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's Howling at OwlHoot Station
Bill talks about OwlHoot Station and its neighbors.
- 2015
- 02:57
- Leah Lemm
Why Not?
I met Why Not? while searching for 78RPM records of traditional Saing Waing music in Myanmar.
- 2015
- 02:57
What Darko Said
My Burmese friend Darko teaches us that pop music in Myanmar is defined by the cover song.
- 2015
- 03:00
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.
- 2015
- 02:21
- Justin Zullo
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.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Alex Ward
Where Do We Go...
Audio impression of racial tensions.
- 2015
- 02:56
- Catie Talarski
When is there nothing to see?
Sometimes attention to detail is not part of the job description.
- 2015
- 02:57
- Kenneth Knapik
- Spivey Knapik
What will she read tonight?
Three of the founders of the Women's Prison Book Project in Minneapolis talk about their memories and experiences in the early years.
- 2015
- 02:55
- Dixie Treichel
Quien soy yo, Quien era yo, Quien será él (Who I am, Who I was, Who He Will Be)
Jimmy Arteaga, a street juggler from Ecuador, reflects on his childhood and his child.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Sayre Quevedo
What do you think?
Studs Terkel put to music.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Dave Langton
When did I get turned around?
An exploration of the cacophony and cyclical nature of life.
- 2015
- 02:25
- Tom Harrison
What Happened to the Pencil Case?
A small metal box comes to represent loss.
- 2015
- 02:53
What was your first love?
A teenage girl recounts freshly ended first love.
- 2015
- 02:55
- Michaela Prell
Where are all the flowers from?
A little seaside town on the West Coast of Ireland wears floral posies for the children of Gaza.
- 2015
- 02:58
- Ellen Cranitch
When does life begin?
Two women go to the hospital with pain in their stomach but each one is on a very different journey.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Adriana Cargill
Why did you cut your hair?
The humour, the pain, and the liberation of a simple haircut.
- 2015
- 02:44
- Alison Broverman
- Veronica Simmonds
What was it like meeting JFK?
Interview with my grandma Jane about when she met JFK and how his assassination affected her.
- 2015
- 02:58
- Ellie Nakayama
Why Are You Wearing Roadkill?
The remarkable hat worn by a man on a park bench in Santa Fe plaza begs an explanation.
- 2015
- 02:47
- Siohban McHugh
Where do pigeons go when they die?
There are so many pidgeons in London, but why do you never see a dead one?
- 2015
- 02:59
- Chris Pearson
- Catherine Brinkworth
Who works harder than this immigrant?
Zamina, originially from Trinidad, is a seamstress by day and a restauranteur by night.
- 2015
- 02:00
- @Jenniferpossible
Where It's Not Junk
This is a story about what we sometimes do with the stuff that we don't use anymore.
- 2015
- 02:58
- Jackie Sojico
Who I Was and Why I Was
In 1968 a young art student accepts what turns out to be a very strange commission to make a painting.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Stephen Rowe and Mike Massey
What was left?
Morgan Lennon describes a kind of loss that is not uncommon to women, though rarely spoken about.
- 2015
- 02:54
- Indaia Whitcombe
What's Your Favorite Sport?
My 8 year old nephew's first undercover journalism gig.
- 2015
- 02:56
- Michael Ferstenfeld
Why, willie wagtail, why?
House arrest by willie wagtail.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Jessica Minshall