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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Tribune reporters Emily Anderson Stern, Megan Banta and Andy Larsen join this week to talk about the top stories, including a look at which college majors give Utah students the most (and least) returns over their career.
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How do we promote world peace? Retired professor Norm Jones talks with his friend and former student Ann Norman.
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Professor Guiora has published extensively both in the U.S. and Europe on issues related to national security, limits of interrogation, religion and terrorism, the limits of power, multiculturalism, and human rights.
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There's a new report out from the Utah Foundation finding that Utahns’ top concerns are the cost of living and political dysfunction
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Selected Shorts is a live theatrical experience featuring guest actors reading stories selected specifically for each event. The three to four stories are mostly fiction, sometimes classic, sometimes new, and are always read by great actors from stage, screen, and television. The stories presented live at Selected Shorts are often featured on the hit public radio show (heard on UPR Sundays at 2:00 p.m.)
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We’ll talk with Utah Humanities state scholar and professor of history at University of Utah Greg Smoak and Alana Blumenthal, the museum director with the Brigham City Museum of Art & History.
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Tribune reporters Carmen Nesbitt, Michael Lee and Tamarra Kemsley, along with news columnist Robert Gehrke join to talk about the week’s top stories, including school districts awaiting a statewide book ban list as Utah plans to retroactively enforce a new law.
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Sam Passey is Director of the Uintah County Library in Vernal and we revisit our conversation with him, reviewing current challenges and opportunities and looking to the future.
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Ross Perlin, a linguist and co-director of the non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history.
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Every year for Earth Day, we check in with writer and photographer Stephen Trimble, author of “Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America,” and many other books. He, alongside other guests join this episode to discuss plans for the environment under a reelected Biden administration, and under a second Trump administration.