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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She didn’t realize how wrong she was about kids until her son joined a gang
Marty Jackson runs the Southeast Area Network of the Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative. For years, she had worked with Stephan Stewart,...
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This week we're sweating out the news
Are you hot? We're hot. It's hot. Not as hot as it could be because of the smoke from British Columbia's wildfires, but we're still in a heat wave with...
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How Washington state's law against affirmative action has hurt, or helped, college students
Bill Radke speaks with Eugene Volokh and Dr. Jim Sulton Jr. about race-based college admissions. Washington state passed a law in 1998 that prevented...
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The Mooch and Apu: How does race play into comedy?
Bill Radke talks to comedians Liz Miele and Hari Kondabolu about representation and race in comedy. Is it okay to make fun of Anthony Scaramucci? What's...
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Marginalized find community in Seattle with slam poetry
Bill Radke speaks with Ian Martinez and Elisa Chavez about identity and slam poetry. The duo are members of the Rain City Poetry Slam . They will be...
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What does all this smoke in Seattle mean for your health?
There are more than 20 wildfires burning in British Columbia right now, but that’s just one reason why the air in Seattle is junk right now.
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Learn about hydroplane racing from the world's fastest grandpa
Bill Radke speaks with hydroplane drivers Brent Hall and Jerry Hopp about their love of racing. Hall speaks about his childhood dreams of being behind...
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Sen. Patty Murray hopes to fix healthcare in a bipartisan way
Bill Radke talks to Sen. Patty Murray about the hearings she has planned with Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander. They hope to come up with a bipartisan...
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Are President Trump's critics too outraged?
Bill Radke speaks with Tom Nichols, professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. He explains why he thinks, as a Trump critic,...
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Seafair royalty explain why the city still needs this festival
Bill Radke talks to Seafair's King Neptune, John Roderick, and Queen Alcyone, Angela Shen, about the cultural resonance of this decades old festival....