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.
How to become an investigative reporter with one simple trick: Ask a good question
Madeleine Baran and Samara Freemark of In the Dark, love the intimacy of radio and the power it has to transport us into other people’s lives...
- 2017
- 01:30:12
Playing with Reality & Pushing the Boundaries
Imagine opening your work to the possibilities of drama and fiction that can bring a rich, more expansive story to life.
- 2017
- 01:22:02
Best of the Best 2017 (Part 1)
This hour, some of the winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition
Featuring...
The Big Night
Producer Jonathan Goldstein made every girl he ever dated watch the home movie of his family's Rosh Hashanah dinner he made when he was 17.
- 2002
- 13:57
- Jonathan Goldstein
Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo
Where is Cleo? It’s a mystery her family has been trying to unravel for decades after the young Cree girl was apprehended by child welfare workers in Saskatchewan, Canada in the 1970’s.
Re:sound #251 Jesse & Joe
This hour, we remember the audio work of two brilliant producers who recently passed away — Jesse Cox & Joe Frank.
- 2018
- 57:40
- Jesse Cox
- Joe Frank
- Belinda Lopez
- Jessica Bineth
- Dennis Funk
Counted: An Oakland Story
During 2017, a team of Snap Judgment producers followed every homicide in Oakland, CA for the entire year.
- 2018
- 56:30
- Adizah Eghan
- Anna Sussman
- Shaina Shealy
- Jonathan Jones
Host's Fat
Meat podcast’s host Jonathan Zenti is an overweight man (technically “obese").
- 2017
- 38:49
- Jonathan Zenti
God + The Gays
In her first radio piece, Phoebe visits Christians from her past and tries to understand whether queer people and homophobic Christians can have meaningful relationships.
- 2018
- 30:54
- Phoebe Wang
Ear Hustle: Dirty Water
Ear Hustle is a unique creative partnership between Earlonne Woods, who is incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, and outside collaborator Nigel Poor. Together, along with other men at the prison, they produce stories about daily life behind the walls.
- 2018
- 36:12
- Earlonne Woods
- Nigel Poor
John Thompson vs. American Justice
When police showed up to question John Thompson, he was worried that he had sold drugs to an undercover cop.
- 2018
- 49:14
- Andrew Marantz
- Sarah Lustbader
- Katherine Wells
Man Choubam (I am good)
Sharon is a weirdo and refuses to conform to cultural standards. Her mom does not approve.
- 2017
- 39:57
- Sharon Mashihi
Overnight in the E.R.
For most of the past decade, if a child or teenager got shot in Miami–Dade County, they would be taken to one place: the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
- 2018
- 09:10
- Sammy Mack
Summer Rain
To have and to lose control.
- 2018
- 03:00
- Nanna Hauge Kristensen
Uncounted Civilian Casualties in Iraq
The American-led battle against the Islamic State has been hailed as the most precise air campaign in history. But its airstrikes have killed far more Iraqi civilians than anyone has acknowledged.
- 2017
- 49:19
- Annie Brown
Bitchin’ Pitchin’ Panel (Day 1)
A bonafide Third Coast tradition, this session - hosted by AIR (Association of Independents in Radio) - pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer needs to master: how to pitch...
- 2019
- 01:10:20
Making Obama: Wait Your Turn
How was President Barack Obama shaped by his years in Chicago as a community organizer turned politician?
- 2018
- 56:15
- Colin McNulty
Re:sound #252 Analog
This hour, three stories from the annals of analog.
Episode 1 - A Perfect Murder
The abundance and popularity of true-crime podcasts meant the time had come (and gone, and come again) for a really hard look in the mirror. The Onion and Onion Public Radio bravely rose to the challenge!
- 2018
- 13:40
- Katy Yeiser
- Fran Hoepfner
- Ryan Natoli
- David Sidorov
Man Choubam (I am good)
Sharon calls herself a weirdo and refuses to conform to cultural standards. Her mom does not approve. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2018 Best Documentary: Silver Award.
- 2018
- 39:57
- Sharon Mashihi
Chanukah, 1992
One minute, snatched from a Chanukah party in 1992. Gwen Macsai's party, to be exact.
- 2017
- 01:17
- Dennis Funk
Re:sound #250 Our 250th Show
This hour, we look back on some of our favorite moments from the past 14 years of Re:sound .
- 2018
- 57:30
- Katia Dunn
- Roman Mars
- Delaney Hall
- Katie Mingle
- Dennis Funk
The Promise: A Beautiful Day in the Projects
The Promise is a limited-run series from Nashville Public Radio about life in James Cayce Homes, a public housing development smack in the middle of a city on the rise.
- 2018
- 24:58
- Meribah Knight
2017 Bitchin' Pitch Panel (Day 2)
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...
- 2017
- 01:04:10
- Shereen Marisol Meraji
- Millie Jefferson
- Sruthi Pinnamaneni
Dreamers
Joe Frank's Dreamers is more like an M.C Escher drawing than a traditional tale and leaves you questioning the blurry line between dreams and reality.
- 2012
- 12:18
- Joe Frank