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Our vast — and ever-growing — collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories from all over the world.

Sweepstakes Winner
Joe Frank, the original radio maverick, is known for leaving listeners more than a bit uncomfortable.
- 2000
- 04:36
- Joe Frank

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

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

2011 TC/RHDF Competition Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition!
- 2011
- 06
- 2011 Winners

One-Minute Vacations
The world makes its own music, but we rarely listen with fresh ears says Aaron Ximm, sound artist, field recordist and founder of quietamerican.org.
- 2005
- 01:02
- Aaron Ximm

Ruby
A deaf-mute, lovelorn waitress has written a friend of her fractured heart. It's a garbled world in which Ruby spins between love, lust, and a bus ticket to California.
- 2003
- 03:01
- Susan Stone

Embroidery Felon
Ray Matterson spent the first year of his seven and a half-year jail term feeling angry at the world. Then he found a kind of redemption -- in a pair of socks.
- 2003
- 04:08
- Jonathan Mitchell

The Modern Woodsman
Filmmaker Adam Clitheroe playfully puts forth an audio portrait of a traditional woodsman . . . equipped with a cell phone.
- 2004
- 03:47
- Adam Clitheroe

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

A Drinking Song
Could The Star Spangled Banner be recast as a drinking song? Holger Mohaupt suggests that in this family, it could.
- 2004
- 01:40
- Holger Mohaupt

Waiting . . . for Love
This is a playful exploration of Nicholas Longstaff's first forays into the world of relationships, documenting the semantics of falling in and out of love.
- 2004
- 02:57
- Nicholas Longstaff

Soldiers React to Prison Abuse
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
- 04:19
- Belia Mayeno Choy

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

When Do You Feel Feminine?
After a teenager was killed near San Francisco for having a different biological gender from the one she expressed, some local middle-schoolers wanted to know why. What is gender, anyway?
- 2004
- 02:09
- outLoud Radio

Seratonin Syndrome
Ken Nordine wonders if the warning pamphlets included with many powerful prescriptions may cause some of us to suffer mild paranoia.
- 2004
- 03:36
- Ken Nordine

Electronic Samples Cut-Up
A few years ago, Mark Vernon bought a pile of old reel-to-reel audio tapes at a boot sale (think yard sale, but in the trunks of cars) near his hometown of Derby, England.
- 2002
- 02:14
- Mark Vernon

Back to School in a Garbage Can
A collage of love notes, tardy slips, and other high school detritus collected from high school garbage cans. Produced by Geraldo Hernandez and Giancarlo Hernandez for Curie Youth Radio.
- 2005
- 02:01
- Curie Youth Radio

Weird Little Plan
A revenge plot goes awry when a woman ropes in her estranged best friend.
- 2008
- 03:16
- Hillary Frank

I'll Quit Cutting When You Quit Smoking
Excerpts from the diary of a girl who insists that self-mutilation is saving her life. Produced by April Winbun for Curie Youth Radio.
- 2006
- 03:26
- Curie Youth Radio

Teenaged Guitarists Tackle "El Gato Montes"
Carlos Maeda and his quartet struggle with "El Gato Montes" in after-school rehearsals. Produced by Maeda for Curie Youth Radio.
- 2006
- 02:42
- Curie Youth Radio

Hairwaves: A Cautionary Tale
Bouffants, buzz cuts, mohawks, and dreadlocks: no matter the style, hair has played an important social and cultural role throughout human history.
- 2006
- 04:24
- Mark Vernon
- Zoe Irvine

Mr. Right
Searching for your ideal partner can be exhausting, even with the help of personal ads.
- 2007
- 02:51
- Inge Hoonte

The Happiness Project: Mrs. Morris
Musician Charles Spearin lives with his family in a lively neighborhood in downtown Toronto. A year ago, Charles decided to invite neighbors and friends over to conduct interviews loosely based around the topic of happiness.
- 2009
- 01:27
- Charles Spearin

The Memory Palace: Lost Pigeons
In this episode of The Memory Palace, the passenger pigeon dwindles from five-billion strong in the first quarter of the 19th Century down to one lonely widow in the Cincinnati Zoo in less than a hundred years.
- 2009
- 02:54
- Nate DiMeo

The Memory Palace: These Words Forever
In this episode of The Memory Palace, Guglielmo Marconi, the Father of Radio, dreams of a super-radio that would allow him to hear every sound ever made. Melancholy ensues.
- 2009
- 03:17
- Nate DiMeo