Dennis Funk

Choosing a partner is just a game, or is it?

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.

This hour: imperfect, impolitic, infuriating... love.

This hour, we celebrate the work of a great journalist — Matt Power, who died March 10, 2014 while on assignment in Uganda.

This hour we look at the ups and downs of confinement.

This hour we listen in on hearing — a complex system of circuitry that is vulnerable to all sorts of interruptions, misfires and breakdowns.

This hour we step inside the mind and listen to our thoughts.

This week one woman's story unfolds through many threads.

This hour, waiting. Waiting in line, waiting for an organ transplant and waiting for a bus that's never, ever going to come.

This hour they built it and we see who came.

This hour we buckle up and hit the road.

This hour: the dinner table and all that it inspires.

This week, Israeli soldiers speak out to advocate for Palestinian rights.

This hour, two stories in which random events change lives forever, and a third pulled from a random cassette.

This hour stories of detours, bad directions and finding the right path... on the road and in life.

This hour we head back in time to 1984.

This week stories of dads who are starting to slip away and the sons who are desperately trying to stay connected.

This hour we celebrate the ethereal, Dickens-inspired works of British producer Cathy Fitzgerald.

This hour a revealing snapshot of Martin Luther King, Jr. as he struggled to stay the course he'd set out for himself and the nation.

This hour we meander our way down three rivers in search of solace, spiritual healing and, of course, total domination.

This hour some of our favorite childhood icons: from the man who gave us Thing One & Thing Two... to Dorothy, the Tin Man and Toto too.

This hour what you see, is not always what you get.

This hour we explore nearly a decade's worth of work from Canadian sound artist, musician and radio producer Sarah Boothroyd.

This hour two mysteries: one involving an obscure novel and Britney Spears, and the other a real life murder most fowl.

This hour stories of black lives caught in the cross hairs of injustice.

This hour first lines, the first day back and every last first you can think of.

This hour two stories that dive into the depths of the inner ear.

This hour: audio stories inspired by the written word, be it a novel or a comic book.

This hour, two delightfully out-of-the-ordinary musical portraits from producer Alan Hall.

This hour, the story of a man who's ultimate goal is to become a national evening news anchor.

This hour stories of those who share and those who creep in the shadows.

This hour we listen to some of our favourite entries to the 2015 Third Coast Short Docs Challenge: Studs Rules!

This hour stories of quiet calls that have produced the most unexpected responses.

This hour we're live at the Hideout in Chicago with stories of pairs who are complete opposites, but utterly entwined.

This hour the story of thousands of African American farmers who lost millions of acres of land at the hands of institutional racism.

This hour gravity, antigravity, magical trees and flying carpets.

This hour we're featuring two stories of love through loss... plus an interview with the producers who've written their way through these troubled moments.

This hour, uninvited guests like old lovers, irrational fears and the annoying habits that keep us up at night.

This hour audio air conditioning — we’re turning down the thermostat and ushering in stories that give us the chills.

This hour, one man who needs to devour as much air as he can and another who's at his best while holding his breath.

This hour, the suits we wear and the impressions we make.

This hour, the story of how a one event affected a woman, her family and the criminal justice system.

This hour we're featuring some of our favourite entries to the 2016 ShortDocs Challenge!

This hour we're going on three soundwalks that meander at the pace of real life.

This hour people trying their best — and sometimes failing miserably — to make a connection.

This hour the life and AIDS reporting of New York Times reporter Jeffrey Schmalz.

This hour we're featuring an episode of our brand new podcast — the Third Coast Pocket Conference .

This hour the unexpected and inexplicable.

This hour, rabbit holes — stories that start exploring one small thing and unexpectedly end up telling a much richer story.

This hour we’re coming to you from inside the Third Coast Institute of Sound — a fictional museum we’ve dreamed up where all of the exhibits and artifacts are dedicated to things that make sound and noise.

This hour, “I do” or “do I?” the calculus for marriage, for better and for worse.

This hour redefinition, reflection... and the new you.

This hour stories that dive below the surface to help us understand issues of race, the environment and immigration.

This hour, Mother’s Day, in all its beautiful, complicated glory.

This hour, stories dedicated to our furry and not-so-furry friends.

This hour two stories about what remains after the fighting stops.

This hour, stories that grab hold of our expectations and smash the binary.

This hour the symphonic textures of our everyday lives.

This hour, we’re sharing a few of Third Coast’s favourite stories that didn’t quite fit the mold of past episodes.

This hour, we dive into the audio features of the multi-talented musician and poet, Phil Smith.

This hour, amateur detectives, spiritual revelations and other stories of dogged perseverance.

This hour, we're diving deep into the strange, beautiful world of modern music composition.

The 2014 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition.

The 2014 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition.

The 2015 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition.

The 2015 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition.

This hour we're listening to some of the winners of our annual documentary competition.

This hour we're listening to some of the winners of our annual documentary competition.

Turn right and you'll meet the man or woman of your dreams. Turn left and you'll get hit by a car.

On this episode of Re:sound, a live recording of Third Coast's recent listening event with WBEZ Education reporter Linda Lutton.

This week on Re:sound, a powerful story of love and loss... plus an interview with Australian producer Jaye Kranz

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

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.

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

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

On this episode of Re:sound, we're featuring an episode of the podcast Here Be Monsters .

This week on the podcast, a Third Coast original production.

On April 11, 2017, Third Coast held a public discussion in Chicago to discuss S-Town , the most-buzzed about podcast of the year, from Serial Productions and This American Life .

This hour, some of the winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition
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This hour, some of the winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition, including the Best Documentary: Gold Award winner.

One minute, snatched from a Chanukah party in 1992. Gwen Macsai's party, to be exact.

This hour, Third Coast’s take on the holidays.

This hour we're going behind-the-scenes at two top podcasts: The Daily and 99% Invisible .

This hour, we look back on some of our favorite moments from the past 14 years of Re:sound .

This hour, we remember the audio work of two brilliant producers who recently passed away — Jesse Cox & Joe Frank.

This hour, three stories from the annals of analog.

This hour an unlikely best-seller, a colorful hero and the legends of burlesque.

This hour: lawyers-turned-pinball wizards, two extraordinary minds meeting in a field of poetry and, forty years after the phrase was coined, the skinny on 420.

This hour, a teenage taxidermist, a community of medical migrants who settled in Snowflake, Arizona, and a day in the life of a sacred cow.

This hour more of our faves, including Gloria Gaynor, a seventeen year-old retiree, and two spoofs: one microbiological and one murderous.

This hour, the most famous chord in pop music, swimming pools, skateboarders and more!

This hour, a deep dive into the anthem of the Confederacy, two different kinds of waves and a modern take on Romeo & Juliet.

This hour, we trot across middle America, with a story from a Nashville neighbourhood, and a Missouri payphone that won’t stop ringing.

Today we go back in time to try and heal old wounds and revisit history.

This hour, we go into a hypnotherapists office and come out with a story of international intrigue.

This hour, a single commercial that ran for twenty-five years and two women who’ve been running from each other for even longer.

This hour we’re all about honesty. An honest look at fat, and an honest answer to this burning question, “What are the real lyrics to ‘Louie Louie’????”

Today we go from the pentagon to prison to philosophical musings about the sweet sound of the snow shovel.

Every other fall, the Third Coast stretches its wings, embraces a film festival model (minus the popcorn - too noisy) and presents the Third Coast Filmless Festival - a celebration of sound, story, and the art of listening.