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.
UAW Union Rep Talks About UC Strike
Rebecca Gross is a grad student representative of the UAW, which is currently on strike across three UC Campuses including UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis and UCLA. She talks about the reasons for the...
100+ Women Who Care
In this interview, Stacy McMillan and Athena Hurd joined me for a chat about this innovative program to give money directly to worthy charity projects and nonprofits. http://www.100wwc.org/ Next...
Peter Blanchette: Renaissance of the Arch Guitar
Rachel Anne Goodman interviews classical musician and composer, Peter Blanchette. Peter plays one of only four arch guitars in the world, an instrument he invented, which is a combination of...
Steven Gonzalez Monserrate reveals the not-so-silver lining of The Cloud
Steven Gonzalez Monserrate is a postdoctoral researcher at the Fixing Futures Research Training Group at Goethe University. He received his PhD in the History, Anthropology, Science,...
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.