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.

Re:sound #33: The Bollywood Show

This hour: a tall, white New Zealander heads to Mumbai to try and land a role in one of the hundreds of Bollywood films the industry churns out each year.

2005
58:30
Simon Morton
Roman Mars

Re:sound #153 The Murdoch Show

This hour: The rise of media tycoon, Rupert Murdoch.

Re:sound #90: The Repetition Show

This hour: earworms, mantras, and stories told again and again.

Re:sound #73: The Siblings Show

This hour: brothers and sisters contend with family illness.

Re:sound #74: The Hospice Show

This hour: a surprising look at the relationship between a hospice worker and his patient.

Re:sound #75: The True Crime Show

This hour: amateur sleuths and internet detectives.

Re:sound #76: The Being Deaf Show

This hour: sign language, lip-reading, and deaf culture.

Re:sound #78: The Just Good Radio Show

This hour: a chronicle of European history through the sound of bells and a bizarre spectacle of endurance.

Re:sound #79: The What Remains Show

This hour: a man transformed by illness, a house full of paintings left behind by an old friend, and a surprisingly complex story of old people in love.

Re:sound #80: The Art Show

This hour: a young patient escapes his hospital bed through flights of imagination, a musician documents a city under siege, and more.

Re:sound #81: The Outfront Show

This hour: we celebrate ten years of Outfront, a groundbreaking show on the Canadian Broadcasting Corportation that invited listeners to tell their own stories.

Re:sound #82: The Borders Show

This hour: an isolated village experiences rapid cultural change, a "border blaster" transmits totally unregulated radio programs from Mexico into the U.S., and a tiny frog causes trouble.

Re:sound #84: The Girls vs. Boys Show

This hour: girls, boys, and sleepover reconnaissance.

Re:sound #85: The Dollar Storeys Show

This hour: the wild and wonderful results of the Third Coast Festival's 2007 Audio Challenge: Dollar Storeys.

Re:sound #86: The Death Show

This hour: a visit to a pauper's graveyard, three very short (but very big) questions, and more.

Re:sound #88: The Messages Show

This hour: phone solicitors, bottle evangelists, a mysterious cassette tape unearthed in the attic, and more.

Re:sound #91: The War and Peace Show

This hour: a radio station dedicates five days of air-time to a live reading of Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Re:sound #70: The Brain Show

This hour: the mysteries and complexities of the brain.

Re:sound #92: The Water Show

This hour: a disappearing lake, a luxury liner on the Adriatic Sea, and more.

Re:sound #93: The Singing Show

This hour: a Japanese blues singer, an aging opera fan, and homemade recordings of a rural children's choir.

Re:sound #96: The Sandbox Show

This hour: we're diving into the archives and rewinding our way to the 1970s and 80s, sampling some of the fascinating, strange, and hilarious work that was produced when public radio was a medium without a real template.

Re:sound #97: The In-Between Show

This hour: people living in the in-betweens.

Re:sound #98: The Disappearing Show

This hour: one boy leaves home and never returns, another leaves and returns forever changed.

Re:sound #99: The Radio Ballads Show

This hour: the BBC's groundbreaking Radio Ballads, produced between 1958 and 1964, which wove sounds, voices, and music into dense sonic tapestries that explored everything from the lives of coal miners to the lives of teenagers, focusing mainly on communities that weren't often heard from on the radio.

The Quick and the Deadline

Okay. So you don't have months to craft a perfect story. You have hours. But don't throw away everything you've learned at Third Coast just because you're on a tight deadline.

2012
01:17:10
Robert Smith