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 Global Carbon Reward with Dr. Delton Chen: Incentivizing Climate Balance with a Carbon Currency
On Talk of the Bay, Wednesday, October 19, Christine Barrington continues a series on the Global Carbon Reward, a bold new policy proposal for funding climate mitigation efforts worldwide. Imagine a...
Reenvisioning radical feminist Andrea Dworkin
Radical feminist Andrea Dworkin was a powerful voice in feminism in the 80s and 90s, willing to go on talk shows like The Donahue Show and articulate her ideas about women, men, pornography, and...
Rick Walker on Live Looping
To some, it might look like a musician's paradise; Hours and hours of 30-minute performances by artists from multiple countries and multiple music genres, all jamming with, well, themselves and a...
Ayo Banjo Community Activist Turned Entrepreneur
Ayo Banjo is one to watch. Having graduated recently from UCSC, he's already up and running an new nonprofit organization called Santa Cruz Black. They are focused on affordable housing and jobs....
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.