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.
Purple Reign
Gwen Macsai comes clean with a very colorful secret... about her dad.
- 2012
- 14:59
- Gwen Macsai
- Roman Mars
Dreamers
Joe Frank's Dreamers is more like an M.C Escher drawing than a traditional tale and leaves you questioning the blurry line between dreams and reality.
- 2012
- 12:18
- Joe Frank
Revived Ivory: A Musical Instrument Lending Library
Sometimes, the greatest musical treasures are in our own backyard.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Chris Trimmer
Coffee and Cream
A Nigerian woman discusses how science and coffee have provided stability amidst all her struggles.
- 2012
- 03:01
- David Hovar
Missing White Cat
When our cat, Cake, went missing, we immediately suspected our elderly neighbor, Mary.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Sarah Bromer
Control the Blue
I visited my old elementary school and went to an art class full of second graders .
- 2012
- 02:58
- Stephen Key
Hearing Red
We explore the subtle effects of noise pollution on our daily lives.
- 2012
- 02:39
- Andy Cox
The Purple and the White: What's up with Talley's Alley?
The first in an occasional audio documentary series exploring the history, people, places and traditions of North Shore Country Day School (NSCDS) in Winnetka, IL.
- 2012
- 02:59
- David Green
The Commons Green
A homeless man is a modern day town crier in downtown Boston.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Katharine Broida
Anthony and the Green Goats
Anthony explains the economics of the Goat Farm.
- 2012
- 03:02
- Jenny Ament
Rear Window, Black & White, 1954
Hitchcock's Rear Window revisited through my own rear window.
- 2012
- 02:52
- Caterina Clerici
Gold Dust
What is the most expensive thing in the world?
- 2012
- 03:00
- Laurence Yeung
Look Toward the Blue
As a new resident of one of the oldest neighborhoods in Portland, Maine, I set out one day armed with a recorder and mic in hopes of meeting some of my new neighbors.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Laura Candler
Shadows of Grey in the Corner of Your Eye: Your Universe is Not My Universe
Cities are crowded, busy places, so crowded and so busy that parallel universes can occupy the same spaces, and when they overlap, it can be problematic, or even catastrophic.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Kimberly Haas
The Invisible Neighborhood - The Making and Unmaking of Home
A voice collage with the words and ideas of three of my neighbors currently living near a peninsula that is about to be developed for a new minor league basketball arena, hotel, parking garage, and possibly even a nature trail in Portland, Maine.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Caroline Losneck
Some White Noise
Navid, my little neighbor.
- 2012
- 02:16
- Kim Fox
Red Van Refuge
Teri La Roca looks out for the peeps in our hood, especially our neighbors that some disregard and would rather forget.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Tennessee Watson
72 Steps Above the Green
Sometimes it's a blessing to have noisy neighbours.
- 2012
- 02:58
- Geoff McQueen
Yellow Beaks, Black Feathers, Red Blood
It's bloody, it's loud, and it smells like manure — Madani Halal is an unlikely gathering place, yet dozens of New Yorkers flock to the Queens business daily
- 2012
- 02:39
- Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato
Paint The Amish Horse Black and White
Much more than black or white, the story of a painted horse told around an Amish table.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Emily Newton
How to Realize that Far-off, Poverty-stricken, Deathly Ill, Brown People Are Your Neighbors, too
From visceral empathy to intellectual understanding to emotional compassion, find out how you can realize that far-off, poverty-stricken, deathly ill, brown people are your neighbors, too.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Mateo Hinojosa
The Red Cardigan
The legendary Mr. Rogers was everybody's favorite neighbor... except for maybe my friend Sarah.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Milos Balac
Duck. Duck? (Black) Goose!
A morning walk leads to neighbours never thought of in a neighbourhood much bigger than it seems.
- 2012
- 02:56
- Colm Coyne
Blue Skies, Black Fences
What does it mean to be a good neighbor? And do we actually know the people living around us?
- 2012
- 02:55
- Catie Talarski
Rudy's Gray Area
Rudy has lived on this bizarre little block since 1953, before a dozen railroad tracks and nearly as many highway lanes separated it from other residential neighborhoods.
- 2012
- 02:55
- Jennifer Brandel