Tom Williams
UPR Management | Program Director | Access Utah HostTom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.
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On this episode we talk with Bonnie Moore about her new novel "Buried Bones: A Maggie Anderson Mystery." -
Salt Lake Tribune reporters Robert Gehrke and Paighten Harkins, along with UPR/Tribune reporter Clarissa Casper join us this week to talk about the latest news. -
We talk with Freeman Ng, author of "Bridge Across The Sky," a young adult novel in verse based on the Chinese immigration experience through Angel Island in the early 1900s. -
For decades at the end of the 1800s, the American West was a crucible of change, with the highest murder rate per capita in American history. The reasons behind this boil down to one word: Texas. -
Laura Tohe is a poet, writer, librettist, scholar of Indigenous American literature, and former Navajo Nation Poet Laureate. -
On Thursday, the House of Representatives voted to revoke already-approved funds for public media, including grant funding that UPR is scheduled to receive. The resolution now goes to the Senate. -
This week we discuss how scientists manage mosquitos in the Great Salt Lake’s wetlands, Sen. John Curtis' suggestion for foreign aid, and the ban on transgender health care for youth. -
Our guest is anthropologist Jennifer Raff. Her book "Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas" tells the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were and how they got here. -
Valarie Clark Miller's husband talks about her life, and the fight to hold accountable the men — including the local cop — who abused Valarie and controlled the systems designed to look the other way. -
The Trump administration is proposing a nearly 25% cut to NASA’s budget as well as deep cuts to space technology funding. We talk about it with Casey Dreier and Christopher Cokinos.
