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.
Sweet Cheesecake Heartbreak: Three Dates
Spicy kielbasa, sweet cheesecake, and a glass of merlot: the foodstuffs of great and horrible dates.
- 2013
- 02:45
- Catie Talarski
The Unexpected Sweetness
Flowed mellow audio file that is down tempo but upbeat at the same time.
- 2013
- 03:35
- Bernard Capistrano
Minnesota Sweets
Sweet corn - a great way to get fat and sleepy - is the subject of this true tale of animal, man and machine.
- 2013
- 02:48
- Becky Moonitz
What was it about marriage anyway?
A distilled conversation between Erica Jong and Studs Terkel, remixed with music.
- 2015
- 02:49
- Austin Mitchell
Sweet Chlorine
Julia Campbell needs to swim, like most people need to eat.
- 2013
- 02:53
- Jessica Campbell
Sweet Treats for Romy
For Romy Klecker, who spent her childhood in the GDR, sweet food was scarce, but in 1989 when the wall fell, a whole new world of treats opened up to her.
- 2013
- 02:57
- Jennifer Collins and Tam Eastley
Eros the Bittersweet: An Edible Riff
An audio prose poem, mixing chocolate with desire.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Richard Fox and Patricia McMillen
The Good, the Bad & the Umami: If your life was a food dish...
A proverbial potluck of the soul is prepared by asking local Arcata artists, "If your life was a food dish what would it be?"
- 2013
- 03:00
- Isaac Bluefoot
A Sweet Martini Memory
A dry martini in the afternoon proved effective in helping a widowed mother navigate the lonely shoals that lay between 4 and 6 p.m.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Ed Cohen
What does that do?
Dr Christine Blancher, at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford, talks us through one of the big DNA sequencers they use to produce the string of letters (A, T, G, and C) which is your unique genetic code.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Brian Mackenwells
Sweet Dream
A man remembers a dream, a snack and an idea about sound by filmmaker Robert Bresson.
- 2013
- 02:05
- Wolfgang Hastert
What If Is True
Hilary Clinton, Aliens, Angels.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Wilfredo Rivera
Umami Can't Cook Like Mine
The tradition of cooking has been passed down in my family through three generations: my grandma, my mom and me.
- 2013
- 02:59
- Lexia Banks
What Do You Know About Meat?
A butcher reflects on his work.
- 2015
- 02:51
- Bria Dolnick and Gus Coliadis
Who I Was and Why I Was
In 1968 a young art student accepts what turns out to be a very strange commission to make a painting.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Stephen Rowe and Mike Massey
The Sweet Taste of Second Street
Three courses of the Second Street Market at the University of Dayton - the market, the consumers and the producers.
- 2013
- 02:40
- Torie Schumacher
An Appetite for Affirmation: The Bittersweet of Pleasing Your Parents and Pleasing Your Self
Most of us go to college to make our dreams happen, but what do you do when what you want might not be the same as what your parents want?
- 2013
- 03:00
- Lyndi Hollis
Bitter Starts, Savory Endings
An exploration of identity through food experiences.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Ricardo Marinez
Sweet Jesus
A mission for lamb leads to an awkward encounter with an affluent neighbor - and Jesus is to blame.
- 2013
- 03:21
- Nicole and Mark Jolly
Who Is Nina West?
Andrew was working as an artist and performer for years before he decided to tell his family about it.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Michael De Bonis
Sweet Taste of Shelbyville
One small town's claim of fame is a local bakery whose pastries have created a strong tradition.
- 2013
- 03:07
- Gabrielle Reed
Journey to Umami
Traveling the on road to Umami, she wondered who or what she would meet along the way.
- 2013
- 02:32
- Dixie Treichel
Bitter Destruction, Sweet Return
Six people working at restaurants near the Boston Marathon explosions share their experiences as they re-open their doors to customers hungry for the city to return to normal.
- 2013
- 02:59
- Emily Files
Truck Wild and Ramped Umami Stories
Former coal miner and mountain man extraordinaire Jay Spencer hunts for aromatic wild leeks in the forest outside Richwood, West Virginia, a lumber town and Ramp Capital of the World.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Joanna Greer
Salt of the Earth
A group of well-known East Coast sous chefs tell of their humble beginnings and love of life in the kitchen.
- 2013
- 02:23
- Alyssa Pagano