Third Coast Audio Library :: All

Cell phones and laptops rely on a particular mineral called colombite tantalum – coltan for short - and the growing demand for the material in the west has had ramifications in some pretty distant corners of the world. Year: 2009 Producers: Gregory Warner

Ontario is the most recent province in Canada to open up adoption files in order to help birth families and adoptees find one another. But there is a disconcerting, though rare, consequence of adoptive reunions. Year: 2009 Producers: Aaron Brindle Aziza Sindhu

This hour: the home funeral movement. Three families who've forgone traditional death rites in favor of a more DIY approach. Year: 2010 Producers: April Dembosky Karen Michel Delaney Hall

Death Comes Home is a portrait of three families who have chosen to forego the funeral director and prescribed memorial to instead care for their dead at home. Year: 2009 Producers: April Dembosky

About 12,000 students drop out of Chicago Public Schools each year despite efforts by administrators and teachers to keep them on track. Year: 2009 Producers: Linda Lutton

Do we live in a world where there is magic and meaning, or is it all just chance? Year: 2009 Producers: Jad Abumrad Soren Wheeler

Nick Drake died in 1974, an unknown songwriter with three failed folk albums to his name. But fast forward to the present, and Drake is considered among the most important musicians of his time. Year: 2009 Producers: Charles Maynes

In 2009, Brisbane-based writer and documentarian Hamish Sewell traveled to Alabama to meet his estranged father for the first time in nearly 30 years. Year: 2009 Producers: Hamish Sewell

A year ago, a swat team broke down the door of a home in downtown St. Paul and found eight Molotov cocktails inside. Year: 2009 Producers: Michael May

This hour: we explore some big ideas – justice, injustice, punishment, and redemption – through small, powerful, personal stories. Year: 2010 Producers: Jonathan Mitchell Neil Sandell Claire Schoen The Kitchen Sisters Delaney Hall

This hour: three documentary poems chronicling the lives of working class mothers in Troy, NY. Plus, poets as reporters, confused readers, and more. Year: 2009 Producers: Lu Olkowski Kevin Dawson Curtis Fox Delaney Hall

A Hoosier attends a show at the lofty, hipster-run Shape Shoppe recording studio, in Chicago. Year: 2009 Producers: Zachary Baiel

A docu-song about a broken dream, made from interview tape. Year: 2009 Producers: Jonathan Mitchell

In the past, radio was the most ephemeral of all art forms - it slipped by the ear and then vanished into the air forever. Year: 2009 Producers: Tom Morton

An up-and-coming executive and his car have a very bad day. Year: 2008 Producers: Dave Urlakis Michael Slaboch

On the flight back from her honeymoon, Mary Beth loses her luggage and thinks it's a sign that her marriage might be a mistake. Year: 2008 Producers: Sue Mell

A sci-fi melodrama about the abusive relationship between debt collector and collectee. Year: 2008 Producers: Roman Mars

This audio art lament asks the question, "What happens when false care and concern land on the ears of someone truly in need?" Year: 2008 Producers: Carma Jolly

A revenge plot goes awry when a woman ropes in her estranged best friend. Year: 2008 Producers: Hillary Frank

Being a teenager can be really hard. Especially if you've flunked out of school. Or your dad has disappeared. Year: 2007 Producers: Judith Sloan

Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago. Year: 2005 Producers: Jill Dorothy Summers

Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago. Year: 2005 Producers: Jill Dorothy Summers

Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago. Year: 2005 Producers: Jill Dorothy Summers

Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago. Year: 2005 Producers: Jill Dorothy Summers

Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago. Year: 2005 Producers: Jill Dorothy Summers