A retrospective member drive special on Tuesday's Access Utah

By Tom Williams

Published September 12, 2023 at 11:50 AM MDT

Celebrating 70 years. 1953-2023 UPR timeline through the years.

It’s the Member Drive on UPR and it’s 70 years of service, so we’ll present a very special edition of Access Utah today. We’ll hear part of my first live interview, from 1995. Then excerpts from some of my favorite interviews over the years with: the great operatic soprano Joan Sutherland, Holocaust survivor Eva Kor, and This American Life host Ira Glass.. USU Associate Professor of English Lynn McNeill joins us for the hour.

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Tom 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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