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.
Leaves
The planting of a memorial tree reveals a lost story about my grandmother.
- 2008
- 03:33
- Max Barry
Restful, Shady Places
The authors of Trailer Ahoy! and Trees as Good Citizens enjoy a written correspondence relating to their books' proximity in the library.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Sean Hurley
Pink George
McCarthyism and me.
- 2008
- 02:59
- Kay Collins
When Condos Travel
This piece explores what happens when trailers want to stay put, but condos travel -- removing Austin residents and their beloved trees.
- 2008
- 02:48
- Sara Robberson
Nina Black
Imagine being so hyperactive and distractible that you can barely keep track of where you are, who you're talking to, and what you're talking about.
- 2009
- 43:00
- Melanie Harris
The Memory Palace: These Words Forever
In this episode of The Memory Palace, Guglielmo Marconi, the Father of Radio, dreams of a super-radio that would allow him to hear every sound ever made. Melancholy ensues.
- 2009
- 03:17
- Nate DiMeo
If It Hurts, You Breathe Faster
Buffalo resident Kathy Mecca has been resisting a proposed expansion of the Peace Bridge that threatens to destroy residential homes, architecturally important buildings, and mature trees in a neighborhood that has higher than average rates of asthma.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Fereshteh Toosi
When the Dog Was Just the Dog
When her husband brings two puppies home, producer Lea Redfern becomes completely immersed in the world of canines. Now dog culture pervades her every waking moment, from commanding her social life to steering her personal politics.
- 2004
- 44:38
- Lea Redfern
File Under Soviet Bizarre: Vyacheslav Mescherin's Orchestra of Electro-Musical Instruments
It was the closest thing to Muzak in Russia. This is the story of the rise, fall, and sudden resurgence of the music that dominated television and radio airwaves and whose spacey sounds made it the favorite of the USSR's cosmonauts.
- 2004
- 09:58
- Charles Maynes
Heat
In this short radio play, the consequences of living life in a tinderbox are revealed through a series of scenes taking place within their various rooms.
- 2003
- 09:02
- Susan Stone
My Personal Board: Episode One
Five alarmingly self-aware people meet on the phone for an hour each week to talk about their lives and their goals.
- 2005
- 15:00
- Eurydice Aroney
Electronic Samples Cut-Up
A few years ago, Mark Vernon bought a pile of old reel-to-reel audio tapes at a boot sale (think yard sale, but in the trunks of cars) near his hometown of Derby, England.
- 2002
- 02:14
- Mark Vernon
City X
The shopping mall is a cultural and commercial phenomenon in America that most can relate to in some way or another.
- 2005
- 22:33
- Jonathan Mitchell
One-Minute Vacations
The world makes its own music, but we rarely listen with fresh ears says Aaron Ximm, sound artist, field recordist and founder of quietamerican.org.
- 2005
- 01:02
- Aaron Ximm
How Many Miles to Babylon? or 13 Easy Pieces
Merry-go-rounds often reside deep in our memories, conjuring childhood and the magical ability to be carried far away in the blink of an eye or the spin of a carousel.
- 2006
- 37:48
- Kaye Mortley
Ruby
A deaf-mute, lovelorn waitress has written a friend of her fractured heart. It's a garbled world in which Ruby spins between love, lust, and a bus ticket to California.
- 2003
- 03:01
- Susan Stone
Mad About Magpies
Many people look to the natural world for clues about living a more harmonious life. For example, we aspire to traits we associate with certain animals: the wisdom of the owl, the noble bearing of the bald eagle, or the grace of the swan.
- 2005
- 15:29
- Guy Hand
Object Piece
Based on a short story by Drury Pifer, Object Piece is the story of a man digging his own grave after he loses his wife to a friend.
- 1976
- 08:53
- Randy Thom
Postcards From a Fanatic Reactionary Pedestrian
What is a fanatic reactionary pedestrian? How does one get to be this way?
- 2002
- 17:53
- Abner Serd
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Thirty years ago no one believed that the psychological problems suffered by Vietnam soldiers were caused by their service in the war.
- 2004
- 12:47
- Alix Spiegel
The Forbidden Voyage
As a young boy, Earle Reynolds had a dream to build and sail a boat around the world.
- 2003
- 43:04
- Stephen Erickson
New Orleans' Hurricane Risk
In September, 2002, three years before Katrina devastated America's gulf coast, veteran NPR reporter Daniel Zwerdling investigated what would happen to New Orleans if it fell in the path of a Category 5 hurricane.
- 2002
- 20:05
- Daniel Zwerdling
Soldiers React to Prison Abuse
When Youth Radio reporters in Oakland, CA, spoke with their friends returning home from Iraq, they realized that the public wasn't hearing the perspectives of these young soldiers.
- 2004
- 04:19
- Belia Mayeno Choy
The Long-Expected Party
This Radio New Zealand documentary explores the construction of the world of The Lord of the Rings through the eyes of the New Zealanders whose "good old kiwi ingenuity" on the film set brought Middle Earth to life.
- 2003
- 40:56
- Camilla Maling
A Drinking Song
Could The Star Spangled Banner be recast as a drinking song? Holger Mohaupt suggests that in this family, it could.
- 2004
- 01:40
- Holger Mohaupt