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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

  • Seattle Now Logo - NPR Network

    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.

    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)

    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.
  • caption: Host of The Wild Chris Morgan (left) and Sam Smith (right), wildlife biologist at the University of Florida, hold an invasive python in the Florida Everglades.

    Season 5 Trailer

    Season 5 kicks off with new episodes on March 14th