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 #230 The Dying Words Show

This hour the life and AIDS reporting of New York Times reporter Jeffrey Schmalz.

Re:sound #231 The Pocket Conference Show

This hour we're featuring an episode of our brand new podcast — the Third Coast Pocket Conference .

Re:sound #232 The Baffled Show

This hour the unexpected and inexplicable.

Re:sound #233 The Rabbit Hole Show

This hour, rabbit holes — stories that start exploring one small thing and unexpectedly end up telling a much richer story.

Re:sound #234 The Third Coast Institute of Sound Show

This hour we’re coming to you from inside the Third Coast Institute of Sound — a fictional museum we’ve dreamed up where all of the exhibits and artifacts are dedicated to things that make sound and noise.

Re:sound #135 The Taking Care Show

This hour: the delicate interdependence between being in need and answering the call to help.

Re:sound #133: The Food Show

This hour: Food. It's delicious. It's complicated.

Re:sound #262 Moo and Man

This hour, a single commercial that ran for twenty-five years and two women who’ve been running from each other for even longer.

Re:sound #99: The Radio Ballads Show

This hour: the BBC's groundbreaking Radio Ballads, produced between 1958 and 1964, which wove sounds, voices, and music into dense sonic tapestries that explored everything from the lives of coal miners to the lives of teenagers, focusing mainly on communities that weren't often heard from on the radio.

Re:sound #116: The Family Show

This hour: families, in all their messy, dysfunctional glory.

Re:sound #115: The Work Show

This hour: a lobster diver in Honduras, a chocolate taster in France, a movie director in Nigeria, and other stories that reveal the workaday world in all its globalized complexity, one person at a time.

Re:sound #113: The Journey Show

This hour: journeys to the far north, the moon, and other places near and far.

Re:sound #112: The Changes Show

This hour: a seismic shift in a man's identity, a bad dog who refuses to change, and more.

Re:sound #111: The Radio Ephemera Show

This hour: the weird, wonderful results of the Radio Ephemera ShortDoc Challenge.

Re:sound #110: The Quiet Show

This hour: meditations on whispering, selective mutism, and a man who records some of the quietest sounds in the world.

Re:sound #108: The Here and There Show

This hour: here, there, and in-between.

Re:sound #107: The Loneliness Show

This hour: best friends who will never meet face to face, an abandoned wedding dress found floating in a lake, and more.

Re:sound #106: The Entrepreneurs Show

This week: a worm digger in rural Maine, a remarkably effective citizen spy, and more.

Re:sound #105: The Into the Music Show

This hour: a peek into auditions at one of the most competitive conservatories in Australia, and more.

Re:sound #103: The Sean Hurley / Sherwin Sleeves Show

This hour: the work of producer Sean Hurley, a writer and musician who lives on top of a mountain in New Hampshire and has an alter-ego, Sherwin Sleeves, who's become central to Sean's radio storytelling.

Re:sound #102: The Animals Show

This hour: foxes, rabbits, snakes, whales, birds, lambs, and dogs.

Re:sound #101: The Rock Show

This hour: an all-woman Led Zeppelin cover band and metal-loving children.

Re:sound #98: The Disappearing Show

This hour: one boy leaves home and never returns, another leaves and returns forever changed.

Re:sound #119: The Cambio Show

This hour: change. Some of us crave it, some of us avoid it at all costs. But whenever and wherever it happens, change creates fallout, intentional or not.

Re:sound #97: The In-Between Show

This hour: people living in the in-betweens.