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 2nd | The human game may be coming to a close
Bill McKibben says it might be curtains for humanity. Cass Sunstein says social movements may surprise you, but they shouldn’t. And a look at one controversial social movement: affirmative action.
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May 1st | Democracy vouchers go national
Kirsten Gillibrand might take a local experiment across the country. Is it possible to consume in a carbon neutral way? A look at how the values that made America great are now bringing America down. And what happens when the roller derby leaves your town.
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April 30th | Living a life with dementia and with joy
Tia Powell tells us about how to focus on care over cure when it comes to dementia. We also look at how sea stars are making a comeback in the Salish Sea. And we talk to a University of Washington professor who's making "social emotional learning" a middle school class. Plus: How big money funders can "movement capture" small activist organizations.
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April 29th | Cranes in the sky
How worried should you be when you look up? Is the Jeopardy! crown being passed to a successor? What exactly happened in the dark of the night in Olympia? And soon, cameras may be watching you from the supermarket aisles: how does it affect your privacy?
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To impeach, or not to impeach?
Bill Radke reviews the week’s news with former Republican state representative and now Independent Chris Vance, Crosscut columnist Knute Berger, and co-founder of The Evergrey Mónica Guzmán
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April 25th | Driving through Washington on poetic roads
A state map in poems. Deportation flights in a sanctuary city. Is there an evangelical case for climate change activism? And what one Democrat thinks of impeachment.
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Tracing a state map in lines of poetry.
Washington State Poet Laureate Claudia Castro Luna speaks with Bill Radke about her latest project, Washington Poetic Routes.
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April 24th | The movies that haunt Us
How to survive a horror movie. The nuance Seattle is Dying may have missed. And when does political tolerance become political silencing?
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What can Seattle learn from the most politically tolerant place in the U.S.?
According to an analysis by The Atlantic magazine, Watertown, New York is the least politically prejudiced place in America.
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April 23rd | 'If justice is what you want, then you may often be right, but you will rarely be happy'
The dangers of hard borders around identity. WA takes the lead as the cleanest state in the nation. A look behind the scenes of Nirvana. And a new city counselor – for now.