Third Coast International Audio Festival

Showcasing the best radio stories of the year - winners of the 2012 TC / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.

Food: it's delicious. It's complicated.

A lobster diver in Honduras, a chocolate taster in France, a movie director in Nigeria, and other stories that reveal the workaday world in all its globalized complexity, one person at a time.

Drawing from radio and beyond, Jad Abumrad shares the stories, sounds, people and projects that have most inspired him over the years.

Jason Leopold had all the qualities he needed to break big stories, but the one story that nearly broke him was his own.

This hour: looking for the intangible. What's lost and what might be found.

This hour: the home funeral movement. Three families who've forgone traditional death rites in favor of a more DIY approach.

Change. Some of us crave it, some of us avoid it at all costs. But whenever and wherever it happens, change creates fallout, intentional or not.

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

Stories of people who start out as bitter enemies and end up in places you could never predict.

This hour: the piano. But not just as a musical instrument. The piano as a spiritual healer, as a symptom in a grand delusion, as a man’s obsession, and as a beloved friend, put out to pasture. The Glass Piano by Kate Bland and Deborah Levy with Emily Watson (BBC Radio 3, 2011) Once upon a time, there was a Russian princess. The Princess was named Alexandra Amelie and she had a curious relationship with a glass piano. The story of Alexandra is part history lesson, part magical tale, part psychological study. It came to us as an entry in our 2011 documentary competition, and it’s safe to say, we had never heard anything like it. Ted the Tuner by Julianne Hazlewood (Re:sound Premiere, 2011) Inside the grand shell of a piano is a complicated and delicate system – hundreds of working parts that require the care of a doctor with highly specialized skills. Ted Sambell has been doctoring pianos for over 70 years with a love that’s eclipsed everything else in his life. Centennial Accident by Julia Krolik and Owen Fernly (Re:sound premiere, 2011) The piano of Centennial Accident spent many years being loved and played in the Grad Club – A bar for grad students on the campus of Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. But, due to a broken leg, the piano was taken out of use. In the last three years of its life, it was brought back to nature to live out its final days outdoors, decomposing over time. Marie's Crisis by Keven T. Allen (Weekend America, 2007) Marie's Crisis is a famous piano bar in the West Village of New York City. Pianist Jim Allen learned the piano from his father, who felt that the instrument should be played only to celebrate God’s glory. For Jim, the bar is its own unlikely kind of church - as healing for him as it is for the people who gather around the piano to sing and listen.

This hour: selling, swapping, buying and trading...

As the James Bond franchise celebrates its 50th year, we get at what's been driving him all this time - the beat.

Chicago. Hogbutcher to the world, jewel of the Midwest, and everything inbetween.

This hour: A dark secret that threatens to tear apart a family