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.

An American Life

Vaughn Hood was a 118-pound barber when he was drafted into the Vietnam War.

2015
31:37
Larry Massett

Re:sound #115: The Work Show

This hour: a lobster diver in Honduras, a chocolate taster in France, a movie director in Nigeria, and other stories that reveal the workaday world in all its globalized complexity, one person at a time.

The Updates

When Sophie Townsend’s husband was diagnosed with lung cancer, she started the Russell Updates, a weekly email that laid it all bare for friends and family.

2015
36:28
Sophie Townsend

Anchor Dreams: The Passion of Scoop Nemeth

Brian 'Scoop' Nemeth has a singular goal: to become "the black Bill O'Reilly."

Re:sound: #207 The Oops!... Who Dunnit Again Show

This hour two mysteries: one involving an obscure novel and Britney Spears, and the other a real life murder most fowl.

Re:sound #208 The Behind the Headlines Show

This hour stories of black lives caught in the cross hairs of injustice.

Re:sound #119: The Cambio Show

This hour: change. Some of us crave it, some of us avoid it at all costs. But whenever and wherever it happens, change creates fallout, intentional or not.

Re:sound #118: The Shock Machine Show

This hour: the untold story behind one of the most famous, groundbreaking, and disturbing experiments in the history of psychological research.

Re:sound #116: The Family Show

This hour: families, in all their messy, dysfunctional glory.

Re:sound #113: The Journey Show

This hour: journeys to the far north, the moon, and other places near and far.

Re:sound #103: The Sean Hurley / Sherwin Sleeves Show

This hour: the work of producer Sean Hurley, a writer and musician who lives on top of a mountain in New Hampshire and has an alter-ego, Sherwin Sleeves, who's become central to Sean's radio storytelling.

Re:sound #112: The Changes Show

This hour: a seismic shift in a man's identity, a bad dog who refuses to change, and more.

Re:sound #111: The Radio Ephemera Show

This hour: the weird, wonderful results of the Radio Ephemera ShortDoc Challenge.

Re:sound #110: The Quiet Show

This hour: meditations on whispering, selective mutism, and a man who records some of the quietest sounds in the world.

Re:sound #108: The Here and There Show

This hour: here, there, and in-between.

Re:sound #107: The Loneliness Show

This hour: best friends who will never meet face to face, an abandoned wedding dress found floating in a lake, and more.

Re:sound #106: The Entrepreneurs Show

This week: a worm digger in rural Maine, a remarkably effective citizen spy, and more.

Re:sound #105: The Into the Music Show

This hour: a peek into auditions at one of the most competitive conservatories in Australia, and more.

The Letters Show

This hour: letters. To yourself, to your city, lost letters, found letters... and a love letterto letters.

2011
58:00
Katie Mingle

The Colors Show

This hour: a purple hotel, a family who argues over their skin color, a singing rainbow and more.

2013
59:01
Katie Mingle

Annapurna: Memories in Sound

Annapurna: Memories in Sound is an impressionistic sound portrait of the Ximms' trek through the Annapurna Circuit, a popular three-week hiking trip through the Himalayas to Nepal.