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 discuss Tim Ballard’s troubles, more affordable homes and questions on a Utah trans sports panel. -
We're joined by MIT historian Tanalis Padilla, to discuss the indecent in 2014 at a rural college in Mexico where six people were killed and 43 young men disappeared without a trace.
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We're joined by Eric Peterson and Will Weber to talk about the unsolved murder, as well as The Utah Investigative Journalism Project. We also present another segment from the podcast 'Empty Clouds.'
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There is a new exhibit at the USU Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art called Facing Fire: Art, Wildlife and the End of Nature in the New West. Last Saturday, a cross-disciplinary panel of artists from the exhibit, policy makers, and a firefighter discussed fire in the west, and we're joined by three of those panelists today.
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Utah State University Sociology professors Christy Glass and Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde belong to a team of researchers taking a closer look at race in the NFL, and today they join us to discuss their recently published study titled, 'The Paradox of Integration: Racial Composition of NFL Positions from 1960 to 2020.'
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On this episode we discuss Mitt Romney's retiring, an affordability crisis in the Utah housing market and a glance at new census data of the state.
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We’re presenting a very special edition of Access Utah today, Lee Austin returns to host the program! We're joined by Erica Walz, owner and publisher of "The Insider," and Torrey mayor Mickey Wright about the October 14 total annular eclipse of the sun.
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On this episode we're joined by Ken Sanders from Ken Sanders Rare Books. We’ll hear excerpts from some of my favorite interviews with: singer-songwriter Janis Ian; and professor, author and search and rescuer Scott Hammond.
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We present a very special edition of Access Utah today. We’ll hear part of Tom's first live interview from 1995. Then excerpts from some of our favorite Access Utah interviews over the years with: the great operatic soprano Joan Sutherland, Holocaust survivor Eva Kor, and This American Life host Ira Glass.
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Tom Williams and original Fresh Folk host Blair Larsen reminisce, and listen to segments from the program of UPR's past.
