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.
The Bitter Journey of a Chicken
A chicken goes on a journey to find his life's destiny and succeeds.
Re:sound #76: The Being Deaf Show
This hour: sign language, lip-reading, and deaf culture.
- 2007
- 59:30
- Kirsti Melville
- Roman Mars
Re:sound #33: The Bollywood Show
This hour: a tall, white New Zealander heads to Mumbai to try and land a role in one of the hundreds of Bollywood films the industry churns out each year.
- 2005
- 58:30
- Simon Morton
- Roman Mars
2016 Bitchin' Pitchin': The Art of the Pitch (Day 2)
A bonafide Third Coast tradition, this session pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer needs to master: how to pitch a story.
- 2016
- 01:16:58
Re:sound #232 The Baffled Show
This hour the unexpected and inexplicable.
- 2017
- 59:40
- Jonathan Goldstein
- Sally Herships
- Dennis Funk
Britney
Andrea is a writer who no one reads. Her second novel bombed. She never saw anyone reading it. That is until 2008.
- 2015
- 44:30
- Starlee Kine
Betrayed by Silence
Betrayed by Silence takes listeners inside the clergy sex abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to find out how and why three archbishops protected priests who sexually abused children.
- 2015
- 57:05
- Madeleine Baran
- Sasha Aslanian
Bullied: Teen Stories from Generation PRX
Bullying isn't a new story, but lately, it's all over the news.
- 2012
- 14:00
- Catie Talarski
- Jones Franzel
Bittersweet Grief in 3 Courses
Writer Zarina Zabrisky talks about her family's history and how it informed her relationship with food.
- 2013
- 02:44
- Sayre Quevedo
Bittersweet Courses for Horses
Man's appetite for money may mean the end of three courses for horses.
- 2013
- 03:01
- Eurydice Aroney
- Tom Morton
Burroughs at 100
Rock legend Iggy Pop presents an intimate portrait of William S. Burroughs on the 100th birthday of America's most cataclysmic author.
- 2014
- 56:27
- Colin McNulty
Boris the Mover
2006 ShortDocs Winner! A crush on a telemarketer results in betrayal.
- 2006
- 02:35
- Carma Jolly
The Big Meeting
Lorene decides to make real English marmalade for a meeting being held by striking maritime workers in her town.
- 2008
- 02:09
- Catherine Halley
- Wendy Jo Carlton
Battle Flagging Father
In 2009, Brisbane-based writer and documentarian Hamish Sewell traveled to Alabama to meet his estranged father for the first time in nearly 30 years.
- 2009
- 46:55
- Hamish Sewell
Barmy Banff Blackout Bingo!
Welcome to Thursday night $1,000 jackpot bingo at The Royal Canadian Legion in the small Rocky Mountain town of Banff, Alberta.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Alyssa Moxley
Between Friends
"Between Friends" is the story of one woman's coming to terms with being sexually victimized by her father.
- 2006
- 13:06
- Jody Porter
- Neil Sandell
Beginnings
"A new start for the start."
- 2012
- 05:23
- Roger Beebe
Basement Story
When his mother decided to sell his childhood home, Austin Bunn returned to help clean out the basement and rediscovered traces of a childhood game that never really ended.
- 2011
- 08:36
- Austin Bunn
Beat Street
An aging drummer takes his love of music - and his dreams of something bigger - to Chicago's Michigan Avenue.
- 2009
- 02:58
- Chris Sewell
The Big City
For the last 20 years, Sherwin Sleeves has traveled the country, composing "theme songs" for cities across the United States. Inspiration for Chicago's song strikes while he's eating dinner at the Green Mill.
- 2009
- 03:31
- Sean Hurley
(Bicycle) Chain of Missing Links
2010 ShortDocs Winner! An 80-day bicycle trip from New York City to Seattle, camping and recording along the way, condensed into three minutes.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Matt Purdy
Beer & Food, Neil & Eric: Two Sweet Pairings
An underground supper club pairs beers with dinners, served in a Mission District apartment kitchen in San Francisco.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Alison Byrne
The Bitter End
The quest to follow the chain of meat production - what happens to that steak before it gets to the plate?
- 2013
- 02:58
- Julia Stone
- Peter Frick-Wright
Bitter Taste of Murder
Will the intrepid detective solve the murder most foul at Tragedy Castle?
- 2013
- 02:41
- Scott Priz
- Elisa Shoenberger
Bittersweet TV
A television studio executive is challenged to dream up a ludicrous reality TV show idea and succeeds.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Audrey Dilling
- Ben Trefny