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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December 30th | The Kraken comes to town
RELEASE IT. STEM in the ancient world, and the first American Girl doll who is also… a millennial.
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December 29th | The most important Game of Thrones question: could dragons even fly?
GoT: it was all a lie. Isabel Allende’s most recent novel asks – what does it mean to start again? And the artist behind Seattle Walk Report dishes on the city. A look at books that captivated us this year.
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December 28th | What gnaws, creeps, and flies?
(Not simultaneously.) A look at the animal kingdom in our midst, via beavers, spiders, raptors, and corvids.
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Health
December 22nd | Everything you need to know about the latest COVID-19 vaccines
Your questions on COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal on the latest round of federal pandemic relief. And this week's conversation with King County Executive Dow Constantine.
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December 21st | 2020 addition to the elves’ workshop: PPE
How being a COVID Santa is going, and a look at the media of our time: books, cartoons, and film.
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Politics
Live from Zoom, it's the Year in Review!
Bill Radke reviews a very memorable year with Q13 correspondent Simone Del Rosario, KIRO7 political reporter Essex Porter, and editor for The Stranger Chase Burns.
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December 15th | In a time of isolation, finding communion
Our need for restaurants hasn’t lessened during the pandemic: quite the reverse. This week’s chat with King County Executive Dow Constantine, joined by County Director of Public Health Patty Hayes. Does drug decriminalization have the effect on incarceration that you think it does? And the residual trauma we’ll pay for later.
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December 14th | The COVID-19 vaccine touches down in Seattle
Against a backdrop of surging cases and limited supply, how quickly will inoculations start to provide relief? A look at how Canada has done with this pandemic (like most other countries, the answer is “better than us”). Looking back at protests for civil rights in the ‘60s, and challenging our narratives about political violence today.
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Politics
Why our leaders are leaving Seattle, this week
Bill Radke reviews the week's news with KUOW reporter Casey Martin, New York Times technology correspondent Karen Weise and the editor at PubliCola, Erica C. Barnett.
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December 10th | Lunar landing: a planetary flashback
Why we should return to our mysterious satellite for another round. A Washington state coronavirus expert is headed to Washington, DC. And this week’s chat with (now lame-duck) Mayor Jenny Durkan.