Winners
Immerse your ears in the best audio documentaries and storytelling since 2001, the winners of the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.

Mayday Mayday
During the dying minutes of April 2003, as the Cornish town of Padstow celebrated the coming of summer, actor Tristan Sturrock broke his neck falling off a wall.
- 2015
- 43:43
- Becky Ripley

Britney
Andrea is a writer who no one reads. Her second novel bombed. She never saw anyone reading it. That is until 2008.
- 2015
- 44:30
- Starlee Kine

Betrayed by Silence
Betrayed by Silence takes listeners inside the clergy sex abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to find out how and why three archbishops protected priests who sexually abused children.
- 2015
- 57:05
- Madeleine Baran
- Sasha Aslanian

Burma’s Rohingya: Easy Prey for Traffickers
Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim population is one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.
- 2015
- 07:11
- Axel Kronholm
- Rob Sachs
- Flawn Williams
- Mia Lobel

Too Many Miles
What if Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” were re-imagined as a film?
- 2016
- 02:33
- Stephanie Rowden
- Jennifer Metsker

Arthur's Story
After twelve years of rough living in Vancouver, Arthur is moving into an apartment in a new supportive housing project. But moving inside from a life outside isn't as easy as you might think.
- 2014
- 46:07
- Steve Wadhams
- Suzanne Ahearne

Harper High School
In the 2011 -2012 school year, Harper High School, located in one of Chicago's most violent neighborhoods, saw 29 of its current and recent students shot.
- 2013
- 21:23
- Alex Kotlowitz
- Ben Calhoun
- Linda Lutton

HATCH
A man, in orbit, going round and round...
- 2016
- 02:29
- Geoff McQueen

Big Ship Diary
Each year, over 100 million tons of iron ore, coal, limestone and other products travel through the Great Lakes navigation system on huge cargo ships.
- 2012
- 11:57
- Allison Swaim
- Cecilia Vaisman

Deportations Before Reform: Anatomy of an Immigration Bust
As lawmakers continued to debate immigration reform in 2010, the Obama administration pushed for a path to citizenship.
- 2011
- 08:56
- Marianne McCune

Finding Emilie
While in college, Alan fell hard for a fellow art student, Emilie.
- 2011
- 19:58
- Jad Abumrad
- Robert Krulwich
- Soren Wheeler

Patriot Games
Best friends Rich Carlson and Tom Swenor got so fed up with the political process in America that they decided to form their own Tea Party chapter in Petoskey, Michigan.
- 2011
- 34:22
- Ben Calhoun

The Five Percent Rule
Soldiers smoke more than civilians.
- 2011
- 06:36
- Sally Herships

Red White & Bruised
2012 ShortDocs Winner! Don Floyd looks back on his life of eighty years, after surviving a heart attack in March of 2012.
- 2012
- 02:57
- Brian Barnhart Jr
- John Musto

Crown the King: Red Takes Black
2012 ShortDocs Winner! One block from Adam Kampe's apartment sits the Capitol Pool Checkers Club where, each week, men with nicknames like the Hammer, the Pressure Man, and the Razor gather to trash talk over heated games of checkers.
- 2012
- 02:32
- Adam Kampe

Glass, Not Glitter
2012 ShortDocs Winner! Neighbors of the Murrah Federal building recall the 1995 bombing that altered the life and culture of Oklahoma City.
- 2012
- 02:54
- Abby Wendle

The Red, White, and Blue Bus
2012 ShortDocs Winner! The familiar faces of the red, white and blue bus, whose lives I will never know.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Luke Eldridge

Teen Contender
Sixteen-year-old Claressa Shields has a dream, to be at the 2012 Olympic finals and hear the announcer call out, "The first woman Olympian boxer at 165 pounds - Claressa Shields!"
- 2012
- 15:37
- Joe Richman
- Samara Freemark
- Sue Jaye Johnson

What Happened at Dos Erres
In 1982, the Guatemalan military massacred the villagers of Dos Erres, killing more than 200 people.
- 2012
- 21:24
- Brian Reed
- Habiba Nosheen
String
Ever noticed it's the hard decisions that are often the easiest ones to make, and the inconsequential ones that can twist you into a knot?
- 2012
- 20:19
- Natalie Kestecher

Living 9/11
A decade ago, WNYC's news team spent days, months, and then years reporting on the World Trade Center attacks and their aftermath.
- 2012
- 58:59
- Emily Botein
- Marianne McCune

She Sees Your Every Move
While traditional street photography usually catches strangers passing by in a public space, the photographer Michele Iversen has been catching strangers passing by in their own private spaces, without their permission.
- 2012
- 06:33
- Jonathan Mitchell

My Parents' Extreme Tango Makeover
When Yowei Shaw was in college, her parents' relationship began to change.
- 2012
- 09:17
- Yowei Shaw

Jack and Ellen
Ellen was struggling for money, working as a Subway "sandwich artist" (yes, that's a real thing.)
- 2013
- 30:24
- Brendan Baker
- Mooj Zadie
- Nick van der Kolk

The Battle Over Billing Codes
There are two main things that happen when you go to the doctor - you deal with your health concerns and you fill out a small mountain of paperwork.
- 2012
- 06:13
- Gregory Warner