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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January 8th | A trip to the Seattle archives
An adventure to the Seattle of yesteryear. The region's plan to fight homelessness. What you should know about avalanches. And saying goodbye to the artistic directors of Book-It Repertory Theatre.
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January 7th | Why we love board games
Why people in the Puget Sound love to board game. Will we see a Senate impeachment trial this month? And one advocate's call for "Revolutionary Love."
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January 6th | What’s really going on in US-Iran relations?
Rumors of war have been greatly exaggerated. End of an era on the King County Council. Foster kids in hotel rooms. And a town, an election, and… warehouses.
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January 2nd | How to rethink gendered insults
The author of "Wordslut" on reclaiming the English language. Washington state's new 2020 laws. And how to pay less attention to your phone.
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December 31st | Have we reached peak brewery?
A crushing defeat for the Seahawks. The memoir of an "almost" ballerina. Why does Seattle love breweries so much? And how do they set up all those fireworks on the Space Needle?
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December 30th | Share the road (tax)
If you drive a car, you’ll probably be paying a new kind of tax. The best of the best in books of the 2010s. And an oncologist’s experience with psychedelics.
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Nancy Pearl's best books of the 2010s
We never quite figured out what to call this decade: the teens? The tens? In any event, it's ending tomorrow and to send it off in style, we're sharing the decade's best books with you.
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December 26th | 'Somebody who looked like this was here': five immigrant artists who helped shape 2019
It’s the end of the year, and Record producers have been revisiting some of our favorite conversations. Mine were about: immigrants.
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Full transcript, immigrant artist retrospective
A full transcript of The Record's one-hour special featuring five immigrant artists.
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December 24th | Our favorite animal encounters
The Record takes a peak behind the glass and in the drawers at the Burke Museum. Richard Louv wants you to combat loneliness in the wild. Grizzlies might be making be a comeback in the North Cascades after all. And the birds we love and the ones we love to hate.
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December 23rd | An update on this year's memorable stories
Bill Radke finds out what happened to the family with the decomposing whale in their backyard. We also hear about who's choosing to compost their dead bodies, and what's happening with the Washington Independents.
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December 19th | All we want for Christmas is sweet, sweet nostalgia
Anatomy of a great Christmas song. AI surveillance on a neighborhood street near you. As recently as the 1960s, America was no longer detaining unauthorized immigrants – what changed? And yet another car share program bites the dust.