Featured Work
Our vast — and ever-growing — collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories from all over the world.
In the Navy (INC)
Meet Zoe Dunning, an open lesbian, and hear about her struggle with the U.S. navy to stay in military ranks. Also meet Skippy the Sailor, who used his sewing machine to win the hearts of his fellow sailors. Producer David Gilmore talks with both, about their battles with the armed forces during the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" era.
- 2000
- 0
- David Gilmore
Prom Queens (INC)
Tom Truss, working as a producer and reporter for Outright Radio, chaperones a gay high school prom in Silicon Valley, CA. Listen as protesters line up to shame the prom-goers as they enter under the protective eye of straight clergy and parents.
- 2000
- 0
- Tom Truss
The Night Show
This hour: Listening to the night.
- 2012
- 58:00
- Katie Mingle
Double Your Impact!
Once upon a time there was a treasure trove of incredible audio stories locked away inside a lovely but creaky website.
- 2014
- 44
- listeners and makers like you
The Taking Care Show
This hour: the delicate interdependence between being in need and answering the call to help.
- 2010
- 59:00
- Katie Mingle
The Letters Show
This hour: letters. To yourself, to your city, lost letters, found letters... and a love letterto letters.
- 2011
- 58:00
- Katie Mingle
The Third Coast ShortDocs: Appetite Show
This hour: We showcase some of our favorite stories from the 2013 Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge.
- 2014
- 58:00
- Katie Mingle
The Failure of Flight Show
This hour: failure of flight. In one story a man mysteriously falls from the sky onto a sunny London street, and in another, a plane crashes into a mountain side, and an 11 year old walks away.
- 2014
- 59:00
- Katie Mingle
The Kid's Secret Places Show
This hour: where kids go to get away; from themselves, their troubles, the rules they're supposed to follow, and of course, their parents.
- 2013
- 59:00
- Katie Mingle
The Texas State Pen Show
This hour: we present two very different stories about the Texas State Penitentiary. Both are about soul - the kind you dance to, and the kind you pray for.
- 2013
- 59:00
- Katie Mingle
DUPLICATE RESOUND The List Show
This hour: To do lists, compulsive lists, data lists, lists in literature and a list of firsts.
- 2012
- 59:00
- Katie Mingle
The Colors Show
This hour: a purple hotel, a family who argues over their skin color, a singing rainbow and more.
- 2013
- 59:01
- Katie Mingle
2013 TC/RHDF Competition Winners
Behold! The 2013 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition winners - a most stellar batch of radio documentaries from around the world.
- 2013
- 06
- 2013 Winners
Who took home the Gold?
Huge congratulations to the winners of the 2014 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition!
- 2014
- 10
- 2014 Winners
What Mad Pursuit?
Scientists speak about discovery.
- 2015
- 02:57
- Susan Byrnes
Locusts!
There's a feeling you get when you encounter a swarm of insects.
- 2013
- 09:00
- Lulu Miller
Leaf
A tree wonders why all of its leaves are leaving.
- 2016
- 03:00
2017 Conference Presenters
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- NA
- 0
When Dad Put the Moves on Mom
A radio rom-com based on when my parents met.
- 2016
- 0
Why Share
A gentleman attempts to share a Taxi but finds an unwelcomed response.
- NA
- 01:53
How One Martini Can Lead to Your Greatest Triumph
Russell Bienvenue shares how a cocktail party paved the way for legendary architect Renzo Piano to compose Houston's internationally celebrated Menil Collection for art patrons John and Dominique De Menil.
- NA
- 0
Being Siri
A woman gives away an intimate, personal part of herself—a part of herself that she wasn’t even that crazy about to begin with: her voice. And she gives it away to a total stranger.
- 2017
- 07:16
- Erin Anderson
It Started With Oscar Grant
A decade ago, a 22-year-old black man was killed by a white police officer at Oakland's Fruitvale BART station.
- 2019
- 24:15
- Sandhya Dirks
Purple Rain
“Mihai” – a pseudonym he chose himself – has a lifelong history of drugs and psychosis.
- 2019
- 11:55
- Wederik De Backer
The Audio Guide to Grieving
Sometimes, a death in the family means cousins and casseroles. And sometimes — for one reason or another — it means figuring it out on your own.
- 2018
- 15:08
- Melanie Kruvelis