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 2011 (Part 1)
Re:sound's Gwen Macsai hosts this year's national broadcast, showcasing the best radio stories of the year - winners of the 2011 TC / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
Best of the Best 2011 (Part 2)
Re:sound's Gwen Macsai hosts this year's national broadcast, showcasing the best radio stories of the year - winners of the 2011 TC/RHDF Competition.
Resound #137 The Jazz and Freedom Show
This hour: Jazz and the struggle for civil rights in South Africa and the U.S.
- 2010
- 59:30
- Multiple producers
Beyond the Frontlines
News correspondent Jamie Tarabay spent much of the past decade reporting from some of the world's most high-profile conflict zones, including two years as NPR's Baghdad bureau chief.
- 2010
- 01:28:20
2010 Win/Win: AIR's Pitch Panel (Day 1)
This session pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer needs to master: pitching a story.
- 2010
- 01:30:22
The Script Disappears
You've pitched your story; you've collected tape; you've gone through your edits; you're ready to track.
- 2010
- 01:28:06
Audio in Space
Producing great audio experiences becomes challenging in entirely new ways when you go beyond the stereo field, and add the dimension of actual physical space (say, a person with an iPod in Central Park.)
- 2010
- 01:17:06
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Local Radio
Strong local radio doesn't emerge from a moment of inspiration; it's the product of repetition, experimentation, even failure. It's about habit.
- 2010
- 01:31:59
Tales of the Tools
New developments in both hard and software are making audio production much more affordable, flexible, and convenient.
- 2010
- 01:38:39
Out of Thin Air: Sound Design for Radio
At its most exciting, radio is a completely immersive listening experience.
- 2010
- 01:24:06
2010 Win/Win: AIR's Pitch Panel (Day 2)
This session pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer needs to master: pitching a story.
- 2010
- 01:26:10
The Sound and the Blurry
Is it true? Are photographers secretly laughing at the multimedia efforts of audio producers?
- 2010
- 01:39:16
Presenting the 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs: Book Odds
In early 2010, the Third Coast teamed up with the incomparable pop / indie / experiemental band The Books, and issued an open invitation to make radio.
- 2010
- 01:16:28
American Dreamer: Sam's Story
American schools teach students that with hard work, they can realize their dreams. But this isn't the case for everyone.
- 2010
- 44:04
- Dan Collison
- Elizabeth Meister
Resound # 139 The Metamorphosis Show
This hour: two people shed old skins and resurface in foreign territory.
- 2011
- 56:38
- Multiple producers
Our Day Will Come
Our Day Will Come explores the impact of R&B on America's civil rights movement, as well as the influence of the movement on popular music.
- 2002
- 59:07
- Lex Gillespie
Affairs of the Mind
Affairs of the Mind is a personal and confrontational story exploring the nature of jealousy and the parameters of infidelity.
- 2002
- 48:08
- Kyla Brettle
Corrections, Inc.
The corrections industry has become a $50-billion-a-year business and one of the strongest influences on criminal justice policy in America.
- 2002
- 49:55
- John Biewen
Von Trapped
Von Trapped is a story about a woman obsessed with The Sound of Music, as well as other things Austrian.
- 2001
- 31:43
- Natalie Kestecher
The Century in Sound: An American's Perspective
Voice of America's The Century in Sound is a radio documentary that chronicles the entire 20th century without narration.
- 2001
- 38:26
- Adam Phillips
The Lemon Tree
Bashir was six during the height of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, when his family was forced to flee his stone home in old Palestine and live as refugees in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
- 1998
- 41:23
- Sandy Tolan
The Ashes of Oakridge
A wildfire swept through Oakridge Mobile Home Park in Sylmar, California in November 2008, destroying more homes, and displacing more families, than any California blaze in decades.
- 2009
- 42:17
- Frank Stoltze
- Queena Sook Kim
Educating Esme
Esme Cordell shares a year's worth of classroom anecdotes and musings, culled from a journal kept throughout her first year teaching in Chicago.
- 2001
- 59:03
- Esme Cordell
Listening to Ghosts
In the past, radio was the most ephemeral of all art forms - it slipped by the ear and then vanished into the air forever.
- 2009
- 35:37
- Tom Morton
The Too Hard Basket
Only in the last 60 years or so have people begun to talk openly about sex, but one group is often left out of the discussion.
- 2010
- 52:40
- John Blades