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.
Senza Parole
Rustle of cardboard and tin foil. Polka dots. A curious island in the middle of the Seine.
- 2014
- 18:37
Ripped Stockings
Growing up in Miami, Harvey Katz - then Elizabeth - was expected to have a bat mitzvah (the Jewish coming of age ceremony for girls), followed by a big, blow-out party.
- 2014
- 13:45
- Mitra Kaboli
We Lost Them
How does a victim's family cope, hours after a violent crime, when they are thrust into a national spotlight?
- 2014
- 13:42
- Lauren Spohrer
- Phoebe Judge
Easy Love
Twenty-six years ago, Warren Kirk was at home in his suburban Melbourne rental flat. Freshly showered and dressed, he consulted the yellow pages before making a call.
- 2014
- 09:52
- Jaye Kranz
1984 (the year not the book)
In the book 1984, George Orwell predicted that in the future "Big Brother" would watch and dictate our every move. In the year 1984, producer Benjamen Walker was in middle school.
- 2014
- 52:21
- Benjamen Walker
The Most of It
We interrupt our regular library spotlight for a quick pas de deux: a minute (and two seconds) that gives voice to movement and movement to voice.
- 2014
- 01:02
- CPR Arts Bureau
- Wonderbound
The Third Coast ShortDocs: Appetite Show
This hour: We showcase some of our favorite stories from the 2013 Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge.
- 2014
- 58:00
- Katie Mingle
The Hospital Always Wins
Back in 2004, Laura Starecheski visited a mental hospital in Queens, N.Y. called Creedmoor, where she met a patient named Issa Ibrahim.
The Cabinet of Animosities
The things we give, the things we treasure, and the things we fling at each other when it all goes wrong.
- 2014
- 27:24
- Cathy FitzGerald
Chance
Turn right and you'll meet the man or woman of your dreams. Turn left and you'll get hit by a car.
- 2014
- 13:30
- Sarah Boothroyd
The Ghosts of Fire Island
Fire Island, only sixty miles from New York City, has long served as a safe and vibrant mecca for gay men and women. But in the early 1980's, the haven faced a new and lethal threat.
- 2014
- 25:00
- Myke Dodge Weiskopf
Four Failing Lungs
For Beth and Brian, a lung transplant could extend their lives for years. Or, it could lead to rejection and continued suffering.
- 2014
- 25:15
- Catie Talarski
The Failure of Flight Show
This hour: failure of flight. In one story a man mysteriously falls from the sky onto a sunny London street, and in another, a plane crashes into a mountain side, and an 11 year old walks away.
- 2014
- 59:00
- Katie Mingle
The Kid's Secret Places Show
This hour: where kids go to get away; from themselves, their troubles, the rules they're supposed to follow, and of course, their parents.
- 2013
- 59:00
- Katie Mingle
The Texas State Pen Show
This hour: we present two very different stories about the Texas State Penitentiary. Both are about soul - the kind you dance to, and the kind you pray for.
- 2013
- 59:00
- Katie Mingle
The It's Complicated Show
This hour: imperfect, impolitic, infuriating... love.
The Letters Show
This hour: letters. To yourself, to your city, lost letters, found letters... and a love letterto letters.
- 2011
- 58:00
- Katie Mingle
DUPLICATE RESOUND The List Show
This hour: To do lists, compulsive lists, data lists, lists in literature and a list of firsts.
- 2012
- 59:00
- Katie Mingle
The Colors Show
This hour: a purple hotel, a family who argues over their skin color, a singing rainbow and more.
- 2013
- 59:01
- Katie Mingle
Mike and Victor: A Family Story
In 1993, Mike Checuga was a 24 year-old working obsessively long hours until his boss ordered him to take a day off each week.
- 2014
- 29:03
- Alex Kotlowitz
- Amy Drozdowska
Dear Santo Toribio
After Oklahoma passed the toughest anti-immigration bill in the country, a Catholic church in Tulsa was looking for help, so they created a shrine to Santo Toribio, the patron saint of immigrants.
- 2013
- 05:15
- Sarah Geis
Best of the Best 2013 (Part 2)
Re:sound's Gwen Macsai hosts Best of the Best: The 2013 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, showcasing the best radio stories of the year - winners of the 2013 TC / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
The Real Tom Banks
Tom Banks is 23, gay and searching for love.
- 2014
- 18:12
- Jesse Cox
- Timothy Nicastri
Leaving a Mark
Emily Hsiao reads a Craigslist post about a man who wants his swastika tattoo covered up. And then she goes to meet him.
- 2014
- 13:14
- Emily Hsiao
21 and Legal
Many young people look forward to turning 21 because they can finally go to bars to drink or see shows. For Erika Romero and her twin sister Andrea, it was an entirely different story.
- 2015
- 04:59
- Erika Romero