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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Is your canvas grocery tote bad for the environment?
Bill Radke speaks with Noah Dillon, author of a recent Atlantic article about the perils of owning (and not using) canvas grocery totes.
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How a Central Washington farmer became the Bigfoot seer
Bill Radke speaks with Leah Sottile about her article in Outside magazine profiling Bob Gimlin, one of the men behind the famous footage of Bigfoot from...
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This week we're asking how do we move forward?
Donald Trump visited Washington, Mexico and Arizona this week where he delivered a speech on immigration. What effect does his anti-immigration, anti...
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Reservations to see the total solar eclipse are going fast – and it's still a year away
Bill Radke talks with Geekwire's Alan Boyle about North American eclipse of the sun expected August 2017. It's first of its kind in almost a hundred...
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Welcome to first grade! Please bring two reams of copy paper with you
Bill Radke speaks with KUOW education reporter Ann Dornfeld about why Washington asks its students to help supply their schools. Washington requires...
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What should white people do for racial justice?
Bill Radke sits down with local activist Becca Meredith of the Coalition of Anti-Racist Whites and Showing Up for Racial Justice about why white people...
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How we overcame fear and fell in love with camping
Bill Radke speaks with author Dan White about the history of camping in America. White highlights how we overcame the early Puritan fear of the woods...
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'Father of 747' Joe Sutter dies at 95
Bill Radke speaks with KUOW economy reporter Carolyn Adolph about Joe Sutter, the Boeing engineer who led the development of the 747, the biggest...
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A small Eastern Washington town is an incubator for Seattle's art scene
Seattle is rich in art, but for some artists it is not an affordable place to keep working. One solution is to look east, over the Cascades to a place...
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Dean Wong, Seattle's Chinatown portraitist
Bill Radke speaks with Stranger art critic Jen Graves about Seattle photographer Dean Wong, a community activist and chronicler of Chinatown life. Wong...