Featured Work
Our vast — and ever-growing — collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories from all over the world.
Gone
About 12,000 students drop out of Chicago Public Schools each year despite efforts by administrators and teachers to keep them on track.
- 2009
- 13:43
- Linda Lutton
Baggage
On the flight back from her honeymoon, Mary Beth loses her luggage and thinks it's a sign that her marriage might be a mistake.
- 2008
- 03:16
- Sue Mell
Debt Collector
A sci-fi melodrama about the abusive relationship between debt collector and collectee.
- 2008
- 03:39
- Roman Mars
Take Me Out
This audio art lament asks the question, "What happens when false care and concern land on the ears of someone truly in need?"
- 2008
- 02:37
- Carma Jolly
Weird Little Plan
A revenge plot goes awry when a woman ropes in her estranged best friend.
- 2008
- 03:16
- Hillary Frank
Road Scholar
You might recognize Andrei Codrescu's voice from his insightful commentaries on NPR, but Codrescu has also brought his unique perspective on American culture to the silver screen, via the movie Road Scholar.
- 2001
- 21:45
- Andrei Codrescu
2011 TC/RHDF Competition Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition!
- 2011
- 06
- 2011 Winners
Jarman's Garden
Throughout the long illness at the end of his life, fllmmaker Derek Jarman put an extraordinary amount of passion and physical labor into his uniqe and rugged garden.
- 2001
- 14:49
- Sherre DeLys
English
Karla Saavedra, 17, moved to Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood from Mexico two years ago.
- 2000
- 07:55
- WNYC's Radio Rookies
Silence
Tripura and Om took temporary vows of silence when they first met almost 20 years ago. Joan Schuman produced this sound portrait of their experience by weaving together their vocal memories with an ambient narrative of chalk scratching on slate.
- 2001
- 12:22
- Joan Schuman
Swim Lesson
In Scott Carrier's family, learning to swim means spending a few weeks at Al and Betty Switzer's Aquatic School in Center Sandwich, New Hampshire.
- 1996
- 08:10
- Scott Carrier
Tupperware
In this nostalgic documentary, tag along with Tupperware dealer Lucky Laurel into the world of Tupperware conventions, regional meetings, and of course, those signature Tupperware parties.
- 2001
- 05:39
- The Kitchen Sisters
Voices From the Dust Bowl
In the 1930's, the Great Depression and Dust Bowl drove farmers and their families from the central states to California.
- 2001
- 22:14
- Barrett Golding
Nostalgia
The first Johnny Rockets opened in 1986 on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, a concept restaurant embodying the epitome of retro culture.
- 2001
- 34:04
- Paul McCarthy
Big in Japan
Desperate to learn the language, Japanese schools, businesses, and government agencies offer small fortunes to just about anyone who can help teach English.
- 2000
- 29:03
- Robin Hilton
A Sense of Place
Filmmaker Tony Hill takes his blind friend to a mystery location, where she discovers her whereabouts solely through her sense of touch.
- 2004
- 04:59
- Tony Hill
Railway Lines
Sound artist Sylvi MacCormac tells this story about coming home by train along the Canadian Railway Lines.
- 2004
- 07:49
- Sylvi MacCormack
Return to Oakland
When Youth Radio reporters in Oakland, CA, spoke with their friends returning home from Iraq, they realized that the public wasn't hearing the perspectives of these young soldiers.
- 2004
- 02:09
- Youth Radio
Sensory Deprivation Tank
Jonathan Goldstein's got a knack for exploring life's great (and simple) mysteries via the telephone.
- 2007
- 06:14
- Jonathan Goldstein
Like Blackpool Went Through Rock
In the late 1950s, folk musicians Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger and BBC radio producer Charles Parker joined forces on a radio endeavor unlike anything the BBC (or the world, for that matter) had heard before.
- 2008
- 56:35
- Sara Parker
Breaking Away
Luzer Twersky was raised as a Hasidic Jew. At the age of 23 he decided to leave his family and everything he'd ever known to move into secular society. His upbringing had been strict -- no school, no movies, no dates, no jobs. Otrasized from his community, he entered a world he knew very little about.
- 2010
- 21:35
- Josh Gleason
Deliverance Day
Spontaneous songwriter Abraham Levitan composed this inaugural Re:sound wrap up song for the Chicago Show, reflecting on Wild Onion by host Gwen Macsai and the Third Coast Chicago Sound Drops.
- 2010
- 0
- Abraham Levitan
The Obscure News: Anatomy of a Punch, Part Two (INC)
The Obscure News podcast claims to feature "all the news the networks omitted." Dedicated to redeeming the ordinary, it's a chorus of anonymous voices telling those weird little anecdotes that are born every day, all tied together by a steadfast host, driving rhythm, and strategic bits of found sound.
- 2007
- 0
- Lloyd B. King
The Krasilovskys (INC)
What happens when a family business splinters into uncles, nephews, fathers and sons all competing with one other for the same clients? Ask the Krasilovsky family, legendary in the moving business in New York City, who spent decades jockeying for the best spot in the phonebook.
- 1981
- 0
- Robert Krulwich
The Last Place: Diary of a Retirement Home (INC)
A woman shares her secret concoction to relieve arthritis pain: nine gin-soaked raisins daily. Down the hall, two residents meet, court, and decide to get married.
- 1998
- 0
- Joe Richman