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.
Re:sound #69: The Body Image Show
This hour: a very personal take on a rare subculture, a young man forced to confront his obesity, a dinner with unabashed nudists, and more.
Re:sound #74: The Hospice Show
This hour: a surprising look at the relationship between a hospice worker and his patient.
Re:sound #76: The Being Deaf Show
This hour: sign language, lip-reading, and deaf culture.
- 2007
- 59:30
- Kirsti Melville
- Roman Mars
Grandpa
How do we deal with dying? Most of us look away, but in the case of the Zagar family, they look closer.
- 2007
- 10:02
- Lu Olkowski
This Ain't No Walk in the Park
City dweller Natalie Edwards confronts her distaste for all things green. Reluctantly.
- 2007
- 06:30
- Natalie Edwards
The Search for Edna Lavilla
In 1942, Edna Lavilla Haynes died from a backyard abortion. After her death Edna was never mentioned again.
- 2007
- 51:29
- Eurydice Aroney
- Sharon Davis
American Icons: The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald's tale of old money, new money, drinking, and adultery - a thin little book that critics panned - is still the best novel about the American Dream and its discontents.
- 2007
- 51:58
- Emily Botein
Before the War It Was the War
In the 2006 conflict between Hezbollah and the state of Israel, one man took it upon himself to "resist with his pen," to bear witness for his people and bring the world, in his words, "the real news from Beirut."
- 2007
- 28:42
- Anna Burns
The Ground We Lived On
The Ground We Lived On documents the loving relationship between journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc and her father, Adrian Leon LeBlanc, in the last months of his life.
- 2007
- 11:33
- David Isay
- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
The Dead Can't Do You Nothin'
Producer Katie Mingle narrates her quest to find ghosts in a "pauper's graveyard" in New Orleans.
- 2007
- 10:53
- Katie Mingle
2007 TC Audio Luminary: Peter Leonhard Braun
The Third Coast Audio Luminary Award is presented annually to an individual who is greatly admired for his or her significant and ongoing contributions to the field of radio. Hats off to the 2007 Audio Luminary - widely esteemed producer, teacher, and mentor Peter Leonhard Braun.
- 2007
- 50:57
- Peter Leonhard Braun
90 Degrees North
From the exact top of the world, Elizabeth Arnold reflects on being so far away from the rest of it.
- 2007
- 11:34
- Elizabeth Arnold
Re:sound #78: The Just Good Radio Show
This hour: a chronicle of European history through the sound of bells and a bizarre spectacle of endurance.
- 2007
- 58:30
- Steve Wadhams
- Peter Leonhard Braun
- Conor Lennon
- Roman Mars
Circling the Center of Creation
Scott Carrier joins the ranks of thousands of religious pilgrims who have been circling the base of Mount Kailash in Tibet for centuries.
- 2007
- 18:05
- Scott Carrier
Tin Man
Part Wizard of Oz, part Dante's Inferno, part absurdist radio theater, and part anti-corporate musical, this 20-episode podcast follows the Tin Man (but not necessarily the one you're thinking of) on a bizarre and venturesome journey through landscapes familiar and unknown.
- 2007
- 05:58
- Matt Sahr
Sweeping Statements
Being a teenager can be really hard. Especially if you've flunked out of school. Or your dad has disappeared.
- 2007
- 06:48
- Judith Sloan
Well Behaved Women (RUS)
All women buy things that they don't really need. Why are they doing this?
- 2007
- 02:41
- Alexander Soleev
Hearing America: A Century of Music on the Radio (INC)
One hundred years ago, shipboard technicians listening for Morse code messages on their newly installed wireless telegraphs heard something incredible: music.
- 2007
- 0
- Nate DiMeo
The Obscure News: Anatomy of a Punch, Part Two (INC)
The Obscure News podcast claims to feature "all the news the networks omitted." Dedicated to redeeming the ordinary, it's a chorus of anonymous voices telling those weird little anecdotes that are born every day, all tied together by a steadfast host, driving rhythm, and strategic bits of found sound.
- 2007
- 0
- Lloyd B. King
Mugs With Messages
The thoughts of a creative woman of valor, who might never make history.
- 2007
- 03:37
- Suzy Kahn
Hickory Dickory Mouse
A story of nursery rhymes and life with mice.
- 2007
- 02:32
- Karen Michel
Ocean Hour
Two friends sit on a dock, meandering through a variety of ocean stories (some true and some not):
- 2007
- 58:51
- Keith Talbot
- Larry Massett
A Time to Tip
The courageous story of one coffee mug trying to get by in a house of people he hates. (Writing from the perspective of the mug in the first person, present tense.)
- 2007
- 02:58
- David Hain
Chinese Pants
An unscripted talk between a mom and her almost teenaged daughter, inspired by a handmade Mother's Day card listing all the things a mother should never do.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Lucy Jan-Turan
- Ramona Jan
I Thought I'd Be Rewarded for My Dating Gumption
You think you're being mature and courageous, trait which will surely be rewarded with reciprocal sentiments of love...right?
- 2007
- 03:00
- Saya April Hillman