Third Coast International Audio Festival

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The Third Coast International Audio Festival is an annual and on-going celebration of the best documentary and feature work being made worldwide for radio and the Internet.

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12 Pieces

The 2016 ShortDocs Challenge, in partnership with Manual Cinema (a cinematic shadow puppet performance collective), invited two to three-minute long stories inspired by the cinema and one of four genres: Rom-Com, Sci-Fi, Film Noir and Nature Doc.

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6 Pieces

Presenting! Season 4 of Re:sound from the sonic hunter-gatherers at Third Coast International Audio Festival.

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8 Pieces

Say 'hello' to season 5 of Re:sound from the Third Coast International Audio Festival.

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7 Pieces

Re:sound is a remix of documentaries handpicked by the Third Coast International Audio Festival.

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5 Pieces

Re:sound is a remix of documentaries handpicked by the Third Coast International Audio Festival.

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5 Pieces

The Third Coast International Audio Festival is back with our annual Best of the Best broadcast, featuring the winners of the 2019 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation competition. In this four-part special, host Gwen Macsai presents the top audio stories of the year — and dives deep with some of the producers for a behind-the-scenes look at making beautiful stories in sound.

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5 Pieces

Third Coast’s yearly ode to audio storytelling is back! Featuring the winners of the 20th annual Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition, the best audio stories of the year offer a beautiful, stirring portrait of 2020. Best of the Best is a four-part broadcast. Each hour of the series can be aired independently or alongside the rest, and in any order.


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This hour: We showcase some of our favorite stories from the 2013 Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge: Appetite, and talk to the organizer of the proje...

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio, Prairie Public, WYSO, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KQED and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 24
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This hour: letters. To yourself, to your city, lost letters, found letters... and a love letter to letters.

Bought by KZYX, Interlochen Public Radio, WCPN, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KQED and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 24
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This hour: where kids go to get away; from themselves, their troubles, the rules they’re supposed to follow, and of course, their parents.

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio, KZYX, WCPN, KQED, WVPE and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 26
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This hour: a purple hotel, a family who argues over their skin color, a singing rainbow and more.

Bought by KVNF, KZYX, Interlochen Public Radio, WCPN, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2014
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 25
Caption: Third Coast winners receive this hand-crafted award, Credit: <a href="http://blog.prx.org/2014/02/criminal/">Kate Joyce</a>
Each year The Third Coast International Audio Festival brings the best new documentaries produced worldwide to the national airwaves in a special t...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WRPI, WNIJ, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KHNS and more


  • Added: Nov 04, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 72

  • Added: Oct 02, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
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My neighbor Ellen swings a classic (from the I Hate to Cook Book, circa 1960.)

Bought by KRPS, Troy Public Radio, WNIJ, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 02, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 4
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A short story in sounds of our food's start to finish, from morning to night (though not necessarily in the same day!)

Bought by KRPS and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 25, 2013
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 2
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Aunt Nuska has lost her appetite and the whole family bonds together to find a remedy for her.

Bought by KRPS, WNIJ, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 3