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.
Roses are Red, Sandwiches Are Yellow
Neighbors of Bushwick, Brooklyn are asked, "Which do you prefer, the perfect love or the perfect sandwich?" -- vox pop-style.
- 2012
- 02:50
- Sejan Yun
False Teeth, True Love, and Blueberry Pie
My neighbor Earl has been a logger all his life; Betty, who lives up the mountain tells me those logging men are known for their sweet tooth, and Earl tells me about his sweetheart.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Emily Newton
All Grown Up Blues
A portrait of a mother and daughter, born forty years apart.
- 2012
- 02:52
- Yarn AudioWorks
Green Pilings
Hell and high water came, but Hurricane Katrina couldn't knock out one strong-willed Mississippi family.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Emily Liner
I Still Dream of My Grandfather's Red Roses
Asking people from her community to make a statement beginning with the words "I dream of," Australian documentarist Phoebe Hart curates these fragments and creatively envisages the literal and figurative world of dreams, arresting our collective hopes, desires and fears.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Phoebe Hart
Blue Blood on the Boulevard
Blue Blood on the Boulevard is a short story highlighting the light and shade of a neighborhood; the sociable, family-orientated neighbor on one side and the cheating, scheming one on the other – with horrific consequences.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Michael Boland
The Red That's Left Behind
The house on the corner has an eccentric paint job. Who's behind it?
- 2012
- 03:00
- Lynne Segal
- Paul Exarhos
- Zac Cranko
Scaredy Cats (in Grey Scale)
While many people find their small feline neighbours endearing, this is the story of a man who finds them frightening.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Michael Savic
Doggie House Blues
There are two types of neighbors: those with dogs and those without dogs.
- 2012
- 02:59
Redbricks and Weatherboards
I've lived in Melbourne's suburban inner west for five years, walked my street of redbricks and weatherboards every day, but never stopped to listen until now. This is my street.
- 2012
- 02:58
- Jaye Kranz
Whitey's Rules
Residents of a quiet Santa Monica apartment building remember their neighbor, Charlie -- also known as notorious Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger -- in this darkly comic piece.
- 2012
- 02:54
- Eric Drachman
- Gideon Brower
Glass, Not Glitter
2012 ShortDocs Winner! Neighbors of the Murrah Federal building recall the 1995 bombing that altered the life and culture of Oklahoma City.
- 2012
- 02:54
- Abby Wendle
The Green Tree Dervish
Photographer Gaylord Herron has traveled all over the world photographing different cultures, but he's also found fulfillment in his own backyard.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Abby Wendle
#0000ff is Blue
No music, no human voices, computers are the future.
- 2012
- 02:06
- Chris Pollard
Blue Radio Day 2012
Children voices calling to radio days.
- 2012
- 02:20
- Chuse Fernandez
Mother Nature's Blues
We posed the question "What would you do if you were mother nature?" to our teenage neighbors and our piece features a compilation of the diverse answers we received.
- 2012
- 01:58
- Alexandros Zervos
- Djinnie Timoleon
Sepia Elsie
90 year old Elsie remembers her dancing days before she met her husband 63 years ago.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Aaron Sand
Green Fingers Gather
"Reflections on gardening, allotments, and community in a Garden Sunday event at Plot 22 - a nature space, allotment garden, meeting circle, and learning resource."
- 2012
- 03:00
- Vaska Trajkovska
Black Cat in the Room
Moving in with strangers in a new city can be difficult but building a relationship with their pets can be an experience in itself, even if that pet is named after a famous actor.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Mike Williams
Midnight Blues
A night like any other in an unusual life.
- 2012
- 02:39
- Chris Savell
- Justin Perleoni
Coloring In the Great White North
Three neighbors in Fargo, ND, talk about the rapid coloring in of a town in the Great White North.
- 2012
- 02:58
- Brad Delzer
- Erika Lorentzsen
Meeting in a White Stairs
Just a little of my world in encounters with neighbors on the white stairs of my building that has no elevator!
- 2012
- 02:59
- Pedro Garbellini da Silva
Neighborhood Crimes: When Black and White is Grey
Now living in a comparatively peaceful community in Fargo, ND, Ermina Jelovac from Bosnia exposes the almost overnight change in her neighbors during the war.
- 2012
- 02:49
- Brad Delzer
- Erika Lorentzsen
Green Convenience Store
How one convenience store and its singing proprietor can change the atmosphere of a street.
- 2012
- 02:54
- Rosy Rickett
Ray, White, and Blue
Over ten years ago, two strangers were drawn together by a neighborhood handball court in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.
- 2012
- 03:02
- Marisa Wong