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.
Monarch Services: A focus on violence prevention
Two years of COVID have had a devastating effect on our mental health, especially for children and teens. Isolation, interruption of routines, losing loved ones, and uncertainty play a part in the...
Whalefest Monterey 2022
Whales are the biggest mammals on earth. Although they live quite close to us here in the Monterey Bay, we seldom see them and know even less about their lives. Marine biologist and whale...
Santa Cruz Music History Film All Access
An "all access pass" in the music world means backstage and access to musicians and their friends. That's the front-row seat that filmmaker Michele Benson had as a music journalist for decades in...
Colette Uncensored: Bay Area Playwrights on the Life, Loves and Writing of the Famous and Infamous Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
On Talk of the Bay, Monday, March 7, 2022 Christine Barrington interviews the authors of a new play that depicts the life, loves, and writing of the French novelist and activist Sidonie-Gabrielle...
Host Bios
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Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Thursday, July 18 5:00pm
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.