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.

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'Til Death Do Us Part

2006 ShortDocs Winner! Producer Sasha Aslanian's divorced parents listen to audio of their 1963 wedding vows, remember what went wrong, but still can't get over each other.

2006
02:30
Sasha Aslanian

X-Town

In the late 1930s, Massachusetts flooded four towns in the central part of the state to create a reservoir for the city of Boston. More than 2,000 people lived in those towns.

2003
07:29
Sean Cole

Re:sound #87: The Magpie Show

This hour: redeeming the much-maligned bird.

The Giant Pool of Money (INC)

This documentary, a special collaboration between This American Life and NPR News, deconstructs the current housing crisis.

HowSound Live! Part I

Discover the backstory to this year's TC/RHDF Competition winners!

2014
01:22:08

Talk to Me About Love

2006 ShortDocs Winner! Two curious siblings finally get what they think they've always wanted.

Sel: Trois Façons (Salt: Three Ways)

2013 ShortDocs Winner! No one has an appetite for perfection and swearing like a Québécois in search of poutine.

2013
02:59
Kelly Jones

I Didn't Know That (Blindwalking)

It's rather difficult to walk down the street with your eyes closed. But one of us tried to, here is the result.

Betrayed by Silence

Betrayed by Silence takes listeners inside the clergy sex abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to find out how and why three archbishops protected priests who sexually abused children.

Public-powered Journalism

Learn how sharing the mic and megaphone can expand your beat, your stories, and your craft.

2014
01:11:09

A Lucky Wind

Do we live in a world where there is magic and meaning, or is it all just chance?

Yes, There Is a Baby

In the 1940s, when he was 16 years old, Myron Jones was allowed to stay up late any night of the week and hang out at bars or wherever he pleased, but his mother barely let his older sister Carol out of the house at all. So the siblings devised a plan.

Tracking

Jaimita Haskell was given the opportunity to take advanced classes at her high school, an experience she found stimulating and rewarding.

Re:sound #154 The Painters and Poets Show

This hour: inside the the lives and works of two great American artists, painter Edward Hopper and poet Anne Sexton.

Cowbird

While the Internet is teeming with storytelling portals - including the one you're on right now - some rise above the rest: in quality, spirit, and ambition.