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 Blacksmith's Song
After the death of his wife, renowned blacksmith artist Steve Weis moved from Toowoomba to Kin Kin on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia.
- 2013
- 28:50
- Hamish Sewell
The Story as Walkabout
Smartphones and other gadgets have detached our listening experiences from the radio, and are making another kind of attachment possible - to where the stories actually take place.
- 2012
- 01:18:18
Sure-Handedness: Radio That Knows What It's Doing
The best audio work has a feeling of mastery about it.
- 2012
- 01:17:20
Own Your Thing (Day 1)
Independent producers have always had to fend for themselves, but today the building blocks for independent success - creating great work, reaching real audiences, making money, controlling your destiny - are falling into place in new ways.
- 2012
- 01:16:39
Own Your Thing (Day 2)
Independent producers have always had to fend for themselves, but today the building blocks for independent success - creating great work, reaching real audiences, making money, controlling your destiny - are falling into place in new ways.
- 2012
- 01:11:49
2012 Pitch Perfect: The Art of Editorial Persuasion (Day 2)
Now a bonafide Third Coast tradition... this session pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer needs to master: pitching a story.
- 2012
- 01:12:18
2012 Pitch Perfect: The Art of Editorial Persuasion (Day 1)
Now a bonafide Third Coast tradition... this session pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer needs to master: pitching a story.
- 2012
- 41:21
How to Rock the Funky Story
Here's a conversation about the essence of story. Any story.
- 2012
- 01:25:31
Radio Producers are from Venus; Photographers are from Mars
When radio producers and photographers team up on multimedia projects, it can often feel as if they come from different planets.
- 2012
- 01:16:52
Parachuting In
(aka: State of the Re:Union's Secret Recipe for Serious Place-based Storytelling... in Practically No Time!)
- 2012
- 01:11:25
Making Radio Against Most Odds
Imagine reporting in a culture that speaks a language your listeners don't understand, and covering issues your listeners don't totally care about - all in a country that doesn't even want you there in the first place.
- 2012
- 01:15:51
Radio 2.0
(Or: We couldn't change the world, so we changed radio.)
- 2012
- 01:12:59
Sweet Memory Rooh Afzah
Eva Panjwani was five years old when she emigrated from Pakistan to the United States.
- 2013
- 02:41
- Madeline Miller
I'm Salty
I'm Salty -- Put me in your mouth!
- 2013
- 02:51
- Adam Lee
An Appetite for Affirmation: The Bittersweet of Pleasing Your Parents and Pleasing Your Self
Most of us go to college to make our dreams happen, but what do you do when what you want might not be the same as what your parents want?
- 2013
- 03:00
- Lyndi Hollis
There's No Saccharine in this Sweet School
Follow Sierra on her progressive college journey as she realizes that finding the right college is as difficult as Goldilocks finding the right bowl of porridge.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Sierra Ponthier
The Sweet Taste of Second Street
Three courses of the Second Street Market at the University of Dayton - the market, the consumers and the producers.
- 2013
- 02:40
- Torie Schumacher
Beer & Food, Neil & Eric: Two Sweet Pairings
An underground supper club pairs beers with dinners, served in a Mission District apartment kitchen in San Francisco.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Alison Byrne
Not So Sweet on New School Lunch
Michelle Obama's new school lunch program gets sour reviews from Paonia High School students.
- 2013
- 02:39
- Ali Lightfoot
- Azure Eller
Eros the Bittersweet: An Edible Riff
An audio prose poem, mixing chocolate with desire.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Richard Fox and Patricia McMillen
Umami Can't Cook Like Mine
The tradition of cooking has been passed down in my family through three generations: my grandma, my mom and me.
- 2013
- 02:59
- Lexia Banks
D Minor: The Ice Queen
If D minor were a person, who would she be?
- 2013
- 05:14
- Denise Ball
- Paolo Pietropaolo
Umami Office
Researchers from the Egyptian TV show Al Bernameg are trying to lose weight, stay fit or just enjoy food at the office.
- 2013
- 02:44
- Christine Iskander
Sweet Dream
A man remembers a dream, a snack and an idea about sound by filmmaker Robert Bresson.
- 2013
- 02:05
- Wolfgang Hastert
A Sweet Martini Memory
A dry martini in the afternoon proved effective in helping a widowed mother navigate the lonely shoals that lay between 4 and 6 p.m.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Ed Cohen