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Immerse your ears in the best audio documentaries and storytelling since 2001, the winners of the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not This Again

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

How to Remember

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

The Work Of Closing A Notorious Jail

Five years after Michael Brown’s death at the hands of a police officer galvanized criminal justice reform activists in St. Louis, they mounted a serious effort to shut down the notorious Workhouse jail.

Time Bandit

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2021
23:59
Sean Cole

Monaea, a 2020 Diary

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Inventions in Sound

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PMHx

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2021
07:01
James T. Green

Simultaneous

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2021
44:33
Pamela Z

Entre Quatro Paredes (Between Four Walls)

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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

The Wait

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

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Queens Memory Project: Intersection

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Lost Notes: 1980

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Promise Burden Prompt Origin Defense Palette Call

Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Audio Unbound Award, selected by Final Round Judges Stacia Brown, Sharon Mashihi, and Justine Tobiasz.

2023
0
Damon Phạm

Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong

Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Impact Award, selected by Final Round Judges Katherine Nagasawa, Habiba Nosheen, and Richard Yeh.

Finn and the Bell

Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best Documentary: Silver Award, selected by Final Round Judges Jimmy Gutierrez, Rachel Matlow, Melissa Mbugua, Priska Neely, and Mike Williams.

2023
33:52
Erica Heilman

A Fantasy, A Lie

Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best Documentary: Non-English Language Award, selected by Final Round Judges Wederik de Backer, Julia Furlan, and Juan Serrano.

Checking One's Levels

Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best Documentary: Short Award, selected by Final Round Judges Stacia Brown, Sharon Mashihi, and Justine Tobiasz.