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.
My Sweet Brother
Elaine Taylor's brother Clark has kidney disease - and it's been progressing for years.
- 2013
- 03:14
- Elaine Taylor and Clint Holgate
The Problem With Salty Water
An automated teller machine discusses awkward moments, consumer culture and why she needs it to survive.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Aoife Allen
All Foods Lead to Home (Sweet Home)
Road Rage is transformed by Passionately Prepared Comestibles.
- 2013
- 03:13
- Phyllis Janik
Re:sound #112: The Changes Show
This hour: a seismic shift in a man's identity, a bad dog who refuses to change, and more.
- 2009
- 59:30
- Eric Winick
- Jay Allison
- Katie Mingle
- Thelon Oeming
- Delaney Hall
Re:sound #101: The Rock Show
This hour: an all-woman Led Zeppelin cover band and metal-loving children.
- 2008
- 58:30
- Katie Burningham
- Alan Hall
- John Moe
Re:sound #110: The Quiet Show
This hour: meditations on whispering, selective mutism, and a man who records some of the quietest sounds in the world.
- 2009
- 59:00
- Laura Mayer
- Natalie Kestecher
- Delaney Hall
Compose yourself: a producer’s guide to working with musicians
It’s becoming more common for podcast producers to work with composers to create an original soundtrack. At this session, producer Michael May and composer/producer Nick DePrey share their techniques for bringing a piece to life with music and sound design.
- 2016
- 01:15:20
Violación de un Sueño: Jornada Nocturna
Thousands of office janitors work at night, cleaning up our work spaces after we go home. Many are immigrants – some undocumented – and many are women. With these conditions, they are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
- 2016
- 20:04
- Bernice Yeung
- Sasha Khokha
- Daffodil Altan
Why Do I Stay?
When Rainy was 17, she met a producer named Courtney Stein from WNYC’s Radio Rookies.
- 2016
- 30:33
- Courtney Stein
- Rainy
The Double
Thirteen years ago, in Viborg, Denmark, lived two young men with the same name: Thomas Andersen.
- 2016
- 43:37
- Thomas Arent Andersen
A Sentencing Hearing
On August 1, 2015 Glendale Police Officer Eric Guse received a call about a carjacking that would change his life.
- 2016
- 10:18
- Emily Forman
- Celeste Wesson
Not Safe to Drink
What would you do if your tap water turned brown?
- 2016
- 53:34
- Lindsey Smith
- Sarah Hulett
A Life Sentence: Victims, Offenders, Justice, and My Mother
The story of a terrible crime and everything that followed.
- 2016
- 54:55
- Samantha Broun
- Jay Allison
Mariya
Mariya Karimjee was a teenager in Texas when she first confronted her mother about the genital cutting she'd undergone as a child in Pakistan.
- 2016
- 34:57
- Kaitlin Prest
- Mitra Kaboli
- Mariya Karimjee
W. Kamau Bell asks his Mom about Sex
For most of his life, comedian W. Kamau Bell assumed his single mom never had sex after she made him.
- 2016
- 37:26
- Hillary Frank
- Abigail Keel
Journey
A spare and gripping account of one family's journey fleeing violence in Afghanistan.
- 2016
- 09:21
- Jamil
Dead Mom Talking
"If you want to talk to me when I'm dead, go to the bench."
- 2016
- 12:50
- Rachel Matlow
Make Them Care: Crafting Narratives About Entrenched Social Problems
In this session, Nikole Hannah-Jones (The New York Times) and Chana Joffe-Walt (This American Life) talk about how to build a story structure that will make listeners care about even the most familiar, entrenched social problems.
- 2016
- 01:08:42
The Pit of Despair
For some people, making great radio is easy. Ben Calhoun has no idea what those people are talking about! For him, making radio is hard, beset by self-doubt -- and he finds it’s often easy to get stuck.
- 2016
- 01:19:41
First Off... This is in Really Good Shape
In this session for editors - or anyone who wants to help someone else shape a story – Gimlet Media’s Jorge Just explores the delicate art of making good things better.
- 2016
- 01:28:46
Mudslide: The Election of 2016
With the ink on the ballots still wet, Third Coast dives into the past year of political reporting. How were journalists most - and least - successful covering the presidential election and its voters? And: where do we go from here?
- 2016
- 01:26:31
Re:sound #228 The Sonic Wanders Show
This hour we're going on three soundwalks that meander at the pace of real life.
2016 Bitchin' Pitchin': The Art of the Pitch (Day 1)
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: how to pitch a story.
- 2016
- 01:15:20
Blockbuster Sound
Danish-based producer Tim Hinman, of the podcast Third Ear, finds inspiration for his exquisite sound design at the movies, and in this session he shares how it’s done.
- 2016
- 01:20:32
Re:sound #225 The Whatever Suits You Show
This hour, the suits we wear and the impressions we make.
- 2016
- 58:30
- Luke Malone
- Delaney Hall
- Dennis Funk