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.
Married to the Livestock: The End of a Farmer's Life (INC)
A touching, sound-rich excerpt from a German feature that explores the shifting realities and complicated relationships on the small family farm where producer Julia Schafer was raised.
- 2008
- 02:36
- Julia Schafer
Re:sound #77: The Edna Lavilla Show
This hour: a closely guarded family secret and the hidden history of long-deceased grandmother.
- 2007
- 59:01
- Sharon Davis
- Eurydice Aroney
- Russell Stapleton
- Roman Mars
The Taking Care Show
This hour: the delicate interdependence between being in need and answering the call to help.
- 2010
- 59:00
- Katie Mingle
The Night Show
This hour: Listening to the night.
- 2012
- 58:00
- Katie Mingle
Appetite of English Umami
How to prepare the best English class in Paris.
- 2013
- 03:34
- Jane Weston's English class
Re:sound #117: The Hunting Show
This hour: hunting for moose, buffalo, and love.
Re:sound #114: The Secrets Show
This hour: secrets and double lives.
- 2009
- 59:30
- Pejk Malinovski
- Natalie Kestecher
- Delaney Hall
Re:sound #109: The Earlids Show
This hour: two stories that get incredibly, intimately, close to their subjects.
Re:sound #100: The Cambodia Show
This hour: sounds and stories from Cambodia.
- 2008
- 59:30
- Virginia Madsen
- Aaron Ximm
- Delaney Hall
Re:sound #95: The More Show
This hour: a janitor poet, a teenage psychic, and more.
Re:sound #94: The Migration Show
This hour: people move and places change.
Re:sound #89: The Kyla Brettle Show
This hour: two curious stories from one of the most talented and curious producers we know.
- 2008
- 59:25
- Kyla Brettle
- Delaney Hall
Re:sound #87: The Magpie Show
This hour: redeeming the much-maligned bird.
- 2008
- 59:00
- Lea Redfern
- Guy Hand
- Roman Mars
Re:sound #83: The Going Up Show
This hour: mountain climbers, pilots, and people on the way UP.
- 2008
- 58:30
- Roz Bluett
- Arielle Lasky
- Sarah Boothroyd
- Roman Mars
Re:sound #71: The Lefty Show
This hour: left-handed creativity and innovation.
The Flickerman (INC)
Cornelius Zane-Gray is being stalked. His girlfriend left him, a good friend was murdered, and he's recently been assaulted, chased, and nearly blown up. Cornelius's life is falling apart, and what's more, it's all being documented through photos posted on the Internet for everyone to see.
- 2009
- 46:45
- Lance Dann
Re:sound #69: The Body Image Show
This hour: a very personal take on a rare subculture, a young man forced to confront his obesity, a dinner with unabashed nudists, and more.
Re:sound #66: The Falling Show
This hour: a man falls out of the sky, a woman falls into a hole, and a man recovers from a serious rock climbing accident.
- 2007
- 59:00
- Annie Hastwell
- Michele Goldsworthy
- Kent Hoffman
- Roman Mars
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 #50: The Feedback Show
This hour: a documentary composition by Alessandro Bosetti.
- 2006
- 58:57
- Aaron Henkin
- Alessandro Bosetti
- Roman Mars
Re:sound #201 The Cathy Fitzgerald Show
This hour we celebrate the ethereal, Dickens-inspired works of British producer Cathy Fitzgerald.
- 2015
- 58:09
- Cathy FitzGerald
- Dennis Funk
Breaking Away
Luzer Twersky was raised as a Hasidic Jew. At the age of 23 he decided to leave his family and everything he'd ever known to move into secular society. His upbringing had been strict -- no school, no movies, no dates, no jobs. Otrasized from his community, he entered a world he knew very little about.
- 2010
- 21:35
- Josh Gleason
The 2002 TCF Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: Studs Terkel (INC)
The Third Coast Festival Lifetime Achievement Award (now the 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 2002 recipient, Studs Terkel.
- 2002
- 11:43
- Studs Terkel
The Giant Pool of Money (INC)
This documentary, a special collaboration between This American Life and NPR News, deconstructs the current housing crisis.
- 2008
- 59:02
- Adam Davidson
- Alex Blumberg
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