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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 

A Hole In The Silence

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: A Love Story 

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

Whip Law

The Wind

United States & United Kingdom

BEST DOCUMENTARY: SHORT

A New Tense

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

JOURNEY(S)

HumanitiesDC, KPFA
United States & Ethiopia


The McSweeney's Audio Issue
McSweeney's Publishing & Radiotopia from PRX

United States

 

Weird Noise

Weird Noise

United Kingdom

Welcome to Vanguard Estates

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

 

Am I Able?

FreshEd Podcast

United States


Lost In Translation

The California Report Magazine (KQED) & Code Switch (NPR)

United States

 

Old Tapes
Funny Stories to Tell in the Dark Podcast

United States


The Sound Collector

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


The Last Year at Forest Cove

WABE

United States

BEST SERIALIZED STORY

After Ayotzinapa /

Después de Ayotzinapa

Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, the National Security Archive, PRX

/ Adonde Media

United States & Mexico


I Will Not Grow Old Here

Radio Workshop

South Africa

In Deep: One City's Year of Climate Chaos

American Public Media

United States

 

Mother Country Radicals

Crooked Media

United States

 

On Our Watch

KQED & NPR

United States

Pillow Talk

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

 

Variations on M.

Lucia Festival

Italy

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