Bill Radke
Host
About
Bill hosts Week In Review.
Before that, he created and hosted the NPR humor show Rewind and hosted the Marketplace Morning Report, covering the day's national/international business news.
He's been a KUOW reporter, news director, and interview host; also, a stand-up comedian and Seattle P-I newspaper columnist.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English
Pronouns: he/him
Podcasts
Stories
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Are smoky skies in Seattle the new summer norm?
The smoky skies over Seattle may be the new summer normal, according to Sim Larkin, a research meteorologist for the U.S. Forest Service.
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Should you still read 'Little House on the Prairie?'
Little House on the Prairie is a classic American children’s series. The books follow the life and challenges of the Ingalls family as told by their daughter Laura. They chronicle the frontier life of white settlers who pushed far into the West and struggled to farm land. They were comforting stories of blazing hearths and bedtime fiddling, of family love overcoming locusts and blizzards and prairie fires. But behind Laura Ingalls Wilder's positive depiction of prairie life was a darker story. It's one Caroline Fraser chronicles in her book 'Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder.' She talks with Bill Radke about what you do with a series like Little House on the Prairie.'
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If there's no such thing as bad press, is the media playing into the far right's hands?
As with many demonstrations post-Charlottesville, last weekend's Unite The Right gathering drew more counter-protesters than far right individuals. But...
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Reflecting on mothering and loss after orca mom lets go
Bill Radke talks about our anthropomorphizing of the grieving mother orca, Tahlequah, and what it tells us about how humans think about mothering and...
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Stealing an airplane 'an unbelievably rare occurrence'
Bill Radke talks to Jon Ostrower, editor in chief of The Air Current about airline security and what can be done after a Horizon Airlines plane was...
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Why Ben Gibbard wants to save The Showbox
This week, people who want to save Seattle's Showbox theater came to City Hall. They don't want a developer to turn the 80 year old downtown concert...
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Is Seattle's hot housing market starting to cool down?
Bill Radke talks about what's happening with Seattle's housing market and if we're currently in a bubble. We talk to James Young, director of the...
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Is Seattle entering a new Space Age?
Bill Radke talks to Tim Fernholz, reporter at Quartz and author of Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race , about Seattle's...
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With more accusers of Dave Meinert, stigma of sexual assault may be decreasing
If you've walked around Capitol Hill lately, you might have seen large signs on telephone poles. BOYCOTT LOST LAKE CAFE , they say - with a screenshot...
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CLEAR fingerprint technology at Seattle stadiums
If you're heading to the Pearl Jam gig at the Safeco Field, you can expect to stand in line. From security lines to lines to buy food and drink. But you...