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 #96: The Sandbox Show
This hour: we're diving into the archives and rewinding our way to the 1970s and 80s, sampling some of the fascinating, strange, and hilarious work that was produced when public radio was a medium without a real template.

Re:sound #93: The Singing Show
This hour: a Japanese blues singer, an aging opera fan, and homemade recordings of a rural children's choir.
- 2008
- 59:30
- Dean Olsher
- Rachel Hopkin
- Katie Mingle
- Carma Jolly
- Delaney Hall

Re:sound #92: The Water Show
This hour: a disappearing lake, a luxury liner on the Adriatic Sea, and more.

Re:sound #91: The War and Peace Show
This hour: a radio station dedicates five days of air-time to a live reading of Tolstoy's War and Peace.
- 2008
- 59:00
- Brian DeShazor
- Christopher Sprinkle
- Delaney Hall

Re:sound #90: The Repetition Show
This hour: earworms, mantras, and stories told again and again.

Re:sound #88: The Messages Show
This hour: phone solicitors, bottle evangelists, a mysterious cassette tape unearthed in the attic, and more.

Re:sound #86: The Death Show
This hour: a visit to a pauper's graveyard, three very short (but very big) questions, and more.
- 2008
- 58:00
- Nora Harrington
- Katie Mingle
- Karen Michel
- Roman Mars

Re:sound #85: The Dollar Storeys Show
This hour: the wild and wonderful results of the Third Coast Festival's 2007 Audio Challenge: Dollar Storeys.

Re:sound #84: The Girls vs. Boys Show
This hour: girls, boys, and sleepover reconnaissance.

Re:sound #82: The Borders Show
This hour: an isolated village experiences rapid cultural change, a "border blaster" transmits totally unregulated radio programs from Mexico into the U.S., and a tiny frog causes trouble.

Re:sound #81: The Outfront Show
This hour: we celebrate ten years of Outfront, a groundbreaking show on the Canadian Broadcasting Corportation that invited listeners to tell their own stories.

Re:sound #80: The Art Show
This hour: a young patient escapes his hospital bed through flights of imagination, a musician documents a city under siege, and more.

Re:sound #79: The What Remains Show
This hour: a man transformed by illness, a house full of paintings left behind by an old friend, and a surprisingly complex story of old people in love.

Re:sound #118: The Shock Machine Show
This hour: the untold story behind one of the most famous, groundbreaking, and disturbing experiments in the history of psychological research.
- 2009
- 59:30
- Sharon Davis
- Gina Perry
- Delaney Hall

Re:sound #208 The Behind the Headlines Show
This hour stories of black lives caught in the cross hairs of injustice.

Re:sound #76: The Being Deaf Show
This hour: sign language, lip-reading, and deaf culture.
- 2007
- 59:30
- Kirsti Melville
- Roman Mars

Re:sound #236 The New You Show
This hour redefinition, reflection... and the new you.

Re:sound #261 No Bad News
This hour, we go into a hypnotherapists office and come out with a story of international intrigue.
- 2018
- 58:06
- Sarah Geis
- Dennis Funk

Re:sound #260 Princess Buzz
Today we go back in time to try and heal old wounds and revisit history.

Re:sound #259 Divided We Payphone
This hour, we trot across middle America, with a story from a Nashville neighbourhood, and a Missouri payphone that won’t stop ringing.
- 2018
- 55:00
- Meribah Knight
- Emerald O'Brien
- Laura Barton
- Dennis Funk

Re:sound #258 Tsunami Song
This hour, a deep dive into the anthem of the Confederacy, two different kinds of waves and a modern take on Romeo & Juliet.

Re:sound #257 Skateboarding Beatles
This hour, the most famous chord in pop music, swimming pools, skateboarders and more!
- 2018
- 60:00
- Avery Trufelman
- Joel Werner
- Miyuki Jokinranta
- Dennis Funk

Re:sound #256 Toccata in Dream Murder
This hour more of our faves, including Gloria Gaynor, a seventeen year-old retiree, and two spoofs: one microbiological and one murderous.

Re:sound #255 Taxidermied Cows
This hour, a teenage taxidermist, a community of medical migrants who settled in Snowflake, Arizona, and a day in the life of a sacred cow.
- 2018
- 59:00
- Pejk Malinovski
- Rachel Matlow
- Delaney Hall
- Dennis Funk

Re:sound #254 Pinball Poets
This hour: lawyers-turned-pinball wizards, two extraordinary minds meeting in a field of poetry and, forty years after the phrase was coined, the skinny on 420.