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.
1984 (the year not the book)
In the book 1984, George Orwell predicted that in the future "Big Brother" would watch and dictate our every move. In the year 1984, producer Benjamen Walker was in middle school.
- 2014
- 52:21
- Benjamen Walker
The Most of It
We interrupt our regular library spotlight for a quick pas de deux: a minute (and two seconds) that gives voice to movement and movement to voice.
- 2014
- 01:02
- CPR Arts Bureau
- Wonderbound
Why Oh Why? With Andrea Silenzi, episode #2
Andrea Silenzi's new podcast holds up a mirror to contemporary love and relationships, revealing the good, the bad, and the ugly within.
- 2014
- 56:09
- Andrea Silenzi
The Third Coast ShortDocs: Appetite Show
This hour: We showcase some of our favorite stories from the 2013 Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge.
- 2014
- 58:00
- Katie Mingle
The Cabinet of Animosities
The things we give, the things we treasure, and the things we fling at each other when it all goes wrong.
- 2014
- 27:24
- Cathy FitzGerald
Chance
Turn right and you'll meet the man or woman of your dreams. Turn left and you'll get hit by a car.
- 2014
- 13:30
- Sarah Boothroyd
Fault Line
Kevin (not his real name) is a likable guy who lives with his wife in New Jersey. And he's on probation after serving time in a federal prison for committing a disturbing crime.
- 2014
- 24:14
- Jad Abumrad
- Pat Walters
The Real Tom Banks
Tom Banks is 23, gay and searching for love.
- 2014
- 18:12
- Jesse Cox
- Timothy Nicastri
The Failure of Flight Show
This hour: failure of flight. In one story a man mysteriously falls from the sky onto a sunny London street, and in another, a plane crashes into a mountain side, and an 11 year old walks away.
- 2014
- 59:00
- Katie Mingle
Bat Man
The central claim of this story is astounding: that if we all just raised our expectations, blind people could come to - literally - see.
- 2014
- 09:57
- Alix Spiegel
- Anne Gudenkauf
- Lulu Miller
Audio Code Switching: Tackling Race on the Radio
We need to talk about race - with humanity and humor.
- 2014
- 01:16:51
HowSound Live! Part 2
Discover the backstory to this year's TC/RHDF Competition winners!
- 2014
- 01:17:49
Journalism and Storytelling: Frenemies?
How real does reality need to be?
- 2014
- 01:23:43
HowSound Live! Part I
Discover the backstory to this year's TC/RHDF Competition winners!
- 2014
- 01:22:08
Best of the Best 2014 (Part 2)
The 2014 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition.
Best of the Best 2014 (Part 1)
The 2014 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition.
Who took home the Gold?
Huge congratulations to the winners of the 2014 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition!
- 2014
- 10
- 2014 Winners
The Hospital Always Wins
Back in 2004, Laura Starecheski visited a mental hospital in Queens, N.Y. called Creedmoor, where she met a patient named Issa Ibrahim.
Burroughs at 100
Rock legend Iggy Pop presents an intimate portrait of William S. Burroughs on the 100th birthday of America's most cataclysmic author.
- 2014
- 56:27
- Colin McNulty
Help Wanted
There is currently no formal treatment or support for non-offending pedophiles who want help managing their attractions.
- 2014
- 25:57
- Luke Malone
- Robyn Semien
Chicago to Mexico, by Bus
Every week hundreds of people board coach buses in Chicago and travel to Mexico.
- 2014
- 11:47
- Linda Lutton
100 Songs in a Day
One way to earn money selling music is boring: write one hit and live off the royalties for the rest of your life.
- 2014
- 11:17
- Alex Goldman
- PJ Vogt
Here I Am and Here Be Danger
Here I Am and Here Be Danger is a non-narrated experiment in heartbreak.
- 2014
- 11:45
- Annie McEwen
Lance and Nina: An Unlikely Story of Recovery and Redemption
At 24, Lance Rice was on schedule to become another sad statistic in the heroin epidemic sweeping through rural Massachusetts.
- 2014
- 08:28
- Karen Brown
Leaving a Mark
Emily Hsiao reads a Craigslist post about a man who wants his swastika tattoo covered up. And then she goes to meet him.
- 2014
- 13:14
- Emily Hsiao