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.

A Cold Freezin Night - 6

Every year smokejumpers, or wildland firefighters who parachute into remote areas to fight forest fires, secure their jobs in part by running for it.

2010
02:59
Nan Floyd

A Cold Freezin Night - 4

In which, to curb his kids' insatiable greed, the author's father takes it upon himself to call off one of the most anticipated holidays of the year.

2010
03:00
Eric Winick

All You Need is a Wall (in Plato's Cave)

A riff on Plato's Allegory of the Cave, in which humans are presented as prisoners who spend their entire lives staring at a cave wall, mistaking the shadows they see there for the totality of existence.

2010
03:00
Sarah Boothroyd

All You Need is a Wall - 2

Nathan James tells the story of digging his first underground tunnel.

2010
03:04
Chris Bolton

Chain of Missing Links - 12

In which Dr. Robert W. Smith, University of Nebraska Chemistry professor, describes the enormity of distance between an organic molecule and the smallest living cell.

2010
03:00
Glenn Simonsen

A Cold Freezin Night - 5

Recitation of the mystical English poem, "I Saw the Sun at Midnight, Rising Red", 1917 by Joesph Mary Plunkett and music by the Psalters.

2010
01:35
Glenn Simonsen

I Didn't Know That - 3

A 14 year old Somali boy describes a method of killing a lion by hand.

2010
03:00
Glenn Simonsen

Chain of Missing Links - 13

This is a story about human love, fear, loneliness and self perception in the neverending journey of life in the modern world.

2010
03:00
Ioana Baldea

I Didn't Know That (Eyeborgs Really Exist)

A Canadian filmmaker who lost his eye replaces his prosthetic with a bionic camera-eye so he can shoot documentary video from his pupil.

2010
03:00
Britt Wray

I Didn't Know That (road trip)

A journey to find a specific house by a lake. Recorded in the Lake Simcoe area of Ontario, Canada.

2010
03:00
Zoe Irvine

All You Need is a Wall - 3

In which the author, at a low point, embarks on a relationship with his housemate -- only to learn that she is bipolar and prone to some odd behavior.

2010
03:00
Eric Winick

A Cold Freezin Night - 3

A bone cold dusk brings the icy adventures of a third grader to a close as his babysitting-tween sister selfishly examines mortality.

2010
03:01
Carolina Wheat

A Cold Freezin Night - 7

Eventhough the cold causes fear and loathing in Finland, simplicity is found from the soul of the Finns: Sauna.

2010
02:09
Katri Puro

I Didn't Know That (An Artist's Story)

A young husband and father leaves behind the (relative) security of his corporate cubicle to pursue life as a full-time artist.

2010
03:00
Diane Bock

I Didn't Know That (I'd Have a Child)

For most of her life, Caitlin didn't want to have children, but after thirteen years with Devin and a change of heart, she is expecting a son.

2010
02:57
Michael De Bonis

(Bon Jovi) Didn't Know That

When up and coming pop singer Alison Scott loses the chance to open for Bon Jovi, there's only one person who can help.

2010
02:59
Steve Nelson

Chain of Missing Links (A Case of Musical Stairs)

Producers Joanna Stein and Nicole Beemsterboer take their ears underground and find the origin of some mysterious music.

Chain of Missing Links - 14

A story of what might have happened that night in the dark alleyways of the dingy part of Helsinki.

2010
02:43
Pauliina Motturi

A Cold Freezin Night - 8

An evening walk gives one man more than he bargained for.

Chain of Missing Links - 15

In which Calvin reflects on the meaning and measure of fatherhood.

2010
01:35
Dan Weissmann

I Didn't Know That (Un Hombre, su Perro, su Caballo, y Cielo)

Field recordings of a Peruvian Pentecostal church service were used as a base for this piece, with which samples from The Books were incorporated in support of the narration of a spanish folk tale about the nature of heaven and best friends.