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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: Joni Balter, Rachel Lerman, Mike McGinn and Bill Radke at KUOW.

    This week we ask: Are you upset about Amazon?

    Bill Radke discusses the week's news with the Seattle Channel Civic Cocktail's Joni Balter, Seattle Times technology reporter Rachel Lerman and former Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn.
  • caption: Liberty, buried in gold.

    November 15th: Throwing Amazon 2.4 billion bones

    New York gave Amazon a tax credit of almost $50K per employee it brings to town. Is it worth it? You could ask the same thing about whale watching (so we did). In addition to that, a look at dancer Donald Byrd’s legacy, a question about what happened with the Boeing 737 MAX crash, and T-Mobile’s name is coming to a baseball field near you.
  • Mellina Cusak White, Jessyn Farrell, Bill Radke, and C.R. Douglas [L-R]

    This week, we're getting political

    Tuesday was election day, and the big news out of Washington State was a flipped 8th District and a more blue King County. We dive into the winners and losers from the 2018 midterm elections.

  • caption: The University of Washington is home to one of seven federally funded primate research centers in the country. There’s strong disagreement about whether they should be experimenting on animals at all.

    Should we allow biomedical research on animals?

    This year, amid protests, the University of Washington opened a $142 million underground Animal Research and Care Facility. There is strong disagreement about whether the university should be testing its research on animals. We invited the university and a group that protested to talk about the university's animals research.
  • caption: In the Golden State, long afternoons could go on forever.

    November 8th: If you could keep the sun from setting… would you?

    California passes a resolution to put a ring on daylight saving(s) time; is WA next? In other sunny southern news, San Francisco has approved a tax on big businesses to pay for homelessness programs. UW’s animal research centers are not without controversy. And while women’s anger seems to be having a political moment, that’s not without controversy either.

  • caption: The foundation upon which Australian democracy rests.

    Democracy sausages keep Australians voting

    Fire up the grill, throw on some sausages, and go vote. Dr. Peter Chen, senior lecturer of political science at the University of Sydney explains why Australians love casting their ballot. And it's not just about the sausages.

  • caption: Susan Orlean at the 2018 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas in 2018.

    Why Susan Orlean loves libraries

    "The Library Book" tells the story of the largest library fire in the history of the United States, at the Los Angeles Central Library in April 1986.