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.
Mini-Meta-Mouse-umentary
Mousetraps and other intersections between human beings and mice.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Sue Mell
Latin Mass
Long before the women's movement even had a name, some Oak Park girls began questioning tradition without even knowing they were doing so.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Chris Angelos
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Mousetrap
Both brief reflection on mousetraps and a nod to Wallace Stevens.
- 2007
- 02:35
- Ezekiel Weaver
The Irresistible Draw of the Dollar Store
A dollar store addict is confronted with a horrifying discovery among the aisles.
- 2007
- 02:38
- Kevin Theis
Miss Cholita Pageant
The "Miss Cholita" pageant celebrates a female ideal that is fast disappearing among Bolivian indigenous women. This year, the pageant was shaken by a scandal: the winner had turned out to have been wearing fake braids.
- 2007
- 02:55
- Ruxandra Guidi
Avant Guardian
The Avant Guardian fights crime using the power of surrealism and his trusty P.S.M.G.
- 2007
- 03:00
- David Weinberg
Can't Catch Us All
What mice find offensive is the fact that these traps are not only lethal, but also cheap, low quality imports. (Don't mess with the mice.)
- 2007
- 02:31
- Conor Lennon
Sidney
Of a cat, a Necessary, litter, and oh yeah, mice.
- 2007
- 03:01
- Kay Collins
House Trap
"The best-laid plans of mice and men go oft awry"- Rober Burns, To a Mouse [The mousetrap set recalls a long-forgotten incident in the producer's first residence in Toronto.]
- 2007
- 02:44
- Robert Hoare
- Steven Sauve
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
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
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
Thrifty Liquidators
In addition to writing lyrically ABOUT the wonders of the dollar store phenomenon...
- 2007
- 02:14
- Michael Hearst
- Rick Moody
Red Baiting
Decommissioned Soviet mousetraps in Brooklyn's Little Odessa.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Joe Milutis
You Make My Heart Go
A meandering train of thought arrives at a Dollar Storey connnection just in time.
- 2007
- 03:00
- John Biewen
Big House / Disclosure
Big House/Disclosure is a multimedia project exploring the legacy of slavery, the genesis of house music, and Chicago's role as the first U.S. city to adopt a Slavery-Era Disclosure Ordinance (which requires companies doing business with the city to reveal if they profited from slavery in the past).
- 2007
- 02:10
- Mendi and Keith Obadike
Leaps and Dunes
Summer sleepover camp means more than mosquito bites, sunburn, twig art, and bonfire gatherings. Camp offers many kids their first taste of independence -- which can be equal-parts blissful and terrifying.
- 2007
- 34:34
- Lisbeth Koerner
- Rikke Houd
- Sabine Hviid
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
Mr. Right
Searching for your ideal partner can be exhausting, even with the help of personal ads.
- 2007
- 02:51
- Inge Hoonte
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
Divided Families: The Hidden Cost of Migration
Here's a love story that stretches across two decades, thousands of miles, and an international border. Rocio and Francisco are married but have kept their family together by living apart for the past 19 years.
- 2007
- 28:28
- Catrin Einhorn
- Linda Lutton
Sensory Deprivation Tank
Jonathan Goldstein's got a knack for exploring life's great (and simple) mysteries via the telephone.
- 2007
- 06:14
- Jonathan Goldstein
My Life as a Cup
2007 ShortDocs Winner! The triumphs and regrets of a cup.
- 2007
- 03:02
- Sean Hurley
The New Pleasant Revolution
A bike messenger provides alternatives to horrible traffic horns.
- 2007
- 02:47
- Michael Slaboch
- Tony Mendoza
Stiff Peaks
2007 ShortDocs Winner! The first step in making cookies is to purchase a metal bike jingle-bell in a western mountain town.
- 2007
- 03:03
- Jeffrey Letterly