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.
Cicatrix
"Cicatrix" resonates in regenerative acts, resiliency, rootedness, and irreparably damaged nerves as it tries to imagine one woman's language of war.
- 2008
- 02:51
- Joan Schuman
Creative Process
An entry about making a contest entry.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Kay Collins
Control of Swimsuit and Mind
Kathleen Goldhar was asked to go out and try on the latest in swimsuit technology: the LZR Racer, made by Speedo, which is VERY form-fitting, and VERY hard to get into.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Kathleen Goldhar
The Change in Farming
This story brings together a young Toronto composer, Adam Goddard, whose passion is music, and his 90-year-old grandfather, Henry Haws, whose passion is farming.
- 2001
- 13:02
- Adam Goddard
- Steve Wadhams
City X
The shopping mall is a cultural and commercial phenomenon in America that most can relate to in some way or another.
- 2005
- 22:33
- Jonathan Mitchell
Childhood Trains
What is it about train travel that inspires music and memory? And why do people tend to confess their innermost thoughts once they get on board?
- 2006
- 21:15
- Sandy Thacker
- Steve Wadhams
Can't Catch Us All
What mice find offensive is the fact that these traps are not only lethal, but also cheap, low quality imports. (Don't mess with the mice.)
- 2007
- 02:31
- Conor Lennon
Caryll and Sidney: An Unlikely Love Story
Catholic mystic falls for the Ace of Spies in post-World War 1 London.
- 2007
- 02:59
- Kay Collins
Choose Responsibly
Choosing a partner is just a game, or is it?
- 2017
- 01:10
- Dennis Funk
The Century in Sound: An American's Perspective
Voice of America's The Century in Sound is a radio documentary that chronicles the entire 20th century without narration.
- 2001
- 38:26
- Adam Phillips
Circling the Center of Creation
Scott Carrier joins the ranks of thousands of religious pilgrims who have been circling the base of Mount Kailash in Tibet for centuries.
- 2007
- 18:05
- Scott Carrier
The Colors Show
This hour: a purple hotel, a family who argues over their skin color, a singing rainbow and more.
- 2013
- 59:01
- Katie Mingle
Re:sound #130: The Chicago Show
This hour: Chicago. Hogbutcher to the world, jewel of the Midwest, and everything inbetween.
Counted: An Oakland Story
During 2017, a team of Snap Judgment producers followed every homicide in Oakland, CA for the entire year.
- 2018
- 56:30
- Adizah Eghan
- Anna Sussman
- Shaina Shealy
- Jonathan Jones
Re:sound #270 City Intersections
This week, two very specific points on the map with two very different stories.
Change Intolerance
In 2014, the province of British Columbia switched nearly 15,000 methadone patients to a new formulation of the drug called Methadose.
- 2019
- 51:18
- Garth Mullins
- Sam Fenn
- Lisa Hale
- Alexander B. Kim
- Ryan McNeil
Centenarians in Lockdown
When the 1918 flu pandemic broke out, Joe Newman was 5 years old. Today, he's 107. He lives in a community for seniors in Sarasota, Fla., with his fiancée, Anita Sampson.
Crosses in the Desert
Alvaro Enciso is a retired man who lives in Tucson, Arizona. He puts crosses in the exact places where dead migrant bodies have been found in the Sonoran desert.
- 2020
- 24:36
- Catalina May
- Martín Cruz
- Dennis Maxwell
Checking One's Levels
Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best Documentary: Short Award, selected by Final Round Judges Stacia Brown, Sharon Mashihi, and Justine Tobiasz.
- 2023
- 04:34
- Talia Augustidis
- Eleanor McDowall
Re:sound #173 The Colors Show
This hour: a purple hotel, a family who argues over their skin color, a singing rainbow and more.
Re:sound # 140 The Country-Western Show
This week: every country song tells a story and has a story behind it.
Re:sound #217 The Call and Response Show
This hour stories of quiet calls that have produced the most unexpected responses.
Re:sound #15: The Consumerism Show
This hour: a brief history of the mall, radical knitters, and more.
Re:sound #223 The Cold Show
This hour audio air conditioning — we’re turning down the thermostat and ushering in stories that give us the chills.
Re:sound #11: The Chat Room Opera Show
This hour: sex on the Internet, music and memory, and more.