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.
Best of the Best 2014 (Part 1)
The 2014 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition.
Best of the Best 2014 (Part 2)
The 2014 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition.
HowSound Live! Part I
Discover the backstory to this year's TC/RHDF Competition winners!
- 2014
- 01:22:08
Journalism and Storytelling: Frenemies?
How real does reality need to be?
- 2014
- 01:23:43
Special Feature: Linda Lutton Live at The Hideout
On this episode of Re:sound, a live recording of Third Coast's recent listening event with WBEZ Education reporter Linda Lutton.
- 2014
- 01:00:58
- Linda Lutton
- Dennis Funk
The End of the World
The idea was to drive around and talk to people about the end of the world. As producer Scott Carrier says, "There's no law against it."
- 2015
- 32:00
- Scott Carrier
DUPLICATE RESOUND The List Show
This hour: To do lists, compulsive lists, data lists, lists in literature and a list of firsts.
- 2012
- 59:00
- Katie Mingle
Re:sound #90: The Repetition Show
This hour: earworms, mantras, and stories told again and again.
Re:sound #98: The Disappearing Show
This hour: one boy leaves home and never returns, another leaves and returns forever changed.
- 2008
- 59:30
- Myfanwy Davies
- Steve Wadhams
- Julie Kimberly
- Delaney Hall
Re:sound #97: The In-Between Show
This hour: people living in the in-betweens.
Re:sound #96: The Sandbox Show
This hour: we're diving into the archives and rewinding our way to the 1970s and 80s, sampling some of the fascinating, strange, and hilarious work that was produced when public radio was a medium without a real template.
Re:sound #93: The Singing Show
This hour: a Japanese blues singer, an aging opera fan, and homemade recordings of a rural children's choir.
- 2008
- 59:30
- Dean Olsher
- Rachel Hopkin
- Katie Mingle
- Carma Jolly
- Delaney Hall
Re:sound #92: The Water Show
This hour: a disappearing lake, a luxury liner on the Adriatic Sea, and more.
Re:sound #91: The War and Peace Show
This hour: a radio station dedicates five days of air-time to a live reading of Tolstoy's War and Peace.
- 2008
- 59:00
- Brian DeShazor
- Christopher Sprinkle
- Delaney Hall
Re:sound #88: The Messages Show
This hour: phone solicitors, bottle evangelists, a mysterious cassette tape unearthed in the attic, and more.
Re:sound #101: The Rock Show
This hour: an all-woman Led Zeppelin cover band and metal-loving children.
- 2008
- 58:30
- Katie Burningham
- Alan Hall
- John Moe
Re:sound #86: The Death Show
This hour: a visit to a pauper's graveyard, three very short (but very big) questions, and more.
- 2008
- 58:00
- Nora Harrington
- Katie Mingle
- Karen Michel
- Roman Mars
Re:sound #85: The Dollar Storeys Show
This hour: the wild and wonderful results of the Third Coast Festival's 2007 Audio Challenge: Dollar Storeys.
Re:sound #84: The Girls vs. Boys Show
This hour: girls, boys, and sleepover reconnaissance.
Re:sound #82: The Borders Show
This hour: an isolated village experiences rapid cultural change, a "border blaster" transmits totally unregulated radio programs from Mexico into the U.S., and a tiny frog causes trouble.
Re:sound #81: The Outfront Show
This hour: we celebrate ten years of Outfront, a groundbreaking show on the Canadian Broadcasting Corportation that invited listeners to tell their own stories.
Re:sound #80: The Art Show
This hour: a young patient escapes his hospital bed through flights of imagination, a musician documents a city under siege, and more.
Re:sound #262 Moo and Man
This hour, a single commercial that ran for twenty-five years and two women who’ve been running from each other for even longer.
- 2018
- 01:01:10
- Cher Vincent
- Brittany Luse
- Eric Eddings
- Sharon Mashihi
- Dennis Funk
Re:sound #99: The Radio Ballads Show
This hour: the BBC's groundbreaking Radio Ballads, produced between 1958 and 1964, which wove sounds, voices, and music into dense sonic tapestries that explored everything from the lives of coal miners to the lives of teenagers, focusing mainly on communities that weren't often heard from on the radio.
- 2008
- 59:30
- Charles Parker
- Dan Collison
- Elizabeth Meister
- Delaney Hall
Re:sound #102: The Animals Show
This hour: foxes, rabbits, snakes, whales, birds, lambs, and dogs.