Third Coast Audio Library :: All

As producer Rachel Bryant researched seabirds in the remote arctic wilderness of Southampton Island, Nunavut, she began thinking about issues of survival and vulnerability. Year: 2003 Producers: Rachel Bryant

After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Americans of Japanese ancestry were subjected to racial hatred, distrust, and incarceration. Year: 2003 Producers: Rob Mikuriya

Youth Radio producers Ise Lyfe, Gerald Ward II, and Bianca Yarborough chronicle the tense summer of 2002 in Oakland, California, when an alarming number of youth homicides weighed heavily on the community. Year: 2003 Producers: Youth Radio

Sound designer and multimedia artist Ben Rubin employs the cacophony of the New York Mercantile Exchange to create a musical piece commemorating the reopening of the World Financial Center's Winter Garden, which was closed after the events of September 11th. Year: 2003 Producers: Ben Rubin

Endings in radio used to serve a purpose: they used to signal to a live audience that the time to applaud was near. But this has changed now, prompting Sara Fishko to take a look at the outdated "ending" and to piece together some favorite final moments for a Big Finish. Year: 1999 Producers: Sara Fishko

The historical saga of the song The House I Live In is a study in changing times, changing values, and fickle politics. Year: 2003 Producers: Sara Fishko

Film sound designer Steve Boeddeker demonstrates how sound can be used to enhance the emotional impact of a scene. Year: 2002 Producers: Jonathan Mitchell

Ray Matterson spent the first year of his seven and a half-year jail term feeling angry at the world. Then he found a kind of redemption -- in a pair of socks. Year: 2003 Producers: Jonathan Mitchell

As a young boy, Earle Reynolds had a dream to build and sail a boat around the world. Year: 2003 Producers: Stephen Erickson

In this short radio play, the consequences of living life in a tinderbox are revealed through a series of scenes taking place within their various rooms. Year: 2003 Producers: Susan Stone

A deaf-mute, lovelorn waitress has written a friend of her fractured heart. It's a garbled world in which Ruby spins between love, lust, and a bus ticket to California. Year: 2003 Producers: Susan Stone

San Francisco luminary and famed poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti takes listeners on a freewheeling tour of his neighborhood haunts in San Francisco's Chinatown and North Beach. Year: 2003 Producers: Jim McKee

A series of interconnected stories by A. H. Weatherman about the trauma of growing up in the south and participating in beauty pageants. Year: 2003 Producers: Roman Mars

Based on a short story by Drury Pifer, Object Piece is the story of a man digging his own grave after he loses his wife to a friend. Year: 1976 Producers: Randy Thom

What is a fanatic reactionary pedestrian? How does one get to be this way? Year: 2002 Producers: Abner Serd

Ruth Ellis lived to be over 100 years old. She realized in her teens that she was gay but she didn't talk much about it then. Year: 2002 Producers: Neenah Ellis

From summer camp woes to blissful recognitions of womanhood, this feature on menstruation explores what it's really like to "become a woman." Year: 2002 Producers: Arielle Adams

Hollister is an investigation into what really happened on July 4, 1947, when 2,000 bikers roared into a small California town and left a media explosion in their wake. Year: 2002 Producers: Helen Borten

In a blending of both drama and documentary, three bereaved women talk about their real experiences of loss and how they've tried to move forward with their lives. In a parallel drama, their loved ones meet on a beach in "the hinterland," somewhere between life and death. Year: 1996 Producers: Sara Conkey

Dmae Roberts tell two interwoven stories in this personal documentary: the frustration she feels not living up to her mother's ideal of a perfect Taiwanese daughter and the compassion she has for a mother who as a child suffered abuse, starvation, and the horrors of World War Two. Year: 2002 Producers: Dmae Roberts

Many people know of pianist Glenn Gould's unique and somewhat maverick contributions to the classical music world. Year: 2002 Producers: Glenn Gould

"Without bread we are all orphans," says the sign that greets customers as they walk into Steve's Bread Shop in Portland, Maine. Meet Steve, who bakes bread in the most traditional way possible: by hand. Year: 2002 Producers: David Welch

Eighteen-year-old Hannah Hoose describes growing up as a part of her family's folk band, with all its healthy snacks, archetypal psychodramas, and oddly compelling songs. Year: 2002 Producers: Joni Murphy

When you stroll through the maze of streets in Fez, Morocco, it's as if you are walking back in time. Year: 2002 Producers: Jim Metzner

A huge Peggy Lee fan, producer Karen Michel has produced five features about this singer, songwriter, and arranger. Year: 2002 Producers: Karen Michel