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.
Want to Climb a Wind Turbine?
If your car breaks, you take it to a mechanic. If your wind turbine breaks, you call a climbing technician who isn't afraid of heights. In this interview we talk with Jackie Sommers and David Anthes...
Geoengineering Scenarios: Dr. Sikina Jinnah of UCSC
Dr. Sikina Jinnah is an Associate Professor of Politics. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in Environmental, Science, Policy, and Management and joined the UCSC Politics faculty in Fall 2016....
Chris Webster and Nina Gerber on K-Squid
"...the epitome of a perfect musician! It is so Zen the way she perfectly under-girds and complements whatever music is at hand, never playing an extraneous or superfluous or irrelevant note, &...
Women’s Round-the-World Voyage
Over two years and 38,000 nautical miles, a crew of 300 women will take on 30 challenging voyage legs to sail through some of the densest ocean plastic accumulation zones on the planet to study...
Host Bios
[Coming soon]
Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Monday, April 29 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.