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

Hidden Problems of Silicon Valley
Since its founding 15 years ago, Tesla has become one of the most valuable car companies in the country. Tesla is worth tens of billions of dollars, and its all-electric cars have achieved cult status among enthusiasts.
- 2018
- 18:44
- Will Evans
- Alyssa Jeong Perry

John Thompson vs. American Justice
When police showed up to question John Thompson, he was worried that he had sold drugs to an undercover cop.
- 2018
- 49:14
- Andrew Marantz
- Sarah Lustbader
- Katherine Wells

Man Choubam (I am good)
Sharon is a weirdo and refuses to conform to cultural standards. Her mom does not approve.
- 2017
- 39:57
- Sharon Mashihi

Overnight in the E.R.
For most of the past decade, if a child or teenager got shot in Miami–Dade County, they would be taken to one place: the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
- 2018
- 09:10
- Sammy Mack

Summer Rain
To have and to lose control.
- 2018
- 03:00
- Nanna Hauge Kristensen

Uncounted Civilian Casualties in Iraq
The American-led battle against the Islamic State has been hailed as the most precise air campaign in history. But its airstrikes have killed far more Iraqi civilians than anyone has acknowledged.
- 2017
- 49:19
- Annie Brown

S-Town
S-Town is hard to describe. It’s a podcast that starts as a traditional investigation into corruption and wrongdoing in rural Alabama.
- 2017
- 08:05
- Brian Reed
- Julie Snyder

The Traffic Stop
On July 6, 2016, Philando Castile was pulled over by Officer Jeronimo Yanez for a broken brake light. 74 seconds later, Yanez fired seven shots.
- 2017
- 20:44
- Tracy Mumford
- Hans Buetow
- Riham Feshir
- Jon Collins

The Discussion
Some friends can talk about anything. There's no subject too secret or content too confronting.
- 2017
- 16:31
- Rosa Gollan

Standing Out From the Crowd at a Trump Rally
As the Iowa caucuses approached in February of 2016, Donald Trump’s political campaign was gaining traction with voters. One major theme became clear: fear.
- 2017
- 09:26
- Ike Sriskandarajah

Quiet Revolution
It’s sometimes said you’re never too old to learn something new but is that really sensible advice?
- 2017
- 05:00
- Laura Irving

Majd’s Diary: Two Years in the Life of a Saudi Girl
In a country where women’s lives are intensely restricted, Majd Abdulghani dreams of becoming a scientist. Meanwhile, her parents want to arrange her marriage.
- 2017
- 28:06
- Sarah Kate Kramer
- Joe Richman

Los Cassettes del Exilio
For much of Dennis Maxwell’s childhood, his father was living in exile, communicating with the family via cassette tapes.
- 2017
- 25:02
- Dennis Maxwell

Heavyweight: Gregor
20 years ago, Gregor lent some CDs to a musician friend. The CDs helped make him a famous rockstar.
- 2017
- 44:31
- Jonathan Goldstein
- Chris Neary
- Wendy Dorr
- Kalila Holt

Emancipation: A Young Man Leaves Foster Care on His Own Terms
Days after his 21st birthday, Noel Anaya had one final hearing before aging out of California’s foster care system, and he didn’t want to go through it alone.
- 2017
- 05:35
- Youth Radio
- Noel Anaya
- Brett Myers

Blink Once for Yes
When Mike comes home, his family is faced with a new reality and an impossible choice.
- 2017
- 58:46
- John Fecile
- Steven Jackson
- Lizzie Schiffman Tufano

The Accidental Gay Parents, Episode 5
After adopting their niece and nephew, Trystan -- a transgender man -- tells his partner Biff that he wants to expand their family and conceive a baby together. Which they do.
- 2017
- 42:23
- Hillary Frank
- Abigail Keel
- Kristen Clark

Violación de un Sueño: Jornada Nocturna
Thousands of office janitors work at night, cleaning up our work spaces after we go home. Many are immigrants – some undocumented – and many are women. With these conditions, they are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
- 2016
- 20:04
- Bernice Yeung
- Sasha Khokha
- Daffodil Altan

Why Do I Stay?
When Rainy was 17, she met a producer named Courtney Stein from WNYC’s Radio Rookies.
- 2016
- 30:33
- Courtney Stein
- Rainy

The Double
Thirteen years ago, in Viborg, Denmark, lived two young men with the same name: Thomas Andersen.
- 2016
- 43:37
- Thomas Arent Andersen

A Sentencing Hearing
On August 1, 2015 Glendale Police Officer Eric Guse received a call about a carjacking that would change his life.
- 2016
- 10:18
- Emily Forman
- Celeste Wesson

Not Safe to Drink
What would you do if your tap water turned brown?
- 2016
- 53:34
- Lindsey Smith
- Sarah Hulett

A Life Sentence: Victims, Offenders, Justice, and My Mother
The story of a terrible crime and everything that followed.
- 2016
- 54:55
- Samantha Broun
- Jay Allison

Mariya
Mariya Karimjee was a teenager in Texas when she first confronted her mother about the genital cutting she'd undergone as a child in Pakistan.
- 2016
- 34:57
- Kaitlin Prest
- Mitra Kaboli
- Mariya Karimjee

W. Kamau Bell asks his Mom about Sex
For most of his life, comedian W. Kamau Bell assumed his single mom never had sex after she made him.
- 2016
- 37:26
- Hillary Frank
- Abigail Keel