 23, Princess Alexandra Amelie of Bavaria (1826-1875) was observed awkwardly walking sideways down the corridors of her family palace.
- 2012
- 30:07
- Deborah Levy
- Kate Bland
Everybody SCREAM!!
Spin class gets personal.
- 2012
- 10:32
- Jonathan Mitchell
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
Re:sound #179 The Dreams Show
This week: dreams and dreamers of all kinds - lucid, fictional, public and elusive.
- 2013
- 59:00
- Neva Grant
- Sean Cole
- Joe Frank
- Nate DiMeo
Re:sound #105: The Into the Music Show
This hour: a peek into auditions at one of the most competitive conservatories in Australia, and more.
- 2009
- 59:00
- Elizabeth Chur
- Kyla Brettle
- Delaney Hall
Re:sound #110: The Quiet Show
This hour: meditations on whispering, selective mutism, and a man who records some of the quietest sounds in the world.
- 2009
- 59:00
- Laura Mayer
- Natalie Kestecher
- Delaney Hall