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.
Jessica Gonzalez and Joseph Torres of FreePress on monopolization of the media, internet neutrality, and the history of racism in media
Talk of the Bay host Len Beyea interviews Jessica Gonzalez, attorney and Co-CEO of FreePress, and Joseph Torres, author and Senior Director of Strategy and Engagement for FreePress. FreePress was...
Panel discussion: The real people affected by anti-transgender care laws
Around the country, conservative lawmakers are rushing to enact laws restricting the rights of parents, doctors, and transgender teenagers to pursue treatments that are well-studied, safe, and...
Talk of the Bay, May 16: “Are we the cows of the future?” The digital management of nature and humans with Professor Esther Leslie, Birkbeck University, London
Join host Ronnie Lipschutz and Dr. Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck University in London for this rebroadcast. “Political Aesthetics highlights the complex and ambiguous...
Cabrillo Students Debate College Name Change Part 2
Since last July, the Cabrillo College community of faculty, staff, students, and trustees have been engaged in a dialogue about whether or how to change the college's name. In this broadcast,...
Host Bios
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Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Monday, December 23 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.