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.
James Houston and Diane Cooley on Santa Cruz History
In this excerpt from my documentary "The Boomtown Chronicles: The Changing Face of California" we hear stories from James Houston, J.S. Holliday, and Diane Porter Cooley, all of them gone now, but...
Monarch Services: A focus on violence prevention
Two years of COVID have had a devastating effect on our mental health, especially for children and teens. Isolation, interruption of routines, losing loved ones, and uncertainty play a part in the...
Librarian on Book Banning and Free Speech
Collection Services Manager, Sarah Harbison of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries takes free speech seriously. In this interview, she comments on recent efforts to ban books and the role libraries have...
Whalefest Monterey 2022
Whales are the biggest mammals on earth. Although they live quite close to us here in the Monterey Bay, we seldom see them and know even less about their lives. Marine biologist and whale...
Host Bios
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Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Monday, April 28 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.