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 #52: The Books Show
This hour: readers, writers, literary performance artists, and the grammar police.

Re:sound #40: The Wanderlust Show
This hour: voyaging, wandering, and becoming a fanatic pedestrian.
- 2006
- 58:30
- Jenny Asarnow
- Bronwyn Ximm
- Aaron Ximm
- Abner Serd
- Roman Mars

Re:sound #39: The Radio Show
This hour: the strange, storied, hodgepodge history of radio.
- 2006
- 58:30
- Joe Richman
- Chris Brookes
- Geoff Siskind
- Roman Mars

Re:sound #38: The Games Show
This hour: tongue twisters, brain teasers, cheaters, and one of the worst high school football teams of all time.

Re:sound #37: The Studs Show
This hour: the indomitable Studs Terkel.
- 2006
- 59:31
- Alan Hall
- Roman Mars

Re:sound #36: The X Meets Y Show
This hour: a seemingly mismatched but (mostly) happy couple, a wife who exacts revenge on her husband via beef broth, and more.

Re:sound #35: The Dad Show
This hour: Dads. The good, the bad, and the complicated.

Re:sound #54: The Emergency Show
This hour: a town grapples with a young person's violent death, and a sound portrait of a chaotic emergency call center.
- 2006
- 59:00
- Claudia Taranto
- Kyla Brettle
- Roman Mars

Re:sound #51: The Show 14 Redux Show
This hour: a visit to one of the most remote islands on earth, a woman who sings with crickets, a return to Zagreb, and more.

Re:sound #53: The MBK Show
This hour: two stories by Mary Beth Kirchner.
- 2006
- 59:00
- Mary Beth Kirchner
- Roman Mars

Roger Dowds: Millionaire Winner
Roger Dowds wasn't exactly an obvious pick for a game show contestant. He'd lived a quiet, sheltered life and had little faith in himself.
- 2006
- 27:10
- Ronan Kelly

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

Kyenkyen Bi Adi Mawu
This story is a window into the life of Mohammed Naseehu Ali, who left his home, family, and future in tribal government to become a musician and writer in America.
- 2006
- 05:18
- Ann Heppermann
- Kara Oehler
- Rick Moody

Muriel's Message
Memories of a much beloved grandmother resurface when a box of unlabeled audio cassettes is discovered in the basement.
- 2006
- 06:28
- Mira Burt-Wintonick

Between Friends
"Between Friends" is the story of one woman's coming to terms with being sexually victimized by her father.
- 2006
- 13:06
- Jody Porter
- Neil Sandell

I'd Like to Straighten You Out
A musician, a living legend, attracts pilgrims, then gives them trouble.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Joseph Decosimo

To Begin With
A few stories told at once.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Emily Hilliard

Sold 'Em Way Up High at 1200 (INC)
Melds the incredible auctioneering skills of Dan Skeels, the 2004 World Livestock Auctioneering Champion, with the electronic sounds of Nick Freilich, aka Epicte the Elemental.
- 2006
- 02:21
- Cyrus Farivar

Sometimes . . . (INC)
When I try from Zen sickness to fly . . .
- 2006
- 02:31
- Grace Yoon

The Cat and the Boyfriend (INC)
Through diary entries, the relationship between a cat and the new, live-in boyfriend is revealed.
- 2006
- 03:02
- Mark A. Tolstedt

Re:sound #55: The Twenty Years Out! Show
This hour: a story about the bitter fight for gay rights in New Zealand, featuring a blend of rare archival tape of the speeches, rallies, and debates that marked the struggle and the personal stories of people affected by the fight.
- 2006
- 59:00
- Gareth Watkins
- Roman Mars

Zwerdling on Radio (INC)
Whether you're a radio beginner or a veteran, NPR senior correspondent Daniel Zwerdling can help you breathe new life into your pieces.
- 2006
- 0
- Daniel Zwerdling

The 2006 TCF Audio Luminary: Piers Plowright
The Third Coast Festival Audio Luminary Award is presented annually to an individual who is greatly admired for his or her significant and ongoing contributions to the field of radio. Hats off to the 2006 Audio Luminary, Piers Plowright.
- 2006
- 0
- Piers Plowright

Taken Too Soon: The Cost of War (INC)
Nearly 40 public radio producers from around the world lend their voices to this compelling radio meditation featuring some of the names and circumstances of the deaths of coalition forces, Iraqi and Afghan civilians, contractors, and journalists killed since the fighting began in Afghanistan in October, 2001.
- 2006
- 0
- Paul Ingles

The Dry vs. the Moist (INC)
A mix of fiction, fantasy and fact, The Dry vs. the Moist is an intercontinental collaboration between three artists: the U.S. writer Rick Moody, the Australian sound artist (and Radio Eye producer) Sherre DeLys, and pianist Chris Abrahams (the Necks).
- 2006
- 0
- Rick Moody
- Sherre DeLys