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 (art)
When an elementary school teacher who has never taken an art class is asked to be a presenter at an art awards ceremony, she enlists the help of students and parents to explain to her what art actually is.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Peggy Keiner
Chain of Missing Links - 31
A young woman takes up knitting and finds an irresistible combination of wool and whiskey, peace and productivity.
- 2010
- 03:01
- Katy Giebenhain
- Sue Muldowney
The 2008 TCF Audio Luminary Award Recipient: Chris Brookes
The Third Coast Festival Audio Luminary Award is presented annually to an individual who is greatly admired for his or her significant and ongoing contributions to the field of radio. Hats off to the 2008 Audio Luminary, Chris Brookes.
- 2008
- 04:11
- Chris Brookes
I Didn't Know That - 3
A 14 year old Somali boy describes a method of killing a lion by hand.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Glenn Simonsen
Chain of Missing Links - 8
Incorporating fictional and non-fictional elements, this is the story of a stripper, a carpenter in drag, a house wife and their chain of interactions.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Andrew Parsons
I Didn't Know That - 1
A working man spots a beautiful woman in a restaurant while waiting for his food.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Curtis Williams
- Masaki Araya
Chain of Missing Links - 9
Sharla Cooper of www.wholefoodies.org explains how whole food is greater than the sum of its refined parts.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Masaki Araya
I Didn't Know That - 2
Tamzen Moulding didn't know what was really happening behind the illusionary side of showbiz.
- 2010
- 03:06
- Sofia Saldanha
I Didn't Know That (Lost on Lost)
Justin McLachlan talked with some Lost super fans waiting to watch the series finale about all the things he didn't know he didn't know about the show.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Justin McLachlan
Chain of Missing Links - 10
The pastor in this fictional drama is the main character in a half-completed short story.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Andrew Hood
I Didn't Know That (A Father's Conversion)
A man who would later become a priest describes the day of his conversion.
- 2010
- 01:40
- Tina Antolini
A Cold Freezin Night - 3
A bone cold dusk brings the icy adventures of a third grader to a close as his babysitting-tween sister selfishly examines mortality.
- 2010
- 03:01
- Carolina Wheat
Chain of Missing Links - 11
In which, following a rock concert, the author is accidentally left by friends at an outdoor amphitheater ninety minutes from his home town.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Eric Winick
A Cold Freezin Night - 4
In which, to curb his kids' insatiable greed, the author's father takes it upon himself to call off one of the most anticipated holidays of the year.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Eric Winick
All You Need is a Wall (in Plato's Cave)
A riff on Plato's Allegory of the Cave, in which humans are presented as prisoners who spend their entire lives staring at a cave wall, mistaking the shadows they see there for the totality of existence.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Sarah Boothroyd
All You Need is a Wall - 2
Nathan James tells the story of digging his first underground tunnel.
- 2010
- 03:04
- Chris Bolton
Chain of Missing Links - 12
In which Dr. Robert W. Smith, University of Nebraska Chemistry professor, describes the enormity of distance between an organic molecule and the smallest living cell.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Glenn Simonsen
A Cold Freezin Night - 5
Recitation of the mystical English poem, "I Saw the Sun at Midnight, Rising Red", 1917 by Joesph Mary Plunkett and music by the Psalters.
- 2010
- 01:35
- Glenn Simonsen
Chain of Missing Links - 13
This is a story about human love, fear, loneliness and self perception in the neverending journey of life in the modern world.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Ioana Baldea
Chain of Missing Links - 7
A dreamer offers a peek into the quirky logic of her sleeping mind.
- 2010
- 03:18
- Claire Caldwell
Chain of Missing Links (A Case of Musical Stairs)
Producers Joanna Stein and Nicole Beemsterboer take their ears underground and find the origin of some mysterious music.
- 2010
- 02:55
- Joanna Stein
- Nicole Beemsterboer
I Didn't Know That (Why They Make Us Laugh)
A piece which explores the psychological aspects of stand-up comedy and offers insight into the seemingly simple world of the comedian.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Adam Rose-Levy
I Didn't Know That - 4
A sea-side story of what seagulls might eat, or not.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Elena Botkin-Levy
I Didn't Know That (Un Hombre, su Perro, su Caballo, y Cielo)
Field recordings of a Peruvian Pentecostal church service were used as a base for this piece, with which samples from The Books were incorporated in support of the narration of a spanish folk tale about the nature of heaven and best friends.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Jesse Ricke
Chain of Missing Links - 15
In which Calvin reflects on the meaning and measure of fatherhood.
- 2010
- 01:35
- Dan Weissmann