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.
Re:sound #128: The Willie McGee Show
This hour: the story (and the story behind the story) of Willie McGee.
- 2010
- 58:30
- Joe Richman
- Samara Freemark
- Nate DiMeo
- Delaney Hall
All You Need is a Wall - 1
Grace De Pass is fascinated with life at the laundromat. Her first trip to one, back in 1964, was particularly memorable.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Jill Strauss
Two Wheels to Nowhere
One man, one motorcycle, 13,843 miles, 89 days, 37 states, 166 interviews.
- 2010
- 30:33
- Aengus Anderson
Re:sound #127: The Urban Dreamers Show
This hour: the experience of the city -- from the bicycle seat, the planner's map, and the poet's pen.
- 2010
- 59:30
- Katie Burningham
- Zak Rosen
- Al Letson
- Delaney Hall
Re:sound #126: The Scam Show
This hour: the capital of scamming.
Re:sound #124: The Kids Show
This hour: kids sing opera, they talk about life on a remote island, and they opine about running the world.
- 2010
- 58:26
- Alix Blair
- Neil Sandell
- Alessandro Bosetti
- Delaney Hall
Children's America
Imagine an America ruled by children. They staff the post offices, run the schools, oversee the military, and decide on the form of government.
- 2009
- 35:11
- Alessandro Bosetti
The Books
Paul de Jong and Nick Zammuto, otherwise known as the Books, incorporate an array of sound fragments and miniature stories into their music.
- 2003
- 04:06
- The Books
Studs & Jimmy
Jimmy Yancey, the blues pianist and White Sox groundsman, and Studs Terkel, the broadcaster and author, may have lived at different ends of Chicago but they're both as integral a part of the city as the El...
- 2009
- 02:59
- Alan Hall
The Big City
For the last 20 years, Sherwin Sleeves has traveled the country, composing "theme songs" for cities across the United States. Inspiration for Chicago's song strikes while he's eating dinner at the Green Mill.
- 2009
- 03:31
- Sean Hurley
Riding Through the Summer
Pilsen, 2009: Chicago summer is full of life and full of sound - you can hear it best on two wheels.
- 2009
- 03:34
- Katie Mingle
Beat Street
An aging drummer takes his love of music - and his dreams of something bigger - to Chicago's Michigan Avenue.
- 2009
- 02:58
- Chris Sewell
Elevated (Grand Chicago)
An onomatopoetic memory of Chicago.
- 2009
- 02:51
- Aaron Ximm
Couple Two Tree
A loving examination of the Chicagoan language by four non-etymologists.
- 2009
- 03:01
- Sean Cole
Carl, with an El
Carl Sandburg inspires a meditation on private worlds as we ride the El.
- 2009
- 02:45
- Neil Sandell
Dawn at Chicago's Magic Hedge
Summer 2009: A field recording from of The Magic Hedge, where Chicago receives the dawn and migratory birds in lakefront silence.
- 2009
- 02:18
- Noe Cuellar
Re:sound #123: The Textbook War Show
This hour: one woman's comments at a school board meeting in Kanawa County, West Virginia, become a catalyst for deep division within the school district, the county, the state, and the entire country.
- 2010
- 59:00
- Trey Kay
- Deborah George
- Delaney Hall
Cooler by the Lake
A classical composer, Stuart Brocklehurst, attempts to deal with his writer's block through environmental field recording.
- 2009
- 06:14
- Laura Vitale
- Rick Moody
Lovable Losers
Feel the passion, feel the pain of the faithful followers of Chicago's Lovable Losers.
- 2009
- 02:58
- Rich Halten
Re:sound #122: The Three Records from Sun Ra Show
This hour: two amazing musicians explored through the portal of two amazing documentaries.
- 2010
- 58:30
- Charles Maynes
- Brent Clough
- John Jacobs
- Delaney Hall
Chicago's Gangster
Every July 22nd, a group of Chicagoans gather to memorialize the death of infamous and beloved bank robber John Dillinger, who spent a year evading the authorities and winning American hearts before he was shot dead in July, 1934.
- 2009
- 03:56
- Heather Radke
Fidele Musafiri: Miner
Cell phones and laptops rely on a particular mineral called colombite tantalum – coltan for short - and the growing demand for the material in the west has had ramifications in some pretty distant corners of the world.
- 2009
- 07:52
- Gregory Warner
Forbidden Love: Genetic Sexual Attraction
Ontario is the most recent province in Canada to open up adoption files in order to help birth families and adoptees find one another. But there is a disconcerting, though rare, consequence of adoptive reunions.
- 2009
- 33:57
- Aaron Brindle
- Aziza Sindhu
Re:sound #121: The Death Comes Home Show
This hour: the home funeral movement. Three families who've forgone traditional death rites in favor of a more DIY approach.
- 2010
- 58:00
- April Dembosky
- Karen Michel
- Delaney Hall
Death Comes Home
Death Comes Home is a portrait of three families who have chosen to forego the funeral director and prescribed memorial to instead care for their dead at home.
- 2009
- 51:10
- April Dembosky