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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The mystery of two Seattle Landmark theaters closing
Bill Radke talks to KUOW arts reporter Marcie Sillman and Sean Nelson, arts and music editor at The Stranger, about the closing of two Landmark movie...
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Should you have kids if you care about the environment?
Bill Radke talks with Ashley Ahearn, host of KUOW's terrestrial podcast, about about one of the more personal decisions we make around climate change:...
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Captured climber recalls his escape: I ‘watched him fall out of sight’
Tommy Caldwell understands risk and adventure better than most. Two years ago, he became the first person to free climb the Dawn Wall of El Capitan in...
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How one Seattle man is looking to put an end to school lunch shaming
Bill Radke speaks with Jeff Lew, a father of three who wanted to see if he could put an end to lunch shaming in the city -- that is the different ways...
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Week in Review: Portland, Evergreen, Paris
Two men are killed on a Portland light rail train by a passenger on a racist, xenophobic rant.
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Debate: Should move-in fees be capped in Seattle?
Bill Radke speaks with Jessa Lewis and Sean Flynn about a new lawsuit against the cap on move-in fees that was enacted in Seattle. Flynn, the board...
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Holding on to Seattle's Asian roots in a changing Chinatown-International District
Bill Radke talks to Cassie Chinn, deputy executive director of the Wing Luke Museum, and Tam Nguyen, the owner of Tamarind Tree, about how Chinatown...
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Homeless in Tacoma: 'What we’ve been doing has not been working'
Bill Radke talks with Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland about the City of Tacoma's plans to address homelessness.
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Portland stabbing: What we learned about bystander effect
Prof. Cheryl Kaiser of the University of Washington discusses the bystander effect and whether to step into a dangerous situation to help a stranger.
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She dreamed of van life. Now she’s homeless in Seattle
Rebecca Massey drove up from Oklahoma expecting to get a job, find a place and save up some money. She said she didn’t intend on being homeless. “I know...