Third Coast Audio Library
Our vast and ever-growing collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories of all stripes, and Third Coast Conference sessions offering wisdom from the best makers on the planet. You can also dive into our Producer Index. Enjoy!
What's behind the laugh?
A dark look at the role fake laughter plays in our lives.
- 2015
- 03:04
Britney
Andrea is a writer who no one reads. Her second novel bombed. She never saw anyone reading it. That is until 2008.
- 2015
- 44:30
- Starlee Kine
Sight Unseen
In December of 2009, photojournalist Lynsey Addario was embedded with a medevac team in Afghanistan. After days of waiting, one night they got the call - a marine was gravely wounded.
- 2015
- 27:51
- Jad Abumrad
- Soren Wheeler
Sounds Up There
Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón presented Glenn Freemantle with a challenge - to create authentic sound design in the vacuum of space.
- 2015
- 27:28
- Colin McNulty
Structural Integrity
When it was built in 1977, the 59-story CitiCorp Center had a fatal flaw that could have caused the building to collapse, and take out the entire mid-town Manhattan skyline with it.
- 2015
- 21:54
- Joel Werner
- Sam Greenspan
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Police officer John Edwards was patrolling a quiet neighborhood in Bellaire, Texas, when he saw an SUV driven by two young African-American men.
- 2015
- 19:14
- Lauren Spohrer
- Phoebe Judge
Living on Mars
A man who applies for a job on Mars, Walt Disney, a pot seller, and the taxi driver who explains it all.
- 2015
- 29:47
- Tim Hinman
- Krister Moltzen
Re:sound #205 The Imposter Show
This hour what you see, is not always what you get.
The Living Room
Diane's new neighbors never shut their curtains, and that was the beginning of an intimate, but very one-sided relationship.
- 2015
- 22:22
- Brendan Baker
- Briana Breen
Mayday Mayday
During the dying minutes of April 2003, as the Cornish town of Padstow celebrated the coming of summer, actor Tristan Sturrock broke his neck falling off a wall.
- 2015
- 43:43
- Becky Ripley
Betrayed by Silence
Betrayed by Silence takes listeners inside the clergy sex abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to find out how and why three archbishops protected priests who sexually abused children.
- 2015
- 57:05
- Madeleine Baran
- Sasha Aslanian
Introducing... The Sarahs
Let the audio fiction revolution begin! The Sarah Awards has the not-so-little goal of transforming radio drama worldwide.
- 2015
- 09:12
- Martin Johnson
- Ann Heppermann
Burma’s Rohingya: Easy Prey for Traffickers
Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim population is one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.
- 2015
- 07:11
- Axel Kronholm
- Rob Sachs
- Flawn Williams
- Mia Lobel
Re:sound #210 The Inner Ear Show
This hour two stories that dive into the depths of the inner ear.
- 2015
- 01:08:35
- Nick Ryan
- Lisa Gee
- Jeremy Mortimer
- Tim Hinman
- Dennis Funk
Re:sound #211 The Pulled From The Pages Show
This hour: audio stories inspired by the written word, be it a novel or a comic book.
Re:sound #212 The Drug Court Show
This hour, we follow three addicts through Australia's drug court system.
- 2015
- 57:10
- Sharon Davis
- Steven Tilley
Re:sound #213 The Jeff and Elly Show
This hour, two delightfully out-of-the-ordinary musical portraits from producer Alan Hall.
- 2015
- 59:43
- Alan Hall
- Dennis Funk
Re:sound #214 The Anchor Dreams Show
This hour, the story of a man who's ultimate goal is to become a national evening news anchor.
- 2015
- 56:19
- Noel Black
- Jake Brownell
- Dennis Funk
Special Feature: Producers To Keep An Ear On
On this special Third Coast Podcast we're doing what we do best — sharing the best radio from around the world!
- 2015
- 18:00
- Marlo Mack
- Sara Curtis
- Dennis Funk
Special Feature: The Sarah Awards
To kick-off Third Coast's summer fundraiser, we're doing what we do best — sharing great radio from around the world — with some extra special feature podcasts over the next two weeks.
- 2015
- 14:00
- Ann Heppermann
- Martin Johnson
- Dennis Funk
Special Feature: The Sitter Dispatch
This week on the podcast, a Third Coast original production.
- 2015
- 15:09
- Maya Goldberg-Safir
- Dennis Funk
A Long Distance Solution
The story of how a reclusive biologist living in the Yukon Territory helped free four women wrongfully imprisoned in San Antonio, Texas.
- 2015
- 21:51
- Janna Graham
A Portrait of Horace Parlan
For years, Horace Parlan played jazz with some of the biggest names, including Charles Mingus and Archie Shepp. Now, at 84, his long piano fingers are stiff, and he lives in a nursing home outside of Copenhagen.
- 2015
- 26:29
- Rikke Houd
What's Your Mexico Story?
My dad buys a ridiculous leather jacket in Mexico which leads to trouble with the local youth.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Marika Snider
What's in a hand?
Their daughter has twelve fingers, twelve toes, some fused together and some set askew – ain't nothing but a family thing.
- 2015
- 03:03
- Nellie Gilles