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.
I Didn't Know That (Whozaphone)
Shelley seeks solitude with her hand-cranked whozaphone, but instead finds a friend in the Outer Limits.
- 2010
- 03:02
- Lacy Roberts
All You Need is a Wall (I Too, Sing America)
A high school teacher imagines what might happen when poet Langston Hughes, in his poem "I, Too, Sing America," has a chance to leave the kitchen he's confined to and actually sit at the table when company comes.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Adam Kampe
Chain of Missing Links - 26
This audio story is about seeking happiness away from home.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Kajsa Kvaale
Chain of Missing Links - 25
The chains that code for our genes only make up 2% of our DNA, which means the purpose of the rest of the stuff is a bit of a mystery....
- 2010
- 02:59
- Henry Hocking
- Marnie Chesterton
All You Need is a Wall - 11
Divorce brings about unimagined ramifications.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Katie Ball
Chain of Missing Links (of Art)
What is art? What is an artist? These are questions you need to ask yourself when confronted with Aaron - a computer controlled machine making art.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Jakob Lisbjerg
All You Need is a Wall (or, How to Dance in the Moonlight)
The Wall teaches David how to be free--and how to dance.
- 2010
- 03:02
- Sam Greenspan
I Didn't Know That...(a different kind of romance)
Kaitlin and her recorder sitting in a tree...with Kelly the herbalist discussing the possibilities of plant-loving.
- 2010
- 03:04
- Kaitlin Prest
Chain of Missing Links - 24
The author recalls an incident from the past but wonders how much of it is real in this 3 minute piece about memory, ice cream and Lou Reed.
- 2010
- 03:07
- Ruth Lopez
All You Need is a Wall - 10
Writers' block forces an author to reconsider her approach to a lack of inspiration.
- 2010
- 01:42
- Henry Hocking
- Marijke Peters
A You Need is a Wall - 9
A master clock maker explains why he's devoted his life to the clocks we hang on our walls.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Patrick Skahill
A Cold Freezin Night (Adventure)
You might imagine the desert to be a cold freezin place at night but not so.
- 2010
- 02:15
- Julien Clancy
I Didn't Know That - 8
Sisters Joyce Brilbeck and Kaye Logan share memories about growing up around Ballantyne Road near Onondaga Creek in Syracuse, NY.
- 2010
- 01:45
- Farsheed Toosi
- Fereshteh Toosi
Chain of Missing Links (with the Fourth of July)
Recordings of celebration in a distant land.
- 2010
- 02:31
- Zachary Baiel
Chain of Missing Links (& More)
Jennifer Brandel Just when you're convinced someone is gone as you knew them...
- 2010
- 03:01
- Jennifer Brandel
All You Need is a Wall - 15
A young man, lost in sound, finds his way through the wall.
- 2010
- 02:55
- Alexander Stephens
Chain of Missing Links - 23
Can you believe there were this many things on top of the ground? Some of them have been worked and are beautiful.
- 2010
- 02:00
- Katherine Wells
A Cold Freezin Night (for Doomed Lovers)
2010 ShortDocs Winner! I said this is NUTS, and he agreed.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Andrea Silenzi
After the Wars: Bill Stenberg
Bill Stenberg says he was just "standing on the corner with a friend, the way guys do" when he decided to enlist in the military.
- 2010
- 05:51
- Ben Calhoun
All You Need is a Wall - 18
We remember some events as shockingly impossible, and yet just as easily, they could have happened to any one of us.
- 2010
- 03:05
- Sue Muldowney
Chain of Missing Links (and beyond)
Beginning is always a challenge but thoughts once thought unconnected create a story.
- 2010
- 02:39
- Dixie Treichel
All You Need is a Wall (A Wall With You)
Symphonic punk country disco.
- 2010
- 01:50
- Nick van der Kolk
All You Need is a Wall (Snoreasurus)
Recordings of not sleeping.
- 2010
- 03:01
- Jeremy Reichardt
Chain of Missing Links - 36
A German and a Jew attempt to discover the relationship between their past and present - but their conversation proves only to weave a distorted map of missing links.
- 2010
- 02:59
- JJ Hurvich
- Jonathan Beier
- Tad Klimp
A Cold Freezin Night - 15
A detective story. "There was a murder of a young man, who had three mistresses. Which of them is a murderer?"