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, join Tom Williams live on location from the event at the Hansen Family Sports Complex in North Logan. His guests included the organizer of the 9/11 event Jenny Taylor, who is the Gold Star Widow of Utah Army National Guard Major Brent Taylor. He was also joined by the designer of the 9/11 exhibit Johnny Ferry, who is a Major Brent Taylor Foundation board member.
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Kevin Fedarko has spent the past twenty years writing about conservation, exploration, and the Grand Canyon. His writing has appeared in National Geographic, the New York Times, and Esquire, among other publications. We’ll revisit our conversation with Kevin Fedarko from May.
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Access Utah: Revisiting The Donner Party And 'The Best Land Under Heaven' With Author Michael WallisWe revisit our conversation with Author Michael Wallis from June of 2017 about his book 'The Best Land Under Heaven'.
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We talk about this week's news, including the State Auditor concluding it’s ‘statistically likely’ that Gov. Cox gathered enough valid signatures for the 2024 ballot.
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In "The Age of Melt," environmental journalist Lisa Baril explores the deep-rooted cultural connection between humans and ice through time.
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Aired Sept. 3. In "The Peanuts Papers," 33 writers and artists, including Ira Glass and Ann Patchett, reflect on the deeper truths of Schulz’s deceptively simple comic, its impact on their lives and art and on the broader culture.
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Aired Sept. 4. In 2012, Matika Wilbur sold everything in her Seattle apartment and created Project 562 to photograph all 562+ Native American sovereign territories in the U.S.
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Tom Williams is in Moab for a special Access Utah program celebrating the Moab Music Festival. Our guests today include Maya Miro Johnson, Roydon Tse, and Connor Chee, along with John Weisheit, Co-Founder at Living Rivers and a Colorado Riverkeeper and Howard Dennis, Howard is a religious leader, a Flute Chief, and a clan leader from the village of Mishognonvi.
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Tribune reporter Emily Anderson Stern and Moab Times-Independent reporter Andrew Christiansen join UPR’s Tom Williams, who broadcast live from Moab this week, to talk about the latest news.
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Today we’ll talk with writer Pam Houston about her new book Without Exception: Reclaiming Abortion, Personhood, and Freedom.