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.

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.

Infinities

Concerning mental illness, toxic workplace environments, Egyptian Rat Screw, and the nature of infinity.

2020
25:13
Boen Wang

Borders Between Us

Saidu Tejan-Thomas is a young poet. For a long time, he had a story he needed to tell: an homage and apology to his mother.

Best of the Best 2019 (Part 4: Serialized Stories)

This hour, winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.

Best of the Best 2019 (Part 3: Investigations)

This hour, winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.

Best of the Best 2019 (Part 2)

This hour, winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.

Best of the Best 2019 (Part 1)

This hour, winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.

Trick: Part Two

This curated Listening Reel was screened at the 2019 Third Coast Conference in Chicago.

2019
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Price of Secrecy: Hazineh Razdari

An unexpected turn of events occurs when 15-year-old Tannaz tells the police about being sexually abused by a friend.

2019
40:36
Zoha Zokaei

In the Dark: Season Two

Over the course of two decades, prosecutor Doug Evans tried the same man six times for the same crime. But that man, Curtis Flowers, maintained his innocence throughout.

No Feeling Is Final

Usually when we talk about suicide we say those four magic words: "Just ask for help." But Honor Eastly knows it’s not that simple.

A Sense of Quietness

Four women face the unexpected consequences of talking about abortion.

The Return

Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and his grandparents still live there. But visiting them didn't feel like the home he once knew.

2019
31:10
Sayre Quevedo

Punks

Once upon a time, Kai Wright saw a movie called Punks. A romantic comedy about black gay men, it was like nothing he'd ever seen before. But then it disappeared.