Producer Picks: Transit & Translators
This week, we’re revisiting some of our favorite segments of the year.
And today, we're talking about transit. And translators.
A now-former King County Metro Bus driver tells us what passengers should know when they ride the bus. But more importantly, we got some insight into why the 8 in downtown Seattle is so often called the late bus.
Plus, we sat down with a Seattle-based translator to discuss her National Book Award-nominated work translating the novel We Computers into English.
She said that translating the poetry and the prose in this book was like running a triathlon.
We're taking a trip with two local women who helped us get from point A to point B in 2025.
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Guests
- Desiree Andersen, former King County Metro bus driver, @desinthepark
- Shelley Fairweather-Vega, Seattle-based translator of Hamid Ismailov's
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Libby Denkmann
Host, Soundside
Libby Denkmann joined KUOW in December 2021 as the host of the midday show Soundside. She’s a native Pacific Northwesterner who grew up in Redmond, graduated from the University of Washington, and covered local news as a producer and reporter with KIRO Radio.
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Gabrielle Healy
Senior Producer, Soundside
Gabrielle is a senior producer for Soundside, covering everything from politics to culture.
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