Re:sound

Third Coast’s radio show, hosted by Gwen Macsai, was a weekly radio show that remixed audio gems from around the world, and peeked behind the curtain at the producers who made them. It aired weekly on WBEZ in Chicago from 2004 until 2019. Browse through all episodes here, or listen to them on the Re:sound podcast feed.

Plus, check out the annual Best of the Best series, a Re:sound special. This special series showcases the best audio stories of the year, as crowned by our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. It airs on public radio stations around the United States annually.

Re:sound #103: The Sean Hurley / Sherwin Sleeves Show

This hour: the work of producer Sean Hurley, a writer and musician who lives on top of a mountain in New Hampshire and has an alter-ego, Sherwin Sleeves, who's become central to Sean's radio storytelling.

Re:sound #85: The Dollar Storeys Show

This hour: the wild and wonderful results of the Third Coast Festival's 2007 Audio Challenge: Dollar Storeys.

Re:sound #87: The Magpie Show

This hour: redeeming the much-maligned bird.

Re:sound #89: The Kyla Brettle Show

This hour: two curious stories from one of the most talented and curious producers we know.

Re:sound #94: The Migration Show

This hour: people move and places change.

Re:sound #95: The More Show

This hour: a janitor poet, a teenage psychic, and more.

Re:sound #79: The What Remains Show

This hour: a man transformed by illness, a house full of paintings left behind by an old friend, and a surprisingly complex story of old people in love.

Re:sound #80: The Art Show

This hour: a young patient escapes his hospital bed through flights of imagination, a musician documents a city under siege, and more.

Re:sound #81: The Outfront Show

This hour: we celebrate ten years of Outfront, a groundbreaking show on the Canadian Broadcasting Corportation that invited listeners to tell their own stories.

Re:sound #82: The Borders Show

This hour: an isolated village experiences rapid cultural change, a "border blaster" transmits totally unregulated radio programs from Mexico into the U.S., and a tiny frog causes trouble.

Re:sound #84: The Girls vs. Boys Show

This hour: girls, boys, and sleepover reconnaissance.

Re:sound #86: The Death Show

This hour: a visit to a pauper's graveyard, three very short (but very big) questions, and more.

Re:sound #102: The Animals Show

This hour: foxes, rabbits, snakes, whales, birds, lambs, and dogs.

Re:sound #88: The Messages Show

This hour: phone solicitors, bottle evangelists, a mysterious cassette tape unearthed in the attic, and more.

Re:sound #90: The Repetition Show

This hour: earworms, mantras, and stories told again and again.

Re:sound #91: The War and Peace Show

This hour: a radio station dedicates five days of air-time to a live reading of Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Re:sound #92: The Water Show

This hour: a disappearing lake, a luxury liner on the Adriatic Sea, and more.

Re:sound #93: The Singing Show

This hour: a Japanese blues singer, an aging opera fan, and homemade recordings of a rural children's choir.

Re:sound #96: The Sandbox Show

This hour: we're diving into the archives and rewinding our way to the 1970s and 80s, sampling some of the fascinating, strange, and hilarious work that was produced when public radio was a medium without a real template.

Re:sound #97: The In-Between Show

This hour: people living in the in-betweens.

Re:sound #98: The Disappearing Show

This hour: one boy leaves home and never returns, another leaves and returns forever changed.

Re:sound #99: The Radio Ballads Show

This hour: the BBC's groundbreaking Radio Ballads, produced between 1958 and 1964, which wove sounds, voices, and music into dense sonic tapestries that explored everything from the lives of coal miners to the lives of teenagers, focusing mainly on communities that weren't often heard from on the radio.

Re:sound #101: The Rock Show

This hour: an all-woman Led Zeppelin cover band and metal-loving children.

Re:sound #83: The Going Up Show

This hour: mountain climbers, pilots, and people on the way UP.