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.
The Taking Care Show
This hour: the delicate interdependence between being in need and answering the call to help.
- 2010
- 59:00
- Katie Mingle
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
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
The Night Show
This hour: Listening to the night.
- 2012
- 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
Re:sound #184 The Failure of Flight Show
This hour: failure of flight. In one story a man mysteriously falls from the sky onto a sunny London street, and in another, a plane crashes into a mountain side, and an 11-year-old walks away.
- 2014
- 57:05
- Bob Carlson
- Kerstin Zilm
- Rob Walker
- Katie Mingle
Mike and Victor: A Family Story
In 1993, Mike Checuga was a 24 year-old working obsessively long hours until his boss ordered him to take a day off each week.
- 2014
- 29:03
- Alex Kotlowitz
- Amy Drozdowska
Re:sound #183 The Kid's Secret Places Show
This hour: where kids go to get away; from themselves, their troubles, the rules they're supposed to follow, and of course, their parents.
Dear Santo Toribio
After Oklahoma passed the toughest anti-immigration bill in the country, a Catholic church in Tulsa was looking for help, so they created a shrine to Santo Toribio, the patron saint of immigrants.
- 2013
- 05:15
- Sarah Geis
Best of the Best 2013 (Part 2)
Re:sound's Gwen Macsai hosts Best of the Best: The 2013 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, showcasing the best radio stories of the year - winners of the 2013 TC / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
Best of the Best 2013 (Part 1)
Re:sound's Gwen Macsai hosts Best of the Best: The 2013 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, showcasing the best radio stories of the year - winners of the 2013 TC / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
Re:sound #182 The "It's Complicated" Show
This hour: imperfect, impolitic, infuriating... love.
2013 TC/RHDF Competition Winners
Behold! The 2013 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition winners - a most stellar batch of radio documentaries from around the world.
- 2013
- 06
- 2013 Winners
Modern Day Scarlet Letter A
Many teenagers live half of their lives on social media sites and they're writing the rules as they go.
- 2013
- 08:24
- Courtney Stein
- Temitayo Fagbenle
Harper High School
In the 2011 -2012 school year, Harper High School, located in one of Chicago's most violent neighborhoods, saw 29 of its current and recent students shot.
- 2013
- 21:23
- Alex Kotlowitz
- Ben Calhoun
- Linda Lutton
Jack and Ellen
Ellen was struggling for money, working as a Subway "sandwich artist" (yes, that's a real thing.)
- 2013
- 30:24
- Brendan Baker
- Mooj Zadie
- Nick van der Kolk
Keep Them Guessing
As a young boy, producer Jesse Cox discovered a set of old cassette tapes which turned out to be a hugely popular BBC radio show featuring his grandparents.
- 2013
- 35:59
- Claudia Taranto
- Jesse Cox
- Russell Stapleton
Woman Emerges from the Dark
After Superstorm Sandy hit New York in October 2013, power outages covered large swaths of the city.
- 2013
- 06:17
- Marianne McCune
No Greater Love
London's little-known Memorial of Heroic Self-Sacrifice commemorates ordinary men, women and children who made a split-second decision to rescue another person – and died as a result.
- 2013
- 22:21
- Cathy FitzGerald
Re:sound #181 The Texas State Pen Show
This hour: we present two very different stories about the Texas State Penitentiary. Both are about soul — the kind you dance to, and the kind you pray for.
- 2013
- 30:31
- Vivienne Perry
- Matt Holzman
- Katie Mingle
Remembering Andrew
On August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew slammed into Miami-Dade County changing the landscape of South Florida forever.
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl
The Supreme Court case Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl seemed like a straightforward custody dispute: a birth father and a couple at odds over who would raise baby Veronica.
- 2013
- 35:39
- Tim Howard
Parts of Speech
Doug Harlow isn't afraid to use his voice. He was a street poet in Boston and protested the Vietnam War in D.C. There was a time he could say "I love you" in a dozen languages.
- 2013
- 07:28
- Emily Kwong
Re:sound #180 The Tit for Tat Show
This hour: the story of Sandra Willson.
- 2013
- 56:02
- Catherine Freyne
- Katie Mingle
Voices Lost and Found
An old cassette, tucked away for years in the back of a drawer, magically brings a lost voice back to life.
- 2013
- 05:17
- Eleanor McDowall
- Jude Rogers