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.

Who Brings the Heat?

In this mockumentary piece, June Jensen must find a way to keep her hot dish hot on the way to the church potluck.

What is a Food Desert?

Using the poetry and commentary of Kuumba Lynx (a Chicago-based hip hop coalition) this sound art piece investigates how institutional disinvestments in Chicago's South Side communities have affected its residents' nutritional health.

What Darko Said

My Burmese friend Darko teaches us that pop music in Myanmar is defined by the cover song.

  • 2015
  • 03:00

Why Not?

I met Why Not? while searching for 78RPM records of traditional Saing Waing music in Myanmar.

  • 2015
  • 02:57

What we doing now, Misi boy?

Two seniors in Punahou High School in Honolulu, Hawaii share their tender voices and cries of laughter as they sing us the story of their friendship and community in Hawaii.