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.

Where would you go?

For young people who live in some of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the western hemisphere, the passage north is often just as hard as staying.

Black Coffee

A personal musing about estrangement and its effects on language, cultural identity, and the meaning of home.

Umami and Daddy too!

Olga likes borscht. Ryan Poli at work, and Leah Cowen asks the musical question "Can You Feed My Appetite?"

Language Bites!

You may have been a "freelancer," or hired one, at some point in your work life, but have you ever wondered how the term originated?

2013 TC/RHDF Competition Winners

Behold! The 2013 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition winners - a most stellar batch of radio documentaries from around the world.

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.

We've Forgotten James Powell

As we near the end of a violent summer of 2014, we look back to the summer of 1964. Late afternoon, New York City: a group of kids hangs out on a stoop after a day of summer school, just kicking it, like they always do.

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.

A Bitter Truth

One man's addiction to his music.

  • 2013
  • 02:45

Who Do I Come From

My grandfather, John Frank Noyes, is the only person who remembers our family's homestead in Wyoming; he died this winter.