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.
Jan 6th Rioter Who Refused Trump’s Pardon Tells His Story
Donald Trump's call to supporters to march on the Capitol on Jan. 6th in 2021 ended in a way that most of us who live in the United States, and perhaps around the world, will never forget. Our...
Santa Cruz Film Festival, Rises Like a Phoenix for its 25th Anniversary
On Talk of the Bay, host Meilin Obinata welcomes Paul Kmiec the director of the Santa Cruz Film Festival. Join us in learning how this 25 year old film festival is rejuvenating itself with...
Salinas’ Western Stage: 50 years of building community through artistic expression
Monday on the Talk of the Bay host Christine Barrington takes us behind the curtain at Salinas’ Western Stage. Offering multiple productions each season, the Western Stage is a community-driven...
New Luddites: Labor, Capitalism and Technology
Join KSQD today, Monday, Oct. 6, at 6pm for a Moment of Truth show featuring guests who share a critical, "neo-Luddite" perspective on our changing culture and technology. Guests are: Brian...
Host Bios
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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.