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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December 5th | Nordstrom wants to offer you bygone glamour alongside modern convenience
How the hometown retailer wants you to feel about your shopping experience. The conversion of a prominent young white supremacist. And why one Washington lawmaker says the NCAA’s rule on allowing college athletes to earn money doesn’t go far enough.
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December 3rd | Meet the Seattleites building a moon rover
How to build a rover for the moon. Why your vote doesn't represent you as well as you might think it does. And the UW Huskies get a new coach.
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December 2nd | How to master the awkward hug
Just in time for the holidays: how to have an awkward hug. A surcharge to help Washington state fight fires. The history of black software. And how Billie Holiday inspired a poet.
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Gubernatorial races, city budgets, and more on this Week in Review
Bill Radke reviews the week's news with Caitlin Moran of The Evergrey, writer Charle
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November 20th | How is climate change affecting cities’ credit scores?
When your credit drops as sea levels rise. Governor Inslee on current presidential goings-on. And a historian offering Native stories the opposite of tragedy: complexity.
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November 18th | Washington congressmember Denny Heck with a look at this week’s impeachment hearings
We hear from a voice inside the impeachment hearings. The showy truth of Colin Kaepernick’s NFL workout. The trouble (and bias) in diagnosing mental illness. And how to cope with SAD.
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Amazon, education and more this week
Bill Radke reviews the week's news with Liz Brazile and Knute Berger of Crosscut, and host of the Seattle Channel's Civic Cocktail, Joni Balter.
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November 14th | Seattle Children’s Hospital closes ORs as dangerous mold is found
What’s sickening kids at Seattle Children’s Hospital? The equity problems with gifted and talented education, and how Seattle hopes to fix them. An ancient Hopi flute, and an ode to lithium.
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November 12 | The empty apartment that could shape your future home
Ghost apartments. Belated obituary do-overs. Awkward AI. SCOTUS arguments on DACA. And the Sounders take to the streets.
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All about the elections this week
Bill Radke reviews the week's news with Dahlia Bazzaz, education reporter at the Seattle Times, Mohammed Kloub of Crosscut, and CR Douglas of Q13 News.