San Francisco luminary and famed poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti takes listeners on a freewheeling tour of his neighborhood haunts in San Francisco's Chinatown and North Beach. (more)

Award-winning producer Curtis Fox has covered arts and culture for many years, first for public radio, and more recently as a full-time podcaster. (more)

This hour: two amazing musicians explored through the portal of two amazing documentaries. (more)

Everyone knows the riddle: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? And the answer: Practice, practice, practice. But what if you practice, practice, practice, and still don't get there? (more)

This hour: three documentary poems chronicling the lives of working class mothers in Troy, NY. Plus, poets as reporters, confused readers, and more. (more)

How do we deal with dying? Most of us look away, but in the case of the Zagar family, they look closer. (more)

Matthew Power first met poet Allen Ginsberg at his cousin's Bar Mitzvah, when he was a 15-year-old aspiring writer. (more)

This audio art lament asks the question, "What happens when false care and concern land on the ears of someone truly in need?" (more)

"A new start for the start." (more)

This hour: a chronicle of European history through the sound of bells and a bizarre spectacle of endurance. (more)

Creative sound projects are increasingly blurring the lines between radio, audio documentary, sound art, and music. (more)

Announcing the winners of this year's Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition! (more)

The grandeur and power of Wagner’s monumental work, The Ring Cycle, has permeated our culture to the point that “Wagnerian” is used as an adjective. (more)

In early 2010, the Third Coast teamed up with the incomparable pop / indie / experiemental band The Books, and issued an open invitation to make radio. (more)

Film sound designer Steve Boeddeker demonstrates how sound can be used to enhance the emotional impact of a scene. (more)

How trees affect me as a photographer. (more)

In a time when commercial interests continue to stake a claim to audiences’ attentions on the Internet, artists continue to explore the narrowcast as a vehicle for simultaneously cultivating an audience and developing a body of work. (more)

Paul de Jong and Nick Zammuto, otherwise known as the Books, incorporate an array of sound fragments and miniature stories into their music. (more)

This hour: we explore some big ideas – justice, injustice, punishment, and redemption – through small, powerful, personal stories. (more)

This hour: a young patient escapes his hospital bed through flights of imagination, a musician documents a city under siege, and more. (more)