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.

(I Wish That) I Didn't Know That

Several years after a life-threatening accident, Elizabeth understands what most of us can't.

2010
02:23
Jamie Courville

I Didn't Know That Students Had Two Lives

A teacher discovers that one of her students is a murderer and another accidentally misses the killing.

2010
02:58
Aaron Sand

A Cold Freezin Ni(g)ht

Spelling Bee Champion Sheena needs to track down, and bring back, the missing letter G for her new town in this radio drama for kids.

2010
03:00
Shubha Bala

All You Need is a Microwave

Sometimes interviews take strange turns - especially when the interviewee is a nine-year-old boxer with an inventive imagination.

2010
02:45
David Schultz

I Didn't Know That - 6

I Didn't Know That is a sonic exploration of state-controlled "truths," created almost entirely from appropriated public domain educational and military-training films.

2010
02:55
Tom Tenney

A Cold Freezin Night (On the Chain)

Connie Fredenberg tells the story one of her coldest experiences in Nikolski, Alaska.

2010
03:00
Aviva Hirsch

Chain of Missing Links - 19

A story of love found, and lost, and the spaces in between.

2010
02:56
Julia Grant

(Bicycle) Chain of Missing Links

2010 ShortDocs Winner! An 80-day bicycle trip from New York City to Seattle, camping and recording along the way, condensed into three minutes.

2010
03:00
Matt Purdy

Chain of Missing Links (de Unamuno)

Miguel de Unamuno is a very important figure in Spanish history. However his great grandson is much further away from him than any other person in Spain.

2010
03:03
Sofia Saldanha

Chain of Missing Links - 18

A relationship based on missed meetings and message machines.

I Didn't Know That - 5

A woman realizes that her partner isn't all she thought he was.

All You Need is a Wall - 4

An exercise in time condensation, or more simply time travel, in which the cave wall serves as interface between past and present, human and animal, Philip Smith, librarian, reads excerpts from two books about Upper Paleolithic cave art.

2010
03:00
Philip Smith

A Cold Freezin Night - 9

It gets cold in the desert at night and sound travels from really far away.

2010
03:00
Anna Boiko-Weyrauch

All You Need is The Wall

Audio collage pieced together from sound effects in Pink Floyd's 1979 album "The Wall."

2010
02:32
Chris Sewell

All You Need is 4 Walls

What 9 people need to make their houses feel like home.

2010
03:00
V. Dougherty

Chain of Missing Links - 17

A brief look at the issue of substance abuse among Alaskan youth.

2010
02:12
Max Jungreis

All You Need is a Wall (or Rat Shootin')

A micro-doc of a man's love of shootin' rats, while absorbing the laid back city life from his back porch.

2010
03:00

City Nights: Star for Sale

A man visits a star sale, where auctioneers are selling off the cosmos to the highest bidder. The Southern Cross, Orion's Belt, the Big Dipper -- they're all up for grabs.

2010
05:07
Gretchen Miller

I Didn't Know That (I was capable)

One man's struggle with himself and his family while trying to maintain his faith in God.

2010
03:00
Joe Johnson

Chain of Missing Links - 16

A conversation between a middle aged man living near the Lincoln tunnel and his new friend Mr. Army.

2010
56
Rob Chabebe

I Didn't Know That (about hotel housekeepers)

Learning the A, B, C's of housekeeping.

2010
02:59
Mieke Anderson

All You Need is a Wall (And I will find a way to walk right into it)

A young woman's attempt at boosting her "street cred" goes horribly, awkwardly wrong.

2010
02:24
Mira Burt-Wintonick

I Didn't Know That (Why They Make Us Laugh)

A piece which explores the psychological aspects of stand-up comedy and offers insight into the seemingly simple world of the comedian.

2010
02:59
Adam Rose-Levy

I Didn't Know That - 4

A sea-side story of what seagulls might eat, or not.

2010
02:59
Elena Botkin-Levy

I Didn't Know That (Un Hombre, su Perro, su Caballo, y Cielo)

Field recordings of a Peruvian Pentecostal church service were used as a base for this piece, with which samples from The Books were incorporated in support of the narration of a spanish folk tale about the nature of heaven and best friends.

2010
03:00
Jesse Ricke