Third Coast Audio Library :: Winners: Recent Episodes
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Immerse your ears in the best audio documentaries and storytelling since 2001, the winners of the Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
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Year: 2021
Producers:
- Hanif Abdurraqib
- Myke Dodge Weiskopf
- Nick White
- Victoria Alejandro
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Year: 2021
Producers:
- Sam Riddell
- Jordan Gass-Pooré
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Year: 2021
Producers:
- Jason Moon
- Lauren Choolijan
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Year: 2021
Producers:
- Mozhgan Moarefizadeh
- Nicole Curby
- Michael Green
- Bec Fary
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Year: 2021
Producers:
- Heather Li
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Year: 2021
Producers:
- Heloiza Barbosa
- Valquiria Gouvea
- Paulo Pinheiro
- Diogo Saraiva
- Adam Gamwell
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Year: 2021
Producers:
- Pamela Z
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Year: 2021
Producers:
- James T. Green
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Year: 2021
Producers:
- Raymond Antrobus
- Eleanor McDowall
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Year: 2021
Producers:
- Monaea Upton
- Jen Kinney
- Ashley Cleek
- Adreanna Rodriguez
- Kate Osborn
- Adizah Eghan
- Kyle Murdoch
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Year: 2021
Producers:
- Sean Cole
Five years after Michael Brown’s death at the hands of a police officer galvanized criminal justice reform activists in St. Louis, they mounted a serious effort to shut down the notorious Workhouse jail.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Carolina Hidalgo
- Jen Chien
- Juleyka Lantigua-Williams
- Luis M. Gil
- Sarah McClure
How to Remember is sonically inspired by Axel's travels to Côte d'Ivoire.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Axel Kacoutié
- Eleanor McDowall
Angelina was a journalist living in Brooklyn when she was diagnosed with ALS.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Allison Behringer
- Hannah Harris Green
- Bethany Denton
- Caitlin Pierce
- Cassius Adair
- Myke Dodge Weiskopf
- Dara Hirsch
- Lila Hassan
- Kristen Lepore
Alvaro Enciso is a retired man who lives in Tucson, Arizona. He puts crosses in the exact places where dead migrant bodies have been found in the Sonoran desert.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Catalina May
- Martín Cruz
- Dennis Maxwell
When Shapearl Wells's son Courtney is found outside a Chicago police station with a fatal bullet wound, Shapearl immediately distrusts the official narrative.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Shapearl Wells
- Alison Flowers
- Bill Healy
- Sarah Geis
When the 1918 flu pandemic broke out, Joe Newman was 5 years old. Today, he's 107. He lives in a community for seniors in Sarasota, Fla., with his fiancée, Anita Sampson.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Joe Richman
- Sarah Kate Kramer
- Nellie Gilles
- Deborah George
- Ben Shapiro
Songs of Speculation is a lecture that explodes into multi-form performance, calling on the body, time, and the power of music to reclaim histories forgotten or lost.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Jillian Walker
- Ben Williams
Sarah Alli-Brown is sixteen-years-old. She’s a high school junior whose school has been shuttered for months because of the coronavirus.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Anayansi Diaz-Cortes
- Brett Myers
- Kevin Sullivan
Dat Rona, a Black colloquialism to describe the coronavirus, was produced in 3 days to disseminate ‘Rona’ knowledge after harmful media stories began to circulate that Black people were immune to the virus.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Janina Jeff
- Sam Riddell
- Chris Diggins
- Chad Milner
- Dr. Ashira Blazer
Concerning mental illness, toxic workplace environments, Egyptian Rat Screw, and the nature of infinity.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Boen Wang
Saidu Tejan-Thomas is a young poet. For a long time, he had a story he needed to tell: an homage and apology to his mother.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr.
- Jay Allison
An unexpected turn of events occurs when 15-year-old Tannaz tells the police about being sexually abused by a friend.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Zoha Zokaei
A granddaughter and a grandmother try to communicate across generations, languages and phone lines.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Neena Pathak
Over the course of two decades, prosecutor Doug Evans tried the same man six times for the same crime. But that man, Curtis Flowers, maintained his innocence throughout.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Madeleine Baran
- Samara Freemark
- Natalie Jablonski
- Rehman Tungekar
- Parker Yesko
- Will Craft
- Catherine Winter
Usually when we talk about suicide we say those four magic words: "Just ask for help." But Honor Eastly knows it’s not that simple.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Honor Eastly
- Joel Werner
- Alice Moldovan
- Graham Panther
- Russell Stapleton
- Kellie Riordan
Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and his grandparents still live there. But visiting them didn't feel like the home he once knew.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Sayre Quevedo
Once upon a time, Kai Wright saw a movie called Punks. A romantic comedy about black gay men, it was like nothing he'd ever seen before. But then it disappeared.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Kathy Tu
- Tobin Low
- Matt Collette
A homosexual reflection on an effort to release ourselves from misshapen containers.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Mara Lazer
For the last year, Shannon Heffernan has been trying to figure out how and why people in Illinois prisons are dying.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Shannon Heffernan
In 2014, the province of British Columbia switched nearly 15,000 methadone patients to a new formulation of the drug called Methadose.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Garth Mullins
- Sam Fenn
- Lisa Hale
- Alexander B. Kim
- Ryan McNeil
An emotional dive into the personal impact of the false missile alert that was sent out across Hawaii.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Jazmín Aguilera
- Anna Sussman
- John Fecile
- Erika Lantz
- Eliza Smith
- Nancy López
Two lovers share an intimate conversation on the eve of their breakup, exploring loneliness and intimacy. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2018 Directors' Choice Award Award.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Sayre Quevedo
Where is Cleo? It’s a mystery her family has been trying to unravel for decades after the young Cree girl was apprehended by child welfare workers in Saskatchewan, Canada in the 1970’s. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2018 Best Serialized Story Award.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Connie Walker
- Heather Evans
- Mieke Anderson
- Jennifer Fowler
- Marnie Luke
During 2017, a team of Snap Judgment producers followed every homicide in Oakland, CA for the entire year. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2018 Best Documentary: Gold Award.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Adizah Eghan
- Anna Sussman
- Shaina Shealy
- Jonathan Jones
Meat podcast’s host Jonathan Zenti is an overweight man (technically “obese"). Winner of the TC/RHDF 2018 Skylarking Award.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Jonathan Zenti
In her first radio piece, Phoebe visits Christians from her past and tries to understand whether queer people and homophobic Christians can have meaningful relationships. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2018 Best New Artist Award.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Phoebe Wang
Ear Hustle is a unique creative partnership between Earlonne Woods, who is incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, and outside collaborator Nigel Poor. Together, along with other men at the prison, they produce stories about daily life behind the walls. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2018 Best Documentary: Honorable Mention Award.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Earlonne Woods
- Nigel Poor
Since its founding 15 years ago, Tesla has become one of the most valuable car companies in the country. Tesla is worth tens of billions of dollars, and its all-electric cars have achieved cult status among enthusiasts. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2018 Radio Impact Award.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Will Evans
- Alyssa Jeong Perry
When police showed up to question John Thompson, he was worried that he had sold drugs to an undercover cop. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2018 Best Documentary: Bronze Award.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Andrew Marantz
- Sarah Lustbader
- Katherine Wells
Sharon is a weirdo and refuses to conform to cultural standards. Her mom does not approve. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2018 Best Documentary: Silver Award
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Sharon Mashihi
For most of the past decade, if a child or teenager got shot in Miami–Dade County, they would be taken to one place: the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2018 Best News Feature Award
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Sammy Mack
To have and to lose control. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2018 Best Documentary: Foreign Language Award.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Nanna Hauge Kristensen
The American-led battle against the Islamic State has been hailed as the most precise air campaign in history. But its airstrikes have killed far more Iraqi civilians than anyone has acknowledged. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2018 Best Documentary: Honorable Mention Award.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Annie Brown
S-Town is hard to describe. It’s a podcast that starts as a traditional investigation into corruption and wrongdoing in rural Alabama. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2017 Directors' Choice Award.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Brian Reed
- Julie Snyder
On July 6, 2016, Philando Castile was pulled over by Officer Jeronimo Yanez for a broken brake light. 74 seconds later, Yanez fired seven shots. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2017 Best Documentary: Gold Award.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Tracy Mumford
- Hans Buetow
- Riham Feshir
- Jon Collins
As the Iowa caucuses approached in February of 2016, Donald Trump’s political campaign was gaining traction with voters. One major theme became clear: fear. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2017 Best News Feature Award.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Ike Sriskandarajah
It’s sometimes said you’re never too old to learn something new but is that really sensible advice? Winner of the TC/RHDF 2017 Best New Artist Award.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Laura Irving
In a country where women’s lives are intensely restricted, Majd Abdulghani dreams of becoming a scientist. Meanwhile, her parents want to arrange her marriage. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2017 Best Documentary: Silver Award.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Sarah Kate Kramer
- Joe Richman
For much of Dennis Maxwell’s childhood, his father was living in exile, communicating with the family via cassette tapes. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2017 Best Documentary: Foreign Language Award.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Dennis Maxwell
20 years ago, Gregor lent some CDs to a musician friend. The CDs helped make him a famous rockstar. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2017 Skylarking Award.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Jonathan Goldstein
- Chris Neary
- Wendy Dorr
- Kalila Holt
Days after his 21st birthday, Noel Anaya had one final hearing before aging out of California’s foster care system, and he didn’t want to go through it alone. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2017 Radio Impact Award.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Youth Radio
- Noel Anaya
- Brett Myers
When Mike comes home, his family is faced with a new reality and an impossible choice. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2017 Best Documentary: Bronze Award.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- John Fecile
- Steven Jackson
- Lizzie Schiffman Tufano
After adopting their niece and nephew, Trystan -- a transgender man -- tells his partner Biff that he wants to expand their family and conceive a baby together. Which they do. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2017 Best Documentary: Honorable Mention Award.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Hillary Frank
- Abigail Keel
- Kristen Clark
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. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2016 Directors' Choice Award.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Bernice Yeung
- Sasha Khokha
- Daffodil Altan
When Rainy was 17, she met a producer named Courtney Stein from WNYC’s Radio Rookies. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2016 Bronze Award.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Courtney Stein
- Rainy
Thirteen years ago, in Viborg, Denmark, lived two young men with the same name: Thomas Andersen. Winner of the 2016 TC/RHDF Best Doc: Foreign Language Award.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Thomas Arent Andersen
On August 1, 2015 Glendale Police Officer Eric Guse received a call about a carjacking that would change his life. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2016 Best News Feature Award.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Emily Forman
- Celeste Wesson
What would you do if your tap water turned brown? Winner of the TC/RHDF 2016 Radio Impact Award.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Lindsey Smith
- Sarah Hulett
The story of a terrible crime and everything that followed. Winner of the 2016 TC/RHDF Silver Award.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Samantha Broun
- Jay Allison
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. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2016 Gold Award .
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Kaitlin Prest
- Mitra Kaboli
- Mariya Karimjee
For most of his life, comedian W. Kamau Bell assumed his single mom never had sex after she made him. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2016 Skylarking Award.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Hillary Frank
- Abigail Keel
A spare and gripping account of one family's journey fleeing violence in Afghanistan. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2016 Honorable Mention Award.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Jamil
"If you want to talk to me when I'm dead, go to the bench." Winner of the TC/RHDF 2016 Best New Artist Award.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Rachel Matlow
A contemplation of the return of rattlesnakes to Massachusetts.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Todd Wemmer
- Sam Wemmer
- Belle Wemmer
A story about deer, a wonderful lake, internet privacy and who is the deer.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Dear Deer Face Collective
What if Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” were re-imagined as a film?
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Stephanie Rowden
- Jennifer Metsker
Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim population is one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Axel Kronholm
- Rob Sachs
- Flawn Williams
- Mia Lobel
Betrayed by Silence takes listeners inside the clergy sex abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to find out how and why three archbishops protected priests who sexually abused children.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Madeleine Baran
- Sasha Aslanian
During the dying minutes of April 2003, as the Cornish town of Padstow celebrated the coming of summer, actor Tristan Sturrock broke his neck falling off a wall.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Becky Ripley
Diane's new neighbors never shut their curtains, and that was the beginning of an intimate, but very one-sided relationship.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Brendan Baker
- Briana Breen
Police officer John Edwards was patrolling a quiet neighborhood in Bellaire, Texas, when he saw an SUV driven by two young African-American men.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Lauren Spohrer
- Phoebe Judge
When it was built in 1977, the 59-story CitiCorp Center had a fatal flaw that could have caused the building to collapse, and take out the entire mid-town Manhattan skyline with it.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Joel Werner
- Sam Greenspan
Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón presented Glenn Freemantle with a challenge - to create authentic sound design in the vacuum of space.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Colin McNulty
In December of 2009, photojournalist Lynsey Addario was embedded with a medevac team in Afghanistan. After days of waiting, one night they got the call - a marine was gravely wounded.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Jad Abumrad
- Soren Wheeler
2015 ShortDocs Winner! A story of girls who say 'yes' that is 100% true.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Emer Horgan
2015 ShortDocs Winner! What if you could learn to stop listening to other people?
Year: 2015
Producers:
- John-Michael Forman
2015 ShortDocs Winner! My grandparents, now in their 90s and married for nearly 70 years, tell me about when they met and give their advice on a long and happy marriage.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Olivia Humphreys
2015 ShortDocs Winner! I ask my family members if they remember what my father sounded like.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Pablo Duarte
2015 People's ShortDoc Award Winner! An intimate conversation with Studs about the edges of life and death.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Sara Curtis
Rock legend Iggy Pop presents an intimate portrait of William S. Burroughs on the 100th birthday of America's most cataclysmic author.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Colin McNulty
There is currently no formal treatment or support for non-offending pedophiles who want help managing their attractions.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Luke Malone
- Robyn Semien
Every week hundreds of people board coach buses in Chicago and travel to Mexico.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Linda Lutton
One way to earn money selling music is boring: write one hit and live off the royalties for the rest of your life.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Alex Goldman
- PJ Vogt
Here I Am and Here Be Danger is a non-narrated experiment in heartbreak.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Annie McEwen
At 24, Lance Rice was on schedule to become another sad statistic in the heroin epidemic sweeping through rural Massachusetts.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Karen Brown
Emily Hsiao reads a Craigslist post about a man who wants his swastika tattoo covered up. And then she goes to meet him.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Emily Hsiao
Back in 2004, Laura Starecheski visited a mental hospital in Queens, N.Y. called Creedmoor, where she met a patient named Issa Ibrahim.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Laura Starecheski
Tom Banks is 23, gay and searching for love.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Jesse Cox
- Timothy Nicastri
As an 19-year-old raised in the foster care system, Melissa took NPR listeners along when she gave birth to her son Issaiah.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Joe Richman
- Sarah Kate Kramer
Kevin (not his real name) is a likable guy who lives with his wife in New Jersey. And he's on probation after serving time in a federal prison for committing a disturbing crime.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Jad Abumrad
- Pat Walters
After twelve years of rough living in Vancouver, Arthur is moving into an apartment in a new supportive housing project. But moving inside from a life outside isn't as easy as you might think.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Steve Wadhams
- Suzanne Ahearne
Many teenagers live half of their lives on social media sites and they're writing the rules as they go.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Courtney Stein
- Temitayo Fagbenle
In the 2011 -2012 school year, Harper High School, located in one of Chicago's most violent neighborhoods, saw 29 of its current and recent students shot.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Alex Kotlowitz
- Ben Calhoun
- Linda Lutton
Ellen was struggling for money, working as a Subway "sandwich artist" (yes, that's a real thing.)
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Brendan Baker
- Mooj Zadie
- Nick van der Kolk
As a young boy, producer Jesse Cox discovered a set of old cassette tapes which turned out to be a hugely popular BBC radio show featuring his grandparents.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Claudia Taranto
- Jesse Cox
- Russell Stapleton
After Superstorm Sandy hit New York in October 2013, power outages covered large swaths of the city.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Marianne McCune
London's little-known Memorial of Heroic Self-Sacrifice commemorates ordinary men, women and children who made a split-second decision to rescue another person – and died as a result.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Cathy FitzGerald
On August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew slammed into Miami-Dade County changing the landscape of South Florida forever.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Alicia Zuckerman
- Dan Grech
- Kenny Malone
- Sammy Mack
- Trina Sargalski
The Supreme Court case Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl seemed like a straightforward custody dispute: a birth father and a couple at odds over who would raise baby Veronica.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Tim Howard
Doug Harlow isn't afraid to use his voice. He was a street poet in Boston and protested the Vietnam War in D.C. There was a time he could say "I love you" in a dozen languages.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Emily Kwong
2013 ShortDocs Winner! David channels his frustrated desires into detailed fantasies for the perfect sensual feast.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Jenny Asarnow
2013 ShortDocs Winner! A short story in sounds of our food's start to finish, from morning to night (though not necessarily in the same day!)
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Alix Blair
2013 ShortDocs Winner! A bleak future with nothing good to eat... except your gas mask.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Sam Agee
2013 ShortDocs Winner! No one has an appetite for perfection and swearing like a Québécois in search of poutine.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Kelly Jones
2013 People's ShortDoc Award Winner! For some South Jersey residents, "Sing a Song of Sixpence" is more than just a nursery rhyme; it's supper.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Mary T. Diorio Schilling
Each week on Wireless Nights, pop star Jarvis Cocker prowls the dark, finding stories of the night people.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Laurence Grissell
There are two main things that happen when you go to the doctor - you deal with your health concerns and you fill out a small mountain of paperwork.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Gregory Warner
When Yowei Shaw was in college, her parents' relationship began to change.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Yowei Shaw
Each year, over 100 million tons of iron ore, coal, limestone and other products travel through the Great Lakes navigation system on huge cargo ships.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Allison Swaim
While traditional street photography usually catches strangers passing by in a public space, the photographer Michele Iversen has been catching strangers passing by in their own private spaces, without their permission.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Jonathan Mitchell
A decade ago, WNYC's news team spent days, months, and then years reporting on the World Trade Center attacks and their aftermath.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Emily Botein
- Marianne McCune
Ever noticed it's the hard decisions that are often the easiest ones to make, and the inconsequential ones that can twist you into a knot?
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Natalie Kestecher
In 1982, the Guatemalan military massacred the villagers of Dos Erres, killing more than 200 people.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Brian Reed
- Habiba Nosheen
Sixteen-year-old Claressa Shields has a dream, to be at the 2012 Olympic finals and hear the announcer call out, "The first woman Olympian boxer at 165 pounds - Claressa Shields!"
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Joe Richman
- Samara Freemark
- Sue Jaye Johnson
2012 ShortDocs Winner! The familiar faces of the red, white and blue bus, whose lives I will never know.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Luke Eldridge
2012 ShortDocs Winner! Neighbors of the Murrah Federal building recall the 1995 bombing that altered the life and culture of Oklahoma City.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Abby Wendle
2012 ShortDocs Winner! One block from Adam Kampe's apartment sits the Capitol Pool Checkers Club where, each week, men with nicknames like the Hammer, the Pressure Man, and the Razor gather to trash talk over heated games of checkers.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Adam Kampe
2012 ShortDocs Winner! Don Floyd looks back on his life of eighty years, after surviving a heart attack in March of 2012.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Brian Barnhart Jr
- John Musto
Best friends Rich Carlson and Tom Swenor got so fed up with the political process in America that they decided to form their own Tea Party chapter in Petoskey, Michigan.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Ben Calhoun
While in college, Alan fell hard for a fellow art student, Emilie.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Jad Abumrad
- Robert Krulwich
- Soren Wheeler
As lawmakers continue to debate immigration reform, the Obama administration is pushing for a path to citizenship for those here illegally.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Marianne McCune
Bob Hill, 86, has been dancing on and off since he was 16 years old.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Katie Burningham
Most people find hearing their own voices (on voice mails or other recordings) strange, unfamiliar, or even discomforting.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Andy Mills
Jay Thunderbolt's business card is a little mysterious. It reads, "Thunderbolt - Party Naked" and gives a phone number.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Brendan Baker
- Nick van der Kolk
- Nick Williams
Sodom and Gomorrah is a hellish place in Accra, Ghana, where children eke out a living on a scrap heap of discarded computers that the West no longer needs.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Jens Jarisch
- Sharon Davis
American schools teach students that with hard work, they can realize their dreams. But this isn't the case for everyone.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Dan Collison
- Elizabeth Meister
There are some 14,000 people living on the streets of Las Vegas, and Nevada ranks second in the nation in homeless population per capita.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Adam Burke
British writer and radio presenter Hardeep Singh Kohli remembers the loneliness of being a goalkeeper, the player who spends 90 minutes looking at his colleagues' backs.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Adam Fowler
Art museum security guards spend their days in uniform, speaking quietly or not at all, surrounded by works of irreplaceable art.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Sofia Saldanha
Every year up to twenty people die completely alone in Amsterdam. They are illegal migrants, drug mules, or simply people who cut off all social contacts.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Michele Ernsting
Barch Levi Blum was born in late 2009 at Toronto's Mt. Sinai Hospital. He lived for ten minutes.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Mary Beth Kirchner
Eighteen years after Carol gave up her son for adoption, she still believed they would meet again.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Shea Shackelford
- Virginia Millington
On the night of May 7th, 1951, a thousand people gathered in Laurel, Mississippi, to witness the execution of Willie McGee, a black man convicted of raping a white woman.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Joe Richman
- Samara Freemark
A meditation on love, loss and loneliness in south London, An Interior Life tells the story of Bernard, an 86-year-old gay man who has been alone since the death of his long term partner.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Laurence Grissell
2010 ShortDocs Winner! From Baghdad to Western Sahara, an alphabetic listing of the world's prominent separation barriers builds a wall of its own.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Niall Farrell
2010 ShortDocs Winner! I said this is NUTS, and he agreed.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Andrea Silenzi
2010 ShortDocs Winner! In 2004, a group of Pride Day revellers gathered for a party on Creighton Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia and were treated to a riveting display of hermaphroditic slug sex.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Frances Willick
2010 ShortDocs Winner! An 80-day bicycle trip from New York City to Seattle, camping and recording along the way, condensed into three minutes.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Matt Purdy
Jimmy Yancey, the blues pianist and White Sox groundsman, and Studs Terkel, the broadcaster and author, may have lived at different ends of Chicago but they're both as integral a part of the city as the El...
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Alan Hall
For the last 20 years, Sherwin Sleeves has traveled the country, composing "theme songs" for cities across the United States. Inspiration for Chicago's song strikes while he's eating dinner at the Green Mill.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Sean Hurley
Pilsen, 2009: Chicago summer is full of life and full of sound - you can hear it best on two wheels.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Katie Mingle
An aging drummer takes his love of music - and his dreams of something bigger - to Chicago's Michigan Avenue.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Chris Sewell
A loving examination of the Chicagoan language by four non-etymologists.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Sean Cole
Carl Sandburg inspires a meditation on private worlds as we ride the El.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Neil Sandell
Summer 2009: A field recording from of The Magic Hedge, where Chicago receives the dawn and migratory birds in lakefront silence.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Noe Cuellar
A classical composer, Stuart Brocklehurst, attempts to deal with his writer's block through environmental field recording.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Laura Vitale
- Rick Moody
Feel the passion, feel the pain of the faithful followers of Chicago's Lovable Losers.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Rich Halten
Every July 22nd, a group of Chicagoans gather to memorialize the death of infamous and beloved bank robber John Dillinger, who spent a year evading the authorities and winning American hearts before he was shot dead in July, 1934.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Heather Radke
Cell phones and laptops rely on a particular mineral called colombite tantalum – coltan for short - and the growing demand for the material in the west has had ramifications in some pretty distant corners of the world.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Gregory Warner
Ontario is the most recent province in Canada to open up adoption files in order to help birth families and adoptees find one another. But there is a disconcerting, though rare, consequence of adoptive reunions.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Aaron Brindle
- Aziza Sindhu
Death Comes Home is a portrait of three families who have chosen to forego the funeral director and prescribed memorial to instead care for their dead at home.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- April Dembosky
Do we live in a world where there is magic and meaning, or is it all just chance?
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Jad Abumrad
- Soren Wheeler
Nick Drake died in 1974, an unknown songwriter with three failed folk albums to his name. But fast forward to the present, and Drake is considered among the most important musicians of his time.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Charles Maynes
In 2009, Brisbane-based writer and documentarian Hamish Sewell traveled to Alabama to meet his estranged father for the first time in nearly 30 years.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Hamish Sewell
A year ago, a swat team broke down the door of a home in downtown St. Paul and found eight Molotov cocktails inside.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Michael May
A Hoosier attends a show at the lofty, hipster-run Shape Shoppe recording studio, in Chicago.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Zachary Baiel
A docu-song about a broken dream, made from interview tape.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Jonathan Mitchell
This hour: two stories from RTE's Flux with Ronan Kelly.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Ronan Kelly
- Roman Mars
The Third Coast Festival Lifetime Achievement Award (now the Audio Luminary Award) is presented annually to an individual who is greatly admired for his or her significant and ongoing contributions to the field of radio. Hats off to the 2002 recipient, Studs Terkel.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Studs Terkel
The early days of the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition included a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Joe Frank
The Third Coast Festival Audio Luminary Award is presented annually to an individual who is greatly admired for his or her significant and ongoing contributions to the field of radio. Hats off to the 2008 Audio Luminary, Chris Brookes.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Chris Brookes
Susan Burton reports on Prom Night 2001 in Hoisington, Kansas, a town of about 3,000. While the seniors danced, a tornado hit the town, destroying about a third of it.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Susan Burton
James, an ex-felon, narrates the story of his transition from prison-life to self-sufficiency.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Dan Collison
Rip, Rift, and Panic weaves together stories, archival tape, and sound to create a portrait of the emotional and logistical aspects of living along an earthquake fault line.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Susan Stone
Blues musician Screamin' Jay Hawkins had 57 children, some of whom were happier than others to learn of their father's prolific paternity.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Alix Spiegel
Von Trapped is a story about a woman obsessed with The Sound of Music, as well as other things Austrian.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Natalie Kestecher
In Heroin, teenager Janesse Nieves confronts her father about his heroin addiction, and eloquently shares her own feelings of confusion, anger, embarrassment and disgust.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Czerina Patel
- Janesse Nieves
- Marianne McCune
The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Corporal Michael A. Baronowki presents the recovered tapes of a young marine who kept an audio diary of his war experience in Vietnam until his death.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Christina Egloff
- Jay Allison
The corrections industry has become a $50-billion-a-year business and one of the strongest influences on criminal justice policy in America.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- John Biewen
Affairs of the Mind is a personal and confrontational story exploring the nature of jealousy and the parameters of infidelity.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Kyla Brettle
Annapurna: Memories in Sound is an impressionistic sound portrait of the Ximms' trek through the Annapurna Circuit, a popular three-week hiking trip through the Himalayas to Nepal.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Aaron Ximm
- Bronwyn Ximm
Grey Ghost is the story of one man and a bird -- or possibly just of one man. It is also the story of an obsession.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Allan Coukell
Laura Rothenberg is 21 years old, but likes to say that she's already had her mid-life crisis. Laura has cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that affects the lungs and other organs.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Joe Richman
- Laura Rothenberg
A young patient reinvents his experience of being in the hospital through metaphor and allusion. Responding to "what if" questions, Andrew exemplifies the transformative qualities of fantasy, empathy, and humor.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- John Jacobs
- Sherre DeLys
In the 1940s, when he was 16 years old, Myron Jones was allowed to stay up late any night of the week and hang out at bars or wherever he pleased, but his mother barely let his older sister Carol out of the house at all. So the siblings devised a plan.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Alex Blumberg
- Ira Glass
- Jonathan Goldstein
Jaimita Haskell was given the opportunity to take advanced classes at her high school, an experience she found stimulating and rewarding.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Czerina Patel
- Jaimita Haskell
- Marianne McCune
As a girl, Reena Katz learned one story about the history of Israel and the people who lived there. As she grew up, an interest in cartography and her father's rare books about Palestine prompted her to dig deeper to understand the landscape of the Middle East.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Reena Katz
Blending satire, drama, and interviews, this Australian documentary portrays a not-so-distant future where robots care for children and parents agree to live apart from their families during the work week.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Eurydice Aroney
In the summer of 2002, 17-year-old Hyder Akbar traveled from California with his father to their home country of Afghanistan. He took a tape recorder along on the trip to record his thoughts and experiences.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Hyder Akbar
- Susan Burton
The Sonic Memorial Project is an intimate and historic documentary commemorating the life and history of the World Trade Center and its surrounding neighborhood, through audio artifacts, rare recordings, voice mail messages, and interviews.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- The Kitchen Sisters
The Third Coast Festival Lifetime Achievement Award (now known as the Audio Luminary Award) is presented annually to an individual who is greatly admired for his or her significant and ongoing contributions to the field of radio. Hats off to the 2004 recipient, Susan Stamberg.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Susan Stamberg
State park ranger Ed Werler lives alone in a quiet, isolated area of Maine. At the age of 90, Ed reflects on his second marriage, revealing a relationship characterized by love, loyalty, and uncertainty.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Bente Birkland
Stephen Goff's life changed dramatically after a stroke left him with aphasia. Previously an outspoken father and salesman, the condition reduced his vocabulary to just a few words.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Teresa Goff
Writer Sam Swope visits a class of restless, imaginative 11-year-olds in Queens, New York, where he embraces the challenge of teaching them Wallace Stevens' poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Pejk Malinovski
When Daniel Sosa turned 18, his father kicked him out of the house for being gay. Daniel describes the night he was forced to leave, the struggles he faces as a high school student living on his own, and his desire to return home again.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Amy Drozdowska
- Hillary Frank
Nubar Alexanian and his 14-year-old daughter Abby examine how his tinnitus and her hearing loss have affected their lives and shaped their relationship.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Abby Alexanian
- Jay Allison
- Nubar Alexanian
Traditionally a country of emigration, Greece is now a destination for immigrants and refugees seeking to enter Europe.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Lea Redfern
- Peggy Giakoumelos
Weaving together archival footage, new interviews and personal recordings, The Few Who Stayed: Defying Genocide in Rwanda presents a unique look at the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Michael Montgomery
- Stephen Smith
The vision for Ladysmith Black Mambazo came to Joseph Shabalala in a dream in four-part harmony.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- David Schulman
- Jeffrey Freymann-Weyr
When mothers suffer from mental or physical illnesses, their eldest children often take on responsibilities far beyond their years.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Kim Normanton
- Nigel Acheson
Weighing the Balance evolved from a simple question: What happened to six men who were named and shamed in a very public news conference staged by the Toronto Police?
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Dick Miller
- Kellie Hudson
- Mike Bryan
Fifteen-year-old Rocky, a Palestinian American, lives with his parents and siblings in Brooklyn. Three times the size of his twin sister, Rocky is the target of his siblings' jokes and insults.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Czerina Patel
- Samr "Rocky" Tayeh
For centuries, Newfoundland fisheries were hailed as the greatest in the world. Then, in 1992, their main export, the codfish, disappeared.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Chris Brookes
The grandeur and power of Wagner's monumental work, The Ring Cycle, has permeated our culture to the point that "Wagnerian" is used as an adjective.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Aaron Cohen
- Elena Park
- Jad Abumrad
Somewhere between a documentary, a remix, and a music show, the eight-part series The Wire: The Impact of Electricity on Music, reflects on changes in both the composition and consumption of music over the past century.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Chris Brookes
- Jowi Taylor
- Paolo Pietropaolo
Hearing Voices is a compelling and adventurous exploration of languages on the verge of extinction.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- John Wynne
After waiting for Mr. Right (who has yet to arrive) and experiencing years of fertility treatments, Suzanne, a single woman in her 40s, decides to adopt an African-American baby.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Dan Collison
- Elizabeth Meister
"Between Friends" is the story of one woman's coming to terms with being sexually victimized by her father.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Jody Porter
- Neil Sandell
Memories of a much beloved grandmother resurface when a box of unlabeled audio cassettes is discovered in the basement.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Mira Burt-Wintonick
This story is a window into the life of Mohammed Naseehu Ali, who left his home, family, and future in tribal government to become a musician and writer in America.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Ann Heppermann
- Kara Oehler
- Rick Moody
Roger Dowds wasn't exactly an obvious pick for a game show contestant. He'd lived a quiet, sheltered life and had little faith in himself.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Ronan Kelly
The Jewish burial ritual places great importance on treating the deceased with the utmost honor and respect. This is especially important during the ceremony of taharah, which involves the physical cleansing of the dead body.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Rebecca Sheir
"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen is one of the most ambitious and enduring pop songs of all time.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Alan Hall
In South Africa more than five million people are living with HIV/AIDS, including a young woman named Thembi Ngubane.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Joe Richman
Laura Starecheski finds herself figuratively falling down a rabbit hole (microphone and all) as she embarks on a journey that begins with the story of a goat, a cow, and a box of old letters.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Ellen Horne
- Jad Abumrad
- Laura Starecheski
My Lobotomy explores one of medical history's most controversial chapters -- when transorbital lobotomies were widely condoned -- through one man's personal journey.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- David Isay
- Piya Kochar
The Third Coast Audio Luminary Award is presented annually to an individual who is greatly admired for his or her significant and ongoing contributions to the field of radio. Hats off to the 2007 Audio Luminary - widely esteemed producer, teacher, and mentor Peter Leonhard Braun.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Peter Leonhard Braun
Producer Katie Mingle narrates her quest to find ghosts in a "pauper's graveyard" in New Orleans.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Katie Mingle
The Ground We Lived On documents the loving relationship between journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc and her father, Adrian Leon LeBlanc, in the last months of his life.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- David Isay
- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
In the 2006 conflict between Hezbollah and the state of Israel, one man took it upon himself to "resist with his pen," to bear witness for his people and bring the world, in his words, "the real news from Beirut."
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Anna Burns
F. Scott Fitzgerald's tale of old money, new money, drinking, and adultery - a thin little book that critics panned - is still the best novel about the American Dream and its discontents.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Emily Botein
In 1942, Edna Lavilla Haynes died from a backyard abortion. After her death Edna was never mentioned again.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Eurydice Aroney
- Sharon Davis
How do we deal with dying? Most of us look away, but in the case of the Zagar family, they look closer.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Lu Olkowski
Surjit Sachdev grew up in a conservative family in India. Surjit's father was an engineer, and he's an engineer, but the family tradition ended when Surjit's son was born with a severe mental disability.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Carma Jolly
- Surjit Sachdev
Would you pick up a ringing payphone and share your life with a complete stranger? Alan Dein hopes so.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Alan Dein
- Mark Burman
Andrew Skillings is eleven now, but he was first diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a high functioning form of autism, when he was just two.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Erin Davis
Leanne Wolfe, an 18-year-old schoolgirl in Cork, Ireland, committed suicide in March, 2007. On the morning of her funeral, her older sister Treena discovered Leanne's diaries.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Ciaran Cassidy
Among the victims of the powerful earthquake near Chengdu, China, are hundreds of young students who are feared dead after being trapped in the rubble of their middle school.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Andrea Hsu
- Melissa Block
Dreaming of Osama explores the ever-moving boundaries of the "war on terror" and its influence on the collective unconscious. Osama Bin Laden has a way of lying low -- then, just as the public begins to forget about him, he makes an unexpected reappearance.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Pejk Malinovski
Searching for Farming's Future in Its Past is part of a series produced by Rachel Leventhal about the impact individuals can make on their world.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Rachel Leventhal
This documentary, a special collaboration between This American Life and NPR News, deconstructs the current housing crisis.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Adam Davidson
- Alex Blumberg
Hearts, Lungs, and Minds is a "composed documentary" by sound artist John Wynne, who spent a year as an artist in residence at Harefield Hospital, one of the world's leading centers for heart and lung transplants.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- John Wynne
At age 21, Shirley Diaz is on the brink of aging out of the foster care system. Her life isn't easy now, and soon she'll be on her own, facing a new set of daunting issues.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Melissa Allison
- Shirley "Star" Diaz
In the wake of a break-up, writer Starlee Kine finds so much comfort in break-up songs that she tries to write one herself, even though she has no musical ability whatsoever.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Starlee Kine
2006 ShortDocs Winner! Two curious siblings finally get what they think they've always wanted.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- David Whitcomb
- Jill Dorothy Summers
2006 ShortDocs Winner! A crush on a telemarketer results in betrayal.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Carma Jolly
2006 ShortDocs Winner! Translation -- Sylvain, Bruno, Zoe, and Youssef at the PRIM Centre in Montreal, summer 2006.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Zoe Irvine
2006 ShortDocs Winner! Producer Sasha Aslanian's divorced parents listen to audio of their 1963 wedding vows, remember what went wrong, but still can't get over each other.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Sasha Aslanian
2007 ShortDocs Winner! Advice for the bicycle bell with aspirations, featuring voice teacher Rachel Nicholson.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Nina Perry
2007 ShortDocs Winner! Here's a rumination on the ethics of pest killing and attempts at avoidance of the graphic nature thereof.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- David Maxon
2007 ShortDocs Winner! The first step in making cookies is to purchase a metal bike jingle-bell in a western mountain town.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Jeffrey Letterly
2007 ShortDocs Winner! The triumphs and regrets of a cup.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Sean Hurley
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
Ten years ago, the people of Lubec, Maine, were met with an unpleasant surprise: an enormous finback whale had washed onto the beachfront of their tiny coastal town.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Molly Menschel
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of South Africa's first democratic election, Radio Diaries produced this five-part series featuring newly discovered archival tape of Nelson Mandela, his supporters, and detractors.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Ben Shapiro
- Joe Richman
- Sue Jaye Johnson
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