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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Martha Barnette has spent two decades as the co-host of "A Way with Words," lauded by Mary Norris in The New Yorker as “a virtual treasure house” and “‘Car Talk’ for Lexiphiles.” -
Lauren Grabelle's photo exhibit Deer Diary was recently featured in Deseret Magazine. -
Tribune reporters Addy Baird, Leia Larsen, and Paighten Harkins join to talk about the latest news, including how Republicans’ cuts to the Affordable Care Act may affect Utahns’ health care and more. -
Michael Sowder is a long-time yoga practitioner, poet, scholar, Sanskritist, essayist, and father who writes about wilderness, fatherhood, yoga, Buddhism, and inter-spirituality. -
We revisit our conversation with Utah writer Emily Wing Smith about her book, 'All Better Now'. -
We talk with critically acclaimed MacArthur genius, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Tony Award–nominated playwright and author Sarah Ruhl about her new book. -
Part travelogue, part memoir, part reporting, Robin Hemley’s book "Borderline Citizen" redefines notions of nationhood by exploring the arbitrariness of boundaries and what it means to belong. -
We check in with Susan Madsen, director of the Utah Women & Leadership Project, about what research shows about Utah women's health, finances, and work lives. -
Reporters Julie Jag, Leia Larsen, and Clarissa Casper talk about the latest news, including how a small Utah recreation gem is trying to avoid becoming Moab after catching attention. -
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