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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In these poems, Sunni Brown Wilkinson reckons with seismic losses such as a stillborn son and strained relationships, alongside more abstract and existential pains. We revisit our conversation. -
On this episode, we talk about the benefits of nature. Our guest is Marc Berman, founder and director of the Environmental Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Chicago. -
As a professor of peacebuilding, a conflict mediator, and a follower of Jesus, Chad Ford offers perspectives on how to avoid or reconcile contention when life’s inevitable disagreements arise. -
On this episode, we talk with artist and author Teresa Jordan and musician, composer, and writer Hal Cannon. -
USU History Professor Tammy Proctor joins us to talk about her book "Saving Europe," which looks at American aid and intervention in Europe between 1914 and 1924. -
Emma Martins and Austin Knuppe recently attended the Diplomacy of the Heart Conference in Uzbekistan, an international gathering dedicated to intercultural understanding and peacebuilding. -
On this episode, we remember writer Brad Watson, who we interviewed in July 2016 about his novel "Miss Jane." Brad Watson died in 2020. -
AJ Romriell grew up Mormon and gay, and he joins us today to talk about his new book "Wolf Act." Through linked personal essays, "Wolf Act" charts a young man’s transformation. -
Tribune reporters Brock Marchant, Brooke Larsen, Megan Banta, and Clarissa Casper join host UPR’s Tom Williams to talk about the latest news, including measles cases identified in Utah. -
Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, 12 have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee.
