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 Seattle will pay $150,000 to settle the Ed Murray lawsuit
Bill Radke talks to Seattle Times reporter Lewis Kamb about how the city of Seattle came to settle the lawsuit filed against former mayor Ed Murray and...
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Resolutions of the old year: Did you succeed?
'Tis the season to think about New Year's resolutions. But we're less interested in the one you made on Monday than the ones that you made for 2017. Did...
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'Concerned but not panicked' over President Trump's nuclear 'button talk'
Bill Radke talks to Elizabeth Saunders, an associate professor of political science at George Washington University, about the exchanges between...
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The surprising Husky football call that Bob Rondeau got wrong
Bob Rondeau, the voice of the Huskies, is retiring Saturday after 37 years in the press box. Bill Radke caught up with him in Arizona, where he’ll be...
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Could higher tolls make the I-405 express lanes move faster?
Bill Radke talks to Ed Barry, the Toll Division Director with the Washington State Department of Transportation, about a new report (PDF) that...
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This native woman was priced out of Seattle – to a city named for Christopher Columbus.
Essayist Elissa Washuta spent last summer in the Fremont Bridge. The old control room was turned into an office, which allowed her to sit over the water...
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One year later, two Seattleites reflect on leaving and staying
Bill Radke talks with Jen Petersen and Adra Boo about their respective decisions to leave Seattle (and the United States) and stay in the Puget Sound...
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On sexual assault, our standards are higher for Hollywood than for Washington
Harvey Weinstein, Louis C.K., Charlie Rose, and others were swiftly fired after allegations against them broke. But Roy Moore came within 1.5 percent of...
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A conversation around sexual harassment and who holds the power
Bill Radke talks to Laura Kipnis, author of the book "Unwanted Advances," and Ijeoma Oluo, Seattle writer and editor at large of the Establishment,...
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Is improv comedy a metaphor for democracy?
According to author Sam Wasson, it is. He sat down with Bill Radke to talk about his new book, "Improv Nation." The book explores what Wasson calls a...