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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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." -
We're joined by author Kirk Wallace Johnson to discuss the story of white fishermen and Vietnamese shrimpers clashing on the Texas coast in the 1970s and ‘80s. -
We revisit our conversation with Julia Corbett about her book, "Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West." -
Salt Lake Tribune reporters Leia Larsen, Brooke Larsen, and Jose Davila IV talk about the week’s top stories, including Utah’s plans to bring a nuclear hub to Brigham City.
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