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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May 30th | We talk to Mayor Durkan about ADUs
Should we wait on backyard cottages and let the voters decide? Amazon calls in union labor. With unemployment so low, why does Seattle have such a homelessness problem? And Karen Russell looks at elsewhere through the lens of here.
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May 29th | Is centrism dead in Washington state politics?
Why Don’t We Go For What We Say We Want: Political Centrist Edition. So is socialism the answer instead? And why aren’t people going into the trades?
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Black bear goes island hopping around Puget Sound
Bill Radke talks to Lyanda Haupt about the bear that's been swimming to the different islands.
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May 28th | Rainn Wilson reflects on a changing Seattle
"The Office" actor joins us to talk about his hometown. Plus, should the Seattle City Council make a major rezoning decision 5 months before the election? How did a bear swim to Orcas Island? And how the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is trying to reach younger audiences.
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Some faces you'll recognize on the 'Week in Review'
Bill Radke reviews the week's news with Q13's C.R. Douglas, journalist Erica C. Barnett and the former congressional representative of Washington's 3rd district, Brian Baird.
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May 23rd | Is it okay to feel joy while the world is burning?
High anxiety: meet huge, phenomenal, amazing joy. Personalized love notes to Jeff Bezos at the Amazon shareholders meeting, and a check in about Amtrak. Lastly, the notes and the silence in the Fremont bridge.
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May 22nd | Dear America: Jared Diamond thinks you should talk to someone
Why America needs to get on the couch. What to call the sleek, squared surfaces that loom large in the Seattle suburbs. And a look at Four Women, from the vantage point of Nina Simone.
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May 20th | A chat with Carmen Best about SPD exit interviews
Many cops reported feeling unsupported and demonized – so we asked their boss about some of their complaints. How do you raise kind kids? And why you should be eating more seaweed.
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A very satisfying week in review
Bill Radke reviews the week's news with former Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna, Civic Cocktail host Joni Balter, and Live Wire host Luke Burbank.
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May 16th | When the media shows us dead bodies: what do we see?
How the corpses we show create a hierarchy of grief. A chat about the recent SPD exit interviews. Would you eat fake chicken nuggets? (What if you didn’t know they were fake?) And the glamorous origins of Seattle’s Norwegian festival.