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.
Maurice Carney on the most important nation in Africa that you might know nothing about
Almost all of us carry a piece of the Congo with us - in our smart phones, tablets, or laptops. Yet very few of us know how that piece came to be in our pockets, the human cost of its...
Practical Activism Conference at UCSC
How do UCSC students (and you!) learn to change the world? Through the Practical Activism Conference on February 25, now in its 20th year. Organized, created, and presented by students, Practical...
Pajaro Valley Arts’ New Beginnings Exhibit
Over 98 artists have their work hanging in at the Pajaro Valley Arts New Beginnings Exhibit in Watsonville. Find out why the title is so appropriate to our time and what might be in store for...
New National Abortion Ban on Horizon?
Is a defacto nation-wide abortion ban about to take place? A lawsuit in Texas questioning the FDA's approval of a drug, could pull from the shelves and pharmacies one of the safest, most effective...
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.