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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Trans teens: Here's what you miss when you debate the bathroom issue
KUOW’s Bill Radke talks with Leyla Gheisar and Fred Anex-Schnauss , two non-binary trans teens in Seattle who, despite state protections, still struggle...
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The problem with how the FBI tracks hate crimes
Bill Radke talks to A.C. Thompson, investigative reporter at ProPublica, about how hate crimes are tracked in the country.
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Remembering long-serving state Representative Helen Sommers
Bill Radke speaks with U.S. Representative Denny Heck (Wash.-Dist. 10) about his former colleague in the state legislature Helen Sommers, who died...
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Two professors prove that you don't know how a toilet works
Bill Radke talks with professor Philip Fernbach, co-author of the new book "The Knowledge Illusion ," about how people don't know nearly as much as they...
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What can the left learn from the Tea Party?
What can President Trump's opponents learn from the Tea party? Bill Radke speaks with Ezra Levin, executive director of Indivisible, a group on the...
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How Trump's new travel ban could impact the Seattle area
Bill Radke talks with KUOW immigration reporter Liz Jones about the potential impact of President Trump's new executive order on immigration. It...
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Week in Review: City tax, taco trucks, President Oprah?
Who should pay for solving Seattle's homelessness emergency? Can a new income tax make Seattle "Trump-proof"? Are taco trucks the answer to our traffic...
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This is what King County's 'Safe Spaces' could look like
Bill Radke talks with Dennis Morrow, executive director of Janus Youth Programs, about Portland's Juvenile Reception Centers. King County proposed opening two similar centers for youth accused of low level offenses.
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'Gathering storm' for Attorney General Jeff Sessions
Bill Radke speaks with Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel about the "gathering storm" around President Trump's attorney general. The Post broke the...
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Black Diamond's development story tells us 'everything about ourselves'
Bill Radke speaks with Dennis Box, editor of the Enumclaw Courier-Herald, about what he's learned in his years covering the struggle over development in...