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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

  • caption: Tfw you inherit an entire region's traffic problems.

    December 19th | Is this the worst job in Seattle?

    A warm welcome to the new head of SDOT. We find out more about the skinhead group behind a Lynnwood attack, plus an update on the private surveillance coming to a public space near you.
  • caption: This driver wants to be extra sure there is no accusation of box blocking. Are you prepared to do the same?

    December 18th | Don’t block the box!

    The City of Seattle is unamused by your habit of blocking intersections – and they want to fine you for it. A new charge of sexual harassment is the first test of the State Senate’s respectful workplace procedures. An author writes her way through the pain of losing a son, and we hear more about the Jesuit priests who were shielded by Gonzaga University.
  • caption: The architect at work.

    December 17th | This author wants to make you a beaver believer

    Beavers: they’re just like us! (Only more effective.) Is the Affordable Care Act on its way out? Brightly colored edibles might be, in an effort to make it less attractive to kids. And further holiday film controversy: is Diehard a Christmas movie?
  • caption: Erica C. Barnett, Bill Radke, Joni Balter and Chris Vance on the Week in Review, December 14, 2018.

    This week, we consider your taxes

    Bill Radke reviews the week’s news with Chris Vance, co-chair of the Washington Independents, Erica C. Barnett, writer at "The C is For Crank," and Joni Balter, host of Civic Cocktail on the Seattle Channel.
  • caption: Seattle on a rainy day, including the Space Needle, in November 2014.

    December 13th | Who gets to live in Seattle?

    Randy Shaw, Director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic in San Francisco, says single-family homeowners are at least partially to blame for an increasingly unaffordable city. Also, poet and educator Quenton Baker gives us a preview of his first installation at the Frye Museum. And we get advice on how to answer your boss, when she or he asks you, "How was your weekend?"
  • robot on the run

    December 12th | Runaway robots

    Do we still have control of our technology? A new initiative attempts to take greater control of our health. How will Jay Inslee’s proposal for mental health services help those in need? What can New York learn about Amazon from us? And in a week and a half, EMTs might go on strike.