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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Cosplay and comics: Why does Seattle love geek culture so much?
Bill Radke spoke with Dyer Oxley, co-host of the NW Nerd podcast, and TyTy, a Northwest cosplayer and the creator of Lead by Example Apparel, about what...
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A room of one's own? Not if your smart home has a say
In "1984," surveillance devices were installed in homes by the government. In 2018, we pay corporations to install the surveillance ourselves. Kashmir...
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The trauma and triumph of carob: How hippie food changed the way we eat
Carob. Some see it as a heroic stand-in for chocolate. Others, like one Twitter wag, see it as "chalky nonsense." Whatever your thoughts, it's a food...
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How does being exempt from public disclosure help WA lawmakers do their jobs?
How much right does the public have to pull back the curtain and see the communications of their state lawmakers? Washington state has had a Public...
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Professional millennial Shaun Scott: We're not that different from you
Filmmaker, author and professional millennial Shaun Scott has a bone to pick about participation trophies. They're just one of many broad brushes with...
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Why the Hamilton musical earns all the hype
Bill Radke talks to Phillip Chavira, the executive director of Intiman Theatre in Seattle, and Marcie Sillman, KUOW's arts and culture reporter, about...
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Seattle needs a new police chief, and Carmen Best says she’s ready
In the early 1990s, Carmen Best was working as an accountant for a local insurance company when she saw a recruitment ad for the Seattle Police...
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Our beliefs can cage us. But they can also set us free
You probably don't remember the passage of a comet named Hale-Bopp in the late 1990s. But you might remember what came after that. Glynn Washington,...
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How are you celebrating (platonic) love this week?
This is the week of high-pressure dinner reservations, overpriced roses — and, for the enterprising, discount chocolates on the 15th. Valentine's Day is...
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Working through the dilemma of free speech on college campuses
Bill Radke talks to Seattle University communication professor Caitlin Carlson about the tension between protecting free speech on campus and protecting...