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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Week in Review: The Legislature, the Film Commission, and tiny shampoo bottles
Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with KUOW’s Mike Davis, Seattle Channel’s Brian Callanan, and Seattle Times David Kroman.
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Arts & Life
Language is often weaponized against trans people. Does the word 'transphobia' capture this moment?
Bill Radke asks two transgender people about the words they use to describe society, individuals, and themselves.
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Week in Review: legislature, e-scooters, and taxes
Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with McClatchy’s Shauna Sowersby, Seattle Times Elise Takahama, and political analyst Joni Balter.
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Arts & Life
Words in Review: 'Indian burial ground'?
Cowlitz tribal member Joey Clift skewers Native American-related tropes and clichés
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Week in Review: an orca is returning, name changes, and jail deaths
Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Seattle Times Jonathan Martin, Publicola’s Erica Barnett, and Geekwire’s Mike Lewis
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Arts & Life
Words In Review: 'Landlord' or 'housing provider'?
Seattle has restricted the power of the landlord, but we’re still using that medieval term. Is our housing system feudal?
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Week in Review: Capital gains tax, Sound Transit construction, and landlords
Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Axios Melissa Santos, Seattle Times Jonathan Martin, and KUOW’s Dyer Oxley.
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Arts & Life
Words In Review: Why are 'genre films' everywhere, all at once?
Jamie Lee Curtis just shouted out to genre films. A Seattle film fest is showing them this week. Two Seattle cinephiles tell Bill Radke why the call for “outsider” films is coming from inside the house!
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Week in Review: Legislature, Covid, and transit fare enforcement
Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with political analyst Joni Balter, freelance journalist Joanne Silberner, and KUOW’s Monica Nickelsburg
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Arts & Life
Words In Review: Should Seattle be a 'work of art'?
A Seattle writer says living in a city should feel like a work of art. Can our buildings be “art” and still be affordable?