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.

Liberals (With Thomas Frank and Rush Limbaugh)

As the story continues, we finally learn that conservatives share some sort of nostalgia with liberals.

2006
02:30
Alfred Koch

No More Bad Luck (Tess Gallagher Meets Raymond Carver)

Woman meets man.

2006
02:34
Alfred Koch

Zelda vs Ernest

A virtual verbal boxing match between literature's leading man of men and feisty feminist flapper Zelda Fitzgerald.

2006
02:30
Amber Cortes

Shaq + Kobe (Time Is Running Out)

This piece retells (and remixes) the NBA soap opera of Shaq + Kobe in an audio cartoon created with the on-the-court assistance of the talented Kevin Smith and amplified by music from Shaquille O'Neal, sampled game sounds, and press conference audio clips taken wildly and egregiously out of context.

2006
02:30
David Schulman

Natalie, Alone, in New York

A woman tries to come to terms with a breakup and a package of bacon.

2006
02:31
Sue Mell

As if -- or, 99 Minus 1

As if / to discuss the world / John Cage / Joseph Beuys

2006
02:30
Jean-Claude Kuner

Levitating Stone

In a small village in India, a 90 KG stone levitates when the name of sufi saint Qamar Ali Dervish is chanted.

2006
02:31
Jeanette Werkhoven

This Was a Crucial Place

A former inmate (John McCullough), a former guard (Donald Vaughn) and Steve Buscemi guide the listener through 1960's prison reform via the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, PA.

2006
03:04
Peter Crimmins

The Secret Life of an Australian Mother

Domestic duet for mother and six year old.

The Gulf

How can we make sense of the communication and resource problems identified long before Hurricane Katrina that led to such tragic consequences for many residents of New Orleans?

2006
02:30
Christine McKenna

And I Think There Is Something There That Will Stand the Rain

A woman remembers the most important person in her life.

2006
01:59
Lee Fuoco

Kitchen Confidential

Thai Red Curry that has a bit of a kick.

Train Wars

Jayne Fenton Keane talks with India's former Socialist Defence Minister, Mr. George Fernandes, and former President of the Socialist Party of India, Ms. Jaya Jaitley, about the Railway Strikes of 1975 that brought down Sonia Ghandi's government.

2006
02:30
Jayne Fenton Keane

The Yakuza Codes

Will Midori and her brother Yoshitoro overcome their antipathies and meet again?

2006
02:32
Christian Gasser

They Didn't Get Along

An inquiry into the nature of human relationships over the course of eons, featuring musical accompaniment in diverse time signatures, and a British narrator.