Week In Review
KUOW News and Information
Host Bill Radke and guests make sense of the week's news. New episode every Friday.
Episodes
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May 29, 2023 • 21min
Words In Review: Is the PNW "weird"? Is anything?
Bill Radke asks what's weird, if so many things are weird. With author and scholar Erik Davis.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 26, 2023 • 51min
Week in Review: Amazon, trees, and tacos
Guest host Mike Lewis discusses the week’s news with Publicola’s Erica Barnett, Insider’s Katherine Long, and KUOW’s Mike Davis.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 22, 2023 • 5min
Words In Review: How 'gubernatorial' steered into our language
Bill Radke and UW Classic Prof. Sarah Stroup go to the rocky Mediterranean to learn why we say "governor" but also "gubernatorial"See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 19, 2023 • 51min
Week in Review: drug law, election issues, and A.I.
Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Axios Melissa Santos, Seattle Times Jonathan Martin, and KUOW’s Dyer Oxley.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 18, 2023 • 10min
Words In Review: Can the PNW be on 'island time'?
Is island time a tropical thing? Or can we be on it, too? Bill Radke asks stand-up comedian &native Hawaiian Kermet Apio (www.ikerm.com) and Bill's Vashon-dwelling sister Jane SladeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 12, 2023 • 51min
Week in Review: Candidates for Governor, the “end” of COVID-19, and right turns on red
Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with political analyst and contributing columnist Joni Balter, Seattle Times Amanda Zhou, and KUOW’s Monica Nickelsburg.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 8, 2023 • 22min
A linguist hears your complaints about colloquial English: Words In Review
Like, literally.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 5, 2023 • 53min
Week in Review: Governor Inslee won't seek re-election, pollution, and housing
Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Insider’s Katherine Long, freelance journalist Joanne Silberner, and KUOW’s Joshua McNichols.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 2, 2023 • 7min
Words In Review: Should we say “assault weapons”?
Guests:Melissa Santos, Axios Seattle reporter Joseph O'Sullivan, Crosscut reporterSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 28, 2023 • 51min
Week in Review: drugs, guns, and housing
Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with PubliCola’s Erica Barnett, Seattle Channel’s Brian Callanan, and KUOW’s David Hyde.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
