Re:sound

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 this hour (* = ShortDocs Winner, ** = People's Choice Award Winner)Where Do I Even Start?by Ben Riskin & Aaron LeederA working interview for a smart phone society.What Do You Need To Know?by Ilya MarritzThe bread guys pay a visit to a busy Brooklyn deli.What Happened When You Caught a Toadfish?by Sam Wemmer, Ian Romer Todd WemmerLiam tells Sam about his adventures on a trip to Bali and Sri Lanka.Where Do We Go...by Catie TalarskiAn audio impression of racial tensions.What Was It About Marriage Anyway?by Austin MitchellA 1974 conversation between Erica Jong and Studs Terkel... remixed.What Do You Look Forward To, Aai?by Nina PathakThe producer's grandma reflects on growing old in a country that's not her home.Where Did He Go: Ogichan, Grandad?by Eloise StevensA granddaughter tells us about her grandfather's funeral.Who Remembers My Father's Voice?*by Pablo DuarteI ask my family members if they remember what my father sounded like.Who Took Mom To the Prom?*by Emer Horgan with Ronan KellyA story of girls who say 'yes' that is 100% true.What Makes a Good Marriage?*by Olivia HumphreysOlivia's grandparents, now in their 90s and married for nearly 70 years, tell her about when they met and give their advice on a long and happy marriage.What Could Be Bad About This?*by John-Michael FormanWhat if you could learn to stop listening to other peopleWhere Do I Find You Now?**by Sara Brooke CurtisAn intimate conversation with Studs about the edges of life and death.

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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, NASA produced an audio time capsule on a Golden Record curated by astronomer Carl Sagan to represent all of life on earth as we’ve known it. It was sent aboard the Voyager spacecrafts to reach distant planetary systems. This episode of the podcast “The Truth” imagines the listeners who might find it.Wake Up, Baby!by Peregrine Andrews (Between the Ears, BBC Radio 3, 2015)A baby sleeps. A man in another room watches her on a screen. Her loving father? No. This man does not know this baby. He's in another country, thousands of miles away. And, each night, he watches a different baby. 'Wake Up, Baby!' is an atmospheric journey into the sometimes unsettling world of 'reassuring' technology, and industry that kicked off in the media storm following the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's infant son in 1932. Phototroll.me

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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 access TV. On top of this, he's published a book of erotic poetry and designs women's activewear. But is America ready for someone like 'Scoop' to takeover TV news as the 'black Bill O'Reilly'?Help Third Coast launch the next generation of great audio storytelling. Donate here: goo.gl/DDrkPr

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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 photos from our #ThirdCoastLaunchPad click here: https://goo.gl/ZYwxVZDonate here: https://goo.gl/DDrkPr

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The 2015 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition.

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The 2015 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition.

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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 Tree Productions for BBC Radio 4, 2014)Elly Stone is a modest, 87-year-old New Yorker — 'born and dragged up' — whose sublime voice will forever be associated with the songs of Belgian chanteur Jacques Brel. Twenty years after her retirement from the stage, she offers a rare insight into her life and what music has meant to her. 'The Voices of Elly Stone' won the 2015 Prix Europa for Best European Music Programme.Listen to 'Rhapsody in Bohemia' by Alan Hall, winner of the Directors' Choice Award at the 2006 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition — http://goo.gl/qob4wh

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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 to end their addiction.. In the first episode of this three part series, Sharon follows three addicts on their journey to sobriety through the Drug Court system.Listen to part 2 & 3 of this series: http://ab.co/1FSGHirPhotoepSos.dehttp://bit.ly/1hUFwVZ

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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 changes his life... and ultimately destroys him. Tim's off to find out what — if anything — Gogol's mysterious story can tell us, whilst contending with his own filthy disgrace of a jacket.[Listen to the piece here: http://bit.ly/1jEg88G]Supermanby Laura Starcheski and Al Letson (State of the Re:Union, 2012)Al Letson is a storyteller and public radio host who is hugely, passionately into comics. In his search for super stories, he found a Superman superfan that fell prey to a real life villain, and a tight-knit comics community that pitched in to help.Poioumenonby Jon Steiner & read by Adam Norris, sound by Louis Mitchell (Radiotonic [ABC RN], 2015)Poioumenon is a (sort of) short story by Jon Steiner, inspired (sort of) by and in homage (kind of) to the American postmodern (ish) writer David Foster Wallace, adapted (sort of) for the radio, and about (sort of): figuring out where to go post-post-modernism.PhotoCamshttp://bit.ly/1WCpWOx

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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 navigate using only their hearing. 'Disequilibrium' is a meditation on the nature of sound and hearing. It traces Nick's experience of his balance disorder as it morphs his world into a space nearly as alien as the one he's creating. LISTEN HERE:http://thirdcoastfestival.org/library/1835-re-sound-210-the-inner-ear-showIn One Ear and Out the Otherby Tim Hinman (Radiotonic, ABC RN, 2015)'In One Ear and Out the Other' takes a bizarre trip inside the brain of Danish documentary producer Tim Hinman, as he does his best to follow the pathways of cognition to the source — only to be confronted with a stranger and stranger inner universe. With help from a few seasoned Danish scholars, 'In One Ear and Out the Other' is a radio first: real live reportage from inside a living brain. Well… almost.PhotoBBC

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