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.
Ruth Ellis
Ruth Ellis lived to be over 100 years old. She realized in her teens that she was gay but she didn't talk much about it then.
- 2002
- 09:16
- Neenah Ellis
Epic, Painful, Long, Scary
Epic, Painful, Long, Scary is the story of 19-year-old African-Australian twins. The twins hardly remember their mother and father, who both died from AIDS-related illnesses when the boys were just toddlers.
- 2006
- 29:34
- Julie Kimberly
Back to School in a Garbage Can
A collage of love notes, tardy slips, and other high school detritus collected from high school garbage cans. Produced by Geraldo Hernandez and Giancarlo Hernandez for Curie Youth Radio.
- 2005
- 02:01
- Curie Youth Radio
I'll Quit Cutting When You Quit Smoking
Excerpts from the diary of a girl who insists that self-mutilation is saving her life. Produced by April Winbun for Curie Youth Radio.
- 2006
- 03:26
- Curie Youth Radio
Teenaged Guitarists Tackle "El Gato Montes"
Carlos Maeda and his quartet struggle with "El Gato Montes" in after-school rehearsals. Produced by Maeda for Curie Youth Radio.
- 2006
- 02:42
- Curie Youth Radio
Original Kasper's: The Hot Dog Stand That Saved a Neighborhood
Hot dogs are a classic American food. But when is a hot dog more than just a hot dog? When it's a neighborhood mainstay, through years of change.
- 2003
- 25:21
- Peter Thomson
Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain
A revealing reflection on journalism, which is a process of editing and selecting, rather than transmitting a complete record to the public.
- 2007
- 05:59
- Sarah Boothroyd
Poetry Off the Shelf
Award-winning producer Curtis Fox has covered arts and culture for many years, first for public radio, and more recently as a full-time podcaster.
- 2008
- 10:40
- Curtis Fox
Mr. Right
Searching for your ideal partner can be exhausting, even with the help of personal ads.
- 2007
- 02:51
- Inge Hoonte
What's That in My Underwear? First Period Stories
From summer camp woes to blissful recognitions of womanhood, this feature on menstruation explores what it's really like to "become a woman."
- 2002
- 10:32
- Arielle Adams
Little Black Train
Eighty-two-year-old Daphne Reed is married to and madly in love with a man 30 years her juinor. She's been thinking a lot about death recently, and about the future years her husband will likely spend without her.
- 2007
- 26:22
- Nora Harrington
Hollister
Hollister is an investigation into what really happened on July 4, 1947, when 2,000 bikers roared into a small California town and left a media explosion in their wake.
- 2002
- 15:20
- Helen Borten
Meat Factory Ear Worms
You know how sometimes you just can't get a song out of your head? Radio producer Richie Beirne can sympathize.
- 2008
- 13:47
- Richie Beirne
Pills
A weekend away begets new interactions, with a little help from Andrew Jackson.
- 2008
- 03:01
- Cambra Moniz-Edwards
What Do You Need to Know?
The bread guys pay a visit to a busy Brooklyn deli.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Ilya Marritz
Traveling and Trees
How trees affect me as a photographer.
- 2008
- 03:04
- Pauline Kochanski
I'm Alive
A bell realizes it's alive while on a conveyor belt and then en route to a dollar store.
- 2007
- 01:03
- Brian Corbet
Don't Touch This
One mug brings back memories of past relationships with women.
- 2007
- 02:47
- Pat Corbet
A Tail of Two Mice, or, Dry Sponge Cake
The love between two mice turns soar with a lacl of cheese whip and an encounter with a time warp mousetrap.
- 2007
- 02:59
- Catie Talarski
You Make My Heart Go
A meandering train of thought arrives at a Dollar Storey connnection just in time.
- 2007
- 03:00
- John Biewen
Life Plays On
An insecure boy discovers, through a saying on a mug, that there is more going on in the lives of others than meets the eye.
- 2007
- 03:10
- Byron Flitsch
Mouse Trap Music
Composer Mark Applebaum describes the creative process he uses when inventing new instruments. He calls one of them "The Mouse Trap."
- 2007
- 03:00
- Christopher Danforth
American Dream
The mice have invaded and are having some R and R... so I might as well help them enjoy themselves.
- 2007
- 02:36
- Chris Angelos
I Was a Preteen Nightmare
A well-intentioned yet horribly misinformed adolescent makes a monumental miscalculation of both form and judgment.
- 2007
- 03:03
- Jill Dorothy Summers
Sidney
Of a cat, a Necessary, litter, and oh yeah, mice.
- 2007
- 03:01
- Kay Collins