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 #87: The Magpie Show
This hour: redeeming the much-maligned bird.
- 2008
- 59:00
- Lea Redfern
- Guy Hand
- Roman Mars

Re:sound #100: The Cambodia Show
This hour: sounds and stories from Cambodia.
- 2008
- 59:30
- Virginia Madsen
- Aaron Ximm
- Delaney Hall

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 #71: The Lefty Show
This hour: left-handed creativity and innovation.

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

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 #50: The Feedback Show
This hour: a documentary composition by Alessandro Bosetti.
- 2006
- 58:57
- Aaron Henkin
- Alessandro Bosetti
- Roman Mars

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 #94: The Migration Show
This hour: people move and places change.

Re:sound #95: The More Show
This hour: a janitor poet, a teenage psychic, and more.

Re:sound #109: The Earlids Show
This hour: two stories that get incredibly, intimately, close to their subjects.

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 #114: The Secrets Show
This hour: secrets and double lives.
- 2009
- 59:30
- Pejk Malinovski
- Natalie Kestecher
- Delaney Hall

Re:sound #117: The Hunting Show
This hour: hunting for moose, buffalo, and love.

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

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

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 Night Show
This hour: Listening to the night.
- 2012
- 58:00
- Katie Mingle

The Taking Care Show
This hour: the delicate interdependence between being in need and answering the call to help.
- 2010
- 59:00
- Katie Mingle

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 #148 The Buying and Selling Show
This hour: selling, swapping, buying and trading.

Re:sound #147 The Sense of Duty Show
This hour: A dark secret that threatens to tear apart a family.
- 2011
- 59:30
- Heather Stewart
- Judith Sloan
- Katie Mingle

Re:sound #263 Meat Music
This hour we’re all about honesty. An honest look at fat, and an honest answer to this burning question, “What are the real lyrics to ‘Louie Louie’????”
- 2018
- 01:03:30
- Jonathan Zenti
- David Weinberg
- Nick White
- Myke Dodge Weiskopf
- Dennis Funk

Re:sound #144 The Letters Show
This hour: letters. To yourself, to your city, lost letters, found letters... and a love letter to letters.

Re:sound #149 The Piano Show
This hour: the piano. But not just as a musical instrument. The piano as a spiritual healer, as a symptom in a grand delusion, as a man's obsession, and as a beloved friend, put out to pasture.