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.
Chain of Missing Links - 25
The chains that code for our genes only make up 2% of our DNA, which means the purpose of the rest of the stuff is a bit of a mystery....
- 2010
- 02:59
- Henry Hocking
- Marnie Chesterton
All You Need is a Wall - 11
Divorce brings about unimagined ramifications.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Katie Ball
Chain of Missing Links (of Art)
What is art? What is an artist? These are questions you need to ask yourself when confronted with Aaron - a computer controlled machine making art.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Jakob Lisbjerg
All You Need is a Wall (or, How to Dance in the Moonlight)
The Wall teaches David how to be free--and how to dance.
- 2010
- 03:02
- Sam Greenspan
I Didn't Know That...(a different kind of romance)
Kaitlin and her recorder sitting in a tree...with Kelly the herbalist discussing the possibilities of plant-loving.
- 2010
- 03:04
- Kaitlin Prest
Chain of Missing Links - 24
The author recalls an incident from the past but wonders how much of it is real in this 3 minute piece about memory, ice cream and Lou Reed.
- 2010
- 03:07
- Ruth Lopez
All You Need is a Wall - 10
Writers' block forces an author to reconsider her approach to a lack of inspiration.
- 2010
- 01:42
- Henry Hocking
- Marijke Peters
A You Need is a Wall - 9
A master clock maker explains why he's devoted his life to the clocks we hang on our walls.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Patrick Skahill
A Cold Freezin Night (Adventure)
You might imagine the desert to be a cold freezin place at night but not so.
- 2010
- 02:15
- Julien Clancy
I Didn't Know That - 8
Sisters Joyce Brilbeck and Kaye Logan share memories about growing up around Ballantyne Road near Onondaga Creek in Syracuse, NY.
- 2010
- 01:45
- Farsheed Toosi
- Fereshteh Toosi
Chain of Missing Links (with the Fourth of July)
Recordings of celebration in a distant land.
- 2010
- 02:31
- Zachary Baiel
All You Need is a Wall - 8
Mike shares the story of his start in the black market after he began dating a hippie woman named Samantha.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Zachary Baiel
Chain of Missing Links - 23
Can you believe there were this many things on top of the ground? Some of them have been worked and are beautiful.
- 2010
- 02:00
- Katherine Wells
All You Need is a Wall - 7
The problems regarding journeying through a metaphorical landscape.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Shaun D. Wilson
- Sonia Yee
A Cold Freezin night - 10
This song is a story about the magestical feelings and memories related to going fishing as a child.
- 2010
- 02:58
- Devin Hildebrand
- Ross Farbe
All You Need is a Wall - 6
How to listen to a dance... with a wall.
- 2010
- 03:03
- Jane Cramer
Chain of Missing Links (for a nervous kitty)
Jenn Hartmann was moving from New York to Los Angeles, but she had to find a way to bring her nervous kitty. Unfortunately, she decided to fly.
- 2010
- 03:01
- Tom Horan
Chain of Missing Links - 22
A series of archived Craigslist Missed Connections email messages are recorded and re-recorded and with each sent message the message deteriorates.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Jessica Grosman
I Didn't Know That (Blindwalking)
It's rather difficult to walk down the street with your eyes closed. But one of us tried to, here is the result.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Andrey Pronin
- Artyom Vysochenko
- Ksenia Donskaya
Chain of Missing Links - 21
Unheard conversations of axons and dendrites.
- 2010
- 01:14
- Foster Gesten
All You Need is a Wall - 5
Since the 1880s Jews from all around the world have been called to Israel by the symbol of the Western Wall - but now there's a new wall where old friends meet.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Wil Crisp
Chain of Missing Links - 20
In a world of billion dollar 'stimulus packages' and Web 2.0 consumer profiling how can you break free of the chains of commerce (and get cheap kicks at the same time)?
- 2010
- 03:00
- Wil Crisp
A Cold Freezin Night (on which people have the lamest conversation ever)
This is what happens on the last night of the Third Coast Conference, on a cold freezin' October night in 2006, when you put six sleep-deprived radio producers in a hotel room at three o'clock in the morning with cheap pizza, bad recording equipment, and a fair bit of alcohol.
- 2010
- 03:01
- Dennis Conrow
I Didn't Know That (You Were a Muslim)
A portrait of how a recent college graduate came to Islam, and the story of what happened when her parents found out she'd converted.
- 2010
- 02:55
- Tali Singer
I Didn't Know That - 7
A first- hand account of a strange event overheard on a bus.
- 2010
- 03:02
- Rowan D G Corkill