Featured Work
Our vast — and ever-growing — collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories from all over the world.
The Blacksmith's Song
After the death of his wife, renowned blacksmith artist Steve Weis moved from Toowoomba to Kin Kin on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia.
- 2013
- 28:50
- Hamish Sewell
KCRW's 24-Hour Radio Race
At the stroke of 10am PT on August 17th, 2013, producers around the world lept into action.
- 2013
- 04:49
- Bob Carlson
- Cristina Parry
Special Feature: Persevering Rick
From the ABC's Long Story Short, the story of a guy who was thrown a lot of curve balls, and overcame them all.
- 2013
- 16:02
- Mike Williams
- Katie Mingle
Special Feature: Everything Sounds
This week, we're featuring an episode of the podcast Everything Sounds.
- 2013
- 21:44
- George Drake Jr.
- Craig Shank
- Katie Mingle
Re:sound #169 The Ghosts of Vietnam Show
This hour: hauntings of war, ethereal recordings, and other ghosts of Vietnam.
- 2013
- 57:31
- Christina Egloff
- Jay Allison
- Cathy FitzGerald
- 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
The It's Complicated Show
This hour: imperfect, impolitic, infuriating... love.
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
Dear Santo Toribio
After Oklahoma passed the toughest anti-immigration bill in the country, a Catholic church in Tulsa was looking for help, so they created a shrine to Santo Toribio, the patron saint of immigrants.
- 2013
- 05:15
- Sarah Geis
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
Voices Lost and Found
An old cassette, tucked away for years in the back of a drawer, magically brings a lost voice back to life.
- 2013
- 05:17
- Eleanor McDowall
- Jude Rogers
The Whale's Choice
In certain waters, moments of connection between humans and whales do happen... but not often.
- 2013
- 13:20
- Jennifer Kingsley
Decode DC #6: The Future Was Now
In January, 2012, America's digerati pulled off the broadest, most powerful political protest ever orchestrated on the Internet.
- 2013
- 23:49
- Andrea Seabrook
- Lina Misitzis
Language Bites!
You may have been a "freelancer," or hired one, at some point in your work life, but have you ever wondered how the term originated?
- 2013
- 01:08
- Colette Kinsella
Soul of a Man
Ramblin' Jack Elliott has played music with legends like Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan.
- 2013
- 12:10
- Abby Wendle
- Sarah Geis
Persevering Rick
Growing up in Australia, deaf in one ear, Rick had a rough time learning.
- 2013
- 14:01
- Jesse Cox
- Mike Williams
Locusts!
There's a feeling you get when you encounter a swarm of insects.
- 2013
- 09:00
- Lulu Miller
Everything Sounds Episode #11: Microphone Museum
The invention of the microphone changed many aspects of modern life beginning in the late 1800's, but today most of us take these simple machines for granted.
- 2013
- 20:36
- Craig Shank
- George Drake Jr.
D Minor: The Ice Queen
If D minor were a person, who would she be?
- 2013
- 05:14
- Denise Ball
- Paolo Pietropaolo
American Student Radio
American Student Radio (ASR) is cultivating your future radio heroes.
John Cage and the Question of Genre
Form dances with function in this "seriously uncompromising"* and seriously compelling piece not so much about John Cage, as of the composer, music theorist, mycologist and artist, John Cage.
- 2013
- 31:02
- Chris Abrahams
- Rick Moody
- Sherre DeLys
Harper Funeral
A principal reflects on a turbulent year: 27 current or former students shot, 8 of them dead.
- 2013
- 06:35
- Linda Lutton
As Black As We Wish to Be
There's a tiny town in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio where, for a century, residents have shared the common bond of identifying as African-American despite the fact that most look white.
- 2013
- 50:29
- Lu Olkowski
The Organist
The Organist is a monthly experimental arts & culture program produced by the editors of the Believer - the award-winning monthly magazine published by McSweeney's.
- 2013
- 01:01:35
- Andrew Leland
- Jenna Weiss-Berman
- Ross Simonini