ShortDocs
Discover hundreds of short audio gems produced in response to a prompt from Third Coast for the ShortDocs Competition, hosted between 2003 and 2016. Each year ushered in a new set of rules, new creative partners, and ever-more magical results.
What was left?
Morgan Lennon describes a kind of loss that is not uncommon to women, though rarely spoken about.
- 2015
- 02:54
- Indaia Whitcombe
What Happens to Orphan Photos?
Photographs are some of our most treasured objects, leagues of people are dedicated to their preservation, but what happens to the pictures that've lost their way?
- 2015
- 03:00
- Qathi Hart
What was it about marriage anyway?
A distilled conversation between Erica Jong and Studs Terkel, remixed with music.
- 2015
- 02:49
- Austin Mitchell
What does that do?
Dr Christine Blancher, at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford, talks us through one of the big DNA sequencers they use to produce the string of letters (A, T, G, and C) which is your unique genetic code.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Brian Mackenwells
What If Is True
Hilary Clinton, Aliens, Angels.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Wilfredo Rivera
What Do You Know About Meat?
A butcher reflects on his work.
- 2015
- 02:51
- Bria Dolnick and Gus Coliadis
Who I Was and Why I Was
In 1968 a young art student accepts what turns out to be a very strange commission to make a painting.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Stephen Rowe and Mike Massey
Who Is Nina West?
Andrew was working as an artist and performer for years before he decided to tell his family about it.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Michael De Bonis
Why Wasn't I Named Smith?
A family talks about what it was like to have the same name as the most hated person in America.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Debra Oswald
Where did we come from?
My mother tells me our immigration story.
- 2015
- 02:48
- Siva Vijenthira
Who would do that?
A man, a bird, and a hose.
- 2015
- 02:54
- Vanessa Lowe
Where's My ACL?
A young man loses his ACL but gains it back and much more.
- 2015
- 03:00
- James Min
When you are 4 all you want is some sweet sweet YUM
A conversation with my four-year-old son about what would be his favourite dinner and what flavours he would like in it.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Euan McAleece and Ossian McAleece
What does smart working mean?
In and out about working nowadays [in Italian!]
- 2015
- 02:52
- Alessia Rapone
What do you think of when you think of stars?
A love story that begins over the phone and under the stars.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Jessi LeMay
What?? No way...
The First in a series of Short Radio Documentaries, this episode focuses on: "Order 9066."
- 2015
- 02:59
- Tim Nakayama
What happened to Greg? And what happens to him next?
Sometimes the way we respond to a suicide says more about us than the person who died.
- 2015
- 02:57
- Emily Guerin
Why they scream
By the end of the century half of the world's languages will no longer be spoken, this is one scream of resistance.
- 2015
- 03:05
- Tika Simone
Where did the ice come from?
Three generations of women discuss ice and death in the Amana Colonies.
- 2015
- 02:59
- Ellie Gordon-Moershel
What Makes A Bird Shape Your Life
Richard Browne speaks about his life and passion as a falconer.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Steven Ahlman
What happens when a horn and dog get together?
An unexpected jam session with a dog and an alto saxophone.
- 2015
- 02:27
- Elisa Shoenberger
Who Drank From That Cup?
Does a guy at Antique Roadshow have The Holy Grail?
- 2015
- 02:34
- Brian Price & Jerry Stearns
Why hasn't anyone let the cat out of the bag?
Animals often have amazing life stories, but no one can hear them because they can't talk.
- 2015
- 02:59
- Rose McBride
When Women Go Gray or Dye
Women contemplate and celebrate the choice to let their hair go gray.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Nancy Camden
Why is the siren still singing?
An evocative documentary about the sound and history of the foghorn at Lizard Point in Cornwall, UK.
- 2015
- 02:30
- Ellen Wiles