Winners
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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W. Kamau Bell asks his Mom about Sex
For most of his life, comedian W. Kamau Bell assumed his single mom never had sex after she made him.
- 2016
- 37:26
- Hillary Frank
- Abigail Keel
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Dead Mom Talking
"If you want to talk to me when I'm dead, go to the bench."
- 2016
- 12:50
- Rachel Matlow
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Mariya
Mariya Karimjee was a teenager in Texas when she first confronted her mother about the genital cutting she'd undergone as a child in Pakistan.
- 2016
- 34:57
- Kaitlin Prest
- Mitra Kaboli
- Mariya Karimjee
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A Life Sentence: Victims, Offenders, Justice, and My Mother
The story of a terrible crime and everything that followed.
- 2016
- 54:55
- Samantha Broun
- Jay Allison
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Not Safe to Drink
What would you do if your tap water turned brown?
- 2016
- 53:34
- Lindsey Smith
- Sarah Hulett
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A Sentencing Hearing
On August 1, 2015 Glendale Police Officer Eric Guse received a call about a carjacking that would change his life.
- 2016
- 10:18
- Emily Forman
- Celeste Wesson
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The Double
Thirteen years ago, in Viborg, Denmark, lived two young men with the same name: Thomas Andersen.
- 2016
- 43:37
- Thomas Arent Andersen
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Why Do I Stay?
When Rainy was 17, she met a producer named Courtney Stein from WNYC’s Radio Rookies.
- 2016
- 30:33
- Courtney Stein
- Rainy
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Violación de un Sueño: Jornada Nocturna
Thousands of office janitors work at night, cleaning up our work spaces after we go home. Many are immigrants – some undocumented – and many are women. With these conditions, they are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
- 2016
- 20:04
- Bernice Yeung
- Sasha Khokha
- Daffodil Altan
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Journey
A spare and gripping account of one family's journey fleeing violence in Afghanistan.
- 2016
- 09:21
- Jamil
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I dream of rattlesnakes
A contemplation of the return of rattlesnakes to Massachusetts.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Todd Wemmer
- Sam Wemmer
- Belle Wemmer
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Too Many Miles
What if Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” were re-imagined as a film?
- 2016
- 02:33
- Stephanie Rowden
- Jennifer Metsker
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Dear Face at Deer Lake with Deer People
A story about deer, a wonderful lake, internet privacy and who is the deer.
- 2016
- 02:56
- Dear Deer Face Collective
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HATCH
A man, in orbit, going round and round...
- 2016
- 02:29
- Geoff McQueen