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.
Who's Bayview's Last Saint?
Times are changing and some people lament this.
- 2015
- 02:42
- Todd Whitney
Why Did You Come Here?
A bike lesson adventure.
- 2015
- 02:47
- Sydney Beveridge
Where do I find you now?
2015 People's ShortDoc Award Winner! An intimate conversation with Studs about the edges of life and death.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Sara Curtis
What Minnie Mouse Knows
My aunt, Debby Wurster, is making the most of her retirement.
- 2015
- 02:58
- Katie Klocksin
What Lies in a Voicemail?
We can measure distance in miles, but the heartache it causes is indefinable.
- 2015
- 03:00
What is Alpha-1?
What is the personal experience of having Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (Alpha-1)?
- 2015
- 02:59
- Garrett Tiedemann
What Do You Know About Meat?
A butcher reflects on his work.
- 2015
- 02:51
- Bria Dolnick and Gus Coliadis
Why Wasn't I Named Smith?
A family talks about what it was like to have the same name as the most hated person in America.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Debra Oswald
Where Liberated Library Books Go
A window into the mind of a library thief.
- 2015
- 02:52
- Jagmeet Mac
- Alex Danilowicz
Who Is Nina West?
Andrew was working as an artist and performer for years before he decided to tell his family about it.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Michael De Bonis
Who I Was and Why I Was
In 1968 a young art student accepts what turns out to be a very strange commission to make a painting.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Stephen Rowe and Mike Massey
When is there nothing to see?
Sometimes attention to detail is not part of the job description.
- 2015
- 02:57
- Kenneth Knapik
- Spivey Knapik
What was left?
Morgan Lennon describes a kind of loss that is not uncommon to women, though rarely spoken about.
- 2015
- 02:54
- Indaia Whitcombe
What Happens to Orphan Photos?
Photographs are some of our most treasured objects, leagues of people are dedicated to their preservation, but what happens to the pictures that've lost their way?
- 2015
- 03:00
- Qathi Hart
What was it about marriage anyway?
A distilled conversation between Erica Jong and Studs Terkel, remixed with music.
- 2015
- 02:49
- Austin Mitchell
What does smart working mean?
In and out about working nowadays [in Italian!]
- 2015
- 02:52
- Alessia Rapone
What?? No way...
The First in a series of Short Radio Documentaries, this episode focuses on: "Order 9066."
- 2015
- 02:59
- Tim Nakayama
What happened to Greg? And what happens to him next?
Sometimes the way we respond to a suicide says more about us than the person who died.
- 2015
- 02:57
- Emily Guerin
Why they scream
By the end of the century half of the world's languages will no longer be spoken, this is one scream of resistance.
- 2015
- 03:05
- Tika Simone
What do you think of when you think of stars?
A love story that begins over the phone and under the stars.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Jessi LeMay
Where did the ice come from?
Three generations of women discuss ice and death in the Amana Colonies.
- 2015
- 02:59
- Ellie Gordon-Moershel
Where's My ACL?
A young man loses his ACL but gains it back and much more.
- 2015
- 03:00
- James Min
When will the nervousness float away?
Trying to find comfort in a basement apartment.
- 2015
- 02:42
- Zak Rosen
- Rebecca Prosser
When was the Freest You Ever Felt in Your Life?
I asked many people when was the freest they'd ever felt in their lives. This is one person's story.
- 2015
- 02:56
- Meg Ritter
Where did we come from?
My mother tells me our immigration story.
- 2015
- 02:48
- Siva Vijenthira