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.

Playing with Reality & Pushing the Boundaries
Imagine opening your work to the possibilities of drama and fiction that can bring a rich, more expansive story to life.
- 2017
- 01:22:02

The Promise: A Beautiful Day in the Projects
The Promise is a limited-run series from Nashville Public Radio about life in James Cayce Homes, a public housing development smack in the middle of a city on the rise.
- 2018
- 24:58
- Meribah Knight

Paper Plane
Abstract psychodrama collage: Noir cadence through psychological meandering.
- 2016
- 02:06
- Laura Reid & Mark Limacher

Perfect Founders
The duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton rearranged for laughs and life lessons.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Paula Rogers

Personal Message: No Commercial Value
Sinister entertainment with a tape recorder: a found message left for a girlfriend degenerates into drunken squabbling over a reading of a Burn's poem.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Mark Vernon

Private Black Motherhood and Public White Protest
"What does it mean to be a woman? This is a trick question."
- 2017
- 12:52
- Stacia Brown

Purple Reign
Gwen Macsai comes clean with a very colorful secret... about her dad.
- 2012
- 14:59
- Gwen Macsai
- Roman Mars

Points on a Curve: Radio in Its Own Time and Place
Alan Hall focuses on radio's capacity to evoke a sense of place that exists uniquely in a non-visual, linear dimension.
- 2001
- 01:07:14

Por-cup-i-nes
Daoud Iskander hunts porcupines in southern Lebanon.
- 2016
- 02:20
- Hugo Goodridge

The Past Isn't Past
We're living through a profoundly unsettled time, both politically and culturally, and a lot of journalists are asking, "how exactly did we get... here?"
- 2017
- 01:23:06

The Problem With Salty Water
An automated teller machine discusses awkward moments, consumer culture and why she needs it to survive.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Aoife Allen

Prunes, Eggs, and Sweet Marshmallows: Eating with My Grandmas
Instructions on how to recreate my grandmothers' favorite meals.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Jennie Lennick

The Priscilla Tapes: An Introduction (INC)
A story of a collection of taped letters.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Zoe Irvine

Picture Me Rolling (INC)
Shomari Kress wants to live the American Dream: start his own business, make lots of money, drive a fast car. But like many other young African-American men in his south side Chicago neighborhood, he's not sure how to realize that dream.
- 1997
- 0
- Cecilia Vaisman
- Shirley Jahad
Parts of Speech
Doug Harlow isn't afraid to use his voice. He was a street poet in Boston and protested the Vietnam War in D.C. There was a time he could say "I love you" in a dozen languages.
- 2013
- 07:28
- Emily Kwong

Pursuing Sweet Success: Running the Krispy Kreme Challenge
Julie and Stacy run the Krispy Kreme Challenge: 5 miles, 12 donuts, 2,400 calories, one hour.
- 2013
- 02:57
- Julie Thomson

The Purple-Spotted Sock
A story about a neighbour, which turns out also to be a story about another neighbour – and when all comes to all: about the narrator herself.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Sigrid Saabye

Passing Stranger
Ron Padgett and Andrei Codrescu recall a night in 1968, when fellow poet Kenneth Koch was assassinated, or so it seemed, during a reading at St. Mark's Church in New York City.
- 2010
- 05:13
- Pejk Malinovski

Pink Pong
Louise tries to teach me singing, and Philip speaks about silence and writing.
- 2012
- 02:49
- Daniel Martin-Borret

Pretty in Pink
The girls upstairs are loud and fun, and one of them is Miss Wicker Park.
- 2012
- 02:52
- Jessica Speer

Plant Hunters
A thorny challenge to find a rare plant.
- 2016
- 03:00
- David Boose

Patriot Games
Best friends Rich Carlson and Tom Swenor got so fed up with the political process in America that they decided to form their own Tea Party chapter in Petoskey, Michigan.
- 2011
- 34:22
- Ben Calhoun

2012 Pitch Perfect: The Art of Editorial Persuasion (Day 1)
Now 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: pitching a story.
- 2012
- 41:21

2012 Pitch Perfect: The Art of Editorial Persuasion (Day 2)
Now 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: pitching a story.
- 2012
- 01:12:18

Purple Purpose
FNSS (Friendly Neighborhood Surveillance System) delivers a report to Charles on Mrs. Smotherson, Mr. Eggerly, and Bruce & Denny.
- 2012
- 02:21
- Zachary Baiel