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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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.
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'Mayors have...the most challenging political job in America.' An exit interview with Seattle's Jenny Durkan.
Last week Jenny Durkan stepped down from her position as mayor of Seattle. She spoke to Soundside host Libby Denkmann about her time in office.
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What you can expect from Soundside, KUOW's new noontime show
What should you expect from KUOW's new noontime show? Soundside's producers talk about their hopes for the new show.
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So you got Covid. Now what?
King County is seeing record breaking Covid infection numbers. There's a good chance you, or someone you know, will get Covid. So if that happens, what should you do?
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The right-wing occupation of this tiny Washington town, and the surprising aftermath
On May 31, 2020, Wil Johnson turned on his TV and began watching the news. At the time, protestors across the country were coming together to protest against police brutality and racism following the murder of George Floyd just a few days earlier.