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.

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

What?? No way...
The First in a series of Short Radio Documentaries, this episode focuses on: "Order 9066."
- 2015
- 02:59
- Tim Nakayama

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

What does smart working mean?
In and out about working nowadays [in Italian!]
- 2015
- 02:52
- Alessia Rapone

What was it about marriage anyway?
A distilled conversation between Erica Jong and Studs Terkel, remixed with music.
- 2015
- 02:49
- Austin Mitchell

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 left?
Morgan Lennon describes a kind of loss that is not uncommon to women, though rarely spoken about.
- 2015
- 02:54
- Indaia Whitcombe

When is there nothing to see?
Sometimes attention to detail is not part of the job description.
- 2015
- 02:57
- Kenneth Knapik
- Spivey Knapik

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

What do you think?
Studs Terkel put to music.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Dave Langton

What Happened to the Pencil Case?
A small metal box comes to represent loss.
- 2015
- 02:53

Who would do that?
A man, a bird, and a hose.
- 2015
- 02:54
- Vanessa Lowe

What's Your Mexico Story?
My dad buys a ridiculous leather jacket in Mexico which leads to trouble with the local youth.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Marika Snider

What happened during the 1967 tornado?
An unforgettable story of survival, loss, and gratitude from a traumatic small town tornado.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Peggy Keiner

Why don't kites tell you?
A blind girl accidentally ruins a hand-made kite.
- 2015
- 02:44
- Lindsey Wu (Zhaoqianmeng Wu)

Who Are You and What Do You Do?
A short conversation about monks & music with Taraka Larsen of Prince Rama.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Brendan Mattox

What's in a name?
How does the movie Fargo resonate within the people of Fargo?
- 2015
- 02:50
- Meg Luther Lindholm

Who's making that sound?
An adventure in how sound affects different people.
- 2015
- 02:50
- Ricardo Paraíso Silvestre

What's behind the laugh?
A dark look at the role fake laughter plays in our lives.
- 2015
- 03:04

What Happened at Camp Bucca on June 9, 2007?
We reminisce on Operation Iraqi Freedom.
- 2015
- 02:56
- Caleb Nelson

What happened to my car?
A St. Paul woman's 1997 Honda is in high demand around her neighborhood.
- 2015
- 02:59
- Steve Nelson

What do the signs say?
A disconnect with connections.
- 2015
- 03:01
- Mark Daterial

What is your Mexico Story?
Two students of Mexican heritage have the opportunity to travel to different parts of Mexico to explore their roots.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Malia Stephens

What is it about girls?
The life of getting ready.
- 2015
- 03:18
- Vickie Ly

Where Did Cheney Put the War Heads?
John Perry Barlow and Dick Cheney were on different sides of the MX missile proposal during the Cold War, and after years of retrospect, Barlow credits Cheney for helping prevent nuclear holocaust.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Will Rogers