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-comedian and Seattle P-I newspaper columnist.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English
Pronouns: he/him
Podcasts
Stories
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Week In Review
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
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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Week In Review
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?
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Week In Review
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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Week In Review
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
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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Week In Review
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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KUOW Newsroom
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
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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Week In Review
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.