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.

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?

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.

Who Is Nina West?

Andrew was working as an artist and performer for years before he decided to tell his family about it.

What?? No way...

The First in a series of Short Radio Documentaries, this episode focuses on: "Order 9066."

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.