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.
Gary Nabhan: Food from the Radical Center
Gary Paul Nabhan (born 1952) is an Agricultural Ecologist, Ethnobotanist, Ecumenical Franciscan Brother, and author whose work has focused primarily on the interaction of biodiversity and cultural...
How can early music education help your child’s brain? An interview with Lizz Hodgin Weihrauch
Join hosts Suki Wessling and Brad Kava in a wide-ranging discussion about music, early childhood education, brain development, giving up professional theater for local theater, and the evils of...
A Plaintiff in the Youth Climate Lawsuit Tells his Story
Little did Nathan Baring know at age fifteen that five years later he would still be fighting to sue the government of the United States for robbing his generation of a future due to inaction on...
AB 5 a nightmare for musicians and journalists
What if you had to hire as an employee a guy who spent two hours in the studio laying down tracks for your new album? For some small arts businesses, it can cost upwards of $10,000 to comply with a...
Host Bios
[Coming soon]
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.