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NATIONAL BROADCAST

Every fall, we bring the best new documentaries produced worldwide to the national airwaves in a special two-hour program, Best of the Best: The Third Coast Festival Broadcast. The featured documentaries, all winners of the annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition, prove just how powerful radio can be. The stories engage, provoke, entertain, and transport listeners, proving that all you need to discover new worlds is a little box and an antenna.

Best of the Best: The 2012 Third Coast Festival Broadcast

This year's special showcases the winners of the 2012 TC/RHDF Competition, interviews with the winning producers, and highlights from our 2012 Third Coast Awards Ceremony hosted by the Kitchen Sisters and featuring the band The Hudson Branch.

Gwen Macsai, host of the Third Coast's Re:sound, and an award-winning writer/humorist, will guide listeners through this two-hour tour of the world's best new documentaries.

Best of the Best: The 2012 Third Coast Festival Broadcast airs from coast to coast on your local public radio station during the upcoming holiday season.

Give your station a call to find out where you can hear the program near you this holiday season.

Now you can also hear Best of the Best hour one, and hour two right here on our site.

Roll call! Best of the Best airs this fall on these fine stations and networks:

Georgia Public Broadcasting / Iowa Public Radio / Interlochen Public Radio / KALW, San Francisco / KAWC, Yuma / KBBI, Homer / KGNU, Denver / KGOU, Norman / KHNS, Haines / KISU, Pocatello / KJZZ, Tempe / KOSU, Oklahoma / KQED, San Francisco / KLCC, Eugene / KRCB, Sebastopol / KSFR, Santa Fe / KUNM, Albuquerque / KUT, Austin / KWGS, Tulsa / Marfa Public Radio / Moab Public Radio / NIPR, Northeast Indiana / New Hampshire Public Radio / Montana Public Radio / South Dakota Public Broadcasting / Spokane Public Radio / WBEZ, Chicago / Vermont Public Radio / WBUR, Boston / WCAI/WNAN, Cape Cod / WCPN, Cleveland / WDET, Detroit / WEKU, Lexington / WESA, Pittsburgh / WESM, Princess Anne / WFAE, Charlotte / WFPL, Louisville / WFYI, Indianapolis / WGBH, Boston / WGCU, SW Florida / Wisconsin Public Radio / WNIJ, DeKalb / WNPR, Connecticut /  WNYC, New York City / WORT, Madison / WRFA, Jamestown / WRIR, Richmond / WRPI, Troy / WRVO, Northern NY  State / KSLU, Hammond / KWMU, St. Louis / WUIS, Springfield / WUSF, Central Florida / Wyoming Public Radio / WYSO, Yellow Springs / WXXI, Rochester / WZYX, Franklin County


 

Featuring winners of the 2012 TC/RHDF Competition, including:
 

Gold Award Winner:
Teen Contender, by Joe Richman, Sue Jaye Johnson, Claressa Shields and Samara Freemark.

Silver Award Winner:
What Happened at Dos Erres, by Brian Reed and Habiba Nosheen