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 Sweet Taste of Couscous
My grandparents had very little in common except for their appetite for couscous.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Marie Telling
From Sweet Appetite to a Healthy Appetite
If you want to be healthy and fit, you must well inform your appetite.
- 2013
- 02:30
- Yomna Khallaf
Sweet Mudames
Egypt's national dish is called Ful Mudames.
- 2013
- 02:10
- Nada Gabr
Salt of the Earth
A group of well-known East Coast sous chefs tell of their humble beginnings and love of life in the kitchen.
- 2013
- 02:23
- Alyssa Pagano
Salty Snails For Christmas
People are shocked when we tell them snails are delicious.
- 2013
- 02:19
- Suzanne El-Cheikh
Bitter Starts, Savory Endings
An exploration of identity through food experiences.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Ricardo Marinez
Life With Cows is Sweet
Three quick angles of life in the cattle business.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Sarah Kmon
Harper Funeral
A principal reflects on a turbulent year: 27 current or former students shot, 8 of them dead.
- 2013
- 06:35
- Linda Lutton
Bitter Taste of Murder
Will the intrepid detective solve the murder most foul at Tragedy Castle?
- 2013
- 02:41
- Scott Priz
- Elisa Shoenberger
Selling Sweet and Salty
How does light, sound and language change the perception of food?
- 2013
- 02:57
- Alex Grant
- Andy Erickson
Bittersweet TV
A television studio executive is challenged to dream up a ludicrous reality TV show idea and succeeds.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Audrey Dilling
- Ben Trefny
Between Two Buns: The Sweet Story of Burger Sobriety
For Andrew's sister, eating a hamburger is a sublime experience.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Andrew Norton
Umami (or Oooh-Mommy); The Mother of All Appetites
We all start out with one appetite, the appetite for our mother's breastmilk.
- 2013
- 02:57
- Sukey Lewis
Umami in the Dark
Hungry for the unknown, a New York City couple experiences their first taste of umami.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Amelia Parenteau
Bitter Sweet Beginnings
Faced with their impending graduation, three Duke seniors reminisce about their freshman days and remember how a unique community was created around food.
- 2013
- 02:58
- Dillon Buckner
Alone Like a Stone in the New World (aka All These Things)
Writer Margy Rochlin wonders why her family is selling her grandmother's house in Arizona.
- 1989
- 26:14
- Jay Allison
- Margy Rochlin
Appetite for Home: Bitter-Sweet Memories of Learning to Cook & Eat in America
Longtime New Yorkers recall family cooking traditions and foods from home that have been lost to immigration.
- 2013
- 02:52
- Anne Noyes Saini
Sweet Madness: A True Story
A dramatic monologue about one woman's obsession with tea.
- 2013
- 02:58
- Scott Priz
Making a Bitter Beast into a Sweet Meat
How do you take an animal once on the endangered species list, and turn it into dinner?
- 2013
- 03:00
- Tina Antolini
American Student Radio
American Student Radio (ASR) is cultivating your future radio heroes.
John Cage and the Question of Genre
Form dances with function in this "seriously uncompromising"* and seriously compelling piece not so much about John Cage, as of the composer, music theorist, mycologist and artist, John Cage.
- 2013
- 31:02
- Chris Abrahams
- Rick Moody
- Sherre DeLys
As Black As We Wish to Be
There's a tiny town in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio where, for a century, residents have shared the common bond of identifying as African-American despite the fact that most look white.
- 2013
- 50:29
- Lu Olkowski
A Bitter Taste Memory
A mother remembers her troubling, unshakeable food addiction.
- 2013
- 02:24
- Julia Scott
The Organist
The Organist is a monthly experimental arts & culture program produced by the editors of the Believer - the award-winning monthly magazine published by McSweeney's.
- 2013
- 01:01:35
- Andrew Leland
- Jenna Weiss-Berman
- Ross Simonini
Decode DC #6: The Future Was Now
In January, 2012, America's digerati pulled off the broadest, most powerful political protest ever orchestrated on the Internet.
- 2013
- 23:49
- Andrea Seabrook
- Lina Misitzis