Third Coast Audio Library :: All

A cultural detective searches out a singing stranger and in the process finds out how prayer affects a young man's life. Year: 2008 Producers: Mikkel Nedergaard

The Control of Teenagers dances on the corpse of self-help publishing; Year: 2008 Producers: Michael Hearst Rick Moody

Kathleen Goldhar was asked to go out and try on the latest in swimsuit technology: the LZR Racer, made by Speedo, which is VERY form-fitting, and VERY hard to get into. Year: 2008 Producers: Kathleen Goldhar

Whether it's societal progress or a squiggly 11-pound miracle, getting there isn't always pretty. Year: 2008 Producers: Rich Halten

An entry about making a contest entry. Year: 2008 Producers: Kay Collins

When you are taking risks and you don't know it's risky, and pushing boundaries when you don't know they are boundaries, it's good to be lucky. Year: 2008 Producers: Julia Grant

A record of one of the most significant cultural events of New Zealand's forgotten history. Year: 2008 Producers: Shaun D. Wilson

Here's a radio explanation of the Radio Ephemera ShortDocs Challenge, including descriptions from Rick and Megan Prelinger, of the books selected for the project. Year: 2008 Producers: Julie Shapiro Rick and Megan Shaw Prelinger

2008 ShortDocs Winner! The story of a mind on strike. Year: 2008 Producers: Meghan Vigeant

2008 ShortDocs Winner! Where do lost stories go? Potato pancakes are involved. Year: 2008 Producers: David P. Earle

2008 ShortDocs Winner! An audio doodle about this phrase: "Humankind is preceded by forest, and followed by desert." Forest versus city / tree versus car / then versus now. Year: 2008 Producers: Sarah Boothroyd

2008 ShortDocs Winner! The bittersweet fear of watching your child grow up. Year: 2008 Producers: John Biewen

Clapping games and tongue twisters in multiple languages turn into rich stories when Judith Sloan records young immigrants in a theatre workshop. Year: 2005 Producers: Judith Sloan

For one recount lawyer in Florida, the political became personal in the wake of the 2000 presidential election. Year: 2005 Producers: Melissa Allison

In America's high schools, students are playing a game whose only rule is to break the rules. Year: 2005 Producers: Michael Kavanagh

Most Americans have never heard of Go, an ancient board game that has simpler rules than chess but such complex strategy that computers can't even beat a talented amateur. Year: 2005 Producers: Blake Eskin

Here is darkness, construed as manifestations of the color black through history, space, time, and in the natural world. Year: 2004 Producers: Jerome Schmidt Rick Moody

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. Year: 2004 Producers: Hugh Levinson

Some members of Jude Fletcher's family have a fondness for taking pictures of the dead. Their photo albums boast the typical shots of joyous celebrations and family gatherings, side by side with shots of loved ones in their caskets. Year: 2004 Producers: Jude Fletcher

From the moment you enter the restaurant's dining room, you're in complete darkness. Blind waiters take your order, help you find your water glass, and lead you to the bathroom as needed. Year: 2004 Producers: Adam Burke

Misfire is an experimental sound piece that blends 1940s Dr. Pepper radio ads, original violin music, and sounds of thirst and thirst-quenching. Year: 2003 Producers: Paul Frey Sarah Varney

As a boy, George Bien was sent thousands of miles away from Hungary to Siberia, to the notorious Gulag - the prison camp system in the Soviet Union, where millions of people perished. Year: 2003 Producers: Alex van Oss

Much of the Sonoran desert between Tucson and Mexico is a haunting wasteland of discarded shoes, shirts, and empty plastic water jugs, discarded by desparate illegal immigrants who risk their lives as they cross the desert from Mexico into the United States in search of better-paying jobs. Year: 2003 Producers: Ann Heppermann Kara Oehler

In the late 1930s, Massachusetts flooded four towns in the central part of the state to create a reservoir for the city of Boston. More than 2,000 people lived in those towns. Year: 2003 Producers: Sean Cole

Big House/Disclosure is a multimedia project exploring the legacy of slavery, the genesis of house music, and Chicago's role as the first U.S. city to adopt a Slavery-Era Disclosure Ordinance (which requires companies doing business with the city to reveal if they profited from slavery in the past). Year: 2007 Producers: Mendi and Keith Obadike