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.
Looking For Love
M. is six years old and transgender. Marlo is her single mom and chronicles their life together in her podcast How to Be a Girl .
- 2014
- 08:29
- Marlo Mack
Special Feature: Chance
Turn right and you'll meet the man or woman of your dreams. Turn left and you'll get hit by a car.
- 2014
- 15:07
- Sarah Boothroyd
- Dennis Funk
Special Feature: Persevering Rick
From the ABC's Long Story Short, the story of a guy who was thrown a lot of curve balls, and overcame them all.
- 2013
- 16:02
- Mike Williams
- Katie Mingle
Ear Hustle, Episode 1: Cellies
"We started with Cellies because we felt that people probably can’t relate to prison but they can definitely relate to a roommate, especially a roommate from hell." Earlonne Woods, co-host of Ear Hustle .
- 2017
- 23:39
- Earlonne Woods
- Antwan Williams
- Nigel Poor
Hana's Suitcase
When the Children's Holocaust Education Center in Tokyo acquired Hana Brady's suitcase, all they knew was that Hana was born in Czechoslovakia in 1931 and died at Auschwitz at age 13.
- 2001
- 29:08
- Karen Levine
Bartolo's Journey
Bartolo crossed the U.S. border alone… when he was just 16 years old.
- 2017
- 16:44
- Erika Beras
Nancy Episode 1: Hello, hello
Nancy is the inspiration of bi-coastal friends who met at the Transom Story workshop, and knew they wanted to make an LGBTQ podcast together.
Lord God Bird
The Ivory Billed Woodpecker was thought to be extinct until 2004, when it was rediscovered near the small town of Brinkley, Arkansas.
- 2017
- 11:18
- Elizabeth Meister
- Dan Collison
Basket of Deportables
On January 27, 2017, Donald Trump's executive order closed U.S. borders to citizens of seven majority-Muslim nations. Some of the people locked out were already on their way... mid-flight.
- 2017
- 09:48
- Zoe Chace
Ruffian
Some animals might run faster, but none run more beautifully.
- 2011
- 09:48
- Gwen Macsai
- Katie Mingle
Private Black Motherhood and Public White Protest
"What does it mean to be a woman? This is a trick question."
- 2017
- 12:52
- Stacia Brown
Where's Richard?
On February 15, 2014 Richard Simmons didn’t show up to teach the exercise class he had led for 40 years - and he hasn't been seen in public since.
- 2017
- 28:04
- Henry Molofsky
- Dan Taberski
In The Event Of An Emergency, Put Your Sister In An Upright Position
Every year on the day after Christmas, children of divorced parents are shuttled across the United States, from one parent to the other.
- 2001
- 29:08
- Susan Burton
This Senator Saved My Love Life
You have to give it to some elected representatives — they really will respond to the letters you send.
- 2014
- 24:39
- Anna Sale
Special Feature: Linda Lutton at Harper High
This week on Re:sound, the work of reporter Linda Lutton.
- 2013
- 15:11
- Linda Lutton
- Katie Mingle
The Season Episode 8: The Worst Part About Our Sport
How do you go from losing to winning?
- 2015
- 26:45
- Ilya Marritz
Violación de un Sueño: Jornada Nocturna
Thousands of office janitors work at night, cleaning up our work spaces after we go home. Many are immigrants – some undocumented – and many are women. With these conditions, they are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
- 2016
- 20:04
- Bernice Yeung
- Sasha Khokha
- Daffodil Altan
A Sentencing Hearing
On August 1, 2015 Glendale Police Officer Eric Guse received a call about a carjacking that would change his life.
- 2016
- 10:18
- Emily Forman
- Celeste Wesson
Journey
A spare and gripping account of one family's journey fleeing violence in Afghanistan.
- 2016
- 09:21
- Jamil
Dead Mom Talking
"If you want to talk to me when I'm dead, go to the bench."
- 2016
- 12:50
- Rachel Matlow
The Real Dean Scream
In 2004, Howard Dean's presidential run fell apart, punctuated by an incredibly strange sound he made onstage at the Iowa caucus.
- 2016
- 29:20
- Jody Avirgan
Gravitation and Other Graces
Part documentary, part rumination, and part fairy tale.
- 2016
- 26:11
- Stephanie Rowden
Special Feature: Passing Stranger, The East Village Poetry Walk
This week on Re:sound, a few stops on the East Village Poetry Walk, produced by Pejk Malinovski narrated by Jim Jarmusch.
- 2012
- 23:20
- Pejk Malinovski
- Katie Mingle
The Hunter
They say one man's trash is another man's treasure... Well, in Darren Atkinson's case, it's also his job.
- 2011
- 21:35
- Dominic Girard
The Loneliness of the Goalkeeper
British writer and radio presenter Hardeep Singh Kohli remembers the loneliness of being a goalkeeper, the player who spends 90 minutes looking at his colleagues' backs.
- 2010
- 27:41
- Adam Fowler