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.
January 6th: A look back and ahead
On this program, I talk with Professor of politics from the University of San Francisco, Stephen Zunes about the anniversary of the January 6th insurrection and steps to protect our democracy from...
A 2021 Retrospective
In this compilation of excerpts from 8 episodes of Wednesday's Talk of the Bay, host Len Beyea presents a review of some of 2021's most provocative topics. Episodes excerpted include the...
Author Claire Oshetsky explores motherhood in ‘Chouette’
On Talk of the Bay, host Suki Wessling speaks with local author Claire Oshetsky about her new book, Chouette. In the book, the narrator literally, or perhaps metaphorically, gives birth to an...
Goodbye 2021, Hello 2022-A Look Back and Ahead
Media scholars and documentarians Rachel Goodman and Erik Nelson take a look back at the year that was, and ahead towards 2022 through a politics and media perspective. They also share Dave Barry's...
Host Bios
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Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Thursday, April 10 5:00pm
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.