Re:sound

Third Coast’s radio show, hosted by Gwen Macsai, was a weekly radio show that remixed audio gems from around the world, and peeked behind the curtain at the producers who made them. It aired weekly on WBEZ in Chicago from 2004 until 2019. Browse through all episodes here, or listen to them on the Re:sound podcast feed.

Plus, check out the annual Best of the Best series, a Re:sound special. This special series showcases the best audio stories of the year, as crowned by our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. It airs on public radio stations around the United States annually.

Re:sound #59: The Music and Memory Show

This hour: music, memory, lost love, and John Denver.

Re:sound #52: The Books Show

This hour: readers, writers, literary performance artists, and the grammar police.

Re:sound #51: The Show 14 Redux Show

This hour: a visit to one of the most remote islands on earth, a woman who sings with crickets, a return to Zagreb, and more.

Re:sound #48: The Flux Show

This hour: two stories from RTE's Flux with Ronan Kelly.

2006
58:30
Ronan Kelly
Roman Mars

Re:sound #47: The Pets Show

This hour: a beloved pig and a meditation on dogs.

Re:sound #45: The Nosce te Ipsum Show

This hour: a child beauty queen, a young transgendered man, and an obsessive teen.

Re:sound #44: The Coping Show

This hour: a pizza chef travels to North Korea to cook for Kim Jong Il, a young man contemplates his release from "juvie," and more.

Re:sound #43: The Music Show

This hour: time-lapse phonography, a much-sampled beat, and the only instrument you can play without actually touching.

Re:sound #42: The Fake Doc Show

This hour: stories that bend, stretch, and downright fabricate the truth.

Re:sound #40: The Wanderlust Show

This hour: voyaging, wandering, and becoming a fanatic pedestrian.

Re:sound #39: The Radio Show

This hour: the strange, storied, hodgepodge history of radio.

Re:sound #38: The Games Show

This hour: tongue twisters, brain teasers, cheaters, and one of the worst high school football teams of all time.

Re:sound #37: The Studs Show

This hour: the indomitable Studs Terkel.

2006
59:31
Alan Hall
Roman Mars

Re:sound #36: The X Meets Y Show

This hour: a seemingly mismatched but (mostly) happy couple, a wife who exacts revenge on her husband via beef broth, and more.

Re:sound #54: The Emergency Show

This hour: a town grapples with a young person's violent death, and a sound portrait of a chaotic emergency call center.

Re:sound #50: The Feedback Show

This hour: a documentary composition by Alessandro Bosetti.