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.
Everybody SCREAM!!
Spin class gets personal.
- 2012
- 10:32
- Jonathan Mitchell
All in Time
The clock ticks; the moon waxes; the autumn leaves turn crimson.
- 2011
- 25:00
- Sarah Boothroyd
The Signing
The bureaucracy surrounding support for the unemployed is often mindless and ultimately de-humanizing for everyone involved.
- 2012
- 08:39
- Ellie Richold
- Nina Garthwaite
Passing Stranger
Ron Padgett and Andrei Codrescu recall a night in 1968, when fellow poet Kenneth Koch was assassinated, or so it seemed, during a reading at St. Mark's Church in New York City.
- 2010
- 05:13
- Pejk Malinovski
Beginnings
"A new start for the start."
- 2012
- 05:23
- Roger Beebe
American Dad
Growing up poor in Mexico City, Pilar dreamed of reuniting with her father who had moved to America years before.
- 2012
- 11:29
- Stephanie Foo
Me and Run Like a Dream
Here's your typical love story, except for one small detail: the husband is a race horse.
- 2012
- 13:21
- Jessie Borrelle
- Jon Tjhia
Bullied: Teen Stories from Generation PRX
Bullying isn't a new story, but lately, it's all over the news.
- 2012
- 14:00
- Catie Talarski
- Jones Franzel
Out of the Blocks
What does an entire city block sound like?
- 2012
- 07:30
- Aaron Henkin
- Wendel Patrick
Work in Progress
By now you've probably heard plenty of stories about "the transformation of a beleaguered Detroit" but we bet you've never heard one like Work in Progress.
- 2012
- 17:46
- Zak Rosen
The Sitter Dispatch
Straight out of college, Maya was living in her cousins' attic and was working a part-time, unpaid internship. Then she took a job as a nanny that turned out to be nothing like she'd expected.
- 2015
- 10:11
- Maya Goldberg-Safir
- Dennis Funk
Special Feature: The Last Days of Hollywood Park
On this episode of Re:sound, we're featuring one of our favourite entries to the 2014 Third Coast Richard H. Driehaus Competition.
- 2014
- 12:56
- David Weinberg
- Dennis Funk
Sucked into the Tunnels Beneath Las Vegas
There are some 14,000 people living on the streets of Las Vegas, and Nevada ranks second in the nation in homeless population per capita.
- 2010
- 08:32
- Adam Burke
Not All Who Wander Are Lost… But Some Definitely Are
A car is a classic place to realize: "oh, I’m lost."
- 2017
- 25:46
- James Spring
Overnight in the E.R.
For most of the past decade, if a child or teenager got shot in Miami–Dade County, they would be taken to one place: the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
- 2018
- 09:10
- Sammy Mack
Episode 1 - A Perfect Murder
The abundance and popularity of true-crime podcasts meant the time had come (and gone, and come again) for a really hard look in the mirror. The Onion and Onion Public Radio bravely rose to the challenge!
- 2018
- 13:40
- Katy Yeiser
- Fran Hoepfner
- Ryan Natoli
- David Sidorov
The Promise: A Beautiful Day in the Projects
The Promise is a limited-run series from Nashville Public Radio about life in James Cayce Homes, a public housing development smack in the middle of a city on the rise.
- 2018
- 24:58
- Meribah Knight
Dreamers
Joe Frank's Dreamers is more like an M.C Escher drawing than a traditional tale and leaves you questioning the blurry line between dreams and reality.
- 2012
- 12:18
- Joe Frank
Larry and Zach
In Joe Frank's imagined world, a father and son conduct a conversation that appears to center around certain, tangible topics. But it's actually a searing and candid examination of their relationship -- no holds barred.
- 2018
- 09:44
- Joe Frank
Arthur and Eleanor
Eleanor needs a family -- but the only family she had, her ex-husband Arthur, doesn't really need her anymore.
- 1987
- 05:28
- Joe Frank
Minister Excerpt
Joe Frank, master of late night radio, assembled this piece: a phone conversation between himself and a cranky minister.
- 2000
- 05:15
- Joe Frank
Fresh Air: Joe Frank
"Whatever tragedies might befall you, you can always right away think, 'well that would make a great story for radio!'"
- 2018
- 19:56
- Terry Gross
- Joe Frank
First You Leave and Then You Go
Karen's dad wanted to pass on his curiosity and his faith to his seven children. Karen inherited that curiosity, but sharing his faith is another story.
- 2017
- 10:28
- Karen Duffin
Being Siri
A woman gives away an intimate, personal part of herself—a part of herself that she wasn’t even that crazy about to begin with: her voice. And she gives it away to a total stranger.
- 2017
- 07:16
- Erin Anderson
The Big Night
Producer Jonathan Goldstein made every girl he ever dated watch the home movie of his family's Rosh Hashanah dinner he made when he was 17.
- 2002
- 13:57
- Jonathan Goldstein