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.
The Human Face of Immigration
Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and immigration activist. He tells the story of coming to the U.S. as a child, unaware that he was entering without legal documents. His...
Behind the Mic with Rick Kleffel of Narrative Species
Monday on Talk of the Bay Christine Barrington goes Behind the Mic with Rick Kleffel host of Friday’s Narrative Species, a show that features writers whose works of fiction and non-fiction shape...
KSQD Origin Stories
In this show, engineer Sandy Stone and board chair Rachel Anne Goodman reminisce about the circuitous route that KSQD's founders took in getting on the air. Here is something I wrote up trying to...
Cannabis Consumption Lounges are Coming / Second Harvest Food Bank Update
It’s no secret that Santa Cruz County loves its weed. Take a trip to UCSC’s campus on April 20th and you’ll get a sense of what I mean. But despite the community enthusiasm for the flowering herb,...
Host Bios
[Coming soon]
Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Monday, December 8 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.