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Playlist: Third Coast Competition Winners

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The Third Coast International Audio Festival hosts the annual TCF/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition to honor "creative and compelling audio work being produced worldwide."

Here are winning pieces from the annual competition that we are lucky to have on PRX!

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2011 Winners

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Best of the Best: The 2011 Third Coast Festival Broadcast and Promo

From Third Coast International Audio Festival | 01:58:00

The Third Coast International Audio Festival brings the best new documentaries produced worldwide to the national airwaves in a special two-hour program hosted by Gwen Macsai, "Best of the Best: The 2011 Third Coast Festival Broadcast." Plus two generic (30 second) promos for stations to use in promoting the special.

Stations without paid PRX memberships should contact prxhelp@prx.org for help.

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The Wisdom of Jay Thunderbolt (CENSORED VERSION)

From Love + Radio | 00:28:02

Jay Thunderbolt's business card is a little mysterious. It reads, "Thunderbolt - Party Naked" and gives a phone number.

Best Documentary, Gold Award

(The uncensored, non-FCC-safe version is here.)

The Five Percent Rule

From Sally Herships | 00:06:24

The military has failed to comply with its own tobacco pricing restrictions, selling millions of dollars of tobacco-based products to service members well beneath legal limits. As a result, the Department of Defense spends over $1.5 billion of taxpayers’ money a year on tobacco-related expenses. Maybe it doesn’t have to.

Radio Impact Award

Kohn

From Andy Mills | 00:08:05

A radio story about the peculiar life and voice of Kohn Ashmore, told by Andy Mills with the sounds of Hudson Branch.

Best New Artist


2010 Winners

Best of the Best: The 2010 Third Coast Festival Broadcast and promo

From Third Coast International Audio Festival | 01:57:58

The Third Coast International Audio Festival brings the best new documentaries produced worldwide to the national airwaves in a special two-hour program, Best of the Best: The 2010 Third Coast Festival Broadcast.

Plus a generic promo for stations to use in promoting the special.

Note! Stations without paid PRX memberships may air this program free of charge. Contact prxhelp@prx.org.

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Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair: A Granddaughter's Search for the Truth

From Radio Diaries | 00:22:59

In 1951, Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's traveling electric chair for raping a white woman. Six decades later, his granddaughter is on a quest to unearth everything she can about his life - and his death.

American Dreamer: Sam's Story

From Long Haul Productions | 00:59:00

Every year, an estimated 65,000 undocumented students graduate from American high schools. Raised entirely in American culture, they finish high school only to find themselves in a peculiarly American limbo. "American Dreamer: Sam's Story" is a first-person longitudinal radio documentary sharing the experience of one of these kids.

The Sleeping Fool

From Sofia Saldanha | 00:10:22

Art museum security guards spend their days in uniform, speaking quietly or not at all, surrounded by works of irreplaceable art.

It may look easy, but the job requires a stressful degree of responsibility, poise, and silence. Some guards may begin to feel trapped inside their own thoughts, or even inside a painting. The Sleeping Fool presents the stories, dreams and thoughts of those who work behind the walls of an art gallery.

This can go on forever

From Big Shed Audio | 00:10:25

When Carol was 20, she gave her baby boy away for adoption. Twenty years later, the son, Joel, came looking. The two tell their story of reunion.


2009 Winners

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2009 Third Coast Broadcast (Hours 1 and 2)

From Third Coast International Audio Festival | 01:59:03

Hear the best and most illuminating radio stories of the year! The ninth annual Third Coast Broadcast, hosted by longtime public radio producer Gwen Macsai, showcases the prize-winning stories from the 2009 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.

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Miner

From Homelands Productions | Part of the WORKING series | 00:07:51

Your cell phone or your laptop wouldn’t work without a mineral called coltan. The Democratic Republic of Congo has about 80 percent of the world's coltan reserves, and that has spawned a corrupt and violent industry. Military factions vie for control of the mines, earning millions of dollars while the miners themselves barely scrape by. Producer Gregory Warner met one of those miners, Fidele Musafiri, a small man with a hammer, a spike, and a dream of striking it rich. But the soldiers are never far away.

Best News Feature


2008 Winners

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Dr. Phil

From starlee kine | 00:29:09

After a break-up, Starlee tries to write her own break-up song, even though she has no musical ability. For some help, she turns to a rather surprising expert.

Best Documentary, Gold

Growing Up in The System

From Radio Rookies | 00:11:40

Shirley’s life has been shaped by her mother’s murder and life in several foster homes. From Radio Rookies and Shirley "Star" Diaz.

Best Documentary, Silver

Searching For Farming's Future in its Past

From Rachel Leventhal | 00:09:40

How do you make sustainable farming, well, sustainable?

Best Documentary, Honorable Mention


2007 Winners

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Grandpa

From Lu Olkowski | 00:08:46

A father and son have a contest to take the best pictures of their dying grandpa, the result is an up-close portrait of death.

Best Documentary, Bronze


2006 Winners

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Thembi's AIDS Diary

From Radio Diaries | 00:23:27

South Africa has the largest number of people with HIV/AIDS in the world. More than five million South Africans are HIV-positive. Thembi is one of them. For the past year, she has been carrying a tape recorder and keeping an audio diary of her struggle to live with AIDS.

Best Documentary, Bronze

Honoring the Body: Taharah

From Rebecca Sheir | Part of the The End As Beginning: An Audio Exploration of the Jewish View of Death series | 00:15:43

Leaving the world as we entered it... but with a twist. Jewish burial rituals and beliefs place great importance on treating the deceased with the utmost honor and respect. This is especially important during the "taharah," a ritual involving the physical cleansing of the dead body.

Best Documentary, Directors' Choice

Between Friends

From Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | Part of the CBC Radio's Outfront series | 00:13:05

A secret shared between 10-year-old girls becomes evidence in a court case 20 years later. Jody Porter knows how important it was to share the burden back then, but how does her friend feel about it now?

Radio Impact Award

Kyenkyen Bi Adi Mawu

From Song and Memory | 00:05:15

The exiled son of Ghana's former emir, king of the Muslim people, remembers the song his father listened to as he carried the burden of leading Ghana's Muslim people.

Best Documentary, Honorable Mention


2005 Winners

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Dear Birth Mother

From Long Haul Productions | Part of the Becoming a Mom series | 00:28:58

After waiting for Mr. Right (who has yet to arrive) - and after years of fertility treatments - Suzanne, a single woman in her forties, decided to adopt. She chose transracial adoption.

Best Documentary, Gold

Mandela: An Audio History (Series)

Produced by Radio Diaries

A groundbreaking project that weaves together an unprecedented collection of archival sound materials documenting and preserving the story of Nelson Mandela and the struggle against apartheid. Hear a rare recording of the 1964 trial that resulted in Mandela's life sentence; a visit between Mandela and his wife, Winnie, secretly recorded by a prison guard; marching songs of guerilla soldiers; government propaganda films; and pirate radio broadcasts from the African National Conference (ANC).

Best Documentary, Bronze

Most recent piece in this series:

Becoming Nelson Mandela (New Story)

From Radio Diaries | Part of the Mandela: An Audio History series | 00:12:00

view all pieces in this series

Just Another Fish Story

From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies | 00:08:28

Ten years ago, a whale washed ashore on the beach of Lubec in the poorest county in Maine. The people in town had to make a decision quickly — how would they get rid of a 60-ton dead whale? From Molly Menschel.

Best New Artist


2001 Winners

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The Vietnam Tapes of Michael A. Baronowski

From Jay Allison | 00:19:17

Lance Corporal Michael Baronowski recorded himself on the front lines of the Vietnam War in 1966. Decades later, a friend shared the audio with Lost & Found Sound to help make this incredible documentary.

Best Documentary: Gold Award


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