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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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...
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Immigrant arrested by ICE after talking to Seattle Times
Last month, Seattle Times reporter Nina Shapiro wrote a story about how immigrant neighbors were disappearing from Long Beach, a town in southwest...
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We asked our listeners about racial microaggressions. The responses proved the point
On the night of Dr. Roberto Montenegro’s dissertation defense celebration, he went out to dinner at a fancy restaurant with his wife and colleagues. He...
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Dan Rather: ‘Mr. President, of what are you afraid?’
Dan Rather knows exactly what question he’d ask President Donald Trump in an interview: What are you so afraid of? Rather told Bill Radke he’d start...
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Shel Silverstein inspires us to make less holiday trash
This holiday season, let's all try to avoid being like Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout. Remember her? The famed profligate from the Shel Silverstein poem who...
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Seattle's new police chief needs to 'build trust' and 'communicate'
Bill Radke talks to state Representative Morgan Irwin and Michele Storms, Deputy Director of the ACLU of Washington about what they hope to see in the...