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Host Bill Radke leads in-depth conversations about what matters today in Seattle and beyond. Get in touch at record@kuow.org

Programming Announcement

KUOW and The Record team are excited to kick off a large-scale initiative to expand and innovate our local content offerings, including the development of a new project led by Bill Radke, new local podcast pilots, and a reimagining of our flagship local news show The Record with a new format and a new host this fall. The Record will be going on hiatus as the team develops new approaches, starting June 28. Learn more here.

Episodes

  • caption: Washington running back Myles Gaskin, top, scores past Ohio State cornerback Kendall Sheffield during the second half of the Rose Bowl NCAA college football game Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019, in Pasadena, Calif. Ohio State won 28-23.

    September 16th | And then there was one: what will the Pac-12 do for fall football?

    The latest on the crucial hearing concerning the recall efforts against Seattle City Council Member Kshama Sawant. Will the Pac-12 be the only conference to not hold a fall football season? A look at the job postings causing the latest labor concners at Am. And a peak into The Museum of Pop Culture's PopCon theme, "Forever Young."

  • caption: The sun rises over Seattle as a massive plume of smoke from wildfires burning in California and Oregon makes it's way into the area on Friday, September 11, 2020.

    Another week of wildfire smoke. But it’s not because of antifa.

    It looks like we’re in for another week of wildfire smoke. We’ll find out why and when it’s expected to start clearing. And, there are stories going around Oregon that antifa set some of the wildfires...or maybe the Proud Boys. We’ll look at how those conspiracies proliferate and why they’re dangerous. And, how to recreate outdoors without “wreck-reating”.

  • caption: Burned vehicles are shown on Wednesday, September 9, 2020, after a fire that started Monday evening burned 275 acres, including multiple homes and forced evacuations in the rural Pierce County town of Graham.

    Like wildfire: how misinformation spreads during a crisis

    When Washington and Oregon's historic wildfires began sweeping over the state, rumors of their origin began circulating online. Was it anti-fascists? The Proud Boys? Since the beginning, officials have faced an uphill battle in controlling fact vs. fiction.

  • caption: A corvid rocks the joy of flight.

    September 10th | Crows: there’s an app for that

    A way for kids to get excited about crows, guided by husband and wife crow researchers. The court monitor of the consent decree steps down. And this week’s chat with Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan.

  • caption: A truck speeds away from the scene of a burgeoning fire.

    September 9th | Fire in the skies

    With much of the West either ablaze or seeing bad air quality, a look at where we are in Washington. A look at the protests that became contentious Monday, with 22 arrests and several instances of police violence. Why aren’t we testing people who aren’t showing COVID-19 symptoms? And a chat with Margaret Atwood.

  • caption: Smoke from an approaching wildfire looms over a home near Twisp, Wash., Aug. 19, 2015.

    September 3rd | Your quarantine could always be worse

    Point Roberts is entirely cut off from the rest of America right now. Wildfires are burning across the West. The city works to decrease traffic fatalities, and we catch up with a virologist for an update on the virus.

  • caption: An apartment building on Seattle's Capitol Hill in February

    September 2nd | Apartment for rent, all not encouraged to apply

    A new UW study looked at how language has been used in ads for rental housing. Excessive overtime pay for SPD officers. Nia-Amina Minor on creating social change through art. And the spread of misinformation on everything from coronavirus to the Black Lives Matter movement.

  • caption: Alison Bruzek on a team trip to the Seattle Selfie Museum in late February - where, true to form, she kept all of us safe by aggressively sanitizing everything around her as the pandemic closed in on Seattle.

    So long, Bruzek the Bruiser

    When it comes to The Record's fearless, outgoing Senior Producer Alison Bruzek: you think you know, but you have no idea. So we told you.

  • caption: Vanna White has been a presenter on Wheel of Fortune for nearly 40 years.

    September 1 | Would you like to buy a vowel?

    Pat and Vanna (metaphorically) come to town. This week’s talk with the King County Executive. Why controlled burns might be the way forward to stave off wildfire. And a teary but fond farewell to The Record’s leading lady, Supervising Producer Alison Bruzek.

  • caption: Last week's WNBA and NBA strikes revived the debate over whether or not athletes should just play the game.

    August 31: Shut up and dribble no more

    What the historic professional basketball protests say about athletes’ role in public life. Protests in Portland turn deadly. Refusing to engage with racial reconciliation on white supremacy’s terms. And there are two new Wonderland Trail recordholders in town.