FINALISTS
At Third Coast, we believe fiercely that there there is so much excellent, experimental, and often under-discovered work being made in the audio field every single day. And as the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition grows, we see it as our duty to shine a light on even more of the kinds of boundary-breaking projects that come through our doors during our annual Call for Entries.
So, we introduced Third Coast Finalists for the first time in 2021. Together, our staff Listening Team hears every single piece of audio that comes through our doors; we endlessly discuss, debate, and share these pieces with one another before sending work off to our Final Round Judges for consideration. Our Listening Team is in charge of naming finalists, with considerable input from our Judges. This year, we're proud to announce 44 standout projects from our Competition as finalists: 8 each in our fastest-growing categories — Best Serialized Story and Best Documentary — and four each in the others.
Read on for the Finalists of the 2022-23 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition, and click the title of each project to listen to each piece of work.
BEST DOCUMENTARY
De Eso No Se Habla Podcast
Spain
Accounts and Accountability
Lights Out (Falling Tree Productions, BBC Radio 4)
United Kingdom
Halfie: A Memoir
Artist Propulsion Lab (WQXR)
United States
How Do I Love Someone? Starring Megan Tan
WILD (LAist Studios)
United States
Last Day (Lemonada Media)
United States
Live In Kyiv: Comedy From A War Zone
BBC Radio 4 (Lead Mojo)
United Kingdom
Love, Death and Benzodope
Crackdown
Canada
The Wind
United States & United Kingdom
BEST DOCUMENTARY: SHORT
Short Cuts (Falling Tree Productions, BBC Radio 4)
Czech Republic
Cold t*ts, warm hearts: the cold water dippers of Maine
Outside/In (New Hampshire Public Radio)
United States
My Iron Lung
Radio Diaries
United States
Nancy Masters searches for answers
Georgia Public Broadcasting
United States
AUDIO UNBOUND
HumanitiesDC, KPFA
United States & Ethiopia
The McSweeney's Audio Issue
McSweeney's Publishing & Radiotopia from PRX
United States
Weird Noise
United Kingdom
Flash Forward
United States
BEST DOCUMENTARY: NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE
El sueño de La Bestia (The Beast's Dream)
Crónicas al borde Podcast
Ecuador
Episódio 2: O breu da floresta (Episode 2: The Forest's Dusk)
Habitat Podcast (Folha de S.Paulo)
Brazil
Leti ili umri (Fly or Die)
Radio Atlas & Croatian Radio HRT-HR3 Dokumentarna radiodrama
Croatia
El baño (Instructions for going to the bathroom)
CUIR: Historias disidentes
Mexico
BEST NEW ARTIST
FreshEd Podcast
United States
The California Report Magazine (KQED) & Code Switch (NPR)
United States
Old Tapes
Funny Stories to Tell in the Dark Podcast
United States
Soundscape Productions
United Kingdom
IMPACT
Farm Succession in Northeast Montana
Reframing Rural
United States
My Neighbor the Suspected War Criminal
Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting & PRX
United States
Roe Was Never Enough
VICE News Reports (VICE) in partnership with Type Investigations
United States
WABE
United States
BEST SERIALIZED STORY
Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, the National Security Archive, PRX
/ Adonde Media
United States & Mexico
Radio Workshop
South Africa
In Deep: One City's Year of Climate Chaos
American Public Media
United States
Crooked Media
United States
KQED & NPR
United States
Audible & Easy Tiger &Audiocraft
Australia
Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s
Spotify Studios
United States
Third Squad: After Afghanistan
Airloom Media
United States
BEST NEWS FEATURE
A Thursday night — the last Thursday night — at Northfield's Rustic Restaurant
Vermont Public
United States
City targeted same homeless New Yorkers over and over in encampment sweeps, data shows
Morning Edition (WNYC)
United States
Escape From Tarkov
On the Media (WNYC)
United States
Jamie's Spot
Island Morning (CBC Radio)
Canada
DIRECTORS' CHOICE
Black Radio Rochester
WXIR Community Radio
United States
feeling body
Between the Ears (Falling Tree Productions, BBC Radio 3)
United Kingdom, Kenya
Stas THEE Boss Pays the Cost in Change
Fresh off the Spaceship (KEXP)
United States
Lucia Festival
Italy