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 #96: The Sandbox Show

This hour: we're diving into the archives and rewinding our way to the 1970s and 80s, sampling some of the fascinating, strange, and hilarious work that was produced when public radio was a medium without a real template.

Re:sound #97: The In-Between Show

This hour: people living in the in-betweens.

Re:sound #98: The Disappearing Show

This hour: one boy leaves home and never returns, another leaves and returns forever changed.

Re:sound #99: The Radio Ballads Show

This hour: the BBC's groundbreaking Radio Ballads, produced between 1958 and 1964, which wove sounds, voices, and music into dense sonic tapestries that explored everything from the lives of coal miners to the lives of teenagers, focusing mainly on communities that weren't often heard from on the radio.

Re:sound #100: The Cambodia Show

This hour: sounds and stories from Cambodia.

Re:sound #101: The Rock Show

This hour: an all-woman Led Zeppelin cover band and metal-loving children.

Re:sound #102: The Animals Show

This hour: foxes, rabbits, snakes, whales, birds, lambs, and dogs.

Re:sound #103: The Sean Hurley / Sherwin Sleeves Show

This hour: the work of producer Sean Hurley, a writer and musician who lives on top of a mountain in New Hampshire and has an alter-ego, Sherwin Sleeves, who's become central to Sean's radio storytelling.

Re:sound #104: The Music of Everyday Things Show

This hour: melodies from the world around us.*Note: due to rights issues, not all pieces in this show can be streamed on our website.

Re:sound #105: The Into the Music Show

This hour: a peek into auditions at one of the most competitive conservatories in Australia, and more.

Re:sound #106: The Entrepreneurs Show

This week: a worm digger in rural Maine, a remarkably effective citizen spy, and more.

Re:sound #107: The Loneliness Show

This hour: best friends who will never meet face to face, an abandoned wedding dress found floating in a lake, and more.

Re:sound #108: The Here and There Show

This hour: here, there, and in-between.

Re:sound #109: The Earlids Show

This hour: two stories that get incredibly, intimately, close to their subjects.

Re:sound #110: The Quiet Show

This hour: meditations on whispering, selective mutism, and a man who records some of the quietest sounds in the world.

Re:sound #111: The Radio Ephemera Show

This hour: the weird, wonderful results of the Radio Ephemera ShortDoc Challenge.

Re:sound #112: The Changes Show

This hour: a seismic shift in a man's identity, a bad dog who refuses to change, and more.

Re:sound #113: The Journey Show

This hour: journeys to the far north, the moon, and other places near and far.

Re:sound #114: The Secrets Show

This hour: secrets and double lives.

Re:sound #115: The Work Show

This hour: a lobster diver in Honduras, a chocolate taster in France, a movie director in Nigeria, and other stories that reveal the workaday world in all its globalized complexity, one person at a time.

Re:sound #116: The Family Show

This hour: families, in all their messy, dysfunctional glory.

Re:sound #117: The Hunting Show

This hour: hunting for moose, buffalo, and love.

Re:sound #118: The Shock Machine Show

This hour: the untold story behind one of the most famous, groundbreaking, and disturbing experiments in the history of psychological research.

Re:sound #119: The Cambio Show

This hour: change. Some of us crave it, some of us avoid it at all costs. But whenever and wherever it happens, change creates fallout, intentional or not.

Healing the Wound of Wounded Knee

Leonard Little Finger is the great-great grandson of Chief Big Foot, whose band of Lakota Sioux Indians were killed at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890.