About Weekend America
Curious, Lively, Unexpected
Weekend America is a place where curious, lively hosts spark conversations, share unexpected stories and connect listeners with the most compelling ideas and events of America this weekend.
Each week two hosts invite listeners to a lively conversation about the issues of the week, the arts, and public affairs. Weekend America features material from the best shows and talent from independent producers and public radio stations around the country.
We have some time, on weekends, to see the world through each other's eyes. To walk in someone else's shoes a bit, and go to places we wouldn't otherwise go. Stop by for a weekly visit with 300 million neighbors.
Weekend America is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Minnesota Public Radio.
Co-host Desiree Cooper joined the show in August of 2007. Cooper is a popular columnist at the Detroit Free Press, where she's been since 1999. The paper twice nominated her for a Pulitzer Prize and she's been named "best columnist" or "favorite writer" in Detroit several times, by both journalism organizations and reader polls. As a broadcaster, Cooper has contributed national commentaries to NPR's "All Things Considered" for the past seven years. She's also appeared frequently on Detroit area radio and television.
Cooper's interests range beyond print and radio journalism. She's a prize-winning poet whose short fiction will be anthologized this fall.
Co-host Bill Radke joined Weekend America in August of 2004.
Before that, he created and hosted the National Public Radio show "Rewind," a weekly news satire program originating from KUOW-FM in Seattle. He's also been a comedy club headliner, and he wrote the essays for a photography book called "Seattle," published by Sasquatch Books.
He and his wife spend most of their time fishing things out of their baby daughter's mouth.
