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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Washington state sues Purdue Pharma over opioid crisis
Bill Radke speaks with author and journalist Sam Quinones about why Washington state and the city of Seattle have filed lawsuits against Purdue Pharma...
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Seattle rabbi: 'We can't let marginalized outsiders skew our sense of reality'
Bill Radke talks with Rabbi Daniel Weiner of Seattle's Temple De Hirsch Sinai about how to confront the recent flare-up of antisemitism in America.
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Another Obamacare repeal bill failed. Now what?
Bill Radke talks to Mary Agnes Carey , senior correspondent covering health reform and federal health policy for Kaiser Health News, about how...
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College campuses can now respond to sexual assault their own way, on their own time
Sexual assault has been “a scourge on American (college) campuses” for generations, according to Vanessa Grigoriadis, the author of "Blurred Lines:...
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Hey, when is the Pacific Northwest getting our earthquake warning system?
Seconds before last week's 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Mexico City, people got an alert that the ground was about to start shaking. The Sistema de...
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'North Korea knows better than to start a war'
Bill Radke, along with Livewire's Luke Burbank, speaks with author and journalist Blaine Harden about the recent war of words between President Donald...
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Seahawks, NFL locker rooms respond to President Trump
Bill Radke talks with sportswriters Percy Allen and Michael-Shawn Dugar about the protests that rippled across the entire NFL schedule after President...
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Hey, remember that time Sub Pop's CEO pranked The New York Times?
The year was 1992. Nirvana and Pearl Jam were all over MTV, and everyone was sweating in flannel. Seattle’s grunge scene had ballooned into a global...
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Week in Review: Friday, September 22, 2017
Bill apologizes to listeners for our interview with the man from this week's viral Seattle-Nazi-gets-punched video, and we look for the lessons. (see...
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Bill Radke: 'I have some big regrets about that interview'
This week, we chose to air an interview I did with a man who got punched unconscious in downtown Seattle, while wearing a swastika armband. He said he's...