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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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...
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Cost of free speech on UW campus on the rise
Last year the University of Washington's College Republicans invited former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos to campus. Yiannopoulos is a conservative...
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Bikeshare ultimatum: pick up your toys, or we'll pick them up for you
There are five bike share companies operating in Dallas, Texas. And they all just got marching orders from the city: Find a way to clean up your...
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This sexologist wants you to use your words
University of Washington sociologist Pepper Schwartz says the takeaway from the allegations against Aziz Ansari is that we should talk about sex before...
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Fake service animals: real social consequences?
Last week's viral story of an ersatz emotional support peacock sent waves of hilarity ricocheting across the internet and late night talk shows. But The...
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That fake emotional support peacock might cost you $250
This week a woman and her peacock were turned away from a cross-country flight. She'd pleaded that Dexter was an emotional support animal, to no avail....