Winners from the most prestigious competition in audio storytelling: Recent Episodes

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The Third Coast International Audio Festival curates the best audio storytelling worldwide and inspires the next generation of radio and podcast makers. Hosted by Gwen Macsai, each episode of Third Coast's podcast Re:sound features the most exciting audio docs, experimental work, and producer profiles. Visit thirdcoastfestival.org to get the word on what Third Coast is listening to now.

Every year, Third Coast hosts the most prestigious competition in audio storytelling, the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. Dive into some of this year’s winners!

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For most of his life, comedian W. Kamau Bell assumed his single mom never had sex after she made him.

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Thirteen years ago, in Viborg, Denmark, lived two young men with the same name: Thomas Andersen.

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Thousands of office janitors work at night, cleaning up our work spaces after we go home. Many are immigrants – some undocumented – and many are women. With these conditions, they are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.

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Mariya Karimjee was a teenager in Texas when she first confronted her mother about the genital cutting she’d undergone as a child in Pakistan.

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“If you want to talk to me when I’m dead, go to the bench.”

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The story of a terrible crime and everything that followed.