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.

Why did you cut your hair?
The humour, the pain, and the liberation of a simple haircut.
- 2015
- 02:44
- Alison Broverman
- Veronica Simmonds

What Happened to the Pencil Case?
A small metal box comes to represent loss.
- 2015
- 02:53

Where are all the flowers from?
A little seaside town on the West Coast of Ireland wears floral posies for the children of Gaza.
- 2015
- 02:58
- Ellen Cranitch

Why Not?
I met Why Not? while searching for 78RPM records of traditional Saing Waing music in Myanmar.
- 2015
- 02:57

What Do You Know About Meat?
A butcher reflects on his work.
- 2015
- 02:51
- Bria Dolnick and Gus Coliadis

What is it like to be one of the first?
When Sergeant Carrie Lopes joined the Provincetown Police Department, she was one of the only women on the force; thirty years later, she reflects on sexual harassment experienced at the beginning of her career.
- 2015
- 02:57
- Annabel Lang

What If Is True
Hilary Clinton, Aliens, Angels.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Wilfredo Rivera

What does that do?
Dr Christine Blancher, at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford, talks us through one of the big DNA sequencers they use to produce the string of letters (A, T, G, and C) which is your unique genetic code.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Brian Mackenwells

Why Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
Brian thinks maths is beautiful, and would like to tell you why.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Brian Mackenwells

Who's Afraid of Idaho?
I'm in awe of my new roommate Lina. But she's from Idaho...
- 2015
- 02:47
- Maya Goldberg-Safir

What we doing now, Misi boy?
Two seniors in Punahou High School in Honolulu, Hawaii share their tender voices and cries of laughter as they sing us the story of their friendship and community in Hawaii.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Reem Alfahad

Who's Howling at OwlHoot Station
Bill talks about OwlHoot Station and its neighbors.
- 2015
- 02:57
- Leah Lemm

What Darko Said
My Burmese friend Darko teaches us that pop music in Myanmar is defined by the cover song.
- 2015
- 03:00

What was your first love?
A teenage girl recounts freshly ended first love.
- 2015
- 02:55
- Michaela Prell

What is a Food Desert?
Using the poetry and commentary of Kuumba Lynx (a Chicago-based hip hop coalition) this sound art piece investigates how institutional disinvestments in Chicago's South Side communities have affected its residents' nutritional health.
- 2015
- 02:21
- Justin Zullo

Who Brings the Heat?
In this mockumentary piece, June Jensen must find a way to keep her hot dish hot on the way to the church potluck.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Alex Ward

What-er
Experimenting with sound, lots to be found.
- 2015
- 02:02
- Bishnu Khatiwada

Where Do We Go...
Audio impression of racial tensions.
- 2015
- 02:56
- Catie Talarski

What will she read tonight?
Three of the founders of the Women's Prison Book Project in Minneapolis talk about their memories and experiences in the early years.
- 2015
- 02:55
- Dixie Treichel

Quien soy yo, Quien era yo, Quien será él (Who I am, Who I was, Who He Will Be)
Jimmy Arteaga, a street juggler from Ecuador, reflects on his childhood and his child.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Sayre Quevedo

What do you think?
Studs Terkel put to music.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Dave Langton

When did I get turned around?
An exploration of the cacophony and cyclical nature of life.
- 2015
- 02:25
- Tom Harrison

Who's making that sound?
An adventure in how sound affects different people.
- 2015
- 02:50
- Ricardo Paraíso Silvestre

What's in a name?
How does the movie Fargo resonate within the people of Fargo?
- 2015
- 02:50
- Meg Luther Lindholm

What Happened at Camp Bucca on June 9, 2007?
We reminisce on Operation Iraqi Freedom.
- 2015
- 02:56
- Caleb Nelson