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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Salt Lake Tribune reporters Robert Gehrke, Leia Larsen, and Jessica Schreifels talk about the week’s top stories, including a former Utah governor calling out President Trump for recent posts. -
Once again we present great music and funny and heartwarming stories for the holidays. Guitarist Mike Christiansen plays music and playwright Tim Slover performs readings for the season. -
Salt Lake Tribune reporters Courtney Tanner, Carmen Nesbitt and Leah Larson talk about the week’s top stories, including backlash over a banned words list at a Utah University and more. -
We talk with USU researchers Beth Fauth and Heather Kelley. They are directors of the new Dementia Resource Ambassador program. -
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We talk with Travis Franks about his article "The Elusive John Rollin Ridge: The Afterlives of ‘An Indian's Grave’ and His Ambiguous Literary Legacy" and much more. -
Our guest is Bob Inglis. He is a former Republican congressman from South Carolina and executive director of RepublicEn. -
Tony Semerad and Tamarra Kemsley talk about the week’s top stories, including record spending on police budgets in Salt Lake City and the influence of pro-LDS podcasts. -
We revisit our conversation from July with Michael Sowder, long-time yoga practitioner, poet, scholar, Sanskritist, essayist, and father. -
On this episode, we revisit our conversation with Lauren Grabelle, whose photo exhibit Deer Diary was recently featured in Deseret Magazine. -
We talk with Amy Bowers Cordalis about her new book "The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life."
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