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 Sour Taste of Appetite

After listening to friends give their ideas on the word 'appetite,' I realized just how much anorexia has changed my view.

2013
03:00
Emma French

The Bitter Loss of Flavour

The sunny bike ride that taught one young woman the painful difference between taste and flavour.

2013
03:00
Charlotte McDonald

This Sweetness is Metaphysical

This is a story about adventuring, eating vegan food and smoking weed with your partner.

2013
03:00
Scott Fitzpatrick

Sour Stomach: Where's the Bathroom?

IBS is gross, funny and crappy (pun intended) to live with and it tries to dictate my life.

2013
03:00
Kristofor Husted

Inside The Leaf It's Bittersweet

The Dolemouse: a nutty study on optimal foraging theory.

2013
03:03
Jane Cramer

The Sweet Tweet Suite

When your appetite is for nature and for unusual sounds then you have to go on the odd adventure...

2013
02:59
Geoff McQueen

Sweet Chili Baby

A talk with Amos and Ruth in their kitchen as they share their excitement for food and speculate on how it will be passed on to the next generation.

2013
02:50
Dea Cisar

Enrich the Sweetness

Mental and physical acts of eating, how are you satisfied?

2013
02:17
Carly Kenneally

The Bitter-Sweet Story of a Migrant Worker

Somchai Sriweawnetr's quick thinking and courage helped to save 5 Americans in 1979 Iran.

2013
03:00
Catherine Louli

A Bittersweet Experiment

Two producers explore the hungers generated from living on an island in Alaska and some attempts at satisfying them.

Fear Tastes Like Salt Feels

A tale, fearsome and salty, of restricting restrictions told from the safe side of a youth, that is, beyond it.

2013
03:00
Julia Murphy

Umami Grease

In three courses, we discover the relationship between man and grease: the history, the culture and the conflict.

2013
03:00
Jackson Stanton

Smells like Umami: I Can't Quite Put My Finger On It

Alex Lane subjects himself to a five alarm chili shock treatment in an effort to resurrect the olfactory system that he's never known.

Barry Chung's Sweet n' Sour Home

Once the child of a family living in poverty in Hong Kong, Barry Chung is now a professor at Indiana University.

2013
03:00
Lena Morris

Sweet Ratio(n)

As he pursued a pro cycling career, the formula that helped J also hurt him, too.

2013
03:00
Sarah Lu

My Sweet Brother

Elaine Taylor's brother Clark has kidney disease - and it's been progressing for years.

The Problem With Salty Water

An automated teller machine discusses awkward moments, consumer culture and why she needs it to survive.

2013
03:00
Aoife Allen

All Foods Lead to Home (Sweet Home)

Road Rage is transformed by Passionately Prepared Comestibles.

2013
03:13
Phyllis Janik

2013
02:57
Kay Collins

The Sweetest Love

One new mother explains how her eating habits have changed as she develops her unborn baby's appetite.

2013
03:00
Morgan Davis

Sweet at Sea

A sweet encounter on the Irish Sea, retold at table.

2013
02:51
Sean Mullervy

The Road to Umami

The fate of every farm animal, in three parts: life, death, and consumption.

2013
02:57
Carla Green, Vanessa Vyvial and Anthony Abbondanza

One Man's Sour, Another Man's Sweet

Kerry Klein brings reclaimed food to a potluck - and doesn't tell anyone.

2013
03:00
Kerry Klein