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.
Not By Accident - Episode One
For five years, Sophie Harper recorded nearly every phone call, chat with friends, even her visit to the fertility clinic.
- 2016
- 15:18
- Sophie Harper
Nina Black
Imagine being so hyperactive and distractible that you can barely keep track of where you are, who you're talking to, and what you're talking about.
- 2009
- 43:00
- Melanie Harris
New Orleans' Hurricane Risk
In September, 2002, three years before Katrina devastated America's gulf coast, veteran NPR reporter Daniel Zwerdling investigated what would happen to New Orleans if it fell in the path of a Category 5 hurricane.
- 2002
- 20:05
- Daniel Zwerdling
Nostalgia
The first Johnny Rockets opened in 1986 on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, a concept restaurant embodying the epitome of retro culture.
- 2001
- 34:04
- Paul McCarthy
The Night Show
This hour: Listening to the night.
- 2012
- 58:00
- Katie Mingle
Re:sound #261 No Bad News
This hour, we go into a hypnotherapists office and come out with a story of international intrigue.
- 2018
- 58:06
- Sarah Geis
- Dennis Funk
No Feeling Is Final
Usually when we talk about suicide we say those four magic words: "Just ask for help." But Honor Eastly knows it’s not that simple.
Not This Again
Angelina was a journalist living in Brooklyn when she was diagnosed with ALS.
Re:sound #236 The New You Show
This hour redefinition, reflection... and the new you.
Re:sound #158 The Night Show
This hour: Listening to the night.
Re:sound #45: The Nosce te Ipsum Show
This hour: a child beauty queen, a young transgendered man, and an obsessive teen.
Re:sound #146 The Nomads Show
This hour: From the highest fresh water lake in the world to one of the lowest spots on the bowery, we bring you stories of nomadic cultures, peoples and spirits.
- 2011
- 58:30
- Scott Carrier
- Ben Adair
- Stacy Abramson
- David Isay
- Katie Mingle
Re:sound #199 The Nineteen Eighty-Four Show
This hour we head back in time to 1984.
Re:sound #129: The Nerve Show
This hour: how and why we're wired for sound. A look at music and the brain.
- 2010
- 58:00
- Jowi Taylor
- Chris Brookes
- Paolo Pietropaolo
- Delaney Hall
Not Safe to Drink
What would you do if your tap water turned brown?
- 2016
- 53:34
- Lindsey Smith
- Sarah Hulett
No One’s Source
After a lifetime in the system, Noel Anaya got unprecedented permission from family court to record the hearing where he’d age out of foster care--and worked with Youth Radio to, in his words, “blow it up on NPR.”
- 2017
- 01:20:56
No Bad News
Three decades ago, American hypnotist Larry Garrett committed himself to abstaining from the news.
- 2017
- 58:04
- Sarah Geis
- Nick van der Kolk
The New Pleasant Revolution
A bike messenger provides alternatives to horrible traffic horns.
- 2007
- 02:47
- Michael Slaboch
- Tony Mendoza
Naptime
What does he remember from three months ago?
- 2006
- 02:30
- Julia Barton
Nerve Machine
Assailed by doubts, fears and illusions on all sides, the warfare within our bodies is a silent one.
- 2008
- 02:17
- Karen Werner
- Victoria Estok
Not So Sweet on New School Lunch
Michelle Obama's new school lunch program gets sour reviews from Paonia High School students.
- 2013
- 02:39
- Ali Lightfoot
- Azure Eller
Nocturne
The National Gallery, London, is one of the world's most prestigious art galleries. Every day, thousands of people pass through its doors to look at masterpieces by Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and many others.
- 2009
- 13:58
- Cathy FitzGerald
- Neville Edwards
Nuevo South
Siler City, North Carolina, used to be a typical small southern town: lots of families had roots going back a century or two and its citizens were proud of the town's close-knit culture and neighborly feel.
- 2008
- 30:12
- John Biewen
- Tennessee Watson
Neighborhood Crimes: When Black and White is Grey
Now living in a comparatively peaceful community in Fargo, ND, Ermina Jelovac from Bosnia exposes the almost overnight change in her neighbors during the war.
- 2012
- 02:49
- Brad Delzer
- Erika Lorentzsen
New Neighbor Blues
Susan and Joe discover just how much the ocean they grew up with meant to them when they are 3,000 miles from home.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Joseph Molinelli
- Susan Kemp