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.
Cabrillo Students React to Coronavirus and School Online
Cabrillo students were told Thursday that all lecture classes would be going online in response to preventing the spread of the coronavirus, COVID-19. They talk in this interview about the various...
OK, couch potatoes, let’s talk exercise with fitness coach Lynn Difley!
Should you exercise before surgery? Can seniors run marathons? How can you get yourself off the couch and into shape? Listen to our Talk of the Bay interview with local senior exercise coach Lynn...
Local Corona Virus Response
Listen to this Talk of the Bay program outlining what's happening locally with the response to the novel Coronavirus. Santa Cruz County has ramped up its preparedness and response to the novel...
Staying Alive: Extinction Rebellion’s Chase Bank Protest
On February 28th, around 100 protesters occupied Chase Bank in Santa Cruz to call for the bank's divestment in fossil fuels. This interview includes a talk with two of the organizers. At the end of...
Host Bios
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Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Thursday, January 23 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.