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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

Stories

  • caption: UW Medicine nurses use hand sanitizer after testing patients for coronavirus on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, at the University of Washington Northwest Outpatient Medical Center drive-through testing area on Meridian Avenue North in Seattle.

    So can you get tested or not?

    Do we have the capacity to test more people for the coronavirus? Or are we still in the midst of a testing shortage?

  • caption: Bill Radke sits alone in studio, with gloves, during the March 20, 2020 Week in Review show.

    We're social distancing this week

    Bill Radke talks coronavirus and the Washington state legislature with Allison Williams of Seattle Met, Charles Mudede of The Stranger, and D.J. Wilson of Washington State Wire and State of Reform.

  • caption: FILE: In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016, staff members head past razor wire-topped fences and into a building hosting a University Behind Bars program at the Monroe Correctional Complex in Monroe, Wash.

    March 19th | COVID behind bars

    How will the elderly and immunocompromised incarcerated population weather COVID-19? You’ve had a lot of questions lately: for some of them, the mayor has your answers. Will there be food shortages? And how you can help further Seattle kids’ education.

  • caption: Larry Bowles, an equipment service worker with King County Metro, sprays a Virex II cleaning solution on the interior of a King County metro bus on Wednesday, March 4, 2020, at the Atlantic Base on 6th Avenue South in Seattle.

    March 18th | How novel coronavirus plays out on public transit

    The route may not have changed, but your commute has shifted. Boeing wants a bailout to stay afloat. Many small business owners – and employees – are not getting the same relief. And a look at the city’s arts community gone dark.

  • caption: Jess White, a registered nurse at UW Northwest, demonstrates to another nurse how to properly remove a mask on Thursday, March 12, 2020, at UW Medicine's drive-through testing clinic in Seattle.

    Drive through testing now open

    The University of Washington's Medical Center has opened a drive through testing center for the coronavirus. What does that mean for patients?