Stories

Purple Rain

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

2019
11:55
Wederik De Backer

Private Black Motherhood and Public White Protest

"What does it mean to be a woman? This is a trick question."

2017
12:52
Stacia Brown

In The Event Of An Emergency, Put Your Sister In An Upright Position

Every year on the day after Christmas, children of divorced parents are shuttled across the United States, from one parent to the other.

2001
29:08
Susan Burton

The Sitter Dispatch

Straight out of college, Maya was living in her cousins' attic and was working a part-time, unpaid internship. Then she took a job as a nanny that turned out to be nothing like she'd expected.

Special Feature: Producers To Keep An Ear On

On this special Third Coast Podcast we're doing what we do best — sharing the best radio from around the world!

Special Feature: Little Mermaid Favorites

On this episode of Re:sound, we're sharing two of our favorite pieces that were entered to win the 2014 Little Mermaid Award.

Special Feature: The Last Days of Hollywood Park

On this episode of Re:sound, we're featuring one of our favourite entries to the 2014 Third Coast Richard H. Driehaus Competition.

Los Frikis

How a group of 80's Cuban misfits found punk rock and went into exile without ever leaving home.

2015
28:32
Tim Howard
Luis Trelles

Looking For Love

M. is six years old and transgender. Marlo is her single mom and chronicles their life together in her podcast How to Be a Girl .

2014
08:29
Marlo Mack

For years, Horace Parlan played jazz with some of the biggest names, including Charles Mingus and Archie Shepp. Now, at 84, his long piano fingers are stiff, and he lives in a nursing home outside of Copenhagen.

2015
26:29
Rikke Houd

Introducing... The Sarahs

Let the audio fiction revolution begin! The Sarah Awards has the not-so-little goal of transforming radio drama worldwide.

A Long Distance Solution

The story of how a reclusive biologist living in the Yukon Territory helped free four women wrongfully imprisoned in San Antonio, Texas.

2015
21:51
Janna Graham

Living on Mars

A man who applies for a job on Mars, Walt Disney, a pot seller, and the taxi driver who explains it all.

The Intersection

The Intersection takes an unflinching look at a changing Bay Area through the lens of a single neighborhood corner.

2016
20:07
David Boyer

Frozen Alive

Outside Podcast plunges into a night of bitterly cold catastrophes.

Special Feature: The Sarah Awards

To kick-off Third Coast's summer fundraiser, we're doing what we do best — sharing great radio from around the world — with some extra special feature podcasts over the next two weeks.

Hana's Suitcase

When the Children's Holocaust Education Center in Tokyo acquired Hana Brady's suitcase, all they knew was that Hana was born in Czechoslovakia in 1931 and died at Auschwitz at age 13.