Third Coast Audio Library
Our vast and ever-growing collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories, episodes from Third Coast podcasts, educational sessions on craft from the best makers on the planet, and more.
We’ve also featured some incredible audio work beyond this audio library, in other ways and using other formats: don’t miss the 2021 Web Showcase, featuring a more in-depth look at the winners, judges and even a list of 40 finalists from the 2021 Third Coast/RHDF Competition.

Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl
The Supreme Court case Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl seemed like a straightforward custody dispute: a birth father and a couple at odds over who would raise baby Veronica.
- 2013
- 35:39
- Tim Howard

A Sweet Illusion for the Bitter Tuition
Sofia is working on an unusual scholarship.
- 2013
- 02:59
- Mickey Capper

A Juicy Trip from Bitter to Savory
A milestone birthday inspires an extreme juice quest.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Sydney Beveridge

A Vegetarian's Umami Dilemma
Katherine was a vegetarian and thought she hated meat -- until she tasted elk.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Benjamin Bombard
- Philip Bombard

Annapurna: Memories in Sound
Annapurna: Memories in Sound is an impressionistic sound portrait of the Ximms' trek through the Annapurna Circuit, a popular three-week hiking trip through the Himalayas to Nepal.
- 2002
- 38:00
- Aaron Ximm
- Bronwyn Ximm

The Ashes of Oakridge
A wildfire swept through Oakridge Mobile Home Park in Sylmar, California in November 2008, destroying more homes, and displacing more families, than any California blaze in decades.
- 2009
- 42:17
- Frank Stoltze
- Queena Sook Kim

All My Stuff in Bags
When Daniel Sosa turned 18, his father kicked him out of the house for being gay. Daniel describes the night he was forced to leave, the struggles he faces as a high school student living on his own, and his desire to return home again.
- 2004
- 09:52
- Amy Drozdowska
- Hillary Frank

A Fragile Son
Surjit Sachdev grew up in a conservative family in India. Surjit's father was an engineer, and he's an engineer, but the family tradition ended when Surjit's son was born with a severe mental disability.
- 2007
- 14:01
- Carma Jolly
- Surjit Sachdev

American Dad
Growing up poor in Mexico City, Pilar dreamed of reuniting with her father who had moved to America years before.
- 2012
- 11:29
- Stephanie Foo

All You Need is a (Separation Barrier)
2010 ShortDocs Winner! From Baghdad to Western Sahara, an alphabetic listing of the world's prominent separation barriers builds a wall of its own.
- 2010
- 03:01
- Niall Farrell

The Auctioneer
More than 20 years ago, musicologist Ned Sublette attended the Missouri Auction School in Kansas City, and brought along his tape recorder.
- 2011
- 27:08
- Ned Sublette

The Artangel Podcast: Memory
Inspired by three art works from the London-based art organization Artangel, producer Francesca Panetta offers an immersive sonic exploration through the subject of memory: personal, geographical, musical, architectural...
- 2011
- 27:20
- Francesca Panetta
- Seb Emina

A Cold Freezin Night (for Doomed Lovers)
2010 ShortDocs Winner! I said this is NUTS, and he agreed.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Andrea Silenzi

All You Need is a Wall - 16
2010 ShortDocs Winner! In 2004, a group of Pride Day revellers gathered for a party on Creighton Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia and were treated to a riveting display of hermaphroditic slug sex.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Frances Willick

An Interior Life
A meditation on love, loss and loneliness in south London, An Interior Life tells the story of Bernard, an 86-year-old gay man who has been alone since the death of his long term partner.
- 2010
- 07:31
- Laurence Grissell

A Sense of Duty
This story is a tale of love, betrayal, and a secret.
- 2011
- 50:29
- Heather Stewart

A Clothing Frenzied
Ben Zimmerman ran The Books' samples through a sequenced Peavey Pro-Fex, created the track in Ableton, mastered it, ran it through several custom dynamic pitch and time-scaling effects (a different program for each submission) and mastered it again.
- 2010
- 01:53
- Ben Zimmerman

All You Need is a ____.
Two opposing groups of immigration protestors in Arizona attempt to define the word "wall" without referring to Mexico.
- 2010
- 01:59
- Aengus Anderson
- James Ford Howell

A Cold Freezin Night - 8
An evening walk gives one man more than he bargained for.
- 2010
- 02:30
- Karen Gollrad
- Liz Bustamante

A Cold Freezin night - 10
This song is a story about the magestical feelings and memories related to going fishing as a child.
- 2010
- 02:58
- Devin Hildebrand
- Ross Farbe

All You Need is a Wall - 7
The problems regarding journeying through a metaphorical landscape.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Shaun D. Wilson
- Sonia Yee

All You Need is a Wall - 10
Writers' block forces an author to reconsider her approach to a lack of inspiration.
- 2010
- 01:42
- Henry Hocking
- Marijke Peters

ARTE Radio
It's French. It's all online. It's pretty much Radio 2.0...
- 2012
- 01:15
- Silvain Gire

A Sister's Sweet Victory
My passion, hunger and desire to find my sister; strangely connected through food.
- 2013
- 02:56
- John Mackniskas
- Maureen Sanchez

Alone Like a Stone in the New World (aka All These Things)
Writer Margy Rochlin wonders why her family is selling her grandmother's house in Arizona.
- 1989
- 26:14
- Jay Allison
- Margy Rochlin