Winners
Immerse your ears in the best audio documentaries and storytelling since 2001, the winners of the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
Lance and Nina: An Unlikely Story of Recovery and Redemption
At 24, Lance Rice was on schedule to become another sad statistic in the heroin epidemic sweeping through rural Massachusetts.
- 2014
- 08:28
- Karen Brown
Leaving a Mark
Emily Hsiao reads a Craigslist post about a man who wants his swastika tattoo covered up. And then she goes to meet him.
- 2014
- 13:14
- Emily Hsiao
The Hospital Always Wins
Back in 2004, Laura Starecheski visited a mental hospital in Queens, N.Y. called Creedmoor, where she met a patient named Issa Ibrahim.
The Real Tom Banks
Tom Banks is 23, gay and searching for love.
- 2014
- 18:12
- Jesse Cox
- Timothy Nicastri
Teenage Diaries Revisited Melissa's Story
As an 19-year-old raised in the foster care system, Melissa took NPR listeners along when she gave birth to her son Issaiah.
- 2014
- 19:34
- Joe Richman
- Sarah Kate Kramer
Fault Line
Kevin (not his real name) is a likable guy who lives with his wife in New Jersey. And he's on probation after serving time in a federal prison for committing a disturbing crime.
- 2014
- 24:14
- Jad Abumrad
- Pat Walters
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
Modern Day Scarlet Letter A
Many teenagers live half of their lives on social media sites and they're writing the rules as they go.
- 2013
- 08:24
- Courtney Stein
- Temitayo Fagbenle
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
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
Keep Them Guessing
As a young boy, producer Jesse Cox discovered a set of old cassette tapes which turned out to be a hugely popular BBC radio show featuring his grandparents.
- 2013
- 35:59
- Claudia Taranto
- Jesse Cox
- Russell Stapleton
Woman Emerges from the Dark
After Superstorm Sandy hit New York in October 2013, power outages covered large swaths of the city.
- 2013
- 06:17
- Marianne McCune
No Greater Love
London's little-known Memorial of Heroic Self-Sacrifice commemorates ordinary men, women and children who made a split-second decision to rescue another person – and died as a result.
- 2013
- 22:21
- Cathy FitzGerald
Remembering Andrew
On August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew slammed into Miami-Dade County changing the landscape of South Florida forever.
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl
The Supreme Court case Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl seemed like a straightforward custody dispute: a birth father and a couple at odds over who would raise baby Veronica.
- 2013
- 35:39
- Tim Howard
Parts of Speech
Doug Harlow isn't afraid to use his voice. He was a street poet in Boston and protested the Vietnam War in D.C. There was a time he could say "I love you" in a dozen languages.
- 2013
- 07:28
- Emily Kwong
Salt On the Lips
2013 ShortDocs Winner! David channels his frustrated desires into detailed fantasies for the perfect sensual feast.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Jenny Asarnow
The Last Morning was a Sweet One
2013 ShortDocs Winner! A short story in sounds of our food's start to finish, from morning to night (though not necessarily in the same day!)
- 2013
- 02:56
- Alix Blair
My Umami Gas Mask
2013 ShortDocs Winner! A bleak future with nothing good to eat... except your gas mask.
- 2013
- 02:58
- Sam Agee
Sel: Trois Façons (Salt: Three Ways)
2013 ShortDocs Winner! No one has an appetite for perfection and swearing like a Québécois in search of poutine.
- 2013
- 02:59
- Kelly Jones
Blackbird Pot Pie: Not the Pie Umami Made
2013 People's ShortDoc Award Winner! For some South Jersey residents, "Sing a Song of Sixpence" is more than just a nursery rhyme; it's supper.
- 2013
- 02:53
- Mary T. Diorio Schilling
Wireless Nights: Overnight Delivery
Each week on Wireless Nights, pop star Jarvis Cocker prowls the dark, finding stories of the night people.
- 2012
- 13:49
- Laurence Grissell
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
My Parents' Extreme Tango Makeover
When Yowei Shaw was in college, her parents' relationship began to change.
- 2012
- 09:17
- Yowei Shaw
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