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.
Microplastics are Everywhere!
Picture Credit: Amanda Heidt Music Credit: True Blue Sky, Blue Dot Sessions (CC license CC BY-NC 4.0) Transcript: Looking around, it’s probably easy to pick out things that are made of plastic. But...
UCSC students get real, serving their community during Shelter in Place
Join Talk of the Bay host Suki Wessling in this discussion with two professors from University of California at Santa Cruz about how they responded to classes going remote this spring. Rebecca...
Feeding the Homeless During a Pandemic
This audio piece was produced by Jeremiah Oetting from UCSC's Science Communications masters program. In this story he talks with Keith Henry, founder of Food Not Bombs, and representatives of the...
Santa Cruz reacts to George Floyd murder
Photo credit: Shmuel Thaler This interview features Mayor, Justin Cummings, President of the local NAACP chapter, Brenda Griffin, and Shmuel Thaler, photojournalist for the Santa Cruz Sentinel. His...
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.