  Violent solar eruptions are often accompanied by relativistic beams of
charged particles. In the solar context, they are referred to as SPEs (Solar
Particle Events) and are known to generate a characteristic swept-frequency
radio burst. Due to their ionizing potential, such beams influence atmospheric
chemistry and habitability. Radio observations provide a crucial discriminant
between stellar flares that do and do not generate particle beams. Here I use
solar empirical data and semi-quantitative theoretical estimates to gauge the
feasibility of detecting the associated radio bursts. My principal conclusion
is that a dedicated search for swept frequency radio bursts on
second-timescales in existing low-frequency ($\nu\lesssim 10^2\,{\rm MHz}$)
datasets, while technically challenging, will likely evidence high energy
particles beams in Sun-like stars.
