Soundside
Get to know the PNW and each other. Soundside airs Monday through Thursday at 12 p.m. and 8 p.m. on KUOW. Listen to Soundside on Spotify, iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Additional Credits: Logo art is designed by Teo Popescu. Audio promotions are produced by Hans Twite. Community engagement led by Zaki Hamid. Our Director of New Content and Innovation is Brendan Sweeney.
Mission Statement:
Soundside believes establishing trust with our listeners involves taking the time to listen.
We know that building trust with a community takes work. It involves broadening conversations, making sure our show amplifies systemically excluded voices, and challenging narratives that normalize systemic racism.
We want Soundside to be a place where you can be part of the dialogue, learn something new about your own backyard, and meet your neighbors from the Peninsula to the Palouse.
Together, we’ll tell stories that connect us to our community — locally, nationally and globally. We’ll get to know the Pacific Northwest and each other.
What do you think Soundside should be covering? Where do you want to see us go next?
Leave us a voicemail! You might hear your call on-air: 206-221-3213
Share your thoughts directly with the team at soundside@kuow.org.
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Episodes
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Students, staff became ill as this Monroe school let toxic chemicals go unchecked
Since 2014, students, teachers and parents at the Monroe school Sky Valley Education Center said something didn’t seem right. People were getting sick — having cognitive problems, cysts, and cancer diagnoses. A new report from the Seattle Times and Pro-Publica says that's due to toxic chemicals known as PCBs. And the school has known about them for years.
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Unlocking the secrets of Puget Sound sea slugs
Without a boat or special gear, a lot of our favorite sea creatures remain out of our everyday reach. But there is a little guy you can find most any day on your neighborhood dock: sea slugs, also known by their scientific name, nudibranchs.
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Our neighbors Sound-under
Soundside takes a deep dive into the waters around Washington to learn about some of our less appreciated neighbors. Because while they may be lesser-known, they have a lot to tell us about our ecosystems, and might even offer some innovative solutions to everyday problems.
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No more yurts. Orcas Islanders want affordable places year-round
If you can find a place to live and work on Orcas Island you’re set. But who's got the land?
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What can Seattle expect from its new director of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs?
Last week Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell announced that Seattle Port Commissioner Hamdi Mohamed would be joining his administration as Director of the Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs. But what does she hope to do in that position?
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Some Washington schools are shifting back to remote learning. What's the plan?
It’s a confusing and frustrating time for students, parents and teachers across the state.
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Have you heard about Temperance and Good Citizenship Day?
We didn't think so.
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Decades later, a collection of photographs is filling in the corners of Washington's Latino history
Irwin Nash photographed the living and working conditions of workers in the Yakima Valley during the height of the United Farm Workers' Movement. Thanks to technology, his photos are bringing that story to the forefront today.
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The sound of 'Crying in H Mart'
Our connections to books can be deeply personal. We cling to the characters that feel like friends, or reflect pieces of ourselves. But how do you translate your reading experience and the connections you feel with a book into music?
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Meet a neighbor: This Leavenworth alphorn player once organized a flash mob
If you're in Leavenworth, you're likely to hear Janet playing solo alphorn up and down Front Street -- and she's also a member of the Bavarian-themed Leavenworth Alphorns.
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Leavenworth has become über expensive, pricing out the people who work there
When 80 percent of your local employees can't afford to live in town, what do you do? It's a question Leavenworth residents and officials are struggling to answer. When a community grows too large for it's confines, how do you keep people from slipping through the cracks?
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How will Bruce Harrell tackle one of the toughest jobs in the country?
Can a mayor bring a city together? After two years in a pandemic, a year of reckoning racism in policing, and a surprising electoral result, incoming Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell faces a tough task ahead. Host Libby Denkmann, and Soundside listeners, put their questions to Mayor Harrell.