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.
Lost Notes: 1980
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Queens Memory Project: Intersection
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- 2021
- 23:22
- Sam Riddell
- Jordan Gass-Pooré
Pandemic Diaries: One Couple's Story of Isolation and Love in a Nursing Home
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- 2021
- 13:52
- Jason Moon
- Lauren Choolijan
The Wait
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- 2021
- 35:49
- Mozhgan Moarefizadeh
- Nicole Curby
- Michael Green
- Bec Fary
Ep 1. Once Upon a Time, a Girl Needs a Distraction in Quarantine
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- 2021
- 37:43
- Heather Li
Simultaneous
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- 2021
- 44:33
- Pamela Z
Infinities
Concerning mental illness, toxic workplace environments, Egyptian Rat Screw, and the nature of infinity.
- 2020
- 25:13
- Boen Wang
PMHx
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- 2021
- 07:01
- James T. Green
Inventions in Sound
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- 2021
- 27:36
- Raymond Antrobus
- Eleanor McDowall
Monaea, a 2020 Diary
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Time Bandit
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- 2021
- 23:59
- Sean Cole
The Work Of Closing A Notorious Jail
Five years after Michael Brown’s death at the hands of a police officer galvanized criminal justice reform activists in St. Louis, they mounted a serious effort to shut down the notorious Workhouse jail.
How to Remember
How to Remember is sonically inspired by Axel's travels to Côte d'Ivoire.
- 2020
- 10:24
- Axel Kacoutié
- Eleanor McDowall
Not This Again
Angelina was a journalist living in Brooklyn when she was diagnosed with ALS.
Crosses in the Desert
Alvaro Enciso is a retired man who lives in Tucson, Arizona. He puts crosses in the exact places where dead migrant bodies have been found in the Sonoran desert.
- 2020
- 24:36
- Catalina May
- Martín Cruz
- Dennis Maxwell
Somebody
When Shapearl Wells's son Courtney is found outside a Chicago police station with a fatal bullet wound, Shapearl immediately distrusts the official narrative.
- 2020
- 28:43
- Shapearl Wells
- Alison Flowers
- Bill Healy
- Sarah Geis
- Bart Warshaw
Centenarians in Lockdown
When the 1918 flu pandemic broke out, Joe Newman was 5 years old. Today, he's 107. He lives in a community for seniors in Sarasota, Fla., with his fiancée, Anita Sampson.
Songs of Speculation (excerpt)
Songs of Speculation is a lecture that explodes into multi-form performance, calling on the body, time, and the power of music to reclaim histories forgotten or lost.
- 2020
- 39:37
- Jillian Walker
- Ben Williams
Diary of a HomeSchooler
Sarah Alli-Brown is sixteen-years-old. She’s a high school junior whose school has been shuttered for months because of the coronavirus.
- 2020
- 11:00
- Anayansi Diaz-Cortes
- Brett Myers
- Kevin Sullivan
Dat Rona
Dat Rona, a Black colloquialism to describe the coronavirus, was produced in 3 days to disseminate ‘Rona’ knowledge after harmful media stories began to circulate that Black people were immune to the virus.
- 2020
- 01:05:34
- Janina Jeff
- Sam Riddell
- Chris Diggins
- Chad Milner
- Dr. Ashira Blazer
Best of the Best 2018 (Part 2)
This hour, winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. Featuring...
Espera / Wait
Two lovers share an intimate conversation on the eve of their breakup, exploring loneliness and intimacy.
- 2018
- 13:16
- Sayre Quevedo
The Fact-checker
There’s an old journalism adage that says “if your mother says she loves you, check it out.” This American Life’s Christopher Swetala is the fact-checker who calls her to ask, and then let’s you know if it’s true… or not.
- 2017
- 01:36:40
Heavyweight: Gregor
20 years ago, Gregor lent some CDs to a musician friend. The CDs helped make him a famous rockstar.
- 2017
- 44:31
- Jonathan Goldstein
- Chris Neary
- Wendy Dorr
- Kalila Holt
Re:sound #247 The Meet the Composer Show
This hour, we're diving deep into the strange, beautiful world of modern music composition.
- 2017
- 57:00
- Alex Overington
- Dennis Funk