Winners
Immerse your ears in the best audio documentaries and storytelling since 2001, the winners of the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
Lost Notes: 1980
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Life Partners
Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best New Artist Award, selected by Final Round Judges Erisa Apantaku, Axel Kacoutié, and Alice Wilder.
- 2023
- 10:00
- Christina Hardinge
- Eleanor McDowall
The Living Room
Diane's new neighbors never shut their curtains, and that was the beginning of an intimate, but very one-sided relationship.
- 2015
- 22:22
- Brendan Baker
- Briana Breen
Leaving a Mark
Emily Hsiao reads a Craigslist post about a man who wants his swastika tattoo covered up. And then she goes to meet him.
- 2014
- 13:14
- Emily Hsiao
The Last Morning was a Sweet One
2013 ShortDocs Winner! A short story in sounds of our food's start to finish, from morning to night (though not necessarily in the same day!)
- 2013
- 02:56
- Alix Blair
Listening to Jamie
Imagine a cold London winter, where the bizarre and unpredictable sounds made by producer Hugh Levinson's sleeping newborn punctuate the dark nights in the most unimaginable ways.
- 2004
- 07:23
- Hugh Levinson
Lance and Nina: An Unlikely Story of Recovery and Redemption
At 24, Lance Rice was on schedule to become another sad statistic in the heroin epidemic sweeping through rural Massachusetts.
- 2014
- 08:28
- Karen Brown
Lovable Losers
Feel the passion, feel the pain of the faithful followers of Chicago's Lovable Losers.
- 2009
- 02:58
- Rich Halten
Legs, Hope, and Water
Traditionally a country of emigration, Greece is now a destination for immigrants and refugees seeking to enter Europe.
- 2004
- 47:24
- Lea Redfern
- Peggy Giakoumelos
The Lonely Funeral
Every year up to twenty people die completely alone in Amsterdam. They are illegal migrants, drug mules, or simply people who cut off all social contacts.
- 2010
- 26:55
- Michele Ernsting
The Loneliness of the Goalkeeper
British writer and radio presenter Hardeep Singh Kohli remembers the loneliness of being a goalkeeper, the player who spends 90 minutes looking at his colleagues' backs.
- 2010
- 27:41
- Adam Fowler
Living 9/11
A decade ago, WNYC's news team spent days, months, and then years reporting on the World Trade Center attacks and their aftermath.
- 2012
- 58:59
- Emily Botein
- Marianne McCune
Los Cassettes del Exilio
For much of Dennis Maxwell’s childhood, his father was living in exile, communicating with the family via cassette tapes.
- 2017
- 25:02
- Dennis Maxwell
Learning to Live: James's Story
James, an ex-felon, narrates the story of his transition from prison-life to self-sufficiency.
- 2001
- 29:03
- Dan Collison