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Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best New Artist Award, selected by Final Round Judges Erisa Apantaku, Axel Kacoutié, and Alice Wilder.Year: 2023Producers:Christina HardingeEleanor McDowall

Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best News Feature Award, selected by Final Round Judges Katherine Nagasawa, Habiba Nosheen, and Richard Yeh.Year: 2023Producers:Martine PowersArelis HernándezRennie SvirnovskiyTed MuldoonAndrea SalcedoEmma TalkoffReena FloresJohn Woodrow Cox

Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best Documentary: Bronze Award, selected by Final Round Judges Jimmy Gutierrez, Rachel Matlow, Melissa Mbugua, Priska Neely, and Mike Williams.Year: 2023Producers:Phoebe WangNeena PathakKia Miakka Natisse

Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Directors' Choice Award, selected by the Third Coast International Audio Festival 2022-23 Listening Team.Year: 2023Producers:Sai SionAlexis MooreEric MennelKristen TorresChloe PrasinosAsha SalujaLeila DayJess JupiterDavy SumnerJames RowlandJenna Weiss-Berman

Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best Documentary: Gold Award, selected by Final Round Judges Jimmy Gutierrez, Rachel Matlow, Melissa Mbugua, Priska Neely, and Mike Williams.Year: 2023Producers:Sigita VegytėVaida PilibaitytėAdomas Zubė

Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best Serialized Story Award, selected by Final Round Judges Arlie Adlington, Alana Casanova-Burgess, Lisa Pollak, and Elena Rivera.Year: 2023Producers:Bill HealyErisa ApantakuSarah GeisSteven JacksonAlison FlowersJamie KalvenYohance LacourDana Brozost-KelleherPhil Dmochovski

Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best Documentary: Short Award, selected by Final Round Judges Stacia Brown, Sharon Mashihi, and Justine Tobiasz.Year: 2023Producers:Talia AugustidisEleanor McDowall

Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best Documentary: Silver Award, selected by Final Round Judges Jimmy Gutierrez, Rachel Matlow, Melissa Mbugua, Priska Neely, and Mike Williams.Year: 2023Producers:Erica Heilman

Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Impact Award, selected by Final Round Judges Katherine Nagasawa, Habiba Nosheen, and Richard Yeh.Year: 2023Producers:Emily HanfordCatherine WinterChristopher PeakChris Julin

To experience this award-winning series in full, including a transcript and listening instructions, click here.Year: 2021Producers:Hanif AbdurraqibMyke Dodge WeiskopfNick WhiteVictoria Alejandro

To experience this award-winning piece in full, including a transcript and listening instructions, click here.Year: 2021Producers:Sam RiddellJordan Gass-Pooré

To experience this award-winning piece in full, including a transcript and listening instructions, click here.Year: 2021Producers:Jason MoonLauren Choolijan

To experience this award-winning piece in full, including additional resources and links, click here.Year: 2021Producers:Mozhgan MoarefizadehNicole CurbyMichael GreenBec Fary

To experience this award-winning piece in full, including listening instructions & more of Heather's inspirations, click here.Year: 2021Producers:Heather Li

To experience this award-winning piece in full, including a subtitled video, listening instructions and more about Heloiza's inspiration, click here.Year: 2021Producers:Heloiza BarbosaValquiria GouveaPaulo PinheiroDiogo SaraivaAdam Gamwell

To experience this award-winning piece in full, including the credits read out loud, click here.Year: 2021Producers:Pamela Z

To experience this award-winning piece in full, including a listening instructions, click here.Year: 2021Producers:James T. Green

To experience this award-winning piece in full, including a subtitled video, a transcript, closer captions, and more, click here.Year: 2021Producers:Raymond AntrobusEleanor McDowall

To experience this award-winning piece in full, including a transcript, click here.Year: 2021Producers:Monaea UptonJen KinneyAshley CleekAdreanna RodriguezKate OsbornAdizah EghanKyle Murdoch

To experience this award-winning piece in full, click here.Year: 2021Producers:Sean Cole

How to Remember is sonically inspired by Axel's travels to Côte d'Ivoire.Year: 2020Producers:Axel KacoutiéEleanor McDowall

Angelina was a journalist living in Brooklyn when she was diagnosed with ALS.Year: 2020Producers:Allison BehringerHannah Harris GreenBethany DentonCaitlin PierceCassius AdairMyke Dodge WeiskopfDara HirschLila HassanKristen 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: 2020Producers:Catalina MayMartín CruzDennis 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: 2020Producers:Shapearl WellsAlison FlowersBill HealySarah GeisBart Warshaw

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: 2020Producers:Joe RichmanSarah Kate KramerNellie GillesDeborah GeorgeBen 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: 2020Producers:Jillian WalkerBen 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: 2020Producers:Anayansi Diaz-CortesBrett MyersKevin 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: 2020Producers:Janina JeffSam RiddellChris DigginsChad MilnerDr. Ashira Blazer

Concerning mental illness, toxic workplace environments, Egyptian Rat Screw, and the nature of infinity.Year: 2020Producers: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: 2020Producers:Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr.Jay Allison

This hour, winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.Year: 2019Producers:Madeleine BaranSamara FreemarkZoha ZokaeiHonor EastlyJoel WernerIsabel Vázquez

This hour, winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.Year: 2019Producers:Kathy TuTobin LowShannon HeffernanGarth MullinsSam FennIsabel Vázquez

This hour, winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.Year: 2019Producers:Eleanor McDowallNeena PathakJazmín AguileraIsabel Vázquez

This hour, winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.Year: 2019Producers:Mara LazerSayre QuevedoIsabel Vázquez

An unexpected turn of events occurs when 15-year-old Tannaz tells the police about being sexually abused by a friend.Year: 2019Producers:Zoha Zokaei

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: 2018Producers:Madeleine BaranSamara FreemarkNatalie JablonskiRehman TungekarParker YeskoWill CraftCatherine Winter

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: 2018Producers: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: 2018Producers:Kathy TuTobin LowMatt Collette

A homosexual reflection on an effort to release ourselves from misshapen containers.Year: 2019Producers:Mara Lazer

For the last year, Shannon Heffernan has been trying to figure out how and why people in Illinois prisons are dying.Year: 2018Producers: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: 2019Producers:Garth MullinsSam FennLisa HaleAlexander B. KimRyan McNeil

This hour, stories about family ties, love and loss.Year: 2019Producers:Leila DayStephanie RowdenAudrey McGlinchyIsabel Vázquez

This week, three stories by alumni of the Third Coast Radio Residency.Year: 2019Producers:Hannah Kingsley-MaJames T. GreenErisa ApantakuIsabel Vázquez

This hour, journeys of discovery, from personal identity to mathematical infinity.Year: 2019Producers:Simone PolanenStarlee KineJoel WernerIsabel Vázquez

This week, two very specific points on the map with two very different stories.Year: 2019Producers:Jenny CasasWilson SayreRobin AmerDavid BoyerKatie MingleIsabel Vázquez

An emotional dive into the personal impact of the false missile alert that was sent out across Hawaii.Year: 2019Producers:Jazmín AguileraAnna SussmanJohn FecileErika LantzEliza SmithNancy López

About a year ago, producers at KPCC started discussing the inevitable major quake set to hit Los Angeles and wondered how they could get people to not just listen but really prepare. The Big One: Your Survival Guide is what they came up with.Year: 2019Producers:Arwen Champion Nicks

Sometimes, a death in the family means cousins and casseroles. And sometimes — for one reason or another — it means figuring it out on your own.Year: 2018Producers:Melanie Kruvelis

“Mihai” – a pseudonym he chose himself – has a lifelong history of drugs and psychosis.Year: 2019Producers:Wederik De Backer

A decade ago, a 22-year-old black man was killed by a white police officer at Oakland's Fruitvale BART station.Year: 2019Producers:Sandhya Dirks