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.
Appetite for Home: Bitter-Sweet Memories of Learning to Cook & Eat in America
Longtime New Yorkers recall family cooking traditions and foods from home that have been lost to immigration.
- 2013
- 02:52
- Anne Noyes Saini
An Extraordinary Affair
The time: Ireland, mid 1700s. Young Eleanor Butler is from one of the most notable families in the country and lives in a grand castle.
- 2012
- 38:54
- Leeanne O'Donnell
- Liam O'Brien
A Sense of Place
Washington Post reporter Anne Hull shares her thoughts about how to capture an environment that reveals the world of a particular subject to your audience: by paying attention to detail and hopefully avoiding familiar cliches.
- 2005
- 01:19:08
Actionwomen
Audio montage featuring the voices of women protesters and a service man remembering life in the 1980s at Greenham Common, England, a miitary base for American nuclear missiles.
- 2007
- 02:46
- Anna Norberg
- Simon Norberg
Audio Educators Swap Meet
Get ready to steal from the best. Your educator colleagues at Third Coast have a fount of wisdom to offer, from hard-won mentoring insights to crafty teaching hacks. (Note: Audio will not be available.)
- 2016
- 0
The Argument of “Objectivity”
Is traditional “objectivity” in journalism on its way out?
- 2017
- 01:09:15
A Series of Deaths in the Octopus Level
This is an adventure that was recorded outside, inside and in-games.
- 2016
- 02:22
- Adriene Lilly
All I Need Now
A dead friend lives on, thanks to spammers and a willingness to believe in possibility.
- 2016
- 02:42
- Diane Rao Harman
- Kim Fox
Affairs of the Mind
Affairs of the Mind is a personal and confrontational story exploring the nature of jealousy and the parameters of infidelity.
- 2002
- 48:08
- Kyla Brettle
All Saints Bait and Rifle
Hubert copes with depression in a culture of guns: A radio poem.
- 2016
- 02:24
- David Merleau
A Cold Freezin Night - 4
In which, to curb his kids' insatiable greed, the author's father takes it upon himself to call off one of the most anticipated holidays of the year.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Eric Winick
A Saxophone in the Woods
You don't expect to hear a saxophone walking through the woods, and the encores are unlikely to happen.
- 2016
- 02:45
- Vladimir Kryuchev
All You Need is a Wall - 11
Divorce brings about unimagined ramifications.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Katie Ball
All You Need is a Wall (or, How to Dance in the Moonlight)
The Wall teaches David how to be free--and how to dance.
- 2010
- 03:02
- Sam Greenspan
A You Need is a Wall - 9
A master clock maker explains why he's devoted his life to the clocks we hang on our walls.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Patrick Skahill
A Cold Freezin Night (Adventure)
You might imagine the desert to be a cold freezin place at night but not so.
- 2010
- 02:15
- Julien Clancy
All You Need is a Wall - 8
Mike shares the story of his start in the black market after he began dating a hippie woman named Samantha.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Zachary Baiel
All You Need is a Wall - 6
How to listen to a dance... with a wall.
- 2010
- 03:03
- Jane Cramer
All You Need is a Wall - 5
Since the 1880s Jews from all around the world have been called to Israel by the symbol of the Western Wall - but now there's a new wall where old friends meet.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Wil Crisp
A Cold Freezin Night (on which people have the lamest conversation ever)
This is what happens on the last night of the Third Coast Conference, on a cold freezin' October night in 2006, when you put six sleep-deprived radio producers in a hotel room at three o'clock in the morning with cheap pizza, bad recording equipment, and a fair bit of alcohol.
- 2010
- 03:01
- Dennis Conrow
A Cold Freezin Ni(g)ht
Spelling Bee Champion Sheena needs to track down, and bring back, the missing letter G for her new town in this radio drama for kids.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Shubha Bala
All You Need is a Microwave
Sometimes interviews take strange turns - especially when the interviewee is a nine-year-old boxer with an inventive imagination.
- 2010
- 02:45
- David Schultz
A Cold Freezin Night (On the Chain)
Connie Fredenberg tells the story one of her coldest experiences in Nikolski, Alaska.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Aviva Hirsch
A Meditation on the Femme Fatale
This piece presents two powerful women: the original femme fatale, Lady Macbeth, and presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, to meditate on society's fixation with the archetype in both fiction and real life.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Alex Gonzalez
All You Need is a Wall (I Too, Sing America)
A high school teacher imagines what might happen when poet Langston Hughes, in his poem "I, Too, Sing America," has a chance to leave the kitchen he's confined to and actually sit at the table when company comes.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Adam Kampe