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.
Re:sound #229 The Communication Barrier Show
This hour people trying their best — and sometimes failing miserably — to make a connection.
College: A Hotbed of Emerging Producers -- Part Two
All around the country college students are asking for and receiving new courses that teach audio production. They're intent on finishing college with multi-media skills, and, lucky for us, they want to help shape the future of documentary audio.
- 2008
- 01:22:35
Re:sound #112: The Changes Show
This hour: a seismic shift in a man's identity, a bad dog who refuses to change, and more.
- 2009
- 59:30
- Eric Winick
- Jay Allison
- Katie Mingle
- Thelon Oeming
- Delaney Hall
Re:sound # 157 The Children of Sodom and Gomorrah Show
This hour: Children try to survive in, and escape from, a Ghanaian slum called Sodom and Gomorrah.
College: A Hotbed of Emerging Producers -- Part One
All around the country college students are asking for and receiving new courses that teach audio production. They're intent on finishing college with multi-media skills, and, lucky for us, they want to help shape the future of documentary audio.
- 2008
- 01:20:55
Re:sound #44: The Coping Show
This hour: a pizza chef travels to North Korea to cook for Kim Jong Il, a young man contemplates his release from "juvie," and more.
- 2006
- 59:00
- Cath Dwyer
- Mark Don
- Hugh Levinson
- Roman Mars
Re:sound #119: The Cambio Show
This hour: change. Some of us crave it, some of us avoid it at all costs. But whenever and wherever it happens, change creates fallout, intentional or not.
Children of Sodom and Gomorrah
Sodom and Gomorrah is a hellish place in Accra, Ghana, where children eke out a living on a scrap heap of discarded computers that the West no longer needs.
- 2011
- 52:35
- Jens Jarisch
- Sharon Davis
Re:sound #185 The Chance Encounters Show
This hour: when two people meet, sometimes extraordinary things happen. And sometimes extraordinary things happen in order for two people to meet.
- 2014
- 59:12
- Peter Mulryan
- Liam O'Brien
- Lea Thau
- Katie Mingle
Re:sound #134 The Consequences Show
For every action there is a reaction. This week we look at consequences, both micro and macro.
- 2010
- 59:30
- Joe Richman
- Colm McNaughton
- Katie Mingle
Crown the King: Red Takes Black
2012 ShortDocs Winner! One block from Adam Kampe's apartment sits the Capitol Pool Checkers Club where, each week, men with nicknames like the Hammer, the Pressure Man, and the Razor gather to trash talk over heated games of checkers.
- 2012
- 02:32
- Adam Kampe
Re:sound #6: The Confessions Show
This hour: a retired child beauty queen recalls her youth and a young man revels in eating trash.
- 2004
- 57:30
- Roman Mars
- Matthew Power
- Julie Shapiro
The Control of Teenagers
The Control of Teenagers dances on the corpse of self-help publishing;
- 2008
- 02:41
- Michael Hearst
- Rick Moody
The Color Is Black
Here is darkness, construed as manifestations of the color black through history, space, time, and in the natural world.
- 2004
- 05:34
- Jerome Schmidt
- Rick Moody
Re:sound #100: The Cambodia Show
This hour: sounds and stories from Cambodia.
- 2008
- 59:30
- Virginia Madsen
- Aaron Ximm
- Delaney Hall
Cooler by the Lake
A classical composer, Stuart Brocklehurst, attempts to deal with his writer's block through environmental field recording.
- 2009
- 06:14
- Laura Vitale
- Rick Moody
Chicago's Gangster
Every July 22nd, a group of Chicagoans gather to memorialize the death of infamous and beloved bank robber John Dillinger, who spent a year evading the authorities and winning American hearts before he was shot dead in July, 1934.
- 2009
- 03:56
- Heather Radke
Chain of Missing Links - 36
A German and a Jew attempt to discover the relationship between their past and present - but their conversation proves only to weave a distorted map of missing links.
- 2010
- 02:59
- JJ Hurvich
- Jonathan Beier
- Tad Klimp
Cowbird
While the Internet is teeming with storytelling portals - including the one you're on right now - some rise above the rest: in quality, spirit, and ambition.
- 2012
- 01:16
- Annie Correal
- Jordan Bower
Chicago to Mexico, by Bus
Every week hundreds of people board coach buses in Chicago and travel to Mexico.
- 2014
- 11:47
- Linda Lutton
Christmas With Grandma
With Grandma, things start bad and get worse.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Ken Cormier
Chinese Pants
An unscripted talk between a mom and her almost teenaged daughter, inspired by a handmade Mother's Day card listing all the things a mother should never do.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Lucy Jan-Turan
- Ramona Jan
Curve of the Earth
A small bicycle bell rings in a big landscape.
- 2007
- 02:50
- Keith Taylor
- Stephanie Rowden
Chance
Turn right and you'll meet the man or woman of your dreams. Turn left and you'll get hit by a car.
- 2014
- 13:30
- Sarah Boothroyd
The Cabinet of Animosities
The things we give, the things we treasure, and the things we fling at each other when it all goes wrong.
- 2014
- 27:24
- Cathy FitzGerald