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.

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Re:sound #149 The Piano Show

This hour: the piano. But not just as a musical instrument. The piano as a spiritual healer, as a symptom in a grand delusion, as a man's obsession, and as a beloved friend, put out to pasture.

Re:sound #254 Pinball Poets

This hour: lawyers-turned-pinball wizards, two extraordinary minds meeting in a field of poetry and, forty years after the phrase was coined, the skinny on 420.

Presenting the 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs: Book Odds

In early 2010, the Third Coast teamed up with the incomparable pop / indie / experiemental band The Books, and issued an open invitation to make radio.

2010
01:16:28

Presenting the 2005 TCF ShortDocs -- Stories About Games

For the 2005 ShortDocs Challenge, we asked producers to submit ideas for stories about "games."

2005
01:28:08

Presenting the 2008 TCF ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera

For the 2008 TCF ShortDocs Challenge, the TCF joined forces with the Prelinger Library, a one-of-a-kind collection of books, periodicals, and more, running the gamut from the concrete and tangible to the abstract and etherized.

2008
01:22:48

Re:sound #47: The Pets Show

This hour: a beloved pig and a meditation on dogs.

Re:sound #120: The Poetry Show

This hour: three documentary poems chronicling the lives of working class mothers in Troy, NY. Plus, poets as reporters, confused readers, and more.

Re:sound #249 The Pocket Conference Show Part 2

This hour we're going behind-the-scenes at two top podcasts: The Daily and 99% Invisible .

Podcasting: Believe the Hype

Join podcast pioneers and radio producers Benjamen Walker and Tod Maffin to discover how podcasting, in less than one year, changed broadcasting forever.

2005
01:22:10

Persevering Rick

Growing up in Australia, deaf in one ear, Rick had a rough time learning.

2013
14:01
Jesse Cox
Mike Williams

Public-powered Journalism

Learn how sharing the mic and megaphone can expand your beat, your stories, and your craft.

2014
01:11:09

Re:sound #154 The Painters and Poets Show

This hour: inside the the lives and works of two great American artists, painter Edward Hopper and poet Anne Sexton.

Perfect Hearing

Nubar Alexanian and his 14-year-old daughter Abby examine how his tinnitus and her hearing loss have affected their lives and shaped their relationship.

Parachuting In

(aka: State of the Re:Union's Secret Recipe for Serious Place-based Storytelling... in Practically No Time!)

2012
01:11:25

Passing on Sweet

How do recipes get passed on?

The Pirate

Morning sunlight streams through the blinds as John Ostoich (aka "Johnny O") pours his first bourbon of the day. A cigarette hangs from his lips; his parrot, Bok-Bok, rests on his shoulder.

2015
30:27
Lu Olkowski

The Persistence of Ephemera

A slighty wacky look at my own ephemera collection.

2008
02:52
Ceil Muller

PCAF

A Hoosier attends a show at the lofty, hipster-run Shape Shoppe recording studio, in Chicago.

2009
03:02
Zachary Baiel

The Pigeon Race

We may be a bit biased subject-wise, but here's a delightful, sound-rich exploration of an endangered sport and community in Maine that's got it all: history, suspense, expertise and devoted participants both human and winged.

2011
07:01
Rachel James

Planet Kaleigh

Cindy Harasen is not the first the first mother to think that her daughter might be from another planet.

Pushing the Boundaries of Daily Radio

Diamonds are made under pressure! For this session, Priya Ramu and Steve Wadhams from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation present their advice on how to make daily radio that shines and delights.

2002
01:26:42

The Paint Mixers

Wired with a low-fi tape recorder, performance artist Damali Ayo visited hardware stores and asked employees to mix paint to match different parts of her body.