Best of the Best: The 2018 Third Coast Festival

From more than 550 entries, twelve stories were chosen as winners of the Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition, the “Oscars of Radio.” This presentation highlights seven of the winning pieces, and includes interviews with producers and highlights from the awards ceremony.

Producer: Isabel Vásquez

• “John Thompson Vs American Justice” by

  Andrew Marantz, Sarah Lustbader, and Katherine Wells and edited by David Krasnow for

  The New Yorker Radio Hour

• “Uncounted Civilian Casualties in Iraq” by Annie Brown, with reporter Azmat Khan and edited by Lisa Tobin for

  The Daily

• “Summer Rain” by Nanna Hauge Kristensen for Danish Radio P1

• “Host’s Fat” by Jonathan Zenti and edited by Cathy Fitzgerald for

  Meat

• “Hidden Problems of Silicon Valley” by Will Evans and Alyssa Jeong Perry and edited by Taki Telonidis with Ziva Branstetter for

  Reveal

  in partnership with KQED

• “Overnight in the E.R.” by Sammy Mack and edited by Alicia Zuckerman for WLRN News

• “Man Choubam (I am good)” by Sharon Mashihi with editors Bob Carlson and Kaitlin Prest for

  UnFictional

  from KCRW