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.
The Audio Guide to Grieving
Sometimes, a death in the family means cousins and casseroles. And sometimes — for one reason or another — it means figuring it out on your own.
- 2018
- 15:08
- Melanie Kruvelis
Re:sound #264 Gaggle Glass
Today we go from the pentagon to prison to philosophical musings about the sweet sound of the snow shovel.
A Sense of Quietness
Four women face the unexpected consequences of talking about abortion.
- 2018
- 0
- Eleanor McDowall
Best of the Best 2018 (Part 1)
This hour, winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. Featuring...
Best of the Best 2018 (Part 2)
This hour, winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. Featuring...
Re:sound #263 Meat Music
This hour we’re all about honesty. An honest look at fat, and an honest answer to this burning question, “What are the real lyrics to ‘Louie Louie’????”
- 2018
- 01:03:30
- Jonathan Zenti
- David Weinberg
- Nick White
- Myke Dodge Weiskopf
- Dennis Funk
Re:sound #262 Moo and Man
This hour, a single commercial that ran for twenty-five years and two women who’ve been running from each other for even longer.
- 2018
- 01:01:10
- Cher Vincent
- Brittany Luse
- Eric Eddings
- Sharon Mashihi
- Dennis Funk
Podcasting Without a Net(work) (Day 2)
Individual podcasters working with slim budgets and strained resources share how they create their best work while trying to grow audiences and raise money, often while holding down another full time job...
- 2018
- 01:01:00
Making Obama: Wait Your Turn
How was President Barack Obama shaped by his years in Chicago as a community organizer turned politician?
- 2018
- 56:15
- Colin McNulty
Re:sound #261 No Bad News
This hour, we go into a hypnotherapists office and come out with a story of international intrigue.
- 2018
- 58:06
- Sarah Geis
- Dennis Funk
Re:sound #260 Princess Buzz
Today we go back in time to try and heal old wounds and revisit history.
Re:sound #259 Divided We Payphone
This hour, we trot across middle America, with a story from a Nashville neighbourhood, and a Missouri payphone that won’t stop ringing.
- 2018
- 55:00
- Meribah Knight
- Emerald O'Brien
- Laura Barton
- Dennis Funk
Re:sound #258 Tsunami Song
This hour, a deep dive into the anthem of the Confederacy, two different kinds of waves and a modern take on Romeo & Juliet.
Re:sound #257 Skateboarding Beatles
This hour, the most famous chord in pop music, swimming pools, skateboarders and more!
- 2018
- 60:00
- Avery Trufelman
- Joel Werner
- Miyuki Jokinranta
- Dennis Funk
Re:sound #256 Toccata in Dream Murder
This hour more of our faves, including Gloria Gaynor, a seventeen year-old retiree, and two spoofs: one microbiological and one murderous.
Who doesn't like an ear hole?
A brief message from an eligible man.
- 2018
- 02:29
- John Wilson
Re:sound #255 Taxidermied Cows
This hour, a teenage taxidermist, a community of medical migrants who settled in Snowflake, Arizona, and a day in the life of a sacred cow.
- 2018
- 59:00
- Pejk Malinovski
- Rachel Matlow
- Delaney Hall
- Dennis Funk
Summer Rain
To have and to lose control.
- 2018
- 03:00
- Nanna Hauge Kristensen
Re:sound #254 Pinball Poets
This hour: lawyers-turned-pinball wizards, two extraordinary minds meeting in a field of poetry and, forty years after the phrase was coined, the skinny on 420.
Punks
Once upon a time, Kai Wright saw a movie called Punks. A romantic comedy about black gay men, it was like nothing he'd ever seen before. But then it disappeared.
- 2018
- 21:43
- Kathy Tu
- Tobin Low
- Matt Collette
Overnight in the E.R.
For most of the past decade, if a child or teenager got shot in Miami–Dade County, they would be taken to one place: the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
- 2018
- 09:10
- Sammy Mack
Re:sound #253 Naked Strangers
This hour an unlikely best-seller, a colorful hero and the legends of burlesque.
- 2018
- 01:02:00
- Sam Kim
- Natalie Kestecher
- Steve Urquhart
- Dennis Funk
Hidden Problems of Silicon Valley
Since its founding 15 years ago, Tesla has become one of the most valuable car companies in the country. Tesla is worth tens of billions of dollars, and its all-electric cars have achieved cult status among enthusiasts.
- 2018
- 18:44
- Will Evans
- Alyssa Jeong Perry
John Thompson vs. American Justice
When police showed up to question John Thompson, he was worried that he had sold drugs to an undercover cop.
- 2018
- 49:14
- Andrew Marantz
- Sarah Lustbader
- Katherine Wells
Re:sound #252 Analog
This hour, three stories from the annals of analog.