The Record
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
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June 1st | A diversity of tactics at Seattle protests
Thousands of people took to the streets over the police killings and over-policing of Black people in America. We speak with Mayor Durkan, organizers and demonstrators about police escalation of violence at protests in Seattle and Bellevue.
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Keeping a community up and running
Auto repair shops are considered essential businesses and have stayed open throughout the novel coronavirus pandemic, keeping frontline workers on the move. But Eli Allison's garage has been essential to the LGBTQ community for a long time –and they hope that will be true for a long time to come.
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How COVID-19 infections are shaping up statewide
The coronavirus pandemic looks much different in the rest of Washington.
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May 28th | Incoming call from a contact tracer: what next?
To say that someone unidentified may have exposed you to coronavirus. Also, this week’s chat with Mayor Jenny Durkan and a look at how the pandemic is unfolding across the state.
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What will a contact tracer ask me?
Kim Steele-Peter does contact tracing for Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department. She wants to know about your symptoms and who you've been in contact with.
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Mayor Durkan on police shooting, the NHL, and reopening Seattle
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan joins us for our weekly check-in.
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What Seattle can learn from its past emptiness
Whether it was the Boeing bust or the general strike, Seattle has been deserted before.
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May 27th | The city we could be
How Seattle might rise from hollowed out to newly whole. Which mutual aid campaigns get supported? And a look at the hilarious world (go with us here) of depression.
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COVID-19 doesn't cancel out the ADA: disability rights during a pandemic
Protesters – and some politicians – say it's time to get back to normal. That some deaths from COVID-19 are inevitable. But whose deaths, and lives, are we talking about?
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May 26th | How do you fight the epidemic of racism within a pandemic?
How Asian-Americans are responding to bigotry pushed into the light by COVID-19. This week’s chat with county executive Dow Constantine. A chat with a disability rights activist, and a Voice of the Pandemic.
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This Tacoma doctor marks his days in PPE and poetry
Voices of the Pandemic features people in the Seattle area who are on the frontlines of the coronavirus outbreak.
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May 21st | The fraying pandemic response has its roots in history
A dangerous American patchwork. Why is Seattle sweeping homeless encampments? A look at how the first coronavirus vaccine human trial is going, and another Voice of the Pandemic.