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.
The Trap
2007 ShortDocs Winner! Here's a rumination on the ethics of pest killing and attempts at avoidance of the graphic nature thereof.
- 2007
- 03:02
- David Maxon
How to Be Heard
2007 ShortDocs Winner! Advice for the bicycle bell with aspirations, featuring voice teacher Rachel Nicholson.
- 2007
- 02:57
- Nina Perry
Dollar Daze
Third Coast Festival artistic director Julie Shapiro describes her rendez-vous with Dollar Store founder Jonathan Messinger at Dollar Daze in downtown Chicago, where the Dollar Storeys items were chosen.
- 2007
- 03:20
- Johanna Zorn
- Julie Shapiro
The Golden Mug Award
The coveted golden mug award is given to an actor or actress for their portrayal of an independent woman in history.
- 2007
- 02:30
- David Weinberg
Musings Over Coffee
Half commentary, half documentary, the inscription on this coffee mug took me back to old memories.
- 2007
- 02:37
- Sandra Sleight-Brennan
In Which the Coffee Mugs Offer Explanation
In which the coffee mugs offer explanation.
- 2007
- 02:53
- Laura Vitale
- Rick Moody
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
Bike Bell Bandito
A short tale of youth and nostalgia, bringing back past memories of the notorious nerve racking bike bell that we loved -- and mom hated!
- 2007
- 02:58
- Darlene Dennard
Of Mice and Music
Tragic kitchen incident inspires manic musings on singing mice.
- 2007
- 03:00
- David Swatling
An American Tail
Cats and mice, peace and war, Russia and the USA -- do you still believe in these oppositions?
- 2007
- 02:32
- Anastasia Ivanova
I've Got a Question for You
Making cold calls, in search of warmth.
- 2007
- 02:53
- Zak Rosen
Invasion
One mother's attempt to fight off an invasion of mice just after her two-year-old son has been diagnosed with leukemia.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Robert McGinley Myers
Tea for Matilda
Feminist historian Sally Roesch Wagner muses that well-behaved women rarely make history while mis-behaved radicals, such as 19th century women's rights and peace activist Matilda Joslyn Gage, seldom make history books.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Catherine Stifter
My Bike Had a Burger Bell: A Tragic Tale of Loss and Woe
This is a true story about bike commuting, theft and making the best of a bad situation.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Mia Lobel
Mug Stories
A coffee mug holds a special place in the heart of its owner.
- 2007
- 02:42
- Audrey Berns
Lapsed Trappist
The gripping tale of a troubled Buddhist as he struggles with morals and mice in this short radio fiction based rather loosely on a true story.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Philip Briant
- Stuart Ewings
The Mousetrap
This is a highly fictionalized retelling of a real life tale of the trapping and killing of a mouse in Fresno, California.
- 2007
- 02:57
- Donovan Keith
- Tamara Keith
Stood There Ringing
A pregnant woman lets a bell say everything she can't.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Megan Stielstra
- Shiow-Jiau Yung
Thrown
A fourteen-year-old girl tries to throw her voice and ends up getting thrown herself.
- 2007
- 02:59
- Roxana Hadad
- Shiow-Jiau Yung
Actionwomen
Audio montage featuring the voices of women protesters and a service man remembering life in the 1980s at Greenham Common, England, a miitary base for American nuclear missiles.
- 2007
- 02:46
- Anna Norberg
- Simon Norberg
Bicycle Belles
On the boardwalk, in search of the sound of bicycle bells.
- 2007
- 02:40
- Stephanie Rowden
The Mousetrap Enthusiasts
My brother and I thought the greatest Christmas gift we ever gave each other were mousetrap stocking stuffers . . .
- 2007
- 03:00
- Jamie Dell'Apa
Daisy Chaining
A daughter and her father argue about the relative merits of his vocation.
- 2007
- 02:54
- Joe Giovannetti
Curve of the Earth
A small bicycle bell rings in a big landscape.
- 2007
- 02:50
- Keith Taylor
- Stephanie Rowden
Tintinnabulation (Florence, Italy)
Florence is a city filled with bells: church bells, hand bells, door bells, bike bells . . .
- 2007
- 03:00
- Lisa Tharpe