The Record

Bill Radke speaks with Seattle Mayor Ed Murray about the state of emergency on homelessness and what we've done in the year since it was declared.

Bill Radke speaks with Katrina Spade, founder and director of the Urban Death Project, about the system she designed to compost human remains. She plans to test the system at Washington State University soon.

Bill Radke speaks with Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer about a new trade deal between Canada and the European Union, and about the U.S. presidential elections.

This hour we'll tell you about a medical mystery of an illness that has killed a Bellingham boy and hospitalized a handful of local children. Also, personalized medicine is one of the goals of Seattle's health science industry. You'll learn about one of the giants in that field. And we'll get an update on the presidential election as some polls show the vote getting closer. Listen to the full show above or check out one of the stories: Another Washington child contracts mysterious illnessHow

Bill Radke talks to biotech journalist Luke Timmerman about his new book, "Hood: Trailblazer of the Genomics Age."

Most of the time, Nancy Pearl loves a good literary thriller. But sometimes, she just likes to chill out with a page turner. Today she tells KUOW's Marcie Sillman about a new writer she's just discovered named Becky Masterman, author of a series featuring a retired FBI agent. The book is called "Rage Against the Dying."

Bill Radke speaks with Seattle Times health reporter JoNel Aleccia about a mysterious illness that's caused the hospitalization of nine children in Washington state this fall. One child has died so far.

Bill Radke speaks with local journalists Monica Guzman, co-founder of Seattle newsletter The Evergrey, and Reagan Jackson, writer at The Seattle Globalist and South Seattle Emerald, about #JournalismSoWhite.

What happens to news coverage when most of the journalists are white? We'll have that conversation. Also, we'll talk with the Seattle Times reporter who just returned from the Dakota Access Pipeline protest at Standing Rock. And for Halloween, we'll hear a story about a possibly haunted house just a few blocks from the KUOW studios.

Jeannie Yandel sits down with Seattle Times reporter Lynda Mapes to talk about the latest in the standoff over the construction of a proposed oil pipeline in North Dakota.