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 #83: The Going Up Show

This hour: mountain climbers, pilots, and people on the way UP.

Re:sound #117: The Hunting Show

This hour: hunting for moose, buffalo, and love.

Re:sound #109: The Earlids Show

This hour: two stories that get incredibly, intimately, close to their subjects.

Re:sound #95: The More Show

This hour: a janitor poet, a teenage psychic, and more.

Re:sound #94: The Migration Show

This hour: people move and places change.

Re:sound #89: The Kyla Brettle Show

This hour: two curious stories from one of the most talented and curious producers we know.

Re:sound #87: The Magpie Show

This hour: redeeming the much-maligned bird.

Re:sound #77: The Edna Lavilla Show

This hour: a closely guarded family secret and the hidden history of long-deceased grandmother.

Re:sound #71: The Lefty Show

This hour: left-handed creativity and innovation.

Re:sound #69: The Body Image Show

This hour: a very personal take on a rare subculture, a young man forced to confront his obesity, a dinner with unabashed nudists, and more.

Re:sound #66: The Falling Show

This hour: a man falls out of the sky, a woman falls into a hole, and a man recovers from a serious rock climbing accident.

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.

Re:sound #201 The Cathy Fitzgerald Show

This hour we celebrate the ethereal, Dickens-inspired works of British producer Cathy Fitzgerald.

Re:sound #114: The Secrets Show

This hour: secrets and double lives.

Re:sound #153 The Murdoch Show

This hour: The rise of media tycoon, Rupert Murdoch.

Re:sound #199 The Nineteen Eighty-Four Show

This hour we head back in time to 1984.

Re:sound #187 The Matt Power Show

This hour, we celebrate the work of a great journalist — Matt Power, who died March 10, 2014 while on assignment in Uganda.

Re:sound #188 The Tight Spaces Show

This hour we look at the ups and downs of confinement.

Re:sound #189 The Hearing Show

This hour we listen in on hearing — a complex system of circuitry that is vulnerable to all sorts of interruptions, misfires and breakdowns.

Re:sound #190 The Inner Thoughts Show

This hour we step inside the mind and listen to our thoughts.

Re:sound #192 The Waiting Show

This hour, waiting. Waiting in line, waiting for an organ transplant and waiting for a bus that's never, ever going to come.

Re:sound #193 The 'If You Build It' Show

This hour they built it and we see who came.

Re:sound #194 The Driving Show

This hour we buckle up and hit the road.

Re:sound #195 The Dinner Table Show

This hour: the dinner table and all that it inspires.