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.
Nostalgia
The first Johnny Rockets opened in 1986 on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, a concept restaurant embodying the epitome of retro culture.
- 2001
- 34:04
- Paul McCarthy
Voices From the Dust Bowl
In the 1930's, the Great Depression and Dust Bowl drove farmers and their families from the central states to California.
- 2001
- 22:14
- Barrett Golding
We're Here to Work!
This documentary, part of a series called America's Women: A Legacy of Change, examines how women's lives have changed since they won the vote in 1920s, focusing on the period from World War II through the 1950s.
- 2001
- 29:28
- Doug Partusch
- Sandra Sleight-Brennan
The Change in Farming
This story brings together a young Toronto composer, Adam Goddard, whose passion is music, and his 90-year-old grandfather, Henry Haws, whose passion is farming.
- 2001
- 13:02
- Adam Goddard
- Steve Wadhams
Tupperware
In this nostalgic documentary, tag along with Tupperware dealer Lucky Laurel into the world of Tupperware conventions, regional meetings, and of course, those signature Tupperware parties.
- 2001
- 05:39
- The Kitchen Sisters
Swim Lesson
In Scott Carrier's family, learning to swim means spending a few weeks at Al and Betty Switzer's Aquatic School in Center Sandwich, New Hampshire.
- 1996
- 08:10
- Scott Carrier
Silence
Tripura and Om took temporary vows of silence when they first met almost 20 years ago. Joan Schuman produced this sound portrait of their experience by weaving together their vocal memories with an ambient narrative of chalk scratching on slate.
- 2001
- 12:22
- Joan Schuman
English
Karla Saavedra, 17, moved to Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood from Mexico two years ago.
- 2000
- 07:55
- WNYC's Radio Rookies
Face of Mercy, Face of Hate
Predrag Bundalo was a Serbian fighter in Sarajevo, who everyone called by his nickname, "Gaga." On the eve of his 36th birthday, Gaga stopped to visit an elderly Muslim woman in her apartment.
- 2001
- 21:00
- Michael Montgomery
- Stephen Smith
Jarman's Garden
Throughout the long illness at the end of his life, fllmmaker Derek Jarman put an extraordinary amount of passion and physical labor into his uniqe and rugged garden.
- 2001
- 14:49
- Sherre DeLys
Knoxville: Summer of 1995
Here's an audio homage on three levels: first, to James Agee's poetic memoir of the sounds and smells of Knoxville, Tennessee in the summer of 1915, shortly before his father died; secondly, to Samuel Barber's 1947 orchestral setting of Agee's text for the soprano Eleanor Steber; and finally to the modern city of Knoxville.
- 1995
- 32:05
- Alan Hall
Basketball Diary
Katie Davis takes along her microphone when she is drafted to "coach" a high school basketball team in her neighborhood, allowing us to listen in as she stumbles through the season.
- 1999
- 05:23
- Katie Davis
Road Scholar
You might recognize Andrei Codrescu's voice from his insightful commentaries on NPR, but Codrescu has also brought his unique perspective on American culture to the silver screen, via the movie Road Scholar.
- 2001
- 21:45
- Andrei Codrescu