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.
A Cold Freezin Night (Inverse Winter)
In Tucson, Arizona, summer is like winter in Canada.
- 2010
- 03:10
- Sarah Bromer
All You Need is (gum on) a Wall
A monster grows while attracting tourists in downtown Seattle.
- 2010
- 02:35
- Emily Eagle
Chain of Missing Links - 33
Peter Wallace left the village of Leenane in the west of Ireland for the building sites of England and Germany in 1969 at 19 years of age; he came to live in Leeane once again in 2004.
- 2010
- 03:04
- Colm Coyne
A Cold Freezin Night - 13
Austin, Texas based experimental performance art group Happiness is a Choice use improvisation and their unique style of meta-theater to learn about each other and about the moments that they share on stage.
- 2010
- 02:46
- Michael Ferstenfeld
I Didn't Know That - 14
An improvised scene by Brendan Pelsue and Natasha Haverty, set in an imagined seaside town.
- 2010
- 03:01
- Natasha Haverty
All You Need is a Wall (or at least one good idea...)
Producer Catie Talarski and her eleven-year-old brother get to work creating their annual Thirdcoast Shortdoc.
- 2010
- 03:01
- Catie Talarski
A Cold Freezin Night - 14
A stranger moves slowly through town and reflects on all that has happened.
- 2010
- 02:28
- David Newman
A Cold Freezin Night (for Doomed Lovers)
2010 ShortDocs Winner! I said this is NUTS, and he agreed.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Andrea Silenzi
Chain of Missing Links (El Pájaro Volador)
Spanish guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Rosalia Roio talks about her Pájaro Volador ("Flying Bird"), one of her many homemade instruments built from recycled objects.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Brendan Baker
(For) A Cold Freezin Night
Music incorporating a performance of William Safford's poem "A Story That Could Be True" with Book Odds samples.
- 2010
- 02:50
- Brendan Baker
All You Need is a (Separation Barrier)
2010 ShortDocs Winner! From Baghdad to Western Sahara, an alphabetic listing of the world's prominent separation barriers builds a wall of its own.
- 2010
- 03:01
- Niall Farrell
All You Need is a Wall (For A Classroom)
A few late students help us understand why the classroom is a special place.
- 2010
- 02:56
- Aaron Sand
Chain of Missing Links - 34
A contagion of phone messages add up to an empty office.
- 2010
- 02:55
- Neil Sandell
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?"
Grey Areas
Grey Areas is about how close Dave Pickering is to his dad, in a literal sense; it's also a tribute to the the neighbour they buried in his back garden.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Dave Pickering
I Didn't Know That (Ryan)
A college student reflects on an important lesson learned not in the classroom but in the bedroom.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Emma Miller
Through the Perforated Tan Walls
A community of music lovers share their experiences with the practice rooms at Allen Hall, a Living and Learning dorm at University of Illinois.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Kim Peterson
The Green Controller
Typical day at the dormitory - the usual sounds that are heard across the hall.
- 2012
- 02:43
- Alejandro Remigio
My Blue Bucket
A simple scene of sharing language, laughter, songs and daily chores with my neighbours in Kigali, Rwanda.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Helene Thomas
- Steven Tilley
On the Orange Dusty Streets
Meet Juma, a Rwandan street boy, whose dream is to become a singer, and Bosco who spends his days fixing broken plastic buckets, casserole pots, shoes, radios and umbrellas to earn a living for his family.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Helene Thomas
Flecks of Grey (by Pidgey)
One pigeon's emotional journey to understand his neighbors: the seagulls.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Jocelyn Peirce
Cowbird
While the Internet is teeming with storytelling portals - including the one you're on right now - some rise above the rest: in quality, spirit, and ambition.
- 2012
- 01:16
- Annie Correal
- Jordan Bower
To Begin With
A few stories told at once.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Emily Hilliard
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
I'd Like to Straighten You Out
A musician, a living legend, attracts pilgrims, then gives them trouble.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Joseph Decosimo