Talk of the Bay
Talk of the Bay is committed to covering political, social, and cultural topics from around the Monterey Bay. We focus on current events and people making news locally (from the central coast to Sacramento). We also consider national and international issues, their impact on the central coast, and local responses. We tackle perennial topics like housing, homelessness, transportation, education, and more from a new angle.
The Science Hope: Eye to Eye with Our World’s Wildlife
In this interview, I talk with Dr. Wiebke Finkler about her new book of photographs of "charismatic megafauna" and the scientists who study them. Several of the photos of whales included in the book...
Teens’ Futures are Their Business
On Talk of the Bay, host Suki Wessling is joined by a number of people involved with the local nonprofit Your Future is Our Business (YFIOB). Yvette Lopez Brooks, the Mayor of Capitola, is the new...
Sea Walls Santa Cruz Launches
Here at K-Squid, we love our ocean sanctuary, especially the squid who live there. That's why we were so thrilled to hear about this massive community-wide mural project, that will very likely...
Covid Update from Deputy Health Officer
Dr. David Guilarducci is the deputy health officer for Santa Cruz County. In this interview, we discuss the current state of Covid in Santa Cruz County and how vaccinations are going, masking...
Host Bios
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Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Monday, May 6 6:00am
HOSTED BY
Rachel Anne Goodman
Since 1980, Rachel has hosted radio shows on public stations around the U.S. where she interviewed many amazing figures. She is the producer of radio documentaries such as Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old Time Music, A Labor of Love: Midwifery in the South, The Boomtown Chronicles, and Pastures of Plenty, a History of California Farmworkers. Ms. Goodman has a Peabody award for her work on The DNA Files for NPR. She currently teaches at Cabrillo College
in Aptos and at UC Santa Cruz.