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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What can the President do to local companies like Boeing and Amazon?
Bill Radke talks to Emily Parkhurst, editor in chief of the Puget Sound Business Journal, about why the CEO of Boeing stayed on President Trump's...
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A desk won't protect us from nuclear fallout, so might as well laugh
Comedians Hari Kondabolu and Dwayne Kennedy chat with KUOW's Bill Radke on the threat from North Korea, performing in front of conservative audiences...
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Can you name five woman leaders in 60 seconds?
"There's never a time when a woman really wins anything," says political strategist Cathy Allen. After Seattle's 2017 mayoral race primary, Allen and...
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Why Michael Bennett plans to sit during the national anthem this season
Bill Radke talks to Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation , about Seahawks player Michael Bennett's decision to sit during the national anthem at the...
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How should we respond to white nationalist protest?
"What surprises me is, quite frankly, the outrage of our white progressives who continue to be surprised. For people of color, this is our life every day."
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Week in Review: 'Fire and fury,' smoke and mountain goats
Seattle is reportedly within range of a North Korean nuclear missile, and there's a war of words between President Trump and Kim Jong-Un. Should we be...
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In the war over wolves, this researcher loses
Bill Radke talks to Lynda Mapes, Seattle Times environment reporter, about Robert Wielgus, the Washington State University researcher whose work on...
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Debate: What if Seattle police stopped ticketing people who live in their cars?
Bill Radke speaks with professor Sara Rankin of Seattle University and Scott Lindsay, former public safety advisor to the mayor of Seattle, about...
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Google fires engineer over anti-diversity memo
Bill Radke speaks with Slate tech writer April Glaser about the reasons that Google fired an engineer after he wrote a memo that questioned the ability...
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Debate: Who should decide what kind of surveillance tech Seattle Police uses?
Bill Radke speaks with Shankar Narayan, technology and liberty director of the ACLU, and Ron Hosko, president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund,...