Third Coast Audio Library

Our vast — and ever-growing — collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories of all stripes, and Third Coast Conference sessions offering wisdom from the best makers on the planet. You can also dive into our Producer Index. Enjoy!

Re:sound #94: The Migration Show

This hour: people move and places change.

The Priscilla Tapes: An Introduction (INC)

A story of a collection of taped letters.

2006
02:30
Zoe Irvine

Re:sound #114: The Secrets Show

This hour: secrets and double lives.

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.

Re:sound #201 The Cathy Fitzgerald Show

This hour we celebrate the ethereal, Dickens-inspired works of British producer Cathy Fitzgerald.

Re:sound #50: The Feedback Show

This hour: a documentary composition by Alessandro Bosetti.

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.

Re:sound #95: The More Show

This hour: a janitor poet, a teenage psychic, and more.

Sugartime (INC)

In the beginning of January 2008, the Belgian-Ghanaian Sugar Jackson defended his European welterweight world title.

2008
08:17
Wim Vangrootloon

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

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

Well Behaved Women (RUS)

All women buy things that they don't really need. Why are they doing this?

2007
02:41
Alexander Soleev

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

The Giant Pool of Money (INC)

This documentary, a special collaboration between This American Life and NPR News, deconstructs the current housing crisis.

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

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.