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Third Coast Festival Featurecast 37 - Newsflash!

Wed, May 7 2008 Listen

Newsflash! We're making some changes to the podcast. To find out more, visit: http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/audio_library_podcasts.asp

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 36 - Cellphone Plays

Thu, Apr 17 2008 Listen

The Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago invited the Third Coast Festival to work with audio producers to make a number of short "cellphone plays," in which a series of messages reveal a story about the phone's owner ... Today, three of the excellent results.

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 35 - Radio Ephemera

Fri, Apr 4 2008 Listen

Announcing the 2008 TCF Public Audio Challenge... Radio Ephemera!

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 34 - Sweeping Statements

Fri, Mar 14 2008 Listen

Artist Judith Sloan teaches writing, theater and juggling in alternative schools and jails. This week: an audio essay about her experiences + an interview...

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 33 - Divided Families

Fri, Feb 29 2008 Listen

A transnational love story by Catrin Einhorn and Linda Lutton.

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 32 - Little Black Train

Wed, Feb 13 2008 Listen

Five conversations about death. By Nora Harrington.

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 31 - Live? Die? Kill?

Thu, Jan 31 2008 Listen

Three very short, but very big, questions. Posed by independent producer Karen Michel.

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 30 - Anna Friz

Thu, Jan 17 2008 Listen

Sounds, stories, and radio art by Anna Friz. Plus an interview.

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 29 - Unintended Detours

Fri, Dec 14 2007 Listen

Unintended Detours with Sue Mell + an interview...

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 28 - Shortcuts

Thu, Nov 29 2007 Listen

A whole year condensed into an hour! Listen to "A Shortcut Through 2006" and an interview with producer Peter Bochan.

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 27 - A Year to Live, A Year to Die

Thu, Oct 4 2007 Listen

"A Year to Live, A Year to Die" by Mary Beth Kirchner.

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 26 - Mendi and Keith Obadike

Thu, Sep 20 2007 Listen

Stories and sounds by multimedia artists Mendi and Keith Obadike.

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 25 - Eartoons

Fri, Sep 7 2007 Listen

Cartoons on the radio?! Yes. Hear eartoons by Peter Blegvad and David Isay and Ben Katchor.

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 24 - Hearing America

Wed, Aug 22 2007 Listen

An excerpt from "Hearing America: A Century of Music on the Radio" by Nate DiMeo

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 23 - Short Docs

Fri, Aug 10 2007 Listen

A Third Coast Short Doc retrospective + info on our latest public audio project. Listen...and then grab a mic and make a story yourself! Yes!

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 22 - Deep Wireless

Thu, Jul 26 2007 Listen

Two selections from Deep Wireless, a radio art compilation from New Adventures in Sound Art.

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 21 - War News Radio

Thu, Jul 12 2007 Listen

Three stories from War News Radio + producer interviews.

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 20 - Quiet American

Thu, Jun 28 2007 Listen

Aaron Ximm (a.k.a Quiet American) is a field recordist and sound artist. Today we listen to two of his city soundscapes: San Francisco and Hanoi.

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 19 - UbuWeb

Thu, Jun 14 2007 Listen

UbuWeb is a website. But it's more than just a website -- it's a library, an archive, a museum, and a portal for curious minds and ears. It's full of incredible avant-garde oddities, found sound, outsider experimentation, and so, so, so much more. This week, we talk with UbuWeb founder Kenneth Goldsmith and sample of a few of Ubu's amazing offerings.

Third Coast Festival Featurecast - Radio Across Time Zones

Wed, May 30 2007 Listen

This week we bring you an excerpt of "Radio Across Time Zones", a Third Coast Festival special broadcast featuring amazing and inventive radio stories from Canada, Ireland, England, Australia, and France. It's like having a magic receiver that can tune in to frequencies from all around the world!!!

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 17 - Keith Talbot

Fri, May 18 2007 Listen

Back in the 1970s, when NPR was just a fledgling organization, Keith Talbot emerged as a sort of mad scientist of radio, experimenting with sounds, styles, and formats at a time when public radio as we know it was only beginning to emerge. We feature two of his radio stories today.

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 16- The Tourist

Thu, Apr 26 2007 Listen

The Tourist is lost... he can't sleep, or tune out the music that comes from everywhere. He doesn't enjoy being at odds with his new environment and so secretly is looking forward to the journey home. Combining lush field recordings and a stark written narrative, The Tourist obliquely approaches the story of a fictional traveler, a melancholy innocent abroad.

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 15- Original Kasper's: The Hot Dog Stand T

Wed, Apr 11 2007 Listen

This week, we bring you the story of the Little Hot Dog Shop That Could. Since it was founded in 1929, Original Kasper's has become a community mainstay in Oakland, CA, helping to hold the community together through difficult times.

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 14- Hairwaves

Wed, Mar 28 2007 Listen

This week, sounds and stories from barber shops. We feature a few tracks from Zoe Irvine and Mark Vernon's "Hairwaves: A Cautionary Tale".

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 13 - Youth Radio

Wed, Mar 14 2007 Listen

This week, we bring you a little taste of the Third Coast Festival "Listening Room", this time featuring stories by young producers and a lively discussion of those stories.

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 12- Tur de Lima

Wed, Feb 28 2007 Listen

Producers Jesse Hardman and Lucho Hernandez take us on a sound tour of Lima, Peru. With music by Hauschka.

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 11- Pamela Z

Mon, Jan 29 2007 Listen

Featuring work by sound artist, composer, and performer Pamela Z.

Third Coast Festival Featurecast 10- Invisible Ink