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.

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.

The Letters Show

This hour: letters. To yourself, to your city, lost letters, found letters... and a love letterto letters.

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.

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.

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.

The Colors Show

This hour: a purple hotel, a family who argues over their skin color, a singing rainbow and more.

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.

Locusts!

There's a feeling you get when you encounter a swarm of insects.

Leaf

A tree wonders why all of its leaves are leaving.

  • 2016
  • 03:00

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
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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.

Purple Rain

“Mihai” – a pseudonym he chose himself – has a lifelong history of drugs and psychosis.

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.