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Lucy Soucek

Podcast Producer

About

Lucy Soucek is a podcast producer who works on THE WILD with Chris Morgan, a podcast about the wonder and resilience of nature. She's trudged through waist-deep sawgrass looking for pythons and planned reporting trips 5,000 miles away in Ireland.

Before KUOW, she was a producer at Orbit Media in NYC and an announcer/producer at Maine Public Radio. She has a graduate degree from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism with a focus on longform narrative audio.

Location: Seattle

Languages Spoken: English

Pronouns: she/her

Podcasts

Stories

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    Education

    A progress report on Washington schools

    Washington’s education system has been through a lot in the past decade -changes in funding and the pandemic - and the Seattle Times Education Lab has been there to report on it all. Today, reporter Dahlia Bazzaz will walk us through these changes and what they mean for students and teachers across the state.

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    Seattle has a new drug law. Now what?

    Seattle’s new drug law is now in effect. It makes the possession and public use of narcotics a gross misdemeanor. But it also encourages law enforcement to coordinate diversion efforts: admit people into treatment programs before jail. Today we’re talking with Seattle Times staff reporter Sarah Grace Taylor about what kinds of options are out there for police if they see someone using drugs.
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    Arts & Life

    A guide to ghosts in the PNW

    It's mid-October — the air is crisp, the morning fog is thick, and Halloween is just around the corner. Which means, it's time to tell some ghost stories. Today, we're revisiting a conversation we had with local author Bess Lovejoy who wrote a book on where to find spots in the Pacific Northwest where ghost stories have been told, and retold.

  • caption: Chris Morgan holds recently captured 10-foot Burmese python in South Florida.
    Environment

    Invasion of the Burmese pythons, part 1

    In the Florida Everglades, the Burmese python is an invasive species that's close to triggering an ecological collapse. But not if these python hunters have anything to do with it.

  • caption: Transient whales are shown near the San Juan Islands in 2018. (Image taken under the authority of NMFS MMPA/ESA Permit No. 18786-03)
    Environment

    Eavesdropping on orcas: love, grief, and family

    The orca story is one of human misunderstanding and generational trauma. But it's also a story of celebration, family, and a sense of place. Exploring their chatty underwater world might just help us understand how they are communicating… and what they are trying to say.