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: police pursuits, “pink tax,” and housing
Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Seattle Times Isabella Breda, Insider’s Katherine Long, and KUOW’s Libby Denkmann.
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Arts & Life
Words In Review: Why everything is a 'dive bar'
Seattle sure has a lot of clean, pleasant, well-appointed “dive bars.” Bill Radke asks why this term has taken over our watering holes.
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Week in Review: trees, jail, ferries
Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Seattle Times Amanda Zhou, Seattle Met’s Allison Williams, and South Seattle Emerald/Seattle Times Marcus Harrison Green.
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Words In Review: Police fleeing SPD; Residents leaving town. Is this a Seattle 'exodus'?
Bill Radke talks with Jacob Beckert, a PhD candidate in the U.W. History Department who specializes in Jewish Studies, about what qualifies as an "exodus."
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Technology
Word in Review: Can chatbots really feel?
Every week, Bill Radke takes a word or phrase in the news and asks: “Why that language?” This week’s words come from Microsoft’s new AI chatbot that revealed its "feelings" to a New York Times reporter. Bill asked Peter Clark, who heads the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence: What do the words “I feel” mean, when uttered by a chatbot?
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Week in Review: Amazon, legislature, and housing
Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Seattle Channel’s Brian Callanan, Seattle Times Claudia Rowe, and Puget Sound Business Journal’s Alex Halverson.
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Arts & Life
Word in Review: Do we 'love' too many things?
Every week, Bill Radke asks listeners to name a word they hear that seems misplaced or overused. This week’s listener, Claire Carter, is thinking about Valentine’s Day.
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Week in Review: Bing, violent crime, and school closures
Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Jane C. Hu, Karen Weise and Joni Balter.
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Arts & Life
'Iconic,' 'legendary,' 'tragic.' What words need a reboot?
Have you noticed how we often don’t say what we mean? Or we use language to hide something, or to frighten, or flatter, or insult, or get clicks? Meanwhile we’re devaluing some wonderful, precise language.
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Week in Review: Boeing, housing, and driving laws
Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Seattle Met’s Allison Williams, Seattle Times Patrick Malone, and Geekwire’s Mike Lewis.