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 #89: The Kyla Brettle Show
This hour: two curious stories from one of the most talented and curious producers we know.
- 2008
- 59:25
- Kyla Brettle
- Delaney Hall
Re:sound #87: The Magpie Show
This hour: redeeming the much-maligned bird.
- 2008
- 59:00
- Lea Redfern
- Guy Hand
- Roman Mars
Re:sound #90: The Repetition Show
This hour: earworms, mantras, and stories told again and again.
Re:sound #92: The Water Show
This hour: a disappearing lake, a luxury liner on the Adriatic Sea, and more.
Take Me Out
This audio art lament asks the question, "What happens when false care and concern land on the ears of someone truly in need?"
- 2008
- 02:37
- Carma Jolly
The Giant Pool of Money (INC)
This documentary, a special collaboration between This American Life and NPR News, deconstructs the current housing crisis.
- 2008
- 59:02
- Adam Davidson
- Alex Blumberg
Debt Collector
A sci-fi melodrama about the abusive relationship between debt collector and collectee.
- 2008
- 03:39
- Roman Mars
Baggage
On the flight back from her honeymoon, Mary Beth loses her luggage and thinks it's a sign that her marriage might be a mistake.
- 2008
- 03:16
- Sue Mell
Scrape
An up-and-coming executive and his car have a very bad day.
- 2008
- 02:25
- Dave Urlakis
- Michael Slaboch
Chosen People
At least forty thousand African Americans are practicing Jews. They call themselves Hebrew Israelites and their style of worship inspires a variety of reactions: enthusiasm, curiosity, and sometimes even outright hostility.
- 2008
- 13:44
- Eric Molinsky
Sugartime (INC)
In the beginning of January 2008, the Belgian-Ghanaian Sugar Jackson defended his European welterweight world title.
- 2008
- 08:17
- Wim Vangrootloon
Married to the Livestock: The End of a Farmer's Life (INC)
A touching, sound-rich excerpt from a German feature that explores the shifting realities and complicated relationships on the small family farm where producer Julia Schafer was raised.
- 2008
- 02:36
- Julia Schafer
Re:sound #103: The Sean Hurley / Sherwin Sleeves Show
This hour: the work of producer Sean Hurley, a writer and musician who lives on top of a mountain in New Hampshire and has an alter-ego, Sherwin Sleeves, who's become central to Sean's radio storytelling.
- 2008
- 58:30
- Sean Hurley
- Delaney Hall
Re:sound #93: The Singing Show
This hour: a Japanese blues singer, an aging opera fan, and homemade recordings of a rural children's choir.
- 2008
- 59:30
- Dean Olsher
- Rachel Hopkin
- Katie Mingle
- Carma Jolly
- Delaney Hall
Re:sound #102: The Animals Show
This hour: foxes, rabbits, snakes, whales, birds, lambs, and dogs.
Re:sound #101: The Rock Show
This hour: an all-woman Led Zeppelin cover band and metal-loving children.
- 2008
- 58:30
- Katie Burningham
- Alan Hall
- John Moe
Re:sound #99: The Radio Ballads Show
This hour: the BBC's groundbreaking Radio Ballads, produced between 1958 and 1964, which wove sounds, voices, and music into dense sonic tapestries that explored everything from the lives of coal miners to the lives of teenagers, focusing mainly on communities that weren't often heard from on the radio.
- 2008
- 59:30
- Charles Parker
- Dan Collison
- Elizabeth Meister
- Delaney Hall
Re:sound #98: The Disappearing Show
This hour: one boy leaves home and never returns, another leaves and returns forever changed.
- 2008
- 59:30
- Myfanwy Davies
- Steve Wadhams
- Julie Kimberly
- Delaney Hall
Re:sound #97: The In-Between Show
This hour: people living in the in-betweens.
Re:sound #96: The Sandbox Show
This hour: we're diving into the archives and rewinding our way to the 1970s and 80s, sampling some of the fascinating, strange, and hilarious work that was produced when public radio was a medium without a real template.
Mr. Alm's Garden
The story of a discovery of a secret garden.
- 2008
- 03:04
- Tom Horan
I Would Like to Introduce You to My Mom
This is an ode to my mother and to all the similarities between us that I'm learning to embrace with the help of Tommy James and the Shondells.
- 2008
- 02:59
- Molly Adams
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
Flying Dream Sequence
The tale of a recurring dream.
- 2008
- 02:37
- Matt Fleeger
Control of Swimsuit and Mind
Kathleen Goldhar was asked to go out and try on the latest in swimsuit technology: the LZR Racer, made by Speedo, which is VERY form-fitting, and VERY hard to get into.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Kathleen Goldhar