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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January 6th | What’s really going on in US-Iran relations?
Rumors of war have been greatly exaggerated. End of an era on the King County Council. Foster kids in hotel rooms. And a town, an election, and… warehouses.
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Firework failures and the new legislature this week
Bill Radke review the week's news with Joni Balter, host of the Seattle Channel's Civic Cocktail, Brandi Kruse, correspondant at Q13 News,
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January 2nd | How to rethink gendered insults
The author of "Wordslut" on reclaiming the English language. Washington state's new 2020 laws. And how to pay less attention to your phone.
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December 31st | Have we reached peak brewery?
A crushing defeat for the Seahawks. The memoir of an "almost" ballerina. Why does Seattle love breweries so much? And how do they set up all those fireworks on the Space Needle?
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December 30th | Share the road (tax)
If you drive a car, you’ll probably be paying a new kind of tax. The best of the best in books of the 2010s. And an oncologist’s experience with psychedelics.
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December 26th | 'Somebody who looked like this was here': five immigrant artists who helped shape 2019
It’s the end of the year, and Record producers have been revisiting some of our favorite conversations. Mine were about: immigrants.
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December 24th | Our favorite animal encounters
The Record takes a peak behind the glass and in the drawers at the Burke Museum. Richard Louv wants you to combat loneliness in the wild. Grizzlies might be making be a comeback in the North Cascades after all. And the birds we love and the ones we love to hate.
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Talking digital comments and physical newsstands this week
Bill Radke reviews the week's news with Allison Williams of Seattle Met, Kevin Schofield of SCC Insight, and The Stranger's Charles Mudede
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December 23rd | An update on this year's memorable stories
Bill Radke finds out what happened to the family with the decomposing whale in their backyard. We also hear about who's choosing to compost their dead bodies, and what's happening with the Washington Independents.
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December 19th | All we want for Christmas is sweet, sweet nostalgia
Anatomy of a great Christmas song. AI surveillance on a neighborhood street near you. As recently as the 1960s, America was no longer detaining unauthorized immigrants – what changed? And yet another car share program bites the dust.