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.

Hinterlands

In a blending of both drama and documentary, three bereaved women talk about their real experiences of loss and how they've tried to move forward with their lives. In a parallel drama, their loved ones meet on a beach in "the hinterland," somewhere between life and death.

1996
44:08
Sara Conkey

Confessions of a Child Beauty Queen

A series of interconnected stories by A. H. Weatherman about the trauma of growing up in the south and participating in beauty pageants.

2003
30:14
Roman Mars

Ferlinghetti: San Francisco Locations

San Francisco luminary and famed poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti takes listeners on a freewheeling tour of his neighborhood haunts in San Francisco's Chinatown and North Beach.

2003
50:20
Jim McKee

The Forbidden Voyage

As a young boy, Earle Reynolds had a dream to build and sail a boat around the world.

2003
43:04
Stephen Erickson

The Herrin Massacre

America's history is rich with the stories of antagonistic coal strikes, but the Herrin Massacre of 1922 is a particularly distressing event that resulted in the deaths of nearly two dozen strike-breakers.

2003
32:01
Gary Covino

Dreaming of Fat Men

One evening in 1994, four women came together for a feast. They had never met one another before. As far as anybody knew, they only had one thing in common: they were all obese.

2003
41:22
Lorelei Harris

The Long-Expected Party

This Radio New Zealand documentary explores the construction of the world of The Lord of the Rings through the eyes of the New Zealanders whose "good old kiwi ingenuity" on the film set brought Middle Earth to life.

2003
40:56
Camilla Maling

Re:sound #226 The Life Sentence Show

This hour, the story of how a one event affected a woman, her family and the criminal justice system.

Best of the Best 2016 (Part 1)

This hour we're listening to some of the winners of our annual documentary competition.

Shocking Pink

Australian anthropologist, botanist, and eccentric Olive Pink waged a 40-year, one-woman civil rights campaign on behalf of the Aboriginal peoples until her death in 1975.

Re:sound #254 Pinball Poets

This hour: lawyers-turned-pinball wizards, two extraordinary minds meeting in a field of poetry and, forty years after the phrase was coined, the skinny on 420.