The Randomness Show: Third Coast International Audio Festival

The Long Shadow [Excerpt]
by Lea Thau (Strangers [KCRW], 2014)
One day in February 1997, four young men decided they would go up to the top of the Empire State Building. What happened in the observatory that day was as random as it was terrifying and cast a long shadow over everything that came after. 

J Dilla's Lost Scrolls
by Pat Mesiti-Miller (Snap Judgment [NPR], 2013)
When record store owner Jeff Bubeck buys an old record collection out of an abandoned storage unit, he has no idea what he's (randomly) stumbled across. Jeff learns the collection once belonged to the late, great hip hop producer J Dilla. Along with the thousands of LP's from Dilla's personal collection, there's something else that's uncovered, something huge...

I've Got a Question For You
by Zak Rosen (Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge:Dollar Storeys, 2007)
The 2007 Third Coast Short Docs Challenge asked producers to make a 2-3 minute radio story based on one of three specific dollar store items: a bike bell, mouse traps and mug with feminist quote. For his entry, Zak Rosen cold called a random assorment of people from the Detroit phonebook, hoping they had something to say about the items.