This hour the unexpected and inexplicable.'Julia'by Johnathan Goldstein with Chris Neary, Kalila Holt and Wendy Dorr (Heavyweight , 2016) In grade 8, Julia was bullied so badly by a group of girls that she changed schools without telling anyone. Soon after, the girls from her old school showed up at her house and rang her doorbell. She didn’t answer it. For the past 20 years, Julia’s been wondering what those girls wanted.'As Many Leaves'by Sally Herships (Falling Tree Productions for BBC Radio ...
Jan 06, 2017•1 hr
This hour we're featuring an episode of our brand new podcast — the Third Coast Pocket Conference.The Third Coast Pocket Conference is the start of your next great story — featuring sessions from Third Coast Conferences and more.How to Make Your Listener Levitate & Other Magic Tricks (Recorded 13 November 2016 at the Third Coast Conference in Chicago) You don’t want your audience to listen half-heartedly — you want them to be so deeply engaged, they’re a little surprised when they bump down ...
Dec 23, 2016•58 min
This hour we're listening to some of the winners of our annual documentary competition. From more than 550 entries in 2016, ten were chosen as winners. This hour we're featuring selections from the winners of the following awards: Skylarking, Best Documentary: Foreign Language, Best News Feature, Best Documentary: Bronze and Best Documentary: Gold. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 02, 2016•58 min
This hour we're listening to some of the winners of our annual documentary competition. From more than 550 entries in 2016, ten were chosen as winners. This hour we're featuring selections from the winners of the following awards: Best New Artist, Best Documentary: Honorable Mention, Radio Impact, Directors' Choice and Best Documentary: Silver Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 25, 2016•56 min
This hour the life and AIDS reporting of New York Times reporter Jeffrey Schmalz.Dying Words: The AIDS Reporting of Jeffrey Schmalz and How It Changed the New York Times by Kerry Donahue & Sam Freedman (The Dying Words Project, 2015) On the afternoon of Friday, December 21, 1990, Jeffrey Schmalz had a grand mal seizure in the middle of the New York Times newsroom where he worked. Soon after he was diagnosed with full blown AIDS. He spent the rest of his life and career writing about the epid...
Nov 18, 2016•1 hr 2 min
This hour people trying their best — and sometimes failing miserably — to make a connection. Incommunicado By Yowei Shaw ( The World In Words , PRI, 2015) Yowei Shaw was born in the United States and speaks virtually no Mandarin. Her grandfather is from Taiwan and speaks virtually no English. Kid talk was fine when Yowei was a kid. But now she's grown up, she's determined to have proper conversations with Yeye— before it's too late. Meet the Jawniaks By John Biewen ( Radiotonic , ABC RN, 2014) J...
Oct 28, 2016•42 min
This hour we're going on three soundwalks that meander at the pace of real life.4700 Liberty Heights Avenue [EXCERPT] by Aaron Henkin & Wendel Patrick (Out of the Blocks, WYPR, 2015) The 4700 block of Liberty Heights Avenue is a portrait of survival and adaptability. It's a self-governed, informal economy where the currency is respect. Space is shared by merchants, churches, longtime residents, and drug dealers. Immigrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, West Africa, and Korea have set up...
Oct 14, 2016•58 min
This hour we're featuring some of our favourite entries to the 2016 ShortDocs Challenge!Including interviews with producers and a visit to our 2016 partner, Manual Cinema, who are adapting this year’s winning ShortDocs into a live shadow puppetry performance.Maya Turns 26 by Maya Goldberg-Safir Whether she likes it or not, things are about to change.Out of Order by La Cosa Preziosa A man & his TV crime drama-induced phobia.ragazzo incontra ragazzo by Garrett Kling A chance encounter brings t...
Sep 30, 2016•57 min
On this episode of Re:sound, we're featuring an audio postcard from the Restorative Radio Project plus an interview with the series' producer, Sylvia Ryerson. 'Envision Yourself Being a Free Man'by Sylvia Ryerson with recordings by Essie Mannes (Restorative Radio Project, WMMT, 2016)Essie Manns is the grandmother of DeVaughn Hall, currently incarcerated at Red Onion State prison. Essie lives in Roanoke, Virginia, a 4 hours drive from the prison. She cannot drive long distances, but she gets ride...
Sep 23, 2016•18 min
This hour, the story of how an event affected one woman, her family and the criminal justice system.A Life Sentence: Victims, Offenders, Justice and My Mother by Samantha Broun and Jay Allison for Atlantic Public Media and Transom.org In 1994, Sam Broun's mother, Jeremy Brown, was the victim of a violent crime. She was 55 years old and living alone. A stranger came into her backyard, attacked her from behind and five hours later, he left her lying on her bed — hands and feet bound with tape. Ali...
Aug 26, 2016•59 min
This hour, the suits we wear and the impressions we make. The Runwayby Luke Malone (Start Up, Gimlet Media, 2016) It’s not uncommon for shoppers to walk out of Mary Going’s store feeling on top of the world. Mary runs Saint Harridan, a company that makes custom suits for the gender non-conforming. With her store, Mary has created a space that caters to the needs of butch women and trans men—something that doesn’t happen very often. Her fans are enthusiastic and dedicated, her products are sellin...
Aug 05, 2016•59 min
This hour, one man who needs to devour as much air as he can and another who's at his best while holding his breath.Air by Neil Sandell (Radiotonic, ABC RN, 2016) Neil Sandell is a man of a certain age, a man who loves to ride his racing bike. But as he gasps for air while climbing a steep mountain road, he wonders, why is he driving himself so hard? After all, he's living his dream—a life on the Cote d'Azur. Does the answer lie with his cycling hero Jens Voigt, a man on a mountain, or somewhere...
Jul 15, 2016•59 min
This hour audio air conditioning — we’re turning down the thermostat and ushering in stories that give us the chills.I Fell Through the Ice by Dennis Funk and Gwen Macsai (Re:sound debut, 2016) Phil Smith grew up skating on frozen lakes. But one New Year's Eve, reliving his childhood memories put him in a life and death situation.Overland by Nate DiMeo (The Memory Palace , 2016) George Frederick Tilton was crew member on the ship the Belvedere, which made regular trips to the arctic to trap and ...
Jun 26, 2016•1 hr 1 min
This hour, uninvited guests like old lovers, irrational fears and the annoying habits that keep us up at night.Like Steps Of Passing Ghosts by Kaitlin Prest Kaitlin Prest explores how we can remain haunted by past loves 'Like Steps of Passing Ghosts'.Holdout by Katie Mingle and Roman Mars A woman watches while a shopping mall goes up all around her.The Hijacker's Letter by Davey Kim What do you do when you receive a letter from your husband’s killer?The Lonely Animal: A Snorer's Memoir by Natali...
Jun 03, 2016•58 min
This hour we're featuring two stories of love through loss... plus an interview with the producers who've written their way through these troubled moments.The Updatesby Sophie Townsend with Sound Engineer Louis Mitchell. Sophie's updates were read by Gabrielle Rogers (360documentaries, ABC RN 2014)When Sophie Townsend’s husband Russell was diagnosed with lung cancer, she became the family spokesperson, a task she found endless, difficult and confronting. People’s questions about his sickness lef...
May 20, 2016•1 hr 4 min
The Intersection — Episode 1, 'Home'by David Boyer (The Intersection, KALW, 2016)Welcome to THE INTERSECTION and to the corner of Golden Gate Ave and Leavenworth St in the Tenderloin. While the neighborhood has the highest density of kids and seniors in San Francisco, it's associated more with its many homeless residents. We'll hear from a woman who sleeps in a tent—and cooks—on the sidewalks. And another woman who found a home in an innovative supportive housing project just steps away from the...
May 06, 2016•27 min
This hour gravity, antigravity, magical trees and flying carpets.The Magic Carpet Flight Manualby Cathy FitzGerald & Matt Thompson (A Rockethouse Production, BBC World Service, 2010)Cathy FitzGerald explores the past, present, and very real future of the magic carpet and wonders what our desire to defy gravity tells us about ourselves. Along the way, we meet a Japanese astronaut who took a real carpet into space — and flew it, a Muslim whose prayer mat rises above the mundane and a physicist...
Apr 22, 2016•57 min
This hour the story of thousands of African American farmers who lost millions of acres of land at the hands of institutional racism.All You Need Is A _____.by Aengus Anderson & James Ford Howell (2010 ShortDocs Challenge)Two opposing groups of immigration protestors in Arizona attempt to define the word "wall" without referring to Mexico.Fighting for the Promised Land: A Story of Farming and Racismby Tina Antolini (Gravy, 2015)Shirley Sherrod’s introduction to the intermingling of agricultu...
Apr 08, 2016•58 min
This hour we're live at the Hideout in Chicago with stories of pairs who are complete opposites, but utterly entwined. The Sitter Dispatch by Maya Goldberg-Safir & Dennis Funk (Re:sound debut, 2015)Straight out of college, Maya was living in her cousins' attic and was working a part-time, unpaid internship. Then she took a job as a nanny that turned out to be nothing like she'd expected. Gamun-Pyul by Rayon Wright (Radio Rookies, WNYC 2010) Rayon Wright was born in Jamaica and raised in Broo...
Mar 26, 2016•58 min
This hour stories of quiet calls that have produced the most unexpected responses.The Time Traveller and the Hitmanby Lynn Levy, Alex Goldman and PJ Vogt (Reply All, Gimlet Media, 2015)In 1997, John Silveira wrote a joke classified ad in a tiny publication called Backwoods Home Magazine asking if anyone wanted to travel back in time with him. A lot of people took him seriously. What do you do when everyone wants you to fix the worst mistakes they’ve ever made?Obituary Noticeby Peter Meanwell (Be...
Feb 26, 2016•45 min
This hour we listen to some of our favourite entries to the 2015 Third Coast Short Docs Challenge: Studs Rules!For our 2015 Studs-inspired Challenge we partnered with the Studs Terkel Radio Archive at WFMT.With their help, we came up with the following rules:Your radio story must...• be two to three minutes in length• be titled with a question that begins with one of the five Ws• contain the question "And what happened then?"• and include a shout of silence or a cry of laughterShortDocs Featured...
Feb 12, 2016•1 hr 6 min
This hour stories of those who share and those who lurk. The Mollusc and the Peacockby Natalie Kestecher (Short Cuts, BBC Radio 4, 2014)This is the story of a Facebook lurker, someone who sees herself as curious but benign. Like her grandmother, who was a fan of American soap operas, she has a taste for stories about the lives of others just as long as they’re glamorous and extravagant and don’t bear too much resemblance to reality.Voyager Foundby Jonathan Mitchell (The Truth, 2014)In the 1970s,...
Jan 15, 2016•58 min
This hour, the story of a man who's ultimate goal is to become a national evening news anchor.Anchor Dreams — The Passion of Scoop Nemethby Noel Black & Jake Brownell (Wish We Were Here, KRCC, 2015)Brian 'Scoop' Nemeth has a singular goal: to become a national news anchor on the Fox News Network's prime-time broadcast. Despite the challenges of Asperger's, 'Scoop' moved from his hometown of Colorado Springs to the city of Denver, where he's built a following through YouTube videos and public...
Dec 17, 2015•1 hr 3 min
This week on a special feature podcast, we're flashing back in time to 2004 to have a listen to the very first episode of Re:sound. Producer Dennis Funk talks with Re:sound's Host, Gwen Macasi and Third Coast's Director Johanna Zorn about how it all began, and they provide a little commentary throughout the hour. Third Coast is in the middle of our annual fundraiser at the moment, and we're celebrating the role that Third Coast has played in launching the audio storytelling revolution. For photo...
Dec 11, 2015•1 hr 6 min
The 2015 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 30, 2015•1 hr
The 2015 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 30, 2015•1 hr
This hour, two delightfully out-of-the-ordinary musical portraits from producer Alan Hall.The Grace of Jeff Buckleyby Alan Hall (Falling Tree Productions for BBC Radio 4, 2014)The story of the day Jeff Buckley arrived on the UK music scene in 1994 — from a photo shoot in the morning, a live radio appearance in the afternoon and then to a gig at Bunjies folk club so over-booked that a second concert was arranged for later that evening at the 12 Bar.The Voices of Elly Stoneby Alan Hall (Falling Tr...
Nov 13, 2015•1 hr 1 min
This hour, we follow three addicts through Australia's drug court system.Inside the Drug Court: part 1—the last chanceby Sharon Davis and sound engineer Steven Tilley (Earshot, ABC RN, 2015)After a year of negotiations with the government of New South Wales, Australia, producer Sharon Davis was granted exclusive access to the state's Drug Courts — a program where long term addicts, many of them hardened criminals, are released from jail in order to join a strict rehabilitation program designed t...
Oct 21, 2015•58 min
This hour: audio stories inspired by the written word, be it a novel or a comic book.Tim Key and Gogol's Overcoat[NOTE: only available at http://ThirdCoastFestival.org until November 2, 2015]by Steven Rajam & written by Tim Key (BBC Radio 4, 2012)Tim Key — poet, comedian, and crumpled polymath — is obsessed with Nikolai Gogol's short story 'The Overcoat'. Written in 1842, it's a fable of a simple Russian clerk whose desire for a new coat to keep the St Petersburg winter at bay forever change...
Oct 02, 2015•33 min
This hour two stories that dive into the depths of the inner ear. Disequlibrium [NOTE: not available on the podcast]by Nick Ryan, Lisa Gee and Jeremy Mortimer (Between the Ears, BBC Radio 3, 2012)Nick Ryan, is award-winning sound designer and composer. For reasons unknown, he wakes up every day feeling dizzy, nauseous and destabilized. Despite medication and his GP's assurances, the feelings persist. At the same time Nick is building a game-world entirely from sound through which players must na...
Sep 11, 2015•40 min
