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.

Lost Notes: 1980

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Queens Memory Project: Intersection

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Pandemic Diaries: One Couple's Story of Isolation and Love in a Nursing Home

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The Wait

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Ep 1. Once Upon a Time, a Girl Needs a Distraction in Quarantine

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2021
37:43
Heather Li

Entre Quatro Paredes (Between Four Walls)

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Simultaneous

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2021
44:33
Pamela Z

PMHx

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2021
07:01
James T. Green

Inventions in Sound

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Monaea, a 2020 Diary

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Time Bandit

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2021
23:59
Sean Cole

How to Remember

How to Remember is sonically inspired by Axel's travels to Côte d'Ivoire.

Not This Again

Angelina was a journalist living in Brooklyn when she was diagnosed with ALS.

Crosses in the Desert

Alvaro Enciso is a retired man who lives in Tucson, Arizona. He puts crosses in the exact places where dead migrant bodies have been found in the Sonoran desert.

Somebody

When Shapearl Wells's son Courtney is found outside a Chicago police station with a fatal bullet wound, Shapearl immediately distrusts the official narrative.

Centenarians in Lockdown

When the 1918 flu pandemic broke out, Joe Newman was 5 years old. Today, he's 107. He lives in a community for seniors in Sarasota, Fla., with his fiancée, Anita Sampson.

Songs of Speculation (excerpt)

Songs of Speculation is a lecture that explodes into multi-form performance, calling on the body, time, and the power of music to reclaim histories forgotten or lost.

Diary of a HomeSchooler

Sarah Alli-Brown is sixteen-years-old. She’s a high school junior whose school has been shuttered for months because of the coronavirus.

Dat Rona

Dat Rona, a Black colloquialism to describe the coronavirus, was produced in 3 days to disseminate ‘Rona’ knowledge after harmful media stories began to circulate that Black people were immune to the virus.