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.

How to Make Your Listener Levitate & Other Magic Tricks

You don’t want your audience to listen half-heartedly – you want them to be so deeply engaged, they’re a little surprised when they bump down to earth at the end.

2016
01:07:54

2016 Bitchin' Pitchin': The Art of the Pitch (Day 1)

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: how to pitch a story.

2016
01:15:20

The Sound of Breaking News

You’re sent to cover breaking news – a natural disaster or a large-scale accident or crime. You don’t have much time, or much warning. How do you bring back sound-rich, interesting tape, that makes listeners perk up their ears?

2016
01:15:56

The Bigness of the Small Story

From the 2016 Third Coast Conference... celebrated author, filmmaker and radio journalist Alex Kotlowitz talks about the power of a finely crafted intimate narrative.

2016
01:16:42

Finding the People - and Sounds! - Behind the Numbers

Reveal producers Ike Sriskandarajah and Laura Starecheski will show you how they create gripping radio out of stacks of documents and endless columns of numbers.

2016
01:09:00

Re:sound #229 The Communication Barrier Show

This hour people trying their best — and sometimes failing miserably — to make a connection.

In The Dark, Episode 1

When 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling disappeared in 1989, local Minnesota police seemed determined to crack the case. Instead, it took them 27 years.

Re:sound #228 The Sonic Wanders Show

This hour we're going on three soundwalks that meander at the pace of real life.

Journey

A spare and gripping account of one family's journey fleeing violence in Afghanistan.

2016
09:21
Jamil

Re:sound #227 The 2016 ShortDocs Show — Radio Cinema

This hour we're featuring some of our favourite entries to the 2016 ShortDocs Challenge!

Envision Yourself Being a Free Man

Sylvia Ryerson works with family members of those incarcerated in Virginia supermax prisons to capture the sounds, voices & music of home - to be broadcast directly into the prisons.

2016
10:52
Sylvia Ryerson

Special Feature: Envision Yourself Being a Free Man

On this episode of Re:sound, we're featuring an audio postcard from the Restorative Radio Project plus an interview with the series' producer, Sylvia Ryerson.

2016
17:54
Sylvia Ryerson

Make Them Care: Crafting Narratives About Entrenched Social Problems

In this session, Nikole Hannah-Jones (The New York Times) and Chana Joffe-Walt (This American Life) talk about how to build a story structure that will make listeners care about even the most familiar, entrenched social problems.

2016
01:08:42

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

First Off... This is in Really Good Shape

In this session for editors - or anyone who wants to help someone else shape a story – Gimlet Media’s Jorge Just explores the delicate art of making good things better.

2016
01:28:46

Storymakers Durham

The Storymakers project elicits conversations about race and class that are candid, complicated, and as intimate as eavesdropping on someone else's dinner conversation.